Duh. Eddington and Yates
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Yates was a Maquis sympathiser rather than an active member, and whilst Sisko was interested, were they bedmates at this point?
I think Sisko's anger is more down to the fact that he's been betrayed by someone so close to him, who wears the uniform, and he never saw it coming. There would also be anger torwards Yates, as he'd probably see her's as a far more personal betrayal.
I think Sisko's anger is more down to the fact that he's been betrayed by someone so close to him, who wears the uniform, and he never saw it coming. There would also be anger torwards Yates, as he'd probably see her's as a far more personal betrayal.
I'm sure in the Federation's eyes she was treated as a fully fledged member, but I'd assume that Sisko would be able to tell the difference. I'm sure he'd be more inclined to be sympathetic himself knowing that she'd been delivering humanitarian items to the colonies rather than going out to fight for them.
The thing I love about the Maquis storyline, complete shades of grey, flawed heroes, morally ambiguous motives, a blurred line between what's right and what's wrong.
The thing I love about the Maquis storyline, complete shades of grey, flawed heroes, morally ambiguous motives, a blurred line between what's right and what's wrong.
You gotta wonder did Eddington bring the info (first) to Odo or the other way around. I agree, the DS9 Maquis adventures were full of shades of gray. The best: Sisko threatening humans and destroying a planet's atmosphere and would have done again. Picard would never have done that b/c procedure was more important than the outcome, many times
I genuinely think that Sisko wasn't kidding when he was threatening to destroy all of the colonies' atmospheres. I'm fairly sure that Eddington had actually pushed him over the edge at that point. It's a debatable point, as Sisko at the time was clearly playing into Eddington's Les Miserables fantasy, but to be honest, I didn't believe that Sisko would fire on any of the colonies. Once he did, I really didn't know which way he'd have played it had Eddington not lived up to his role of Valjean.
One of the reasons I've always preferred Sisko as Captain to anyone else. He can go down the diplomatic/intellectual route if he needs to, but he equally adept as a man of action. Sometimes Picard would go out of his way to talk his way out of a situation, which in itself is admirable, but sometimes it makes for boring television! 
I thought the episode stated that it was only medical supplies...?
...Although it has been fairly usual in the course of Earth history to define certain everyday items such as food and medicines as "contraband" because they factually help the enemy kill the good guys. If they didn't have the medicine, they wouldn't risk going on a mission of destruction where they might get wounded; or declaring a colony an independent insurgent haven when such a course of action would cut off the regular supply of medicine.
I don't think Sisko ever demonstrated much of an interest in defeating the Maquis. He always acted with great hesistancy whenever pitted against them. By onscreen material alone, it was only the personal desire to capture Eddington (a desire that came out of the black sky at the beginning of "For the Uniform", to be sure) that could be considered a driving force and motivation in Sisko's actions.
It's not as if the Maquis were Sisko's problem to begin with. They operated outside his territory, and only impacted on his affairs when they messed with Gul Dukat and thus brought his DS9 ties to play. In the end, the True Way was giving Sisko much more grief than the Maquis.
Timo Saloniemi
I don't think Sisko ever demonstrated much of an interest in defeating the Maquis. He always acted with great hesistancy whenever pitted against them. By onscreen material alone, it was only the personal desire to capture Eddington (a desire that came out of the black sky at the beginning of "For the Uniform", to be sure) that could be considered a driving force and motivation in Sisko's actions.
It's not as if the Maquis were Sisko's problem to begin with. They operated outside his territory, and only impacted on his affairs when they messed with Gul Dukat and thus brought his DS9 ties to play. In the end, the True Way was giving Sisko much more grief than the Maquis.
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I think it would've been hysterical if in a later episode Gul Dukat had congratulated Sisko on his handling of Eddington and the Maquis.
"Praise from Hitler!"
"Praise from Hitler!"
It was a fairly moot point anyway, weren't the Maquis wiped out when the Dominion allied with the Cardassians? Hard to believe that they'd have been able to avoid that with Eddington still in charge.
The one thing about the Maquis story that always interested me was that right from the start they admitted that at the core of their dispute, they had genuine grievances. It's easy to follow the good vs evil guidelines that TOS and TNG had laid down previously, but it was difficult to pigeonhole the Maquis.
In essence, at the heart of the matter, if the Federation had just remembered that sometimes 'the needs of the few (or one), outweigh the needs of the many'. I'm sure Spock could have told them!
The one thing about the Maquis story that always interested me was that right from the start they admitted that at the core of their dispute, they had genuine grievances. It's easy to follow the good vs evil guidelines that TOS and TNG had laid down previously, but it was difficult to pigeonhole the Maquis.
In essence, at the heart of the matter, if the Federation had just remembered that sometimes 'the needs of the few (or one), outweigh the needs of the many'. I'm sure Spock could have told them!
