Except one. Gul Darheel probably didn't know enough about a random file clerk to compliment their work. But Marritza couldn't resist getting a little self-complimentary when he mentioned his 'cover identity.'

cardassians did nothing wrong. bajorans are excessively impulsive and violent, they inherently despise authority and will actively find whichever government they find themselves in in order to fight it. cardassia brought law and order, they should've thanked them.

@@regalecusglesne3022 Wow this unsolicited total non-sequitur might be the worst thing I've read in a while, thank you for this (satire? your tone is unclear)

@@regalecusglesne3022 Eh, Bajorans seem to dislike secular government and the Cardassians appear to be atheists. Imagine if someone went to America and told them convert half their Churches into a hospitals and schools. Do you think they would A) Go, yeah! That will help the quality of life in society! or B) HELL NO. Telling someone to do something that might be a good idea by putting a gun to the back of their head doesn't make them want to listen to you. Look at the Middle East. You can't go to a country and force modernization on them. You have to slowly build them up. The Cardassians did the polar opposite. I hate to say it, but the Romans, Persians, Ottomans, and Mongols all did a better job of empire building than the Cardassians. Heck the British did a better job in India. The Cardassians are just really bad at getting the locals on their side. Don't blame the Bajorans, blame the Cardassians for being very bad at winning hearts and minds. They blundered in like the French in Vietnam.

@@regalecusglesne3022 Lol What? No. If you're gonna conquer another people, you cannot use force. That's the real thing the Cardasians did wrong. Where the spoon heads failed, the Federation succeeded. You conquer using culture or economics or probably Bajorian's biggest weakness. Their religion. Sisko being the emissary made Bajor wide open to their conquest. Cardasians could learn a thing or two from Sun Tzu. War damages the spoils of a conquest. Why not win it before any fight starts?

I love this line. She thinks she has the moral high ground but she can't argue it at all. In her mind, he is a monster that doesn't regret the things he had to do for war. But in his eyes, she is a hypocrite that can't even stand by her words and actions and declares to "feel bad" for what she did as some sort of excuse. She actually thinks she's a good person because of her denial. While he doesn't deny a single thing and argues he did it for the same reasons as her: for the betterment of his species. Honest. Loyal. True to his word. This is why she can't argue against him, because she would be a hypocrite and he knows this.

Best retort ever

@@XFanmarX it's a bit more nuanced than that. He wants to antagonize her, he wants her to hate him as much as possible and appear evil, so he says things that will make him look evil to her. He doesn't actually believe the actions of Cardassia were defensible, he just thinks acting like a man with no regrets makes him easier to hate.

And Kira's reaction at the very end! The look on her face. The quiver of heartbreak in her voice.

Really makes you think.

Agreed. There is a bigger story here that has been tragically omitted. Its a shame the poster did not consider that part of the narrative important.

This episode is loosely based on a 70s film called The Man In The Glass Booth.

Brilliant writing and acting, from both Nana Visitor and veteran character actor Harris Yulan. Marritza's guilt and self-loathing traumatized him so deeply - in a sense, it did drive him insane.

Lol, M bison came to my mind too.

I love it!

Nice touch

Episodes like this may be done on the Cheap with only 2 Actors but the Writing takes it Above and Beyond.

Niiicccceeeee

Harris Yulin is one of the greatest actors of our time!

Yup. And he's also being deliberately over-the-top to push Kira's buttons. It's the only way his plan can work: to make her engage with him emotionally, instead of rationally. Because if she starts doing that, she'll start digging into his story and find out the truth. And initially, this tactic works, because Kira can't think about Cardassians in any other way. Once she finds out the truth, all his bluster and deflection don't work any more.

I think another character who succeeds in embracing his character from the first episode is Q. He always does an amazing job

Him and Garrit Graham (Q/ Quinn) really stole the show. That's what happens when you hire consummate professionals.

True, but he also got to build on what other Cardassian actors had been doing.

Gul Darheel, veteran Stellaris player...

@@RobertResearchRadios I understood that reference

What you call genocide, I call a heated gamer moment

Yah well, that was the job he was sent out to do right?

@@Willaev Geneva Convention? You mean Geneva Suggestions?

Hitler ?

Well knowing what we know about Cardassians... I mean they're all pretty extra. Dukat at his most sedate is still more intense than like, a Gowron. The head of the obsidian order, his name escapes me at the moment, he's very much "I am a spymaster." Garak is, well, *Garak.*

@@carminemurray6624 I think there's a lot more fair comparisons to more obscure monsters in history. I don't want to give the name since I only know his story since he was a distant relative of mine. He just hated the inefficiency in the Ustashi camps, they were poorly run and little to no records were being kept. Given his position he was able to enforce better record keeping and implemented a reward system for those that ran the camps to help improve their efficiency. I only have conjecture to go on here, but I imagine he was proud of his work. On the plus side the records that were kept and didn't manage to be destroyed in time at the end of the war ended up being very valuable to the allies who executed many of the people involved, including him.

