Dukat was just a victim, he was just trying to protect Bajor so it could be colonized. He dropped the labour camp output quotas by half! The resistance forced his hand, and that’s why he had to do all those things. And he improved medical access, even if it was done by exposing Bajoran prisoners to deadly viruses and mutilating them until the Cardassian scientists developed new breakthroughs. Millions were saved by the sacrifices of a few!
Interestingly, someone on r/startrek actually crunched the numbers once and Dukat did reduce annual Bajoran deaths pretty significantly compared to his predecessors. On the other hand, that’s like saying that you may be a Nazi, but demanding an award for not being as bad as Hitler or Goering.
Poor Dukat, forever understood…
I found his character really interesting.
Once he brings his daughter home and gets exiled, then steals that ship he seems like he’s on a better path/a journey. Then I think the writers had a “oh shit, we forgot that he’s hitler” moment and had to get back to making him cartoonishly evil.
Yeah his character was pretty cool in a story sense
I find the idea of a “oh shit, we forgot that he’s hitler” moment haha
They talked about that during What We Left Behind. They really did make him more evil because the audience was starting to like him too much.
Yeah I remember starting to not dislike him as much
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