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I know others like III, but I find it far too cringey to be enjoyable, and Dominion is just wretchedly dull as well as stupid.

Perhaps overreach is a better term. Regardless, it was yet another admiral compromising principles for victory. While understandable, I can hardly commend it for the outcome.

I would hardly call Admiral Ross corrupt. He got his hands dirty in "INTER ARMA ENIM SILENT LEGES", but at least it was to help keep the alliance against the Dominion going and win the war, not a personal power grab. He aided in something a bit unsavory to help make sure the good guys won.

Unfortunately, it is a very common trope in Star Trek that even Deep Space Nine wasn't free of and that is the idea of leadership being either evil, incompetent or overreaching. I would hope after Admiral Cartwright and the parasite invasion in "Conspiracy" that leadership would receive reforms...

...this episodes relies heavily on the mysteries of Mariner, it is enhanced by later seasons revealing she's a little older than Boimler and a Dominion War veteran and everything but if we take out it's later contextualising Mariner was a bit all over the place in the early episodes. They're...

Yeah, "VALIANT" really annoyed me. One of the very few Ronald D. Moore episodes in the franchise I don't like.

...help with a Coup put on by one of it's admirals and then rather than just be disbanded, they were at it again trying to take out a powerful Dominion ship. It feels like a "fool be once" kind of situation. Yeah they were kids, but they should have been more of the responsible ones over...

The Jackal's Trick, Prey book 2. so far so good. I am also on Book 1 of the Dominion War.

...was punctuated by the occasional beep and murmur of the ship’s systems. “Commander Ro, keep a close eye on long-range sensors. If any Dominion ships come out of the woodwork, we need to be ready,” Captain Thorne instructed. “Aye, Captain.” Ro Laren acknowledged, her eyes glued to the sensor...

Ross' previous adjutant before he made Sisko his adjutant was also a captain. (Captain Bennet, if I remember correctly.) Promoted to command a tactical wing, but it was never stated if it was just a position promotion or it had a rank boost, as well. Admiral Leyton's was a Commander, Benteen...

...that every transport they escorted, every skirmish they won, was just buying the Federation a little more time. But he also knew that the Dominion’s advance was like a tide. Starfleet was stretched thin, its resources dwindling, and it was desperate. They were throwing ships and crews into...

...he was Vice Admiral Ross's adjutant. An adjutant is normally one step below - so Sisko should have been a rear admiral at the peak of the Dominion War. But I don't really see the need for more grades of admiral. In the enlisted and field officer ranks, they usually have no more than four...

Particularly if you figure that his predecessor were themselves only a Captain or Commodore, their deputy could be as little as a Lieutenant Commander.

We have limited indication of what Starfleet Intelligence does. That's the consequences of using main characters as intelligence assets.

...do and join him, so there was likely an element of that when Leyton gave him the job. Leyton did point out that Sisko knew more about the Dominion than anyone else in Starfleet, and almost certainly had more actual experience with them. (Which is true.) We've seen people promoted into a...

Section 31 would've gotten away with their Genetically Engineered Virus designed to wipe out "The Founders" if it wasn't for Bashir and his plot to save Odo from the virus. That's how effective StarFleet Intelligence were. They were either "In on the plot", or didn't know that Section 31...

...serving that knew all ins and outs of his position at that time, that's a pretty weird move (*). Granted that Sisko knows most about the Dominion, why not make him a temporary senior advisor to that head? This, in my view, only would make sense if the position was vacant at the time being...

...Intelligence is, other than the Federation doing pretty well. Though it doesn't seem like they've done a damn thing to stop Section 31. When a pair of amateur spies had to be the ones to capture and interrogate Sloan for the information that helped end the Dominion War, that's a pretty bad look!

And is that organization effective? I don't remember them being instrumental in ending the dominion war. S31 was a major reason the war ended when it did. Does the prime directive apply to anyone other the Starfleet personnel? Starfleet kills people. During Enterprise, Vulcan intelligence sent...

Training of a high level operative in Federation structures. Seeking to see what actual problems there are for the new prospective members of the Federation. Seeing what adjustments would have to be made. In other words the entire Deep Space 9, was a science experiment. And not just in...