• @Snowclone
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    Sisko didn’t have the privilege of being a peace time captain. He had to be at the center of a war between galaxies with everything at stake. He didn’t have a choice how agents he may have protected acted. he didn’t command, direct, or approve of their methods. He only benifited, and protected, with disgust and grief for the values he once held dear. But all he had then was the list of all those lost, and the precise knowledge that losing the war, ment total destruction to everything and everyone he cared about. It would be future generations that would judge him, no one who marched through the mud along side him would.

    • @half_built_pyramids
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      435 months ago

      He literally used quark’s nephew as extortion leverage in the first episode.

      • Zoko Argen
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        455 months ago

        To be fair, that’s probably expected in Ferengi custom

        • finley
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          He even cited an ancient Ferengi custom: plea-bargaining.

          (Also an ancient human custom, shh!)

          • @afraid_of_zombies
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            35 months ago

            That’s fine. I am reminded of an old Vulcan expression: Only Nixon can go to China

        • @SkyezOpen
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          175 months ago

          More rude not to, honestly.

        • @Snowclone
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          85 months ago

          Yeah that’s just good business.

    • Flying SquidM
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      305 months ago

      a war between galaxies

      Quadrants of the same galaxy.

      Just saying.

    • @[email protected]
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      He didn’t command, direct, or approve of any of their methods. He only benefited, and protected, with disgust and grief for the values he once held dear.

      So… I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all… I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing, a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. So I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it… Computer, erase that entire personal log.

      Truly disgusted and grief stricken.

    • @ummthatguy
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      215 months ago

      Well put. There were still those that judged his choices/actions, but then, those detractors likely would have made radically different and likely detrimental decisions in the name of peace.

    • @samus12345
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      155 months ago

      “It’s easy to be a saint in paradise.”

    • @ameancow
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      no one who marched through the mud along side him would.

      You had me until this line.

      Ain’t no mud in space. Ain’t no mud ever on starfleet uniforms.

      I bet if anyone even wanted to SEE mud in the Star Trek universe they would need a team of engineers to craft some in a replicator.

      • @IheartcheeseOP
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        95 months ago

        Laforge and that romulan were covered in mud after they got trapped on that planet

      • @Dud
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        35 months ago

        What about Henry Mudd?

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          Beamed directly out of the butt and into a small shuttle that follows behind a starfleet ship.

          Once the shuttle fills up to the point that it’s almost bulging with pressure from all the feces, they park it on some forgotten moon and wait for alien explorers to discover it and open it up to see what’s inside.

          • @[email protected]
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            55 months ago

            This is why voyager had so many shuttles. Once they started beaming the poop into space instead of shuttles they could use their entire stock of poop shuttles as normal shuttles. Bit of an extravagance for the delta quadrant, really