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[Damask]

^ But technically thats what the Federation was doing. He'd been captured by the Jem'Hadar before- he knew what they were like, he knew the fear he felt. So the desperation of the young soldiers stuck fighting the Jem'Hadar for months shouldn't have been lost on him, nor should he really be so high and mighty. What Quark was talking about affected people in our past- so we shouldn't be blamed, not should the humans of the Federation born hundreds of years later. Except maybe section 31...

I'm positive Quark was talking about the present. The Federation of that era. Where Earth is a paradise. He saw Nog looking up at humans and wanted to show him something other than that facade of I suppose moral superiority.

If it had been Klingons he was surrounded with he probably wouldn't have said a thing.

 

[Mike Farley]

On the episode "The Siege of AR-558" when the away team arrives on the
planet Quark is telling Nog about how humans are usually nice, kind and generally really good people, but deprive them of food, water, sleep, at contstant battle against the Jem-Hadar, no sonic showers...ect and they become at bloodthirsty at a Klingon. I am of the opinion that if you put any species in that situation, they may not come across as being nice and friendly. Can you think of any species that would keep their decorum under this kind of pressure???

The Halkans. They were ready to die as a species rather than be involved, even in a second hand way, with violence.

 

[The Emissary]

I think the OP is being just a bit too defensive on this matter and over-complicating it. As others have said before, he was just trying to expose to Nog that Humans are not the epitome of perfect calm and evolution as they exude themselves to be. That's it. He wasn't randomly picking on Humans. He chose them because of Nog's adoration for them and Starfleet.

BTW, Vulcans have a breaking point too. There was even an episode where a Vulcan snapped after seeing all his friends die during the Dominion War. I forget the name of it, but it certainly shows that even if you push them too far they (have the potential) will snap.

 

[thirteenth]

The Prophets? lol