I've Finally Finished DS9
So, a bunch of misfits, failures, outcasts and emotionally scarred officers ended up on a rundown space station orbiting a war-torn planet that nobody really cared about. Although it was a less than desirable assignment, that rundown space station through a series of events became the most important piece of real-estate in the galaxy, and the
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True. It's too late to fix things if it has to be done in a book. I do have the habit of treating tie-ins as canon if I decide I approve of the development (I haven't read enough of the Millennium series yet to make a decision either way).
londonkds makes a very compelling case. That subtext is certainly there and really, its not the only fail on behalf of the writers, what with so many characters in the 'evil' mirror universe being bisexual and the implications of that. Still, in the case of Chimera, to me it doesn't seem to be deliberate though, just unfortunate.
I forgot to mention the cure in my little analysis :) Although...
You do remember the Founder telling Weyoun in the s6 occupation arc that she'd give the entire Alpha Quadrant if they get Odo back, Weyoun thought she was kidding and she gave him A Look?
I remember that bit, but not its placement and it really confuses me. Did that happen before or after Rom was sentenced to execution? Because it seems negligent on behalf of Odo not to think to offer to return in exchange for the end of hostilities (because it would be win/win). I don't know. Odo-Founder relations are had to keep track of. Maybe Kira/Odo was not primarily responsible for the Founder standing down the troops, however the 'we don't trust solids because they don't trust us' thing was the driving factor behind the founding of the Dominion, so I still think Odo finding a bunch of solids and one solid in particular that trusted him was pretty important ending hostilities (and with Odo's presence in the link will in the future curb any other desires for safety-through-conquest).
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