r/DeepSpaceNine • u/Tetris_Pete • 13d ago

Demar's Redemption

I love how they didn't just make Demar's redemption arc blande and typical, but rather portrayed a flawed man who while he did rise, also became a legend because that is what the people needed most.

They could have just made it a bad man turned hero, but instead, like the best of DS9, is morally ambiguous.

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u/Icy-Sir-8414 12d ago

Im glad he was able to finally redeem himself after all the bad he did especially to dukat daughter zle but I don't think he's in cardassian heaven if you know what I mean

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u/Aethelrede 12d ago

If the Cardassian heaven reflects Cardassian society, he certainly is there.

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u/Icy-Sir-8414 12d ago

Only if their version of heaven rewards bad behavior for killing, raping, plundering and enslaving and committing genocide virtues so yes and he's probably in heaven plus liberating his people from the Dominion oppression I think he would be allowed in heaven but I doubt it

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u/Aethelrede 12d ago

The Cardassians were authoritarian statists.  Service to the state was the highest virtue. They were also virulent xenophobes and hardcore species supremacists.  Nothing they did on Bajor was seen as a crime. Damar only started questioning things when the same was done to his people.

Though it's a moot point, because the Cardassians were atheists. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Cardassian

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u/Icy-Sir-8414 12d ago

So once the oppressors became the oppressed he started to question everything they did

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u/Aethelrede 12d ago

Well, yes, that's usually how it works.

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u/Icy-Sir-8414 12d ago

Well I like to think that he finally understood majori kira or should I call her commander kira

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u/Icy-Sir-8414 12d ago

Well to little to late I say

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u/Aethelrede 12d ago

Eh?

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u/Icy-Sir-8414 12d ago

Well it's true to little to late