He would be more like dukat, charismatic enough to make you forget what he did, showing true colours only occasionally

According to Dukat half of Cardassia went to his funeral and viewed his body, buried under a large military monument. To them he was a massive hero.

pre 911

@@zenastronomy yes, that was kind of my point…

@@falcore91 lol, i didn't finish reading your comment before i replied. my bad

I love how Kira gets accused of murdering children and her response was to double down and call them collaborators and valid targets.

​@@GetterRayCivilians are targets to can't have them making more vehicles and putting more boots on the ground.

And to play!

Harris Yulin was one hell of an actor! He was great because, like all other great actors, he had you reacting to his role as to who he was portraying, not "an actor playing "such and such" character. I remember when I was a kid, he guest starred on the 70's TV series "S.W.A.T". In that episode, he played a heartbroken, anguished man, who was out to avenge his murdered wife, killing who he thought were the murderers one by one. After he had killed one of them, he came home, held his wife's picture, and whispered; "I got one of them today, Baby. Yes, I did" His character owned a record and phonograph repair store, and one of the S.W.A.T cops, T.J. McQuade, had a lady who was his neighbor visit his shop to repair her phonograph. They become close and romantically involved, until she finds out he is the killer that the PD is looking for. When he tries to use her as hostage to make good his escape when he is cornered by S.W.A.T, he gets shot by them and dies, and of course, the woman he was falling in love with was devastated. I remember my Mom crying at the end of it. That's how great an actor Harris Yulin was.

omg yes, that transition from arrogant pride to his revelation.

You could have quoted it more exactly: "I call a day's work".

It shows the "banality of evil", what might be the most horrendous, egregious actions to some people is the Tuesday afternoon meeting with Bob.

That's not exactly what's going on here. The cornerstone of all this hinges on how the cardassian legal system works. Basically when you go on trial the courts find out what you're guilty of. His whole goal was to very publicly force cardassia to address the occupation and war crimes on Bajor in a formal legal setting so cardassia can deal with and atone for it's past. The aspect of the cardassian legal system isn't know by the audience until much later when O'Brian gets arrested. The thing that doesn't make sense is that his plan hinges on being identified as Gul Darheel, which is a massive gamble.

@@mikevignola4213 Marritza wouldn't be tried under the Cardassian legal system, but the Bajoran one. Cardassia would never try Gul Darheel for his actions. Marritza wanted a show trial that would be sure to draw Cardassians' attention, where he could publicize the brutality of the occupation that he witnessed. And being identified as Gul Darheel by the Bajorans wouldn't be much of a risk, since he made himself resemble Darheel, openly claimed to be him, and the Bajorans in their desire for revenge wouldn't question that.

It's much more heroic than what you described.

How could he be a war criminal if there was no war?

​@@waterpotato1667 His camp did have a terrible safety record though, let's be honest.

It's also a cool moment that foreshadows a later episode where we see what the Cardassian justice system looks like, and it operates on exactly those same principles. The verdict is always the same, guilty!

To be fair, Duet is one of the very best episodes of DS9. There were some mediocre episodes too. I don't think there was a single great episode of Picard or Discovery that matches the writing quality of the best 50 TNG or DS9 episodes, though.

I had DVR to record all back in the day and ran across all the footage I missed while at work. I loved it. So many back then thought it was boring wished it off the air. Now the same people crapping on it then are loving it today, saying to me as an excuse,.. "DS9, and Voyager were ahead of its time and the 90s weren't ready." No, I think they were too busy watching the Simpsons.

History will be on DS9's side. Fast forward a couple more decades and shows like this will be even more appreciated while stuff like Discovery will be laughed at.

@@davidanderson5310 💯

LETS GORE OUT SOMEONES EYE. EDGY.

The truth of every Socialist regime, every Communist state.

@@stevekillgore9272 you say that like only those types of states have committed heinous atrocities.

basically capital punishments complete failure. killing densest bring comfort, just more death.

@@ryanweible9090 some people are better dead. those that are an on going unredeemable threat are better removed for the safety of all. there is no good reason to keep confirmed mass murderers alive at high cost to society, better to harvest them for parts at least then they are being of use. for the "all lives have value" crowd by not removing them you are in effect saying the killer is worth at least one more person then those the have already killed and harmed.

@@kertagin1 Yeah I feel similar There are a few but enough people who are Better gone for good than wasting our oxygen or risking escape

Agreed!!!

1st season too. First season TNG sucked.

The visitor. Man that was amazing. Last line still gets me

What is the name of this episode?

