History Headscratchers / StarTrekDeepSpaceNine

** Kind of ignoring the circumstances of the statement. Kira was not only in the last stages of pregnancy, so the extra hormones weren't helping, the man was planning to cut the baby out of her, a baby that wasn't even her's but actually her close friend's, after she' spent days atching her friends be murdered one after another. Had he merely shown up at the station and asked for an apology she may very well have given it to him, she had an entire episode in the first season where she learned the valuable lesson that not all Cardasians were monsters and should be punished soley for existing. Neither of them were particularily rational about the subject by that point.

** I agree in the abstract that Odo does not use his powers usefully very often. On those odd occasions when he forms tendrils to grab attackers, I wonder why he doesn't do it more. But do not forget that, in the grand scheme, he is a novice changeling. He was amazed to find that Laas could fly through space as this was a power well beyond his, so one can expect him to just be able to do it himself. This is an important part of his characterization -- remember that Odo is a misfit, not a demigod. Laas had centuries of practice that Odo lacked, and the Changelings in the Great Link had significantly more again.

** Regarding his crew that keeps ending up filled with rookies, I can think of at least three reasons why it keeps happening: 1) He got out of a Dominion prison camp after being replaced by a Changeling, so he hadn't yet re-earned the trust of Klingon veterans yet (backed up by the fact that we only see his crew after he was recently released), 2) he really ''is'' a good trainer, general or not, and one of his duties is to train rookies simply because he's the best at it (admittedly this has little proof), or 3) Gowron doesn't want to see him get too popular and so keeps sending him inexperienced crews to hinder his progress (this one's especially backed up by Gowron's behavior near the end of the series).

** He probably wasn't thinking that far into it, having lived with years of pent-up PSTD, guilt, and self-hatred driving him into [[SuicideByCop his plan]]. Most likely he thought that with his CardCarryingVillain persona, the Bajorans wouldn't bother to conduct a thorough investigation. Although if he ''had'' survived, it's probable that he would have been able to publicly explain his actions, which may still have gone some way to achieving his goal anyhow.

*** Or having checked, he might expect them to believe that the Cardassians had lied. After all, it's not like the Cardassians were above lying to save face on, well, ''just about anything''. If it hadn't been for them [[spoiler:finding the records which clearly showed that Gul Darheel had been on Cardassia when the accident happened, therefore couldn't have Kalinora syndrome, therefore the man in the cell couldn't be Darheel]] then they might well have assumed that the Cardassians were trying to create an alibi.

* And speaking of "Life Support", why are Sisko and Kai Winn so mystified when Legate Turrel insists on an agreement in principle that anything of Cardassian origin left behind in the Bajoran system belongs to Cardassia? [[JustWhatItSaysOnTheTin Duh, the Cardassians just want the station!]] And the ''de facto'' control of the wormhole that comes with it!

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**** In my opinion Worf was completly justified in taking the shot. Present day Navies "strongly encourage" everybody to keep well away in peace time. And he was at that time in combat. Anybody who approches active combat puts themselfs willingly at risk. Trying to sneak up on the cambatans is sucidal.

** Your point? By the very evidence you supply you seem to get the writers' point right across - that the test [[spoiler:was a BatmanGambit by the Founders to sew paranoia amongst the Federation and Klingons, while letting agents who "passed" the test go about their business without suspicion]]. The very episode in which, as you say, Sisko's father points out the fallacies in the test, was meant to indicate this very plot although it wasn't until much later that [[spoiler:they actually learned that, yes, indeed, the one who suggested the test was a changeling themselves]].