For some reason I just don't like this one :shrug:

Whether it's just because I find it uncomfortable to watch or that the storyline, whilst important for later events, doesn't really grab me I don't know.

Can't say as I agree with the pure evil bit either. If Dukat was 'pure evil' why would he feel the need to put a good gloss on his actions during the occupation, which suggests a part of him feels guilty/bad about his actions and wants to try to get others to agree with him to make him feel better. This would certainly suggest an evil person, but by no stretch of the imagination 'pure evil'.

I really enjoy this episode - DS9 does the 2-hander story quite well. I'm not so sure about the whole 'Defiant hunting for them with a time limit' story - on one side it's a nice flashback to those TOS episodes where the Enterprise had to go deliver medical supplies before a plague destroyed a planet or something, and of courrse Kirk Spock and McCoy are trapped on the planet and Scotty had to keep the Enterprise in orbit as long as he can, usually with a diplomat or some official making sure Scotty goes on time :)

The Dukat story has always interested me - in a way I've always believed he thought he was being fair to the Bajorans and doing what he could to help them (vis Wrongs Darker than Death or Night and Covenant), yet these 'terrorists' just saw things in black and white, and saw Dukat as a bad guy, irrelevant of what he did.

Still, anything with Avery Brooks leading the episode is always going to be fantastic to watch, and he and Marc Alaimo w**k with each other so well :thumbsup:

BORING!!! :yawn:

Next! :lol:

Alaimo and Brooks, great as characters, even better when they work off each other.

Fantastic episode, which is usually overlooked in favour of some of the season's other installments.