History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet

* DeathSeeker: Marritza, who impersonaltes Darhe'el in the hopes of being tried and executed, motivated by his guilt over what he witnessed during the Cardassian Occupation.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Kira's rationale for having killed Cardassian civilians.

-->"[[EvilIsHammy I am alive!]] ''[[EvilIsHammy I will always be alive!!!]]'' [[EvilIsHammy It's Marritza who is dead! Marritza, who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman.]] Who, every night, covered his ears because he [[VillainousBreakdown couldn't bear to hear the screaming... for mercy... of the Ba-jor-ans... *breaks down weeping uncontrollably*]] [[TearJerker Covered my ears every night... because I couldn't bear to hear the horrible screams. You have no idea what it's like to be a coward. To see these horrors and do nothing... ]][[ThatManIsDead Marritza's dead. He deserves to be dead.]]

* GrowingTheBeard: Several critics have suggested that this is the point where this happened to DS9, as this episode showed what new and different stories could be done with the series' unique setting.

Duet begins with Kira and Dax discussing their dating lives when a ship containing a passenger suffering from [[SoapOperaDisease Kalla-Nohra]] docks at the station. Kira heads down to Doctor Bashir and, seeing the passenger is Cardassian, arrests him on the spot. As it transpires, Kalla-Nohra is only ever found in people who were at a specific work camp during the Occupation of Bajor on the day of a mining accident. Many bad things happened at that camp, so Kira has arrested him as a war criminal.

!This episode provides examples of:

* MotivationalLie: Marritza lied about his identity and running the work camps, to motivate Kira to put him on trial.

* MotivationalLie: Marritza lied about his identity and running the work camps, to motivate Kira to put him on trial.
* TheAtoner: Marritza.

* MotivationalLie: Marritza lying about his identity and running the work camps, to motivate Kira to put him on trial.
* TheAtoner: Marritza.

* TheAtoner: Marritza.

-->'''Darhe'el!Marritza''': What you call genocide, I call a day's work.

-->'''Marritza''': What you call genocide, I call a day's work.

Episode: Season 1, Episode 18\\

* BottleEpisode: The episode, which needed only one guest star and used entirely existing sets and costumes, cost less than half of the usual budget and is considered one of the finest episodes of the series.

Episode: Season 1, Episode 19\\

With this loose thread to sort out, Odo gets in contact with Gul Dukat, who provides [[ShockingSwerve surprising information]]: Not only has Gul Darhe'el already died and been buried in a public military funeral (which Dukat attended), but he was not even at the camp on the day of the accident and so would never have contracted Kalla-Nohra. Further investigation of the prisoner's home reveals he spent a lot of time researching Kira, and taking medication for the after effects of [[MagicPlasticSurgery surgical alterations]]. Once again, Kira confronts him with the evidence, claiming that he is Marritza after all trying to pass himself off as Gul Darhe'el, but he tries to cling to it:

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With this loose thread to sort out, Odo gets in contact with Gul Dukat, who provides [[ShockingSwerve surprising information]]: Not only has Gul Darhe'el already died and been buried in a public military funeral, but he was not even at the camp on the day of the accident and so would never have contracted Kalla-Nohra. Further investigation of the prisoner's home reveals he spent a lot of time researching Kira, and taking medication for the after effects of [[MagicPlasticSurgery surgical alterations]]. Once again, Kira confronts him with the evidence, claiming that he is Marritza after all trying to pass himself off as Gul Darhe'el, but he tries to cling to it:

Confronted with this, he admits that he is Gul Darhe'el and [[EvilIsHammy gives a long boastful confession about how he slaughtered people and all his other crimes]], and how Kira and her Shaakar resistance cell were insignificant. With this it looks like he will be handed over to Bajor for Trial and Execution, but something's amiss...[[IneverToldYouMyName how did he know the name of Kira's Resistance cell]]?

The TV screen tends to become [[TearJerker unusually blurry]] at this point, and no amount of whacking seems to fix it...

While Sisko faces pressure from the Bajoran Government to hand him over for trial, he holds off while he attempts to verify his identity, which is tricky when there are few images of the work camp. During this he discusses the matter with Kira, and his intent to release Marritza if his story checks out. Using a picture from the work camp, the prisoner looks nothing like Marritza...but he is a spot on match for [[CompleteMonster Gul Darhe'el]], the camp's administrator.

