On the whole this is a good episode (albeit conspicuous by the lack of Shakaar, despite all his resistance cell sying), however I had a big problem with the ending.

The main protagonist was an innocent (prior to the murders) Cardassian servant who was disfigured following an attack by the Shakaar cell. Kira tells him 'you were a Cardassian, therefore you were a target', something I disagree with - after all, would we say any innocents killed during wartime were guilty of just being there?

Sadly, they made the Cardassian a wacko, just to reinforce the fact he was evil and poor Kira was good, despite the fact his murdering of the Shakaar cell could be seen in some eyes as justfied retribution.

I don't want Kira to go all Roddenberry and say how sorry she was for doing it, but for the episode to give the resolution that attack on innocents who were in the wrong place at the wrong time just doesn't feel right.

Leaving aside the slightly muddled moral aspect to the story, this one didn't quite w**k for me.

Not sure whether it was the dodgy morals or the fact that ultimately I didn't get made to care that the cell members were being killed off :shrug:

Spoiler Free :)

It seemed to contradict her feelings at the end of Duet, too, where the guy said "He's a Cardassian, it's enough", oslt, and she said "No - it isn't", although I guess in this episode she is speaking in the past tense and her attitudes then were a lot different to now :ponder:

Same as Phillip, for me, started off really well and then turned into a bit of a mess. Bringing back her two resistance cohorts but not Shakaar seemed a bit odd but for the fact that it made it fairly obvious they were going to die (I didn't expect it to happen off screen, though).

Liked the scene between Dax and Worf on the Runabout - "I went to Starfleet Academy, I know a lot of things" :lol: