I don’t have much to say while watching this episode… I just like watching it. This and “In the Pale Moonlight” are just great. Love them.
Bajor will have the satisfaction of punishing… so criminal justice is retributive on Bajor, not rehabilitative. hmmm.
Harris Yulin’s performance is excellent
I always saw this in the same light as Jewish tribunals on Nazi war criminals, so that’s not surprising.
Speaking of the men in Buffy’s life… :rolleyes:
“how many like him are still out there, unpunished?”
This. oh, the banality of evil (though I know a number of people don’t agree with Arendt on this but I find the idea attractive)
And here we have a crack in “Darhe’el”'s facade.
Aha! That’s why he’s so familiar!
“Imagine living through that hellhole. The pain. The sorrow… Think they like to gamble?” 
A lot of the area of the world I study struggle to find balance between retribution and rehabilitation with regards to institutionalized violence, so I jump to those examples. But like I said before, there are many many comparisons that can be made with that general metaphor, no matter what the original metaphorical intention was.
oh, Dukat. Hey man. lol.
It’s simple human psychology. Anything becomes “normal” if it’s routine enough. 
So, they needed the resources of Bajor? and “Darhe’el” is justified by his love for Cardassia?
Prescient, for 1993.
(ETA thinking of US foreign policy 2002 onward)
All this has happened before. All this will happen again.
Or, looking back 50 years, a metaphor for Lebensraum.
oh, Kira. Her emotional involvement is so much more complex here than she was portrayed in the first few episodes of the series.
Not to go off on the Nazis again, but the file clerks were one of the most chilling aspects of the Holocaust. Accountants, keeping track of prisoner deliveries and executions, minimizing human suffering to numbers and “units”. It’s just cold and inhuman.
and poor Marritza, having gone to so much effort, having his “truth” revealed.
“You’re Marritza, aren’t you?”
“You mistake me for that bug? That whimpering nothing? Oh, you stupid Bajoran girl. Don’t you know who I am? I’m your nemesis. I’m your nightmare. I’m the Butcher of Gallitep.”
“The Butcher of Gallitep died six years ago. You’re Aamin Marritza, his filing clerk.”
“That’s not true. I am alive. I will always be alive! It’s Marriza who is dead. 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 covered my ears every night, because i couldn’t bear to hear those horrible screams. You have no idea what it’s like to be a coward. To see these horrors and do nothing."
‘we’re guilty, all of us.’
This scene is so powerful
I wonder if Marritza had been successful in his deception, if Cardassia had reformed, how the Dominion War would have gone.
“He’s a Cardassian! That’s reason enough!”
And there we have the journey of Kira - “no, it’s not.”
It’s true. She’s grown so much. TBH, she really rubbed me the wrong way through most of the first season.