History Awesome / StarTrekDeepSpaceNine

** Hell, Anything with Garak in it you knew was going to be awesome. Garak was a walking CMoA

* Garak gets another CMOA in the finale, as he leads the final charge into the Dominion HQ with a resounding cry of "FOR CARDASSIA!". Utterly badass.

* How does one talk about CMoA's and not mention Rom, in one of the best lines of the entire series. His delivery of the line just makes it all the better. Rom is panicking over his upcoming wedding and apparently not concentrating on his work at all until...

* Bashir: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=387EEt_GeVU "So that's what we've become: a 24th Century Rome, guided solely by the principle that Caesar can do no wrong!"]]. Arguably a CMOA for both the character and the actor. Starts at 4:15.

** This comes to fruition in a small CMOA for Damar when he completes his [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turn]] by saving Kira and Odo from a treacherous officer who wanted to bring back the old Imperial Cardassia.

* Apparently the producers of DS9 decided to create a two-hour episode that was basically just every character taking turns on the "Doing Unbelievably Awesome Shit" carousel.

** What looks like 60 Klingon ships chase them all the way back to the station and order the Cardassians handed over. When Sisko refuses they threaten to pulverize the "decrepit" Station. As another troper above states, panels start unlocking and gun ports emerge; and you realize that DS9 is armed. Sisko gives a smirk that almost says, "Now....witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational BATTLE-station!"

** And the episode is topped off with Worf getting promoted to the Command division and taking his permanent place on DS9.

--->"I lied; I cheated; I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men; I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all is... I think I can live with it. And if I'd have to do it all over again... I would. Garak was right about one thing...a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. So I will learn to live with it...because I can live with it. [pauses, finally convincing himself] I ''can'' live with it."

* Can inanimate objects [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in badass]]? If so, I nominate ''Deep Space Nine'' in "The Way of the Warrior". The Klingon fleet enters into what [[UnwittingPawn Martok]] thinks will be a total CurbStompBattle against the decrepit space station... then panels start sliding open on the hull to reveal a ''[[MoreDakka shitload of hidden phaser banks and torpedo launchers]]''. A glorious [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F8iNuRvZ5I slugfest ensues]].

---> '''Quark''': Humans used to be a lot worse than the Ferengi: slavery, concentration camps, interstellar wars. We have nothing in our past that approaches that kind of barbarism. You see? We're nothing like you... we're ''better''.

* Quark got three real good ones. First off, he stood before a Klingon warrior, risking death, just to trick the Klingon into proving he had no real honor. Second was blasting two Jem'Hadar guards, and standing shocked after he did so. Three, as he explains to a captive Maquis Vulcan that her actions are illogical, when she could have peace "at a bargain price."

-->'''Dr. Julian Bashir:''' [[ThisIsSparta Hold. It. There. Major.]]

'''Sisko:''' And then they'll discover that it is a '''fraud!'''\\

** ...making a solemn vow to [[TheMole Eddington]] to hunt him down to the ends of the universe if necessary.

** ...dropping the jaws of every single viewer and every member of his crew (including Worf) by backing up his promise to hunt Eddington by any means necessary.

* Sisko successfully, and completely unapologetically, [[strike: blackmailing]] [[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord extorting]] Garak, one of the most [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastards]] in the entire ''franchise''.
--->'''Garak:''' Commander, this is extortion.\\
'''Sisko:''' Hm..... Yes, it is.

*** Of course the [[{{ExpandedUniverse}} Cannon of the above has been pretty much made invalid .]] Also according to the {{Reboot}} and {{WordOfGod}} the Timeline where this occurred still exits. And in it would be hard for the Romulans to start a war [[spoiler: after their planet and people are wiped out by a Super nova.]]

* The scene in "Defiant" in which Dr. Bashir stands up to Major Kira blew me away. It's a ''sharp'' contrast from the way Kira's "wilderness" speech in the pilot made Bashir cower.

*** Of course the [[{{ExpandedUniverse}} Cannon of the above is in question.]] Also according to the {{Reboot}} and {{WordOfGod}} the Timeline where this occurred still exits. And in it would be hard for the Romulans to start a war [[spoiler: after their planet and people are wiped out by a Super nova.]]

'''Sisko:''' [sighs, resigned to the [[AwfulTruth flawless, ''hideous'' truth]]] That Vreenak obtained the rod on Zukara, and that the Dominion killed him to prevent him from returning to Romulus with it.\\

'''Sisko:''' [sighs, resigned to the flawless, ''hideous'' truth] That Vreenak obtained the rod on Zukara, and that the Dominion killed him to prevent him from returning to Romulus with it.\\

* The scene in "Defiant" in which Dr. Bashir stands up to Major Kira blew me away. It's a ''sharp'' contrast between the way Kira's "wilderness" speech in the pilot made Bashir cower.

