In ITPM, why did Vreenak wait so long to...

[Arpy]

The bigger question was why Vreenak revealed he had seen through the forgery.

Romulan arrogance and overconfidence. I'm sure Vreenak believed that Starfleet was too "cowardly" to do anything so Rommie-like as to murder him.

Right because no Starfleet officer would ever sanction murder. A senator like Vreenak would have been long dead had he been so naive. Though...he did end up dead.

I think Garak would have killed him even if Vreenak didn't spill to Sisko.

Vreenak had no way of knowing that this particular Starfleet captain had such a cozy relationship with a very ruthless ex-Obisidian Order agent that he'd overlook murder (and he very nearly didn't overlook it). That does not fit with Starfleet propaganda in the least.

You're suggesting Starfleet's full of wusses for not condoning murder, but thank Cardassians have no morals?

Not to you directly, but lets remember that human and alien cultures alike are not monolithic. And Trek's shown the similarities between individuals of different species are greater than the differences between species - so a good human and a good Cardassian are a lot more similar than a good human and a bad human.

 

[ProtoAvatar]

The bigger question was why Vreenak revealed he had seen through the forgery.

Romulan arrogance and overconfidence. I'm sure Vreenak believed that Starfleet was too "cowardly" to do anything so Rommie-like as to murder him.

Right because no Starfleet officer would ever sanction murder. A senator like Vreenak would have been long dead had he been so naive. Though...he did end up dead.

Every one of those officers lost its position and entered prison/died after his actions were discovered by Starfleet. They were rogue elements.

Vreenak had no way of knowing that this particular Starfleet captain had such a cozy relationship with a very ruthless ex-Obisidian Order agent that he'd overlook murder (and he very nearly didn't overlook it). That does not fit with Starfleet propaganda in the least.

You're suggesting Starfleet's full of wusses for not condoning murder, but thank Cardassians have no morals?

Not to you directly, but lets remember that human and alien cultures alike are not monolithic. And Trek's shown the similarities between individuals of different species are greater than the differences between species - so a good human and a good Cardassian are a lot more similar than a good human and a bad human.

In star trek, ALL cultures are monolithic.
Humans tend to deviate from this - but only because they had so much screen time, not due to any intent on the part of the writers.

As for the cardassians - it was made repeatedly clear that their society does sanction conquest, exploitation, genocide - murder.

Sisko would never have resorted to murder (the occasional 'blunder' out of character episode notwithstanding). Garack, on the other hand, had no problem with it, when it served his purposes.

 

[intrinsical]

He's a senator, a politician not a military officer. It would have gained him a lot of political favor by personally revealing this duplicity directly to the Romulan High Council rather than just blurt it out to whole universe.

Furthermore, he was on his way back to Romulus from a secret meeting with the Dominion. He probably didn't want to reveal his location to his enemies, nor let the Dominion to know he made a secret stopover at DS9.