Meme taken from rozk

[selenak]

A supernatural glitch in your DVR occurs. At first you panic, hitting lots of random buttons on your remote control, but then are RELIEVED to discover that no, your entire series recording of Golden Girls has not been deleted! But then, just as things appear to be back to normal, there's a puff of smoke, and a fairy appears! You have apparently

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[selenak]

A bit more complicated than that (but not better). The turning point was the episode in later season 6 in which Dukat, on his way to a trial, crash landed with Sisko on a planet, spent a lot of time arguing with non-existent people about his past (i.e. was crazy) and Sisko, obviously intended to be the authorial voice, decided that Dukat wasn't shades of grey but really really evil.

Then, in the season 6 finale Dukat who had found out about the Pagh Wraiths in the meantime did become posessed by them, yes, and from that point it was Good Emissary versus Evil Emissary. As to what they were thinking: I strongly suspect one main reason was so Sisko would have someone to physically fight with in the series finale. The Pagh Wraiths themselves wouldn't do, and the Dominion War wasn't ended by Sisko, but by Odo on the one hand and the Cardassian resistance on the other, so they needed to give Sisko something heroic to do. Resulting in a scene that came close to rivalling the three middle aged men punch it out in Generations for stupidity. Grrr. Argh. DS9 was so much better than that.

[artaxastra]

I think it was a real mistake to have Dukat be crazy. I just think that feeds the whole "bad things are done by crazy people who are not like us" not by rational men for rational reasons. It's a cop out.

And I see what you mean about the last episode.