--> '''Sisko:''' Commander, launch torpedoes.
--> ''[Worf hesitates on this order, for perhaps the first time in his life]''
--> '''Sisko:''' ''Commander,'' I said '''''launch torpedoes!'''''

--> '''Captain Sisko:''' Commander, launch torpedoes.

--> '''Captain Sisko:''' ''Commander,'' I said '''''launch torpedoes!'''''

-->'''Garak''': What if you killed me?

** His solution to that problem is sheer CMoA, too. You can just imagine the holodeck program try to make sense of someone deliberately screwing up the endgame after getting this far and just giving up and trying to kill him anyway, because, presumably, the programmer did not actually consider 'good guy destroys the world' as likely behavior for that holonovel. For a second, this troper thought it was 'out of character' for the bad guy to continue to try to kill him, and then realized the player had gone completely off the rails of the game. You have to wonder how that 'episode' would have ended if he'd continued to play, or if Bashir was about to get a non-standard game over by getting shot without any escape because he'd already 'lost'.

* Quark got three real good ones. First off, he stood before a Klingon warrior, risking death, just to trick the Klingon into proving he had no real honor. Second was blasting two Jem'Hadar guards, and standing shocked after he did so. Three, as he explains to a captive Maquis Vulcan that her actions are illogical, when she could have peace "at a discount price."

-->'''Commander Kira Nerys:''' That was stupid.
-->'''Elim Garak:''' Not at all. Damar has a certain... romanticism about the past. He can use a dose of cold water.
-->'''Commander Kira:''' I could have picked a better time.

--> '''Major Kira Nerys:''' Dukat, she was lonely. And the last time I checked, he was the only other Cardassian living on the station.
--> '''Gul Dukat:''' The man is a heartless, cold-blooded killer.
--> '''Major Kira:''' Like I ''said,'' he's a Cardassian.
* "[[BottleEpisode Duet]]" is a CMoA for Nana Visitor, the actress who played Kira, and guest star Harris Yulin. While the writing and direction for the episode was top-notch, it was the amazing performance those two gave that carried the episode.

--> '''Kira:''' I needed the exercise.

--> '''Dr. Bashir:''' When was the last time you had a day off?
--> '''Major Kira:''' ''I'' don't know! What does ''that'' have to do with it?
--> '''Dr. Bashir:''' If you can't remember, it's been too long. You're off duty, as of this moment.
--> '''Major Kira:''' What do you mean, "I'm off duty"? You can't do that!
--> '''Dr. Bashir:''' Oh yes I can, and not even Commander Sisko can override my judgment as Chief Medical Officer.

** surprising [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Q with a right hook]].

** savagely beating a Klingon mercenary who's trying to abduct Dax.
** taking over the Mirror Defiant's controls and running rings around a Klingon dreadnought.
** Making a solemn vow to [[TheMole Eddington]] to hunt him down to the ends of the universe if necessary.

** taking the Defiant into the middle of the Wormhole to face an entire Dominion fleet.

* After Damar finds out that the Dominion have killed his wife and children, he wonders what kind of people could give orders like that. Kira responds with a perfect "Yeah Damar. What kind of people give those orders?"

* The scene in "Defiant" in which Dr. Bashir stands up to Major Kira blew me away. It's a ''sharp'' contrast between the way Kira's "wilderness" speech in the pilot made Bashir cower.
-->'''Major Kira Nerys:''' ''Listen'' to me! You can't have a runabout! You can not get your medical supplies and I don't give a ''damn'' about the colonization schedule! Those colonists can make do with a box of ''bandages'' for all I care!
--> ''[Kira turns to leave]''
-->'''Dr. Julian Bashir:''' [[ThisIsSparta Hold. It. There. Major.]]
--> ''[Kira turns back around, glowering at him]''
--> '''Dr. Bashir:''' When was the last time you had a day off?
--> '''Major Kira:''' ''I'' don't know! What does ''that'' have to do with it?
--> '''Dr. Bashir:''' If you can't remember, it's been too long. You're off duty, as of this moment.
--> '''Major Kira:''' What do you mean, "I'm off duty"? You can't do that!
--> '''Dr. Bashir:''' Oh yes I can, and not even Commander Sisko can override my judgment as Chief Medical Officer.

--> '''Dr. Bashir:''' Oh yes I can, and not even Commander Sisko can override my judgment as Chief Medical Officer.