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@@HP-mf4df ah yes, the infamous Jem'Hadar titty twister

What did he do, yank on his chest hair?

….because he’s Irish ☘️

He came

starfleet infected him

@@jessihawkins9116 the Great Link did at some point after the end of season 3, Section 31 infected him with the morphogenic virus possibly during the season 4 two part story.

@@jamesspring4610 know it all 😒

@@jessihawkins9116 Except when you do it obviously

He was respected because he helped Bajorans when Cardassians ran the station. He treated everyone equally

"Gardner Stories"

Agra’s was the assassin. He killed the Proconsul for saying he hated Cardassians. Gardener was the cover story

@@MrRedcarpet02 gardener, mechanic, plumber.... you get the drift.

@@MrRedcarpet02 um, yes... but I was speaking in euphemism terms. A mechanic is a hired killer. You could apply the same metaphor to the other roles.

@@heedmywarning2792 He painted houses at some point in time...

He could at least be considered an actual Demi-God

Well, uppity is a common trait.

It's a good thing for the Gem'Hadar The Sisko stayed his pimp hand.

@@Patrick-pv9pe He was standing on it

Yes, but only come to their people.

it seems that she has a great deal of respect for sisko and his crew as when the defiant is destroyed she allows the escape pods to return home.

@@jellybeaner118 I don't think that was respect. It was an attempt to sow fear among the Federation Alliance by allowing the survivors to flee, as she said so herself. Personally - I think it would have been more devastating if they had destroyed as many of the escape pods as possible - but had they done that, the main characters would have all been killed at the Second Battle of Chin'Toka because none of them would have then survived.

@@bobpage6597 Slaughtering them all here would make them martyrs and inspire defiance rather than compliance through fear...

Odo means more to the Founder than the entire alpha quadrant. The founder would burn down the Dominion for one of thier own.

Every damn time it happens to me too. I have to rewatch this lol

I’m too cheap for Netflix

Sadly the same cannot be said of thr shit storms that are Discovery and Picard

@@dilatedbeholder3865 Yep. You know something sucks when you can literally rewatch every Trek instance over and over and then Discovery and Picard shows up and you never want to rewatch any episode.

For real!!! Now I gotta go watch this episode!

Such a funny little exchange

I actually can see him being a gardener. He can poison the crops

@@wristdisabledwriter2893 Me too.

Adds a whole new meaning to "grim reaper"

@@Albukhshi Yep.

Garage has trouble keeping anything straight the way he talks.

@@maureenogorman8740 true but that's intentional. He literally has kept so many lies straight it's insane. But to say he can't remember which one he killed says a lot. This is the guy who can keep so many lies straight it's hard to tell when he's even telling the truth .

He remembers, in the novelization, it's revealed that he was using dramatic irony to admit without admitting it that he killed the proconsul. He gave Odo just enough information to put the pieces together himself.

@@NeonPixels81I figured that's what he was doing. Garak wouldn't admit to something like this in general, particularly to a constable. Especially when he respects that constable enough to distract him from his pain.

@@Vashthestampede967remember even Garak’s lies are true.

RED SHIRTS learned from history

In this instance, the Founder clearly had no intention towards violence. Beaming onto their ship with numerous armed guard, could've easily set off a firefight.

​@@keitht24 Except that they were completely caught off guard by them beaming onto the bridge, so clearly didn't know it would happen, and thus wouldn't have prepared.

@@parrot998 Beaming onto to their ship, unannounced with armed guards could've easily turned into a full blown firefight. All it takes is one person being a little jumpy.

@@keitht24 I know this. My point is the bridge crew could not have known it was gonna happen, so why would they leave?

Agreed. Whenever I think of DS9, I think of him. And his haughty disdain for the Romulans and how everything on their homeworld is grey.

We all agree

OK! :)

Spock, Data, Quark and Garak are the best characters, hands down.

Who knew just how to distract Odo

Mildly compared to other episodes

I don’t know if the Chief prefers this suffering either.

They did

@panther7748, this seems confusing as he seemed to know even as a little boy that his father was Enabran Tain, at least from the story that Tain told about the riding hound before he died

@@keithtorgersen9664 In the novel, he grews up in Tain's house, as the son of his housekeeper. However, the intially thinks that the gardener is his father and only later it is revealed that Tain is his real father and Elim is effectively his illegitimate son with the housekeeper. (The gardener was the housekeepers brother (Elim's uncle) who pretended to be his father for Elim and for people who didn't knew the household closely because a person without official parents has a very low status in Cardassian society). So perhaps the story makes sense because they lived in the same house and Tain new that Elim was his son, but Elim didn't.

@Panther774, totally randomly, your comment about cardassians without official parents have low status in society, it actually breaks my heart because it reminds me of that tragic scene where Garak sees those Cardassian war orphans on Bajor, and he knows he can’t do anything for them, and they give him these heartbreaking looks.

@@keithtorgersen9664 Yeah, it's heartbreaking scene. And the novel adds more depth to it, because he can sort of relate to them. And he is sn orphan in another sense, rejected and exiled by his people (and his real father).

@@keithtorgersen9664are you here to take us back to cardassia? it is incredibly sad, but growing up an orphan even in a bajoran orphanage is probably a much kinder fate than being a parentless child on cardassia.

I loved Jadzia ....... lol

Jadzia is an uppity bitch, and the only thing going for her is her good looks... Other than that, her personality is crap. I don't much like any of the Starfleet officers, but if I were to choose my favorites it would probably be Picard, Riker, and then Sisko... Data is pretty cool too. Worf is alright.

