One. Why are there MIlitary Ships in the demilitarized zone?
Two. How come the Feds know the locations of dozens of entire worlds which are Maquis Outposts and they're doing NOTHNIG about it?
Three. Eddington had a plan to make the DMZ and ceded former Federation territories Uninhabitable to Cardassian life. The terrorist generalissimo was days from winning, so why did he flush that down the toilet by playing tag with the federation vessels, baiting them when he could have followed through with his plan to conquer that corner of the galaxy, not that the Cardassians couldn't double poison those same worlds and make them uninhabitable for humans too... Which is the problem with disproportionate escalation when it's really a question of mouse vs.lion. Sisko was right in the beginning, Eddington wasn't going to win and Sisko just wouldn't stop coming after him no matter who he had to destroy to get the blighter.
Four. Sisko was so focussed on Eddington that he didn't care about the other thousands and thousands of Maquis rotting out there hatching their own mad plans to "win the unwinable war" ( ...Oh Don Quixote now?) that once he had spent his load of self-righteousness, he was able to role over and forget threat the Maquis ever existed because without his personal foil they were inconsequential which it seems must have been what Eddington was counting on as he constructing this entire feint to orchestrate his own capture... From "For the Uniform" alone this paradigm might be a "tiny" stretch until you account how easily Eddington extracted himself from Prison the following year, that it became obvious that "prison" was part of the plan and not just a side barred contingency conjured up on the fly. He was there by choice and could have left at any point he willed to.
Five. How did Sisko figure out he should play the villain? Eddington told the goose stepping Starship Captain that his bloody minded fanaticism reminded this Valiant Freedom fighter of the villain in his favourite book, and then to underline the concept over and over again Eddington stopped calling Sisko Sisko altogether which can't have been anything other than the power of suggestion instructing the Emissary that title dictates deportment. Eddington was yelling his supposed weaknesses towards these masters of keen observation at the top of his lungs, How blind and uberconfident must he have been to the words coming out of his mouth not to be purposely misleading these people with genus level textbook examples of poppsychological dogma.
Six. How important was le Miserables to Eddington that it took him 2 years and 4 months to mention with great volume and clarity that this was a book to which he was completely obsessed by, from whence his every breath and thought was shaped by. Wow. Obvious misdirection obviously? Sure he might have gven his "No glory for gold" speech a few episodes earlier but even that had to have been Eddington intentionally rubbing Sisko's nose in the secret subtext of reality he was just a little ignorant of... Why would he now be talking to Sisko with out intentional taunting subtext when you have us believe that he dropped a series of successive Freudian pettycoats and unplanned discovery. Does he say what he doesn't mean to be, or isn't he who he says he is?
Seven. Why did Eddington Surrender? The Caesarian tactician who left Sisko and Dax chasing their tails in circles for 8 months couldn't have believed Sisko's "bluff" that the Starfleet officer would copycat the blanching worlds gimic Eddington invented, and contravening the Biogenetic weapons ban treaty with every their civilized species in known space would begin a one man (ship) genocidal crusade strafing dozens of worlds wrecking biospheres displacing (quote) Hundreds of thousands (unquote) Maquis? To any reasonable person, that's called ethnic cleansing. Sisko should have lost his job and got some serious jail time for doing what he did to the one planet he did, even if he could argue the "I used a toxin which wouldn't hurt Cardassian's who needed a world to vacate to and no Maquis were harmed" similar enough to Kirk's maintaining a level seting in a Private Little War when he was handing out fire arms to a stone age tribe, but after he'd raked a few dozen worlds that dude would be remembered forever as a butcher as much as the Cardassians and Dominion who eventually did exterminate the terrorist insurgent scum. Hell, if Sisko had just decimated a few biospheres (think of all the animals, insects and plants that can't escape?) Starfleet would be completely shamed into striking at the marquis again in any way because of the political backlash for being seen as Bullies and psychos.
Eight. It would seem in every way that Eddington would win he wouldlose, but in every way that he should lose he would win. Why stay a red ripe target which endangers his follwers, when after his capture, Starfleet would just about forget all about the maquis problem if Siskos blustering and strong arming idn't generate enough pit for rthe cause that a hundred more starfleet officers in as sentive positions as Eddington then defect to rebolster his lost position? He had everything to gain by losing and nothing to gain by winning ormaintiaining a stalemate so he'd be a fool not to generate his own capture to maximise the good will for themaquis.
