I hope that the writers appreciate that the actors were not protective of their characters. Of course, Brooks preferred the approach in which scenes played out as a battle of ideas and the strongest emotions were on display. But all those extreme things the characters did--nearly clobbering Molly, disappearing several thousand people, participating in an assasination--would have been met with objections from the other casts. The only Visitor not wanting to be linked romantically to Dukat stands as a moment of resistance, and that came after many episodes where Kira appeared to be racist, aggressive, and angry.
