History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E25E26WhatYouLeaveBehind

* MyopicArchitecture: Couple with myopic resistance fighters. There's a neutronium door. Fine - you can't go through it. No mention of neutronium walls '''surrounding''' the door though - just blast through those. Happily for our resistance fighters, the doors were then opened to take Broca outside and kill him, allowing them the opening they could easily have created in a wall.

** Weyoun gets another one when Kira and Garak storm Dominion HQ. He realizes that by dispatching most of HQ's compliment of Jem'Hadar to assist the Cardassian extermination, the building's practically defenseless and he's put the Founder at risk.

** When reports come to the Founder that Damar is alive despite the destruction of LaResistance [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E24TheDogsOfWar last episode]], she mentions this trope.

* NonIndicativeName: Dukat voices his disappointment that the "Fire Caves" have very little actual fire in them. Kai Winn, however, quickly corrects that.

'''Dukat:''' Well, this may sound naive, but I was expecting to see fire. They are called the fire caves.\\

** Given the amount of crap she pulled over the years, not to mention the fact she'd been trying to serve the Pah-Wraiths until about two minutes before the end, it's kind of hard to feel sorry for Winn.

* BittersweetEnding: The Dominion is defeated, the Cardassian Union is broken as an imperialist power, and the Pah-Wraiths are permanently sealed in the Fire Caves. Additionally, Dukat is trapped with the Pah-wraiths, Winn and Weyoun are dead, and the Female Changeling has surrendered to stand trial for war crimes. However, Worf and O'Brien leave for new assignments, Odo returns to his people, with little chance of returning any time soon, Garak is able to return to Cardassia, but the planet has been devastated by the Jem'Hadar, with the closest thing to family he has left is dead, and Sisko is forced to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, with no guarantee of when he'll be back.

* AGodAmI: Gul Dukat, after the release of the Pah Wraiths.

The Federation and their allies launch their combined fleet and make their way to Cardassia as Sisko has another vision from the Prophets, with Sarah telling him his task was nearly complete, but the end of the journey he undertook lies not before him, but ''behind'' him. Meanwhile, on Bajor, Dukat regains his eyesight after the Pah-wraiths had blinded him for attempting to read the ''Book of the Kosst Amojan'' and meets with Kai Winn to finally undertake their own journey to the Fire Caves to release the Pah-wraiths and destroy the Prophets once and for all.

* PlotArmor: Kira and Garak (and one other Cardassian) are the only survivors of their suicidal attack on the Dominion headquarters.

** Garak spends the entire series hoping to end his exile and come home to Cardassia. He finally achieves that goal...just in time for the Dominion to burn his homeworld to the ground.

* HistoryRepeatsItself: ''Deep Space Nine'' opens with a devastated alien world emerging from a brutal foreign occupation and dependent upon the mercy and charity of the Federation and it's allies. Last time it was the Bajorans emerging from the Cardassian withdrawal...and the series ends with the Cardassians, thanks to the Dominion, now in the exact same position they left the Bajorans in all those years ago[[note]]Though with one crucial difference; Bajor was attacked, occupied, exploited, and essentially ''raped'' by Cardassia, simply because they could. Cardassia, on the other hand, ''invited'' their occupiers, intending to become stronger through them. While the Federation was very sympathetic to Bajor, they will be considerably less so toward Cardassia, largely considering it a "you got what you deserve" situation[[/note]].