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** Bashir recounts the [=DS9=] crew's [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E06TheAbandoned failed attempt]] to control a Jem'Hadar youth, an image that fills Goran'agar with no small amusement.
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* CallBack: Sisko tells Worf that Starfleet officers often have trouble adjusting to the way things are done on [=DS9=]. [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E09ThePassenger George Primmin, for example.]]
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** Sisko tells Worf that Starfleet officers often have trouble adjusting to the way things are done on [=DS9=]. [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E09ThePassenger George Primmin, for example.]]]]
** Sisko is shown tinkering with the clock he built in "Dramatis Personae".
** Sisko tells Worf that Starfleet officers often have trouble adjusting to the way things are done on [=DS9=]. [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E09ThePassenger George Primmin, for example.
** Sisko is shown tinkering with the clock he built in "Dramatis Personae".
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** When Sisko tells Worf to stick to his own job and let Odo handle the investigation, Worf promises not to let this matter interfere with his own duties.
** Goran'agar's second asks if they should kill the prisoners themselves, or let the others do so. His commander replies, "I will do the killing." Then kills him.
** When Sisko tells Worf to stick to his own job and let Odo handle the investigation, Worf promises not to let this matter interfere with his own duties.
** Goran'agar's second asks if they should kill the prisoners themselves, or let the others do so. His commander replies, "I will do the killing." Then kills him.
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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: The Jem'Hadar suggest executing Bashir on the spot, and using O'Brien (as an experienced Starfleet non-com) in a [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame tactical exercise]]. Fortunately their commander has urgent need of a medical specialist who can find out why they haven't shaken off their addiction yet.
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* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: The Jem'Hadar suggest executing Bashir on the spot, and using O'Brien (as an experienced Starfleet non-com) in a 'tactical exercise'. Fortunately their commander has urgent need of a doctor.
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* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: The Jem'Hadar suggest executing Bashir on the spot, and using O'Brien (as an experienced Starfleet non-com) in a 'tactical exercise'. Fortunately their commander has urgent need of a doctor.
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* ReactionShot: Goran'agar when Bashir reveals that he's a doctor.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Goran’agar assumed there was some unique element of the planet that prevented him dying when his White ran out. He didn't realise there was something unique about ''him''.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Goran’agar assumed there was some unique element of the planet that prevented him dying when his White ran out. He didn't realise there was something unique about ''him''.''him'' -- an accidental mutation that meant his body could produce its own supply of White.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Goran’agar assumed there was some unique element of the planet that prevented him dying when his White ran out. He didn't realise there was something unique about ''him''.
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* ContinuitySnarl: Goran’agar claims his men have eaten the same food as he has, yet is frustrated that they are still addicted to the white while he isn't. A future episode in the same season, ''Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E23ToTheDeath'', will establish that the Jem'Hadar do not eat anything at all, and that the white is all they need to sustain themselves.
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* ContinuitySnarl: Goran’agar claims his men have eaten the same food as he has, yet is frustrated that they are still addicted to the white while he isn't. A future episode in the same season, ''Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E23ToTheDeath'', ''[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E23ToTheDeath To The Death]]'', will establish that the Jem'Hadar do not eat anything at all, and that the white is all they need to sustain themselves.
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* ContinuitySnarl: Goran’agar claims his men have eaten the same food as he has, yet is frustrated that they are still addicted to the white while he isn't. A future episode in the same season, ''Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E23ToTheDeath'', will establish that the Jem'Hadar do not eat anything at all, and that the white is all they need to sustain themselves.
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* CallBack: Sisko tells Worf that Starfleet officers often have trouble adjusting to the way things are done on [=DS9=]. [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E09ThePassenger George Primmin, for example.]]
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* HonorBeforeReason: Worf comes to Sisko and admits that he screwed up Odo's investigation, which wasn't mentioned in the report. Of course, Sisko already knows.
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* TakeThat: The episode can very easily come off as [=DS9=] staking its claim as a more complex and nuanced show than TNG, with the two transplants from the show causing chaos and tragedy because of their insistence on applying BlackAndWhiteMorality to a pair of more grey situations.
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* TakeThat: The episode can very easily come off as [=DS9=] staking its claim as a more complex and nuanced show than TNG, with the two transplants from the show causing chaos and tragedy because of their insistence on applying BlackAndWhiteMorality to a pair of more grey situations.TNG.
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* CallBack: Odo smugly reminds Worf of various Enterprise cock-ups in security.
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* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Goran'agar openly questions how the Founders use the Jem'Hadar.
-->"To us, they are almost a myth. But everyone in the Dominion, even the Vorta, serve the Founders. I have fought against races that believe in mythical beings who guide their destinies and await them after death. They call them gods. The Founders are like gods to the Jem'Hadar, but our gods never talk to us and they don't wait for us after death. They only want us to fight for them and to die for them."
-->"To us, they are almost a myth. But everyone in the Dominion, even the Vorta, serve the Founders. I have fought against races that believe in mythical beings who guide their destinies and await them after death. They call them gods. The Founders are like gods to the Jem'Hadar, but our gods never talk to us and they don't wait for us after death. They only want us to fight for them and to die for them."
