History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E13ForTheUniform

* NoodleIncident: During his punching bag rant, it's revealed Sisko had invited Eddington to a baseball game on the Holosuite at some point during Seasons Three or Four. Similarly, Eddington also attended one of Sisko's dinners for the Senior Staff at some point.

-->'''Eddington:''' You're bluffing.
-->'''Sisko:''' Am I? ''<to Worf>'' [[WhamLine Commander, launch torpedos.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: There's a really subtle bit of foreshadowing with Eddington's love for ''Les Miserables''. While Eddington sees himself as a romantic hero fighting the noble fight against an evil empire, he's forgetting a key part of the book's plot: The revolution ''fails''. This subtly foreshadows the ultimate fate of the Maquis after his surrender and once Cardassia joins the Dominion in the next two episodes.

* BullyingADragon: Eddington was the Station's Chief of Starfleet Security for the better part of 2 years ''and'' he saw Sisko's temper in action more than once. You'd think he'd know better than to continually piss off the man who designed the ''Defiant'', or to tone it down. And like a dragon, it finally scorches and/or bites him in the ass when Sisko decides to drop chemical weapons into the atmosphere of every Maquis colony in the galaxy unless Eddington surrenders.

* BullyingADragon: Eddington was the Station's Chief of Starfleet Security for the better part of 2 years ''and'' he saw Sisko's temper in action more than once. You'd think he'd know better than to continually piss off the man who designed the ''Defiant'', or to tone it down. And like a dragon, it finally scorches and/or bites him in the ass.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Although Eddington is an unapologetic terrorist, he's against killing and passes up numerous opportunities to kill Sisko.

* TakenOffTheCase: Starfleet Command orders Sanders to take over the pursuit of Eddington from Sisko, feeling that Sisko is too personally invested in bringing Eddington to justice.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Eddington is the villain, so you expect him to do bad things. Sisko's use of the same tactics is treated gravely at first, but by the end, Sisko and Dax are both lightly trading quips about their "villainous" tactics. It helps that the evacuated colonists simply swap worlds (since the poison to one species was harmless to the other), so no new refugees were created by his actions.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Eddington is the villain, so you expect him to do bad things. Sisko's use of the same tactics is treated gravely at first, but by the end, Sisko and Dax are both lightly trading quips about their "villainous" tactics. It helps that the evacuated colonists simply swap worlds, so no new refugees were created by his actions.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: The only way Sisko can defeat Eddington is to [[ThenLetMeBeEvil play himself up as the villain Eddington cast him as in his mind]] and use the same tactics the Maquis on Cardassian colony worlds; bombarding Maquis colony worlds with biogenic weapons and force them into becoming refugees until Eddington surrenders.

* SequelEpisode: To Season Four's "For the Cause", making this also the second installment of the Eddington Trilogy.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:There's a really subtle bit of foreshadowing with Eddington's love for ''Les Miserables''. [[spoiler: While Eddington sees himself as a romantic hero fighting the noble fight against an evil empire, he's forgetting a key part of the book's plot: The revolution ''fails''. This subtly foreshadows the ultimate fate of the Maquis after his surrender and once Cardassia joins the Dominion in the next two episodes.]]

* ThemeNaming: The ''Malinche'' continues the tradition of ''Excelsior''-class ships named after Native Americans, in this case La Malinche was Hernán Cortés' slave interpreter and mother of his son.

* KarmaHoudini: Despite violating orders from Starfleet Command and launching a chemical WMD, Sisko faces no on-screen repercussions. With Eddington finally in custody and the Maquis leadership kneecapped, Command might have been willing to overlook it (that and Eddingtin ''did'' escalate matters by using WMDs first).

** The damage to the ''Defiant'' from Eddington's Cascade Virus. With the entire main computer wiped, ''every'' single piece of Starfleet software is going to have be reloaded and re-programmed from scratch. And since the Station ''isn't'' a spacedock with a full repair crew, O'Brien and his team can only go so fast with the repairs and re-programming.

