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* TheCavalry: The ''Defiant's'' escorts have been destroyed, there's a squad of Jem'Hadar fighters hot on their tail... and suddenly, green disruptor fire obliterates those ships. The Klingons decloak and strike ''hard'' into the Dominion's flank.
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* TheCavalry: The ''Defiant's'' escorts have been destroyed, there's a squad of Jem'Hadar fighters hot on their tail... and suddenly, green disruptor fire obliterates those ships. The Klingons decloak A Klingon armada decloaks en masse and strike strikes ''hard'' into the Dominion's flank.
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* BullyingADragon: Sisko bullying the Prophets into intervening. While it technically works, it also ''really'' pisses them off. The Prophets make it clear Sisko that he ''will'' pay a price for this down the road.
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* EquivalentExchange: The Prophets finally intervene to stop the Dominion Fleet...but they also make it clear to Sisko it's ''not'' without a price tag. Their price is they ''will'' exact a penance from Sisko.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Prophets state that the Siso is of Bajor, but he'll find no rest there. The meaning of this proclamation will finally, sadly be revealed in the series finale.
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''Operation Return'', the mission to retake Deep Space Nine from the Dominion, is now in full swing. Sisko sends waves of Federation Peregrine Fighters to attack the Cardassian ships, hoping to draw them out of position and break through. Dukat sees through the ruse and plots to give Sisko his opening, only to close back in and surround the Starfleet vessels. Damar also suggests arresting Rom's known associates to ensure there is no further sabotage during the battle. The three conspirators join Rom behind force fields in the Security office, leaving only Quark to help them.
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''Operation Return'', the mission to retake Deep Space Nine from the Dominion, is now in full swing. Sisko sends waves of Federation Peregrine Fighters to attack the Cardassian ships, hoping to draw them out of position and break through. Dukat [[Characters/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineGulDukat Dukat]] sees through the ruse and plots to give Sisko his opening, only to close back in and surround the Starfleet vessels. Damar also suggests arresting Rom's known associates to ensure there is no further sabotage during the battle. The three conspirators join Rom behind force fields in the Security office, leaving only Quark to help them.
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* StartOfDarkness: It won't become obvious until "Waltz", but in retrospect, Dukat's really kicks off here. Losing the station and seeing Ziyal murderered in front of him pretty much cuts the brake lines to his sanity.
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* BittersweetEnding: More emphasis on the "sweet" than the "bitter", but it still counts. The Federation retakes Deep Space Nine, Quark frees Rom and the others, Odo chooses saving Kira over the Founder, and the Prophets eliminate the Dominion reinforcements. But Ziyal is killed, Dukat has been reduced to a rambling shell of a man, and even if the Dominion reinforcements were stopped for now, the minefield has been removed. Furthermore, Sisko has angered the Bajoran Prophets by bullying them into intervening. They make it clear there will be a penance exacted for this down the road.
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* BittersweetEnding: More emphasis on the "sweet" than the "bitter", but it still counts. The Federation retakes Deep Space Nine, Quark frees Rom and the others, Odo chooses saving Kira over the Founder, and the Prophets eliminate the Dominion reinforcements. But Ziyal is killed, Dukat has been reduced to a rambling shell of a man, and even if the Dominion reinforcements were stopped for now, the minefield has been removed. Furthermore, Sisko has angered the Bajoran Prophets by bullying them into intervening. They make it clear there will ''will'' be a penance exacted for this down the road.
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-->'''Weyoun:''' Holding on to a prize as vast as the Federation ''isn't'' going to be easy. It's going to require an enormous number of ships, a massive occupation army, and constant vigilance.
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** Dukat would in all likelihood have won the war for the Dominion if he had simply held his position until time ran out: even with the arrival of the Klingons, only the ''Defiant'' successfully broke out of the trap initially. This is {{justified}}, however: as indicated by his speech to Weyoun about defeating your enemy versus "making them realize they were wrong to ever oppose you in the first place", he's more focused on a personal victory over Sisko than on the strategic level.
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** Dukat would in all likelihood have won the war for the Dominion if he had simply held his position until time ran out: even with the arrival of the Klingons, only the ''Defiant'' successfully broke out of the trap initially. This is {{justified}}, [[JustifiedTrope justified]], however: as indicated by his speech to Weyoun about defeating your enemy versus "making them realize they were wrong to ever oppose you in the first place", he's more focused on a personal victory over Sisko than on the strategic level.