Two. How come the Feds know the locations of dozens of entire worlds which are Maquis Outposts and they're doing NOTHNIG about it?
Three. Eddington had a plan to make the DMZ and ceded former Federation territories Uninhabitable to Cardassian life. The terrorist generalissimo was days from winning, so why did he flush that down the toilet by playing tag with the federation vessels, baiting them when he could have followed through with his plan to conquer that corner of the galaxy, not that the Cardassians couldn't double poison those same worlds and make them uninhabitable for humans too... Which is the problem with disproportionate escalation when it's really a question of mouse vs.lion. Sisko was right in the beginning, Eddington wasn't going to win and Sisko just wouldn't stop coming after him no matter who he had to destroy to get the blighter.
Four. Sisko was so focussed on Eddington that he didn't care about the other thousands and thousands of Maquis rotting out there hatching their own mad plans to "win the unwinable war" ( ...Oh Don Quixote now?) that once he had spent his load of self-righteousness, he was able to role over and forget threat the Maquis ever existed because without his personal foil they were inconsequential which it seems must have been what Eddington was counting on as he constructing this entire feint to orchestrate his own capture... From "For the Uniform" alone this paradigm might be a "tiny" stretch until you account how easily Eddington extracted himself from Prison the following year, that it became obvious that "prison" was part of the plan and not just a side barred contingency conjured up on the fly. He was there by choice and could have left at any point he willed to.
Five. How did Sisko figure out he should play the villain? Eddington told the goose stepping Starship Captain that his bloody minded fanaticism reminded this Valiant Freedom fighter of the villain in his favourite book, and then to underline the concept over and over again Eddington stopped calling Sisko Sisko altogether which can't have been anything other than the power of suggestion instructing the Emissary that title dictates deportment. Eddington was yelling his supposed weaknesses towards these masters of keen observation at the top of his lungs, How blind and uberconfident must he have been to the words coming out of his mouth not to be purposely misleading these people with genus level textbook examples of poppsychological dogma.
Six. How important was le Miserables to Eddington that it took him 2 years and 4 months to mention with great volume and clarity that this was a book to which he was completely obsessed by, from whence his every breath and thought was shaped by. Wow. Obvious misdirection obviously? Sure he might have gven his "No glory for gold" speech a few episodes earlier but even that had to have been Eddington intentionally rubbing Sisko's nose in the secret subtext of reality he was just a little ignorant of... Why would he now be talking to Sisko with out intentional taunting subtext when you have us believe that he dropped a series of successive Freudian pettycoats and unplanned discovery. Does he say what he doesn't mean to be, or isn't he who he says he is?
Seven. Why did Eddington Surrender? The Caesarian tactician who left Sisko and Dax chasing their tails in circles for 8 months couldn't have believed Sisko's "bluff" that the Starfleet officer would copycat the blanching worlds gimic Eddington invented, and contravening the Biogenetic weapons ban treaty with every their civilized species in known space would begin a one man (ship) genocidal crusade strafing dozens of worlds wrecking biospheres displacing (quote) Hundreds of thousands (unquote) Maquis? To any reasonable person, that's called ethnic cleansing. Sisko should have lost his job and got some serious jail time for doing what he did to the one planet he did, even if he could argue the "I used a toxin which wouldn't hurt Cardassian's who needed a world to vacate to and no Maquis were harmed" similar enough to Kirk's maintaining a level seting in a Private Little War when he was handing out fire arms to a stone age tribe, but after he'd raked a few dozen worlds that dude would be remembered forever as a butcher as much as the Cardassians and Dominion who eventually did exterminate the terrorist insurgent scum. Hell, if Sisko had just decimated a few biospheres (think of all the animals, insects and plants that can't escape?) Starfleet would be completely shamed into striking at the marquis again in any way because of the political backlash for being seen as Bullies and psychos.
Eight. It would seem in every way that Eddington would win he wouldlose, but in every way that he should lose he would win. Why stay a red ripe target which endangers his follwers, when after his capture, Starfleet would just about forget all about the maquis problem if Siskos blustering and strong arming idn't generate enough pit for rthe cause that a hundred more starfleet officers in as sentive positions as Eddington then defect to rebolster his lost position? He had everything to gain by losing and nothing to gain by winning ormaintiaining a stalemate so he'd be a fool not to generate his own capture to maximise the good will for themaquis.