I like the one were obrien done the 20 years ...I can't remember the name...I'm in the midst if rewatching deep space nine atm! Much love all from Ireland 🇮🇪 🍀

Indeed! And give a second one to the writers. Yulin didn't win an award for this role, but he got an Emmy later for playing a crime boss. Film critic Jim Emerson said that he should be in every movie ever made, and I agree.

FrostPegasus exactly

Wow, you saw the movie as well

Nah I don't think so. Göring tried to say he didn't know anything. This guy gives more Rudolf Höß (Kommandant of Auschwitz) vibes.

Göring was a coward and in denial during the trials. At that time he manipulated from the shadows. Only to kill himself to evade justice.

@Sam Houston He was very flippant about it in public. Dude was a psychopath

What episode is it?

@@DocAcher Duet, season 1.

@@keyalpha1 Thank you!

This surprised me too. I never really watched ds9, only tng and voyager. At first I thought kira and dax only served the purpose of eyecandies of the series, but man, kira really shined in this episode.

@@creatip123 I don't know the male actor by name But it was moving and in this episode we the fans see that all people of a race are not EVIL but just people that are trapped by the choice the government that rule make.

@@thomashill6347 Harris Yulin.

The man playing the Cardassian actually taught acting classes.

You realize this isn't the actual Gul, but the actual file clerk he claimed to be, surgically altered to look like the Gul and acting as cartoonishly evil as possible on purpose? So... no. You shouldn't take the claim of soldiers coming back "covered in blood" as any more truthful than, say, the ramblings of Mein Kampf on the Jews.

I hear what you're saying, however I don't think your interpretation is accurate. The cardassians were certainly ruthless, and even brutal, but they were not generally hacking people apart. They would have seen it as a waste of their time when a phaser blast would have done exactly the same. I think he was speaking figuratively

Not to mention great writing & stories. (as opposed to just overly flashy, over-priced CGI) Ah, "the good ole days".

"great acting" - with Kira? Hahahaha there was a scene where she was meant to be angry and hurt, and the whole time the actress was grinning like a special needs kid on uppers.

@@AzguardMike Which scene?

Star Trek Discovery Season 3: "Earth is no longer part of the Federation?" "wHy sHoUlD wE bE? wE cAn TaKe CaRe Of OuRsElVeS!"

@@JAnx01 I stopped watching after the first episode. What’s season 3 about? Something-something-Brexit-something?

Rudolf Höss

I wonder who operates all the banks...

@@OneTopChap Höss didn't talk like that. And Höss admitted a lot of things that turned out not to be true... but what do you expect. He was beaten with axe handles in his very first interrogation, and who knows what else afterwards. Höss claimed he killed more people in Auschwitz than he even had prisoners. Almost as if he was beaten and tortured into saying things.

Matthew Jones: Please translate your comment into understandable English.

@@jstrahan2 Learn some manners. Not everyone is native English speaker or a good typer. I got what he said just fine.

2BitUser: So I should just ignore incomprehensible statements? I have no idea what he meant. Perhaps you could help me out by doing the translation.

@@jstrahan2 learn to speak 5 language like me

@@jstrahan2 you sound like a nerd

...I'd feel clean..? :v

Based Bajoran Slayer you mean

He wanted to provide closure to the bajorans. He wanted someone to be held accountable for what happened.

@@joshuaplotkin8826 He also wanted Cardassia to have to admit its guilt so it could heal and become a better citizen of the galaxy. Cardassians are deeply emotional about their nation and he couldn't bear to see the stain of his government's actions on his beloved Cardassia, it needed to be atoned for and he was determined to find a way to do it. For Cardassia. All Cardassians seem to love Cardassia very deeply. Even the rebels rebel over the ideals of Cardassia, wanting the nation to live closer to its ideal nature.

Geeeez ... write SPOILERS !

the title of the video pretty much explains exactly why they left out the end part

@@stevekillgore9272 Jeez, grow up!

The stone rejected by the builder

He was the truest cardassian patriot, a man who loved his people so much, that despite understanding the totality of their sins, he saw something that could be redeemed

A good plot twist is obvious on the second watch and impossible to catch on the first.

Garek sardonically celebrates that his exile is over... because the government that exiled him no longer exists, Cardassia effective HAD no government by the end of the war. With the Dominion having disposed of the majority of those who weren't yes-men (who either died first or were likely strung-up as collaborators), and then being made to withdraw themselves... The Cardassian people were left with nothing.

I'm so glad they changed her outfit in the later seasons

Yes there were. This guy and the 4 lights guy were outstanding

@@Bosc715 That would be David Warner. See also Star Trek 5 and 6.

The Cardassians are the best, we need more on them expanding their empire and their hostile and organized take-overs of foreign planets.

the cardassian who had definitely done evil but just wanted his daughter back was absolutely wonderful as well

Warner was also Ras Al ghul lol

Huh, didn't know Lord Forquad was a Cardassian...