The father’s excitement to see what he thinks is his daughter again is touching. Dare I say it… a nice-ish Cardassian?
I don’t know, Badger. I think it might depend on what the situation of the fight is. What era we’re talking about. Who is supporting each group. etc.
That is my first choice, as well. Although, the Obsidian Order have plots within plots within plots. The Tal Shiar may think they won and everyone around may think they won but did they? Hmmm…
Of course Cardassian universities have inquisitors.
Is there a fanfic brewing in that brain of yours? 
It’s always interesting. The older Cardassians are tired of the game. Hmmm, now that I think of it. All the races as they get older are tired of playing the game. Makes sense.
Always. Always.
Don’t all universities? No one ever expects them. :rolleyes:
Consider Kosh. 
Sisko extorting Garak… nice sort-of prefiguration of “In the Pale Moonlight”
(and the first time Garak tells the “truth” to Sisko!? hehe)
“Mr. Garak, I believe that’s the first entirely honest thing you’ve ever said to me.”
“How perceptive of you, Captain.” 
The Obsidian Order is a bunch of librarians! oh wait
That doesn’t shock me.
“No matter what you decide, I won’t let them hurt you.”
Aw. So Legate Ghemor is suspected of being sympathetic to anti-regime groups, right? Still it is sweet that he cares (or seems to).
Wolfe (the writer of the episode) says he was influenced in writing this episode by the work of Phillip K. Dick, especially Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Nana Visitor, who suffers from claustrophobia, greatly disliked wearing the extensive Cardassian makeup for this episode, which required her to arrive for makeup at 1:30 AM each morning. After a particularly long, 20-hour day of shooting, she simply told the director Les Landau that she had to get out of the makeup and pick up the remaining shots the next day because she was feeling claustrophobic. Landau wanted to continue shooting a while longer. Visitor then began physically removing the claustrophobia-inducing makeup on the set.
And Garak kicks some ass and takes some names. Or rather, gives his clearance code.
Robert Hewitt Wolfe is extremely proud of this episode, especially the thematic continuity; "Without sounding pretentious, the theme of the entire episode could be ‘You can’t judge a book by its cover.’ Everyone is wearing a ‘second skin.’ So Kira is both who she is and she’s Iliana Ghemor. Legate Ghemor is both a very staunch supporter of the Cardassian government and an opponent of the Cardassian government.
Holo-filters? If only they had a shapeshifter on board…
Kira says to Ghemor at one point that her mother died of malnutrition when she was three. We later learn that this was a cover story, and she was actually taken as a “comfort woman” for Dukat.
My skin (and Second Skin) crawls every time I think about that.