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* TakeThat: The episode can very easily come off as DS9 [=DS9=] staking its claim as a more complex and nuanced show than TNG, with the two transplants from the show causing chaos and tragedy because of their insistence on applying BlackAndWhiteMorality to a pair of more grey situations.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Worf. He notices a known felon coming aboard the station and having dealings with Quark. He reports this to Odo, who seems indifferent. So, Worf takes it upon himself to catch the convict in the middle of a transaction...only for Odo to reveal that he was carefully following him to try to infiltrate the larger criminal organization.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Worf. He notices a known felon coming aboard the station and having dealings with Quark. He reports this to Odo, who seems indifferent. So, Worf takes it upon himself to catch the convict in the middle of a transaction... only for Odo to reveal that he was carefully following him to try to infiltrate the larger criminal organization.organization. Also an example of PoorCommunicationKills.
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* AndThenWhat: If you free the Jem'Hadar from their addiction, what happens then? They might become a rogue army rampaging across the Alpha Quadrant.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: O'Brien sabotages Bashir's work and kills several Jem'Hadar to save Bashir's life, and offers this as justification.
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* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Goran’agar, who re-evaluates most of his beliefs over the course of the episode, and who wants his men freed from their ketracel-white addiction so that they can be the same as him. O'Brien brings up the possibility that he's lying, but Bashir believes that he's genuine, and he certainly expresses enough un-Jem'Hadar-like behaviours to turn his men against him.
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* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: Bashir and O'Brien come into heavy conflict - Bashir wants to help the Jem'Hadar because of his InconvenientHippocraticOath, O'Brien just wants to abandon them because he sees them as an enemy. Eventually, Bashir has to [[ThatsAnOrder pull rank]] on O'Brien to force him to help.
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* AFatherToHisMen (combined with TheChainsOfCommanding): Goran’agar remains on the planet rather than leave with Bashir and O'Brien, as he is responsible for getting his men into this situation in the first place.
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* MercyKill: Goran’agar stays behind, intending to kill his men in battle, rather than have them die a slow and agonising death from ketracel-white withdrawal.
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* BurningTheShips: Having Discovered he had lost his genetic addiction to Ketracel White, the Jem'Hadar commander takes his platoon to an empty planet because he thinks the plants there have cured him, and then destroys both his ship and most of their supply of Ketracel White to get them off the stuff too. But it turns out he is the only one who is affected, and the rest of the crew develops withdrawal symptoms.
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* BurningTheShips: Having Discovered discovered he had lost his genetic addiction to Ketracel White, the Jem'Hadar commander takes his platoon to an empty planet because he thinks the plants there have cured him, and then destroys both his ship and most of their supply of Ketracel White to get them off the stuff too. But it turns out he is the only one who is affected, and the rest of the crew develops withdrawal symptoms.
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* BurningTheShips: Having Discovered he had lost his genetic addiction to Ketracel White, the Jem'Hadar commander takes his platoon to an empty planet because he thinks the plants there have cured him, and then destroys both his ship and most of their supply of Ketracel White to get them off the stuff too. But it turns out he is the only one who is affected, and the rest of the crew develops withdrawal symptoms.
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* AntiVillain: Goran’agar, the leader of the Jem'Hadar group. He kidnaps Bashir and O'Brien for a good reason, and in general is more noble and less bloodthirsty than the other Jem'Hadar we've seen so far. It's suggested that being free of ketracel-white changed his personality like this.
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* AntiVillain: Goran’agar, the leader of the Jem'Hadar group. He kidnaps Bashir and O'Brien for a good an understandable reason, and in general is more noble and less bloodthirsty than the other Jem'Hadar we've seen so far. It's suggested that being free of ketracel-white changed his personality like this.
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* AntiVillain: The Goran’agar, the leader of the Jem'Hadar group. He kidnaps Bashir and O'Brien for a good reason, and in general is more noble and less bloodthirsty than the other Jem'Hadar we've seen so far. It's suggested that being free of ketracel-white changed his personality like this.
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Bashir and O'Brien are taken prisoner by Jem'Hadar soldiers. The soldiers' leader tells them that he has freed himself of his dependance on ketracel-white, the drug the Dominion uses to control the genetically-engineered Jem'Hadar. He wants Bashir to figure out how he was able to do it so he can extend that freedom to the rest of the Jem'Hadar. Bashir agrees, but O'Brien isn't so sure that's a good idea. Meanwhile, Worf tries to adjust to life on [=DS9=], but runs into some friction with Odo.
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Bashir and O'Brien are taken prisoner by Jem'Hadar soldiers. The soldiers' leader tells them that he has freed himself of his dependance on ketracel-white, the drug the Dominion uses to control the genetically-engineered Jem'Hadar. He wants Bashir to figure out how he was able to do it so he can extend that freedom to the rest of the Jem'Hadar. Bashir agrees, but O'Brien isn't so sure that's a good idea. Meanwhile, Worf tries to adjust to life on [=DS9=], but runs into some friction with Odo.Odo.
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* AntiVillain: The leader of the Jem'Hadar group. He kidnaps Bashir and O'Brien for a good reason, and in general is more noble and less bloodthirsty than the other Jem'Hadar we've seen so far. It's suggested that being free of ketracel-white changed his personality like this.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: O'Brien feels Bashir is suffering from this, while Bashir says he's merely fulfilling his duty as a doctor.
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* AntiVillain: The leader of the Jem'Hadar group. He kidnaps Bashir and O'Brien for a good reason, and in general is more noble and less bloodthirsty than the other Jem'Hadar we've seen so far. It's suggested that being free of ketracel-white changed his personality like this.
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