-->'''Kira''': Why did you do it?! He wasn't [[CompleteMonster Gul Darhe'el]]!

Series:Main/{{Star Trek Deep Space Nine}}\\

Duet begins with Kira and Dax discussing their dating lives when a ship containing a passenger suffering from [[SoapOperaDisease Kalla-Nohra]] docks at the station. Kira heads down to Doctor Bashir and, seeing the passenger is Cardassian, arrests him on the spot. As it transpires, Kalla-Nohra is only ever found in people who were at a specific work camp during the Occupation of Bajor on the day of a mining accident. Many bad things happened at that camp, so Kira has arrested him as a WarCriminal.

His claims that he has a similar condition are quickly dismissed, and he keeps insisting that he is [[SarcasticConfession Aamin Marritza, a military file clerk]]. During Kira's questioning of him, a [[ChekhovsGunman Drunken Bajoran]] is released from Holding muttering about being imprisoned with a Cardie.

While Sisko faces pressure from the Bajoran Government to hand him over for trial, he holds off while he attempts to verify his identity, which is tricky when there are few images of that place. During this he discusses the matter with Kira, and his intent to release Marritza if his story checks out. Using a picture from the work camp, the prisoner looks nothing like Marritza...but he's a spot on match for [[CompleteMonster Gul Darhe'el]], the camp's administrator.

Confronted with this, he outright admits that he's Gul Darhe'el, and [[EvilIsHammy gives a long boastful confession about how he slaughtered people and all his other crimes]], and how Kira and her Shaakar resistance cell were insignificant. With this it looks like he will be handed over to Bajor for Trial and Execution, but something's amiss...[[INeverSaidItWasPoison how did he know the name of Kira's Resistance cell]]?

With this loose thread to sort out, Odo gets in contact with Gul Dukat, who provides [[ShockingSwerve surprising information]]: Not only has Gul Darhe'el already died and been buried in a public military funeral, but he wasn't even at the camp on the day of the accident and so would never have contracted Kalla-Nohra. Further investigation of the Prisoner's home reveals he spent a lot of time researching Kira, and taking medication for the after effects of [[MagicPlasticSurgery surgical alterations]]. Once again, Kira confronts him with the evidence, claiming that he is Marritza after all trying to pass himself off as Gul Darhe'el, but he tries to cling to it:

-->"[[EvilIsHammy I am alive!]] ''[[EvilIsHammy I will always be alive!!!]]'' [[EvilIsHammy It's Marritza who is dead! Marritza, who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman.]] Who, every night, covered his ears because he [[VillainousBreakdown couldn't bear to hear the screaming... for mercy... of the Ba-jor-ans... *breaks down weeping uncontrollably*]] [[TearJerker Covered my ears every night... because I couldn't bear to hear the horrible screams. You have no idea what it's like to be a coward. To see these horrors and do nothing... Marritza's dead. He deserves to be dead.]]

-->"[[EvilIsHammy I am alive!]] ''[[EvilIsHammy I will always be alive!!!'']] [[EvilIsHammy It's Marritza who is dead! Marritza, who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman.]] Who, every night, covered his ears because he [[VillainousBreakdown couldn't bear to hear the screaming... for mercy... of the Ba-jor-ans... *breaks down weeping uncontrollably*]] [[TearJerker Covered my ears every night... because I couldn't bear to hear the horrible screams. You have no idea what it's like to be a coward. To see these horrors and do nothing... Marritza's dead. He deserves to be dead.]]

-->"[[EvilIsHammy I am alive! ''I will always be alive!!!'' It's Marritza who is dead! Marritza, who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman.]] Who, every night, covered his ears because he [[VillainousBreakdown couldn't bear to hear the screaming... for mercy... of the Ba-jor-ans... *breaks down weeping uncontrollably*]] [[TearJerker Covered my ears every night... because I couldn't bear to hear the horrible screams. You have no idea what it's like to be a coward. To see these horrors and do nothing... Marritza's dead. He deserves to be dead.]]

Title:"The Best of Both Worlds"\\

-->"[[EvilIsHammy I am alive. I will always be alive! It's Marritza who's dead!]] Marritza, who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman. [[VillainousBreakdown Who every night covered his ears because he couldn't bear to hear the screaming]]... [[TearJerker for mercy... of the Bajorans...]]"