History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet

** Similarly, when Marritza reveals his true character, Kira releases him from the cell, no longer caring whether or not Bajor would still want to prosecute him.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Marritza is stabbed in the lower back by a small knife and dies instantly. They're practically nearby Infirmay when this happens and Kira makes no attempt to call for Bashir or carry him there, while it's been established that ''Trek'' medicine can treat the freshly deceased. Also, Picard was stabbed through the heart and lived to laugh about it, so the whole ending feels rather rushed.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Gul Dukat refers to the "Cardassian Empire." Later references established it as the Cardassian ''Union''.

* ButHeSoundsHandsome: As Gul Darhe'el, Marritza compliments his own filing system. And before he's "revealed" to be Darhe'el, [[InvokedTrope Marritza praises the man's leadership]].

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

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Marritza is stabbed in the lower back by a small knife and dies instantly. They're practically nearby sickbay when this happens and Kira makes no attempt to call for Bashir or carry him there, while it's been established that ''Trek'' medicine can treat the freshly deceased. Remember too that Picard was stabbed through the heart and lived to laugh about it, so the whole ending feels rather rushed.

* TheButcher: Of Gallitep.

* ButHeSoundsHandsome: As Gul Darhe'el, Marritza compliments his own filing system.
** And before he's "revealed" to be Darhe'el, [[InvokedTrope Marritza praises the man's leadership]].

* CruelTwistEnding: This could be the cruelest ''Star Trek'' ending since [[Recap/StarTrekS1E28TheCityOnTheEdgeOfForever "The City On The Edge Of Forever."]] All Marritza's meticulous planning and showy performances, then his chance at redemption by another means after Kira learns the truth, only to be unceremoniously murdered in cold blood by a drunken lunatic, right in the middle of the promenade.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Marritza's plan would have worked but for the fact Cardassia considered Darhe'el a hero and buried him at a ''state funeral.'' His plan only would have worked if the Cardassian had been living in shame.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Gul Dukat refers to the "Cardassian Empire." Later references established it as the Cardassian ''Union.''

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Marritza's stories of the work camp are clearly meant to invoke Auschwitz, with the Cardassians being analogous to Nazis, and the Bajorans to Jews and other minorities put in concentration camps.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Kira, as usual. She claims that arresting Marritza as a war criminal is the right thing to do, even if there's no legal justification.

* SpottingTheThread: The first clue that Darhe'el is not who he says he is comes when he mentions the name of Kira's former resistance cell. Kira doesn't think anything of it at first, but Odo finds it incredibly suspicious that Darhe'el, whose duties did not involve fighting the resistance, would know (let alone remember) such a specific piece of trivia (because Darhe'el is actually ''right'' - individual cells, even the Shakaar cell, were basically fleas to the Cardassian military, and the withdrawal was due more to overall political pressure than anything). He claims to have seen her name in reports he read in his spare time, which Kira probably would have bought, but by then more evidence was appearing that unraveled the thread even more.

* TooDumbToLive: Discussed by Odo and Dukat over the comm, why would an innocent old man head to a Bajoran space station and pretend to be an infamous Cardassian war criminal, an act guaranteed to get him captured and executed? Turns out, [[TheAtoner there's a method to his apparent madness...]]

Duet begins with Kira and Dax discussing their lives when a ship containing a passenger (Harris Yulin) suffering from [[SoapOperaDisease Kalla-Nohra syndrome]] 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.

* JerkassFacade: Marritza, and he makes a hell of a show of it for a while, till he just can't anymore.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Marritza is stabbed in the lower back by a small knife and dies instantly. They're practically nearby sickbay when this happens and Kira makes no attempt to call for Bashir or carry him there, while it's been established that ''Trek'' medicine can treat the freshly deceased. Remember too that Picard was stabbed through the heart and lived to laugh about it, so the whole ending feels rather rushed. Perhaps Cardassian biology explains this or the knife itself contained a lethal poison, but they don't actually say that.

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

* JerkassFacade: Marritza, and he makes a hell of a show of it for a while, till [[TearJerker he just can't anymore.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Gul Darhe'el died peacefully, received a state funeral with full Cardassian military honors, and didn't even have the good grace to contract Kalla-Nohra syndrome like most of the camp's inhabitants.