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* TheCavalry: The ''Defiant's'' escorts have been destroyed, there's a squad of Jem'Hadar fighters hot on their tail...and suddenly, green disruptor fire obliterates those ships. The Klingons decloak and strike ''hard'' into the Dominion's flank.
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* TheCavalry: The ''Defiant's'' escorts have been destroyed, there's a squad of Jem'Hadar fighters hot on their tail... and suddenly, green disruptor fire obliterates those ships. The Klingons decloak and strike ''hard'' into the Dominion's flank.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Ever since the Founders have come into the show, their Vorta and Jem'Hadar view them as infallible gods. The Founders believe their own hype, holding themselves above the "limited" solids and so have the right to force their will upon millions of people in slavery and oppression. So now on the eve of victory, when the bulk of their mighty fleet is arriving to usher in a crushing defeat of their enemies, their force is wiped away in a single action by beings who are so beyond the limits of time and space as the Changelings and humanoid solids perceive it. One might even call the Prophet's powers "divine."
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Ever since the Founders have come into the show, their Vorta and Jem'Hadar view them as infallible gods. The Founders believe their own hype, holding themselves above the "limited" solids and so have the right to force their will upon millions of people in slavery and oppression. So now on the eve of victory, when the bulk of their mighty fleet is arriving to usher in a crushing defeat of their enemies, their force is wiped away in a single action by beings who are so beyond the limits of time and space as the Changelings and humanoid solids perceive it. One might even call the Prophet's Prophets' powers "divine."
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* BeneathSuspicion: Damar successfully pegs all the existing members of the station's resistance (Kira, Jake, Leeta, as well as the imprisoned Rom), and one potential sympathizer (Ziyal, though Dukat forbids her arrest)...but he never suspects Quark, who by this point is firmly on the resistance's side.
* BigBadassBattleSequence: At this time, the production staff of ''[=DS9=]'' had recently transitioned from filming practical, physical models to using CGI. They took advantage of the new technology to stage one of the largest and most complicated space battles in the history of moving pictures. And then [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the Klingons join in]] and it gets ''really'' hairy. There are over ''two-thousand'' starships involved once the Klingons join in
* BigBadassBattleSequence: At this time, the production staff of ''[=DS9=]'' had recently transitioned from filming practical, physical models to using CGI. They took advantage of the new technology to stage one of the largest and most complicated space battles in the history of moving pictures. And then [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the Klingons join in]] and it gets ''really'' hairy. There are over ''two-thousand'' starships involved once the Klingons join in
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* BeneathSuspicion: Damar successfully pegs all the existing members of the station's resistance (Kira, Jake, Leeta, as well as the imprisoned Rom), and one potential sympathizer (Ziyal, though Dukat forbids her arrest)... but he never suspects Quark, who by this point is firmly on the resistance's side.
* BigBadassBattleSequence: At this time, the production staff of ''[=DS9=]'' had recently transitioned from filming practical, physical models to using CGI. They took advantage of the new technology to stage one of the largest and most complicated space battles in the history of moving pictures. And then [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the Klingons join in]] and it gets ''really'' hairy. There are over ''two-thousand'' starships involved once the Klingons joininin.
* BigBadassBattleSequence: At this time, the production staff of ''[=DS9=]'' had recently transitioned from filming practical, physical models to using CGI. They took advantage of the new technology to stage one of the largest and most complicated space battles in the history of moving pictures. And then [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the Klingons join in]] and it gets ''really'' hairy. There are over ''two-thousand'' starships involved once the Klingons join
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-->'''Garak:''' Uh, Chief...how does that poem end?\\
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'''Bashir:''' Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well into the jaws of death. Into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred.\\
'''Nog:''' Whatever it is you two are reciting, I wish you'd stop.\\
'''O'Brien:''' Steady, Ensign. It's just a poem.\\
'''Nog:''' It's not the poem that's bothering me.\\
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'''Garak:''' Uh, Chief...how does that poem end?\\
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Fails at least one of the qualifiers. "Deus ex Machina are sudden or unexpected." The Prophets have been in the show since its inception. As has Sisko's building closeness to them from keeping them at arm's length, to going into the wormhole to address if he is the true emmissary when the poet lost to time arrives, to him reading their scriptures before the eve of this battle. He has grown to believe in their goodness and love of Bajor. When he is now faced with a hopeless moment, he does what a man of faith does: He goes to his gods and prays to them for help. "Deus ex Machina are used to resolve a situation portrayed as unsolvable or hopeless. If the problem could be fixed with a bit of common sense or has a deceptively simple answer, the solution is not a Deus ex Machina no matter how unexpected it may seem. " The writers could have had Kira not distract Rom so many times during Rom's race to turn off the weapons. He was seconds behind the villains. The writers chose to have Rom fail so Sisko could make his leap of faith in the goodness of the Prophets. Because it fails both of these, the Prophets stopping the ships isn't Deus Ex Machina. Also, don't put two tropes like that in a row.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm[=/=]ScrewThisImOuttaHere: With the Federation Alliance winning the battle and Dominion reinforcements not coming, as well as [=DS9=]'s weapons being knocked offline by sabotage, Weyoun and the Founder rather casually decide it's time to leave [=DS9=].