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Eddington drops chemical weapons on a Cardassian colony to drive out its inhabitants. Sisko retaliates by [[PayEvilUntoEvil doing the same thing to a Maquis world]].

Sisko beams back to the ''Defiant'' and, along with Captain Sanders on the USS ''Malinche'', gives chase to Eddington's ship. When the ''Defiant'' prepares to attack, the ship's systems shut down due to a computer worm placed by Eddington while he was on the station. Although he has the ship at his mercy, Eddington holds off destroying the ship and warns Sisko again to abandon his pursuit.

Sisko is snooping around a Maquis colony looking for an informant on his mission to bring the former Commander Eddington to justice, but Eddington himself surprises Sisko and tells him that the informant has already been marooned on a distant planet. The Maquis traitor tries to talk Sisko out of his mission to capture him, appealing to his sympathy for the plight of Maquis refugees, but Sisko will not be moved. He beams back to the ''Defiant'' and, along with Captain Sanders on the USS ''Malinche'', they give chase to Eddington's ship. When the ''Defiant'' prepares to attack, the ship's systems shut down due to a computer worm placed by Eddington while he was on duty. Although he has the ship at his mercy, he holds off destroying the ship and warns Sisko again to abandon his pursuit.

After getting towed back to the station, Sisko learns that he's been taken off the mission due to his lack of success. Fuming, Sisko works out his frustations on a punching bag while Dax tries to convince him not to take it so personally. But then Sisko learns that Eddington has attacked a Cardassian colony with biogenetic weapons, making it inhospitable to Cardassians. Sisko rounds up the crew into the half-functional ''Defiant'' to rejoin the chase. Nog is recruited to deliver messages between Ops and Engineering in lieu of communications. They chase Eddington into some plasma fields but discover that it was just a decoy. Eddington again tells Sisko to give up his obsessive pursuit, likening him to Inspector Javert in ''Literature/LesMiserables''. The ''Malinche'' has been disabled by Eddington's ships, leaving the ''Defiant'' as the only recourse to bring him to justice.

The crew put the pieces together to figure out where Eddington will next strike: Quatal Five. They arrive just after the attack, with Eddington's raiders racing away while transport ships evacuate Cardassian colonists off the poisoned world. The ''Defiant'' destroys one Maquis ship, but the other one, with Eddington aboard, cripples the transport ship, forcing Sisko to rescue it rather than attack Eddington.

Contemplating his latest failure, Sisko turns to ''Les Miserables'' and reasons that, if he is Javert in Eddington's mind, than Eddington must see himself as Valjean, an innocent man who is moved to a heroic self sacrifice. Sisko decides to "play the villain" in Eddington's fantasy. He orders the crew to fire torpedoes laces with Trilithium resin at a Maquis colony, making it uninhabitable to humans. He then warns Eddington that he will target all remaining Maquis colonies in the DMZ. Eddington offers to give himself up if Sisko will stay his hand, and Sisko agrees.

* ItsPersonal: Everyone knows Sisko is out for revenge against Eddington. He just doesn't care.
** Though initially, Starfleet did reassign the pursuit of Eddington to the starship ''Malinche'' because they felt Sisko was too close to the situation. Sisko bucked orders to go after Eddington, then took over the pursuit again when the ''Malinche'' was ambushed and knocked out of the fight.

* VillainHasAPoint: Eddington directly calls out Sisko for committing war crimes over his personal vendetta; Sisko's only real response is AppealToForce by threatening to bomb a second planet.
** Comes up a touch ironic that Eddington sees using bioweapons on Cardassian colonies as a legitimate and humane tactic (since they take effect slowly enough to allow the inhabitants to evacuate). [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame But the moment it's used against him. It's the most horrible thing ever.]]
* WhatTheHellHero[=/=]TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The whole episode is Sisko vs. Eddington.