With this loose thread to sort out, Odo gets in contact with Gul Dukat, who provides [[ShockingSwerve surprising information]]: Gul Darhe'el died six years ago and was buried under one of Cardassia's largest military monuments in a state funeral (which Dukat attended). Further investigation reveals that Darhe'el was not even on Bajor on the day of the accident and so could never have contracted Kalla-Nohra and that the prisoner spent a considerable amount of time researching Kira and was taking medication for the aftereffects 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:

With this loose thread to sort out, Odo gets in contact with Gul Dukat, who provides [[ShockingSwerve surprising information]]: Gul Darhe'el died several years ago and was buried under one of Cardassia's largest military monuments in a state funeral (which Dukat attended). Further investigation reveals that Darhe'el was not even on Bajor on the day of the accident and so could never have contracted Kalla-Nohra and that the prisoner spent a considerable amount of time researching Kira and was taking medication for the aftereffects 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:

With this loose thread to sort out, Odo gets in contact with Gul Dukat, who provides [[ShockingSwerve surprising information]]: Gul Darhe'el died several years ago and was buried under one of Cardassia's largest military monuments in a publicly broadcast state funeral (which Dukat attended in person). Further investigation reveals that Darhe'el was not even on Bajor on the day of the accident and so could never have contracted Kalla-Nohra and that the prisoner spent a considerable amount of time researching Kira and was taking medication for the aftereffects 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:

With this loose thread to sort out, Odo gets in contact with Gul Dukat, who provides [[ShockingSwerve surprising information]]: Gul Darhe'el died quite some time ago and was given a highly publicized hero's funeral (which Dukat attended). Further investigation reveals that Darhe'el was not even on Bajor on the day of the accident and so could never have contracted Kalla-Nohra and that the prisoner spent a considerable amount of time researching Kira and was taking medication for the aftereffects 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:

With this loose thread to sort out, Odo gets in contact with Gul Dukat, who provides [[ShockingSwerve surprising information]]: Gul Darhe'el is dead was given a highly publicized hero's funeral (which Dukat attended). Further investigation reveals that Darhe'el was not even on Bajor on the day of the accident and so could never have contracted Kalla-Nohra and that the prisoner spent a considerable amount of time researching Kira and was taking medication for the aftereffects 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:

With this loose thread to sort out, Odo gets in contact with Gul Dukat, who provides [[ShockingSwerve surprising information]]: Gul Darhe'el is dead was given a highly publicized hero's funeral (which Dukat attended). Further investigation reveals that Darhe'el was not even on Bajor on the day of the accident and so could never have contracted Kalla-Nohra, the prisoner's home had evidence of him having spent a lot of time researching Kira, and was taking medication for the aftereffects 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:

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 on Bajor on the day of the accident and so could never have contracted Kalla-Nohra. Further investigation of the prisoner's home reveals he spent a lot of time researching Kira, and was taking medication for the aftereffects 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 Bajorans…]] ''[breaks down weeping uncontrollably]'' [[TearJerker/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Covered my ears every night… I couldn't bear to hear those 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.]]

Marritza finally admits his true identity and his motivations: [[TheAtoner he believes Cardassia has to face its past and accept responsibility for what it has done]], and by having a very public trial he can force Cardassia to deal with it. With this, Kira releases him, [[CharacterDevelopment having realized that his execution would be nothing more or less than that of the murder of another innocent man]].

-->"[[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 Bajorans…]] ''[breaks down weeping uncontrollably]'' [[TearJerker/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Covered my ears every night… because I couldn't bear to hear those 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.]]

-->"[[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 Bajorans…]] ''[breaks down weeping uncontrollably]'' [[TearJerker/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine 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.]]

* CruelTwistEnding: This could be the cruelest ''Star Trek'' ending since [[Recap/StarTrekS1E28TheCityOnTheEdgeOfForever "The City On The Edge Of Forever."]] All Marritza's meticulous planning and showy performances, only to be unceremoniously murdered in cold blood by a drunken lunatic, right in the middle of the promenade.

[[caption-width-right:320:Gul Darhe'el.[[spoiler:..or not.]]]]