My problem with this group of ragtag nobodies is the way their plans quickly devolved into women a war. they became less concerned about defending their homes. you can kind of tell by the way they went after the cardassians. they should have listened to quark. I thought he had everything laid out pretty well for them. in the end, peace became far too expensive for those settlers because of the actions of a few. The world adding to news those weapons on? making an uninhabitable for his adversaries? he could have taken All those starving people he was talking about too a new home to call their own and did not. so, he was a total hypocrite. didn't really care about the people who were starving in caves or anything like that. just wanted to win his little war.

You are mistaking bad *ss with criminal. A war crime is a war crime especially one done in retaliation.

That ending scene "In the Pale Moonlight" was genius!

All of this glorious ds9 eps. Where are we now? Ah yes , "Captain Teary Eyes on Every Episodes Burnham". God help us all.

Yes, but if they attach 400kg of Trilithium to one torpedo instead of 200kg on two , they can waste more planets.

I am not Jean Luc Picard

Pale Moonlight might be the best episode ever

Eddington is Colwyn in Krull.

The episode of which Avery (Sisko) released his inner Hawk (Spenser for Hire) attitude!

That was tucked up and definitely against Star fleet codes

I love how sisko doenst take his eyes off of the screen the whole time dukat is giving orders and counting....the bored look on siskos face is perfect.

A tremendous amount of people in the comments do not understand this show, or the complex, harsh and grey moralities of the real world. Sisko #1. Great scene.

The scene from “Past Tense, Part 2” hits more since we are now less than four months from the date the Bell Riots are to have happened.

"You betrayed your uniform!" Sisko said calmly.

The greatest and most adult episode of the entire franchise. This would not work without these two brilliant actors. Robinson was perfection as Garak.

Sisko was Star Trek best and baddest captain, period 🔥

STOP COUNTING

Up next, Dukat calls in a couple of hard, pipe-hittin' glinns to go to work on the captain of that freighter with a pair of pliers and a phaser torch.

What's the old adage? "Send Picard to stop a war, send Sisko to win one"

These are great choices. The last two were on my mind at the start of the video. I would have had to include something from The Wire, Treachery, Faith and the Great River and It's Only a Paper Moon.

The scariest thing about this sequence is that you can't tell how much of it is Sisko playing up his role as the villain and how much is his legitimate fury at Eddington and the Maquis.

Where's Marritza? Marritza, who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman. Who every night covered his ears because he couldn't bear to hear the screaming... for mercy... of the Bajorans...

I really don't understand why everyone is pro Sisco on this. Eddington is completely right, Sisco is a war criminal and an attempted mass murder in this. I know of cause it is the old Moby Dick, but even there everyone hates Ahab. If the writers wanted to prof, why so many people are following even the crulest leaders, they succeeded if you look into this comments. And before anyone argues: But nobody was killed. That doesn't make it better, that was just luck. Sisco didn't know, that everyone could evaluate the planet, a broken shuttle or a mass panic and he would have been a murderer of potential dozens of people. This is the absolute worst episode of ds9 in my opinion, because it is portraying Sisco completely wrong.

DS9 was great till they started bringing racism into it. They pissed all over Roddenberry's dream of equality. Nichelle Nicholls tells a story about MLK walking up to her in a party and telling how proud he was to get to meet her, because she was the first black actor to be a main cast member on screen front & center every week. They had Sulu and Checkov as well. Roddenberry created Star Trek with the idea of unity of all races on earth.

Honestly? I never read this as Sisco being a badass. Yes, his actions cut short a deadly and destructive guerilla campaign. Yes, the Maquis engaged in acts of terror. But two war-crimes do not make a hero. Eddington was right: Sisco absolutely did betray his uniform. And some of you don't even realize it. There's commentary here, if you care. Or, you can just take the uncritical read that Sisco is an unflinching, unfeeling, stone-cold "badass" and praise his willingness to commit an atrocity.

Sisko really proved that humans may seem like root beer, but we will always have the capacity to be the worst. If the moment calls for it. Our own history is proof.

<sarcasm> Yes poisoning a planet to try its inhabitants out because some of them support a man you have a grudge against is so badass.</sarcasm> Sisko is my favorite series main captain in Star Trek but this is easily my least favorite action he ordered during the show. And there is no way he hell he should have avoided court-martial after this stunt. Just another sign of how badly the Federation handled the DMZ. The Cardassians can get away with anything, including kidnapping members of Starfleet (Which they did to O'Brien) and get at most a slap on the wrist. But if the colonists the Federation abandoned start fighting back Starfleet has to stop them by any means necessary. Note that even though the Cardassian colonies have their own version of the Maquis, and by the treaty's terms those are the worlds the Federation is responsible for, you never see Starfleet put a fraction of the effort into hunting them they put into taking out the Maquis. And Eddington is among my least favorite Maquis characters but IMO this was Sisko acting more like a schoolyard bully with a grudge given the keys to chemical weapons rather then anything he should have done.

Sisko: If the Federation loses the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

Everybody's laughing until he actually launches torpedoes.

He is so over done .... I hate this actor

The entire point of this episode is to question yourself. How far would you go?

Brooks should have won an Emmy for the episode in a pale moonlight the last scene in this video and where they bring the romulans into the war and he is fighting with his conscience brilliant

I think this was his bid to become an admiral, this has definite Star Fleet admiral vibes.

There’s an old Andorian saying, “ Never push the pinkskins to the thin ice”.

Loved Captain Sisko!!

Yuh buh truhyed Yuy yooniphorm!

"This is why sisko is a badass" *watches as Sisko commits a warcrime*

Back when this was airing I really didn't like DS9. My wife and I watched it just because we were ST fans but joked at the time, "DS9 - to boldly sit somewhere in space where everyone else tromps through." But here, decades later, I sat and watched the entire run again over the past few months and frankly have learned a great new respect for this series. It really was magnificent and extremely well done. I would love to see a reunion of some kind.

Who was more ruthless when pushed: Sisko or Janeway?

i always thought the whole calling him javier was fucking stupid like come up with something original

Curious what Jean Luc would ‘suggest’ if he was present 🥸

Sisko unfortunately was willing to commit war crimes to stop war crimes. Odd morality lesson.

Eddington is right. Sisko is being unhinged and unethical right now. The opposite of what star fleet and the federation stands for.

Honorable mention has to go to "Duet" and the first major shift in Kira's charactet. The climactic talk between Kira and Marritza combined with the tragic ending is a wow moment of its own.

"Do you know how he got them?" "Mail order?" 😂

Sisko like always taking all the heavy choises in hard times.

The rate at which those clouds were spreading through the atmosphere, the wind speeds would've been beyond hurricane strength. Doubt there'd be much left to evacuate!

The Pale Moonlight is my absolute fav episode in all of the trek universe. Garak was cold.

So much modern context to this. IE Israel V Palestine and the extremes Israel has had to go to to root Hamas out

Garak is the peak of good guy doesnt mean nice guy.