Cardassian Ruthlessness
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Length: 4min 23sec (263 seconds)
Published: Sat Dec 20 2014
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spoiler: the Cardassian in this scene is only pretending to be Gul Darhe'el in charge of the horrific concentration camp. He is actually Aamin Marritza, and he was a filing clerk.
Aamin is, by his own estimation, a coward. He would cry himself to sleep listening to the cries of butchered Bajorans. He feels so guilty that he constructs an elaborate ruse to be tried and executed as Darhe'el so that Cardassia would be forced to officially admit to their atrocities during their occupation of Bajor. In this scene, he is doing his best to rile Major Kira so that she would be too enraged to see through inconsistencies in his story and paperwork.
The atrocities, the barbarism, the cruelty, indifference, and malice of Darhe'el and the Cardassians at the concentration camps is all real, within DS9's universe. But this performance was just that -- performance.
I just wanted you to know that the title of the video is a bit misleading.
as seen in this comment by Fordham69, this entire script seems to be highly derivative of a movie called The Man in the Glass Booth
My favorite thing about this episode or maybe beside it is Harris Yulin who plays the Cardassian. The guy is in everything. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950867/?ref\_=tt\_cl\_t\_9
Whether intentional or not, this definitely comes across as an homage to "The Man in the Glass Booth", particularly in the many scenes in which the female prosecutor is interrogating the defiant Nazi...https://youtu.be/-ze19SS8z6s?t=4774
Edit...I'd never seen this episode but I now see from Aerik's comment that this in fact must have been a direct homage to "The Man in the Glass Booth" as the parallels are exact, in both cases the main character assumes the identity of a genocidal mass murderer in order to be tried and convicted so that the surviving victims might get some small measure of satisfaction.
The Cardassians in Deep Space Nine are such an incredible microcosm of what a totalitarian society could be. Our government above all others, our people above all others, our methods above all others. There isn't a single single Cardassian military personnel that doesn't know why they're doing something. They don't hate anyone, they just see everyone as less important than themselves.
Really great writing.
Modern Star Trek isn’t fit to wipe the boot of this. Absolutely awesome stuff.
So savage.
DS9 was the pinnacle of Trek writing, sure it had some stinkers but the overall story was spectacular, season long stories whilst still having episodes that watched on their own without fear of missing stuff, new trek could learn a lot from it.
God, that is/was a fantastic episode! Should of won an emmy.
Really good episode!