History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E21WhenItRains

On Bajor, Kai Winn has grown cold and disinterested toward [[Characters/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineGulDukat Dukat]] now that she knows his true identity. She refuses to share her insights into the ''Book of the Kosst Amojan'', saying that the Pah-Wraith text is for her eyes alone. Resentful, Dukat sneaks into her study to read the text for himself, but the book fires a beam of energy into his eyes and blinds him. Winn immediately finds out and reiterates that the text is for her alone. Bajoran doctors can't find anything wrong with Dukat's eyes, so he remains blind. Seeing him as useless, Winn banishes him from her presence until he can get right with the Pah-Wraiths and restore his vision.

* BlackSpeech: The Pah-Wraiths' texts are only meant to be read by a Kai. When Dukat makes the foolish decision to try and read them himself, he gets blinded for his trouble.

On Bajor, Kai Winn has grown cold and disinterested toward Dukat now that she knows his true identity. She refuses to share her insights into the ''Book of the Kosst Amojan'', saying that the Pah-Wraith text is for her eyes alone. Resentful, Dukat sneaks into her study to read the text for himself, but the book fires a beam of energy into his eyes and blinds him. Winn immediately finds out and reiterates that the text is for her alone. Bajoran doctors can't find anything wrong with Dukat's eyes, so he remains blind. Seeing him as useless, Winn banishes him from her presence until he can get right with the Pah-Wraiths and restore his vision.

* YouFool: Winn says this to Dukat when he gets himself blinded while trying to read the text of the ''Kosst Amojen''.

* KickedUpstairs: Gowron pretends that he's doing Martok a favor by giving him prestigious award and relieving him of command so he can enjoy combat without the tedious paperwork and logistics of command. Martok isn't convinced for a second and sees it as an insult.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Kai Winn throws out a blinded Dukat to beg on the streets.

On Bajor, Kai Winn has grown cold and disinterested toward Dukat now that she knows his true identity. She refuses to share her insights into the ''Book of the Kosst Amojan'', saying that the Pah-Wraith text is for her eyes alone. Resentful, Dukat sneaks into her study to read the text for himself, but the book fires a beam of energy into his eyes and blinds him. Winn immediately finds out and reiterates that that the text is for her alone. Bajoran doctors can't find anything wrong with Dukat's eyes, so he remains blind. Seeing him as useless, Winn banishes him from her presence until he can get right with the Pah-Wraiths and restore his vision.

* FieldPromotion: A variation--[[ColonelBadass Kira]] is given a Starfleet commission with the rank of [[CommandingCoolness Commander]] in the hopes that the Cardassians will be more comfortable working with Starfleet, rather than the Bajoran Militia.

The Battle of Chintoka was a total disaster, but O'Brien notes that a single Klingon ship proved resistant to the Breen's power-dampening weapon. Other Klingon ships can mimic its engine calibration to also resist the weapon, but the alliance will need time to invent a solution for other types of ships. In the meantime, the whole alliance will rely on the Klingon fleet. Martok is ready to initiate a guerilla campaign to buy the alliance time, and he's about to be inducted into the Order of Kahless by Chancellor Gowron himself. When the Chancellor arrives, however, he announces that he's going to take personal command of the fleet. Martok is insulted but remains loyal to the Empire. Gowron decides upon a recklessly aggressive strategy against the Dominion, which alarms both Martok and Worf, but they have no choice but to obey their chancellor.

** Bashir initially assumes that Odo contracted the morphogenic virus from linkin with the female changeling back in season 6.

** Damar's Rebellion is one for the Dominion. It's completely stalled their post-Chin'toka momentum and forced them to redeploy forces trying to hunt Damar down and quell his rebellion.
*** Similarly, the Klingon vessel ''Ki'tang'' ends up being this for the Breen energy dampening weapon. Nobody on the Dominion side could've foreseen that a Bird of Prey's chance engineering modification just before the Second Battle of Chin'toka would render it immune to the weapon (and that all Klingon ships would follow this modification to render them likewise immune).
** Gowron taking direct command of Martok's forces likewise ends up being one for the Federation Alliance's own post-Chin'toka momentum. It completely upends all the planning Martok and Sisko had devised for buying time for Damar's Rebellion and to develop a countermeasure for the Breen weapon.

*** Similarly, the Klingon vessel ''Ki'tang'' ends up being this for the Breen energy dampening weapon. Nobody on the Dominion side could've foreseen that a Bird of Prey's chance engineering modification would render it immune to the weapon (and that all Klingon ships would follow this modification to render them likewise immune).

** Similarly, the Klingon vessel ''Ki'tang'' ends up being this for the Breen energy dampening weapon. Nobody on the Dominion side could've foreseen that a Bird of Prey's chance engineering modification would render it immune to the weapon (and that all Klingon ships would follow this modification to render them likewise immune).