@@TheREALExposingtheJoyofS-px3ri not defending her but to be fair dax is a combination of 7 (at that time) different personalities in one alien mind, it's no wonder why she acts the way she does

@@skynetprime82 Yeah, I was going to bring that up... That is true. lol. Being as old as she is, I'd probably be a bit on the arrogant side myself. No doubt...

@@TheREALExposingtheJoyofS-px3ri I do miss the Garak and Odo character's tbh lol

Yeah lol not like that was the whole point of what garak was doing. He was trying to distract him. If odo couldn’t see it, he wouldn’t be distracted

Garak’s always so full of sh!t, lol. Almost everything he says is either a carefully crafted lie or a euphemism for what he actually did or just a hint of how much he actually knows

The sad part is that Garak has no issue keeping them straight. He has naturally eidectic memory which has been trained well. He remembers every op, every cover, and every death he caused - whether direct or indirect.

it is rare for her, in her experience, to encounter solids who genuinely and sincerely care for one of her own. It probably pushed them to decide to spare Odo and transform him. They knew he would go somewhere that he would be still loved. She might have envied Odo a little in that moment.

Agreed. Even villains in real life are human.

Imagine how the JemHadar felt 😆

Usually it is a Vorta, but its safe to say that Odo is that important to the Dominion

Shapeshifters care for each other, even if they do not give a rat ass of any other species.

@@RicardoSantos-oz3uj well they seem to be happy killing each other now - Vadic shot dead shapeshifters.

This is a matter of too great importance to be entrusted to any Weyoun.

Hey it’s their fault. They programmed them

Why must O'Brien suffer so much?

The TOS enterprise have it.

TNG bridge had those lovely personnel sized force fields, though they rarely used them.

Any internal defenses beyond forcefields would be nice.

One, did it too Quark.

He was hidden in the transporter room at the time. Probably didn't even realize anything happened other than the decreased power levels

You're wrong. That episode was in Season 7 of TNG. By then O'Brien had been on DS9 for a year and a half. So it's still true that he never served on a Starship with a cloaking device.

because he is the TNG Worf of DS9

They didn't like him as a Genii.

Too late for that. He's an old man now

That's true however the whole premise of this show that Odo needed the help of other founders to cure him is silly. We know the founders sent MANY young changelings across the galaxy to explore and bring information back to them. If this need of the great link was real and Odo being one of the first young ones to return home from so far away was already in danger, then the other changlings they knowingly sent out would all die horribly. So what would be the point? Good old trek boldy forgetting what came before. :)

⁠@@MrBottlecapBillOdo says in one episode that the young Changelings were sent out to gauge how other species would treat them. It’s not stated but it’s likely with a few exceptions like Lars, most of the young Changelings were probably killed

That's a pretty good point. Honestly, it would have been a lot better for the Dominion to blockade the wormhole and keep the Alpha Quadrant out. They could have worked from the shadows with a small band of changelings, fueling conflicts to inhibit their growth and discourage unity. And then, eventually, the Dominion would have outpaced them because they wouldn't have been dealing with problems like that.

No ST:Enterprise?

@@Diamondphobe Ahh! I forgot about Enterprise. Back in the day, it was easy to keep track of all the shows😂 In reality, I’ll eat up whatever they’re selling.

Why would O'Brien be aware of a classified incident involving the Enterprise that happened a year after he transferred to DS9?

@@DarkGob thank you

And the Jem'hadar weapons can vaporize people too.

Now that Rene Aberjonois died, a reunion is bittersweet😔

I just couldn't imagine DS9 without Odo. I'm not sure that he could be recast.

@@thegreenmanofnorwich probably one of the easiest to recast, considering he can be physically anything.

@@oldtwinsna8347 the portrayal is much more than what an actor looks like

@@thegreenmanofnorwich Just saying the character is a hell of lot more easier to recast than a soap opera style recasting of Julian Bashir.

Nope that was after he transferred to DS9

lmao how did this objectively wrong comment get 11 thumbs up, y'all need to brush up on Memory Alpha I think

Garak was the first GOOD Cardassian cast on a ST series. Dukat was well thought out ..... but he was never GOOD. lol

E26

Just above it, I think

Funnily enough, back in the day fans of the previous shows said the opposite since DS9 was dark and gritty themed verses the optimistic and hopeful theme of the first two series.

No, they are not. They follow the orders of the Founders and they don’t have egos and they are not racist ...the JemHadar are professionals.

@@JemHadar422 the Jem Hadar are very racist...

@@erikasilva6154 no they are not, they are professionals. Now Cardassians very racist!

@Whiskey Wight actually they do, they get that messed up group think...kinda how nonblonde and non blue eyed folks belonged to the Nazis party and did really fucked up things to other people.

She is scary...one moment tender and diplomatic next moment ordering exterminations.

@@JemHadar422 your username is so original

@@MegaBorgqueen yes, indeed! I serve the Founder in all things.

@@JemHadar422 the founder is giving you an order you will obey it

@@MegaBorgqueen “even the Vorta serves the founders”.

He played into Q's hands

That is possible. Defiant is a dedicated warship while Voyager is an exploratory vessel barely above scout class.

Going into hostile territory? No time to send in rookies

@@potsdam28 in real life, if they were captured that would be too great a loss to bear. Good leaders delegate.

Sisko knew they would do nothing that would put Odo at risk. The fact that he was willing to put himself at risk for Odo garnered respect from the enemy. It was razor-edge diplomacy worth the risk. Sisko had the balls to do the one move that would save Odo and keep all of them safe. It was a calculated risk with the reward worth the risk. Mule-headed? Hardly.

No, that turns them to dust. This one turns them to diarrhea. But this is how The Great Link got infected.

Worfs adoptive father was also one

Code of Honor was a masterpiece huh?

@@SHERMANDS9FAN oh God, don't remind me of it. Best to not even watch the first two seasons of Next Gen.