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm[=/=]ScrewThisImOuttaHere: KnowWhenToFoldEm: With the Federation Alliance winning the battle and Dominion reinforcements not coming, as well as [=DS9=]'s weapons being knocked offline by sabotage, Weyoun and the Founder rather casually decide it's time to leave [=DS9=].
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Ever since the Founders have come into the show, their Vorta and Jem'Hadar view them as infallible gods. The Founders believe their own hype, holding themselves above the "limited" solids and so have the right to force their will upon millions of people in slavery and oppression. So now on the eve of victory, when the bulk of their mighty fleet is arriving to usher in a crushing defeat of their enemies, their force is wiped away in a single action by beings who are so beyond the limits of time and space as the Changelings and humanoid solids perceive it. One might even call the Prophet's powers "divine."
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* FireForgedFriends: Kinda between Quark and Kira from this point forward. While they'll never be close friends, their shared experiences during the Dominion occupation (and Quark saving her life during the breakout) causes Kira's longstanding dislike of the Ferengi to mellow out for the remainder of the series.
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* NearVillainVictory: Dukat's battle plan to envelop and crush the Federation fleet, though unnecessary and more focused on personally defeating Sisko than winning the battle, very nearly worked. It was only through the direct intercession of the Prophets that Dominion reinforcements were stopped from transiting the wormhole. Had that happened, even the 200 Federation & Klingon ships that broke through during the battle wouldn't stand a chance agains the several ''thousand'' Dominion reinforcements.
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* NearVillainVictory: Dukat's battle plan to envelop and crush the Federation fleet, though unnecessary and more focused on personally defeating Sisko than winning the battle, very nearly worked. It was only through the direct intercession of the Prophets that Dominion reinforcements were stopped from transiting the wormhole. Had that happened, even the 200 Federation & Klingon ships that broke through during the battle wouldn't stand a chance agains against the several ''thousand'' Dominion reinforcements.
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* BittersweetEnding: More emphasis on the "sweet" than the "bitter", but it still counts. The Federation retakes Deep Space Nine, Quark frees Rom and the others, Odo chooses saving Kira over the Founder, and the Prophets eliminate the Dominion reinforcements. But Ziyal is killed, Dukat has been reduced to a rambling shell of a man, and even if the Dominion reinforcements were stopped for now, the minefield has been removed.
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* BittersweetEnding: More emphasis on the "sweet" than the "bitter", but it still counts. The Federation retakes Deep Space Nine, Quark frees Rom and the others, Odo chooses saving Kira over the Founder, and the Prophets eliminate the Dominion reinforcements. But Ziyal is killed, Dukat has been reduced to a rambling shell of a man, and even if the Dominion reinforcements were stopped for now, the minefield has been removed. Furthermore, Sisko has angered the Bajoran Prophets by bullying them into intervening. They make it clear there will be a penance exacted for this down the road.
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* YoureInsane: Non-verbal, but Weyoun's expression as Dukat says that [[DudeWheresMyRespect there should be statues of him on Bajor]] says a lot about his opinion of Dukat's mental state.
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* YoureInsane: Non-verbal, but Weyoun's expression as Dukat says that [[DudeWheresMyRespect there should be statues of him on Bajor]] says a lot about his opinion of Dukat's mental state.state.
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The Female Changeling orders a retreat to Cardassian space. Dukat finds Ziyal to take her with