Ah yes, the birth of the Cardassian Monologue

I never understand how Maritza expected to convince Cardassia, or anyone else, he was Gul Darhe'el under any circumstance. ¶This is one of the best scenes in all of TV.

He makes me think of Eichmann in his glass cage in the Israeli court in 1962.

They would come back covered in blood but they felt clean. Now why did they feel that way Major, because they weeeere clean.

And that is what you call acting. Brilliant

How great TV was. 😢 great actors , deep stories.

3:45 heh, shes a hypocrite

I love how he was trying to get executed but Maritza was still afraid that she might deny him the medicine.

"they came back covered in blood, but they felt clean. why did they feel that way? Because why were clean." That's gotta be the most cold blooded line ever uttered on television.

I'm going to attribute Marritza's wonky makeup as deliberate due to the fact he altered his own appearance.

Israel = Cardassia Palestinians = Bajorans We've learned nothing from our own history or from the stories it has inspired. At least our governments and ruling elites haven't learned anything.

“The dead will still be dead”

"How can there be war crimes when there wasn't a war?" Unfathomably based.

The fact that Harris Yulin didn't get win an Emmy (let alone get nominated) for his performance in this episode is an absolute crime.

Would someone please make Harris Yulin a star already? He’s brilliant, here and in so many other things.

This in the end shows that Maritza had Empathy for the Bajorans , and wanted no part in the genocide .

When villainy is onpoint!

One of the finest moments in Trek, and definitely the finest in DS9. I only wish you had included the ENTIRE scene. The completely unexpected ending is what makes these scenes so magnificent, to the point that it brings me to tears every time I view it. It turns the whole concept of the Cardassians being evil monsters on its' head, and shows that there are good and noble Cardassians in the Star Trek world.

This episode was the first star trek to make me cry and I knew in that moment DS9 was going to be an incredible series. I truly felt sorry for him, I truly felt like I understood him, and him begging to be punished for someone else's crimes to help the people of Bajor heal after to occupation I was was heart-breaking. I'd give anything for another series like this one

Today I learned this same actor played the judge in Ghostbusters2 when the Scoleri brothers appeared!

I actually put 'how many Cardassians did you kill?' In the search engine. 😊

"For me, it was Tuesday!"

*Always* cast melodrama specialist actors for Star Trek for deliveries like this!

DS9 had some of the best dialog

This hits so much harder in 2024

EP118 according to netflix.

If you notice, while Darheel (Maritza) was saying all those hateful lines, you could see the sadness in his eyes. He looks like he's trying to hold back tears but powering through it because (as we learn later in the episode) he thinks he deserves punishment and wants to make sure it's carried out. Fantastic acting from his actor that I don't know how many people noticed

Who’s here because of the Israel Palestine war? The parallels are eerily similar.

It is so jarring sometimes how good the acting was from some of these one off characters in DS9. Maritza's acting was absolutely incredible and occasionally I feel like Kira's performance, when stuck right next to Maritza, falls a little flat in a couple of the deliveries of her lines. He had so much power, presence, and just commanded the entire scene.

He's a little too easy to hate. Real people are usually not so purely and obviously evil. Usually.

"Don't get political at dinner" Me: 2:11

"Don't get political at dinner" Me:

"What you call genocide I call a day's work." -- Heinrich Himmler

"War Crimes? how can there be war crimes when there has'nt been a war?" "For a labour camp it was the very model of order and efficiency!" "We had a empire to protect, we needed your resources, everything I did was for the greater glory of Cardassia, and if you spineless scum had to be ground under so much the better, all that mattered was Cardassia, I loved my homeland, that's what justified my actions, that's what gave me strength" Spoken like every Imperial Empire throughout human history......

The writing in this episode was so good. Some of the best in Star Trek

2023-2024 Israel be like....

Top notch writing

Israel (Cardassia) to Gaza (Bajor).

I am from the year 2024 and I regret to inform you that this scene is now considered very, very controversial.

Uno demis capitulos favoritos de toda la frqmquicia de startrek

Superb acting.

One of the times Star Trek has great writing.

You don’t have to be a star trek fan to appreciate just how amazing this episode is. You can watch it without knowing the background of anyone in it and it’s still amazing.

That sigh at 3:14, the only real clue that he hates everything he was pretending to stand for. Fantastic performance.

they really pulled the stops out of the writers for this episode.

His behavior kind of reveals that he isn’t the real Gul early if you think about it, because actual fascists, even the most brutal ones, are cowards when it comes to the horrible things they did, eager to lie and make excuses once caught. You see this with Dukat in the show who oversaw the whole occupation.

Haris Yulen was so good in this. Nana was his eaqul every step of the way.

Good help is hard to find

The actor playing Maritza deserved an Emmy award for his acting in this episode. Outstanding performance!

This episode was inspired by The Man in the Glass Booth (1974) Maximillian Schell