History YMMV / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E01E02TheWayOfTheWarrior

* ValuesResonance: While the idea of a major power starting a war on shaky grounds and their allies being left with the difficult choice to follow them or not wasn't exactly something new even when the episode first aired, like a great deal of the rest of the show it particularly struck a chord with fans in the new millennium, particularly in the wake of the U.S.'s 2003 invasion of Iraq.
* WagTheDirector: Creator/MichaelDorn had two stipulations for joining the show: no more [[TheWorfEffect using him to prove the villains threat]] and wanted to be clearly different from other Klingons. Worf beating up Martoks' son to get his attention, plus ordering prune juice at Quarks, was to set the new tone for Worf on [=DS9=].

* ValuesResonance: While the idea of a major power starting a war on shaky grounds and their allies being left with the difficult choice to follow them or not wasn't exactly something new even when the episode first aired, like a great deal of the rest of the show it particularly struck a chord with fans in the new millennium, particularly in the wake of the U.S.'s 2003 invasion of Iraq.

** Worf mourning the loss of the ''Enterprise''-D seems a lot funnier when ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' revealed [[spoiler:Geordi had been restoring her for 20 years...and all Worf can do is complain that he preferred the weapons systems on the ''Enterprise''-E (and that what happened to her was not his fault).]]

* HilariousInHindsight: The holoprogram that Dax and Kira were in when the met Worf is plainly a Camelot program, with Kira as Guinevere. When Lancelot kissed her, she knocked him out. ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' would later introduce Cristobal Rios, portrayed by Santiago Cabrera, who also appeared in ''Series/Merlin2008''... as Lancelot. Kira knocked out Rios!

* ThrowItIn: The "root beer" scene between Quark and Garak was written at the last minute because, once filming was over, they figured out they were short a couple minutes on the episode and needed one more scene.

* ValuesResonance: While the idea of a major power starting a war on shaky grounds and their allies being left with the difficult choice to follow them or not wasn't exactly something new even when the episode first aired, it particularly struck a chord with fans of the show after the U.S.'s 2003 invasion of Iraq.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Some fans actually sided with the Klingons in their decision to invade Cardassia, claiming that the only thing they did that was indisputably wrong was illegally seizing and searching ships in Bajoran space, and that had the Federation just sat back and allowed them to conquer the Cardassians with minimal fuss, the entire Dominion War may never have happened.

* BrokenBase: There actually is a small segment of fandom who felt that the [=DS9=] crew were in the wrong for trying to interfere with the Klingon invasion of Cardassian space, and that according to the Prime Directive, the Federation should have stepped back and allowed the Klingons to conquer the Cardassians. Said fans also take serious issue with the Federation choosing to side with a power who they had been in active hostilities within the past decade, over a power they had been allies with for just shy of 80 years, even if the invasion did turn out to be based on logic that at best was faulty, and at worst a flat-out lie.
** Some fans feel that [=DS9=] had Chancellor Gowron's character derailed starting with this episode. It helps that the next season reveals that [[spoiler:Gowron was being misled by a changeling imposter of General Martok.]]

** Some fans feel that [=DS9=] had Chancellor Gowron's character derailed starting with this episode. It helps that the next season reveals that [[spoiler:General Martok from this episode turned out to be a Changeling mole]].

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The same group of Klingons beams into command a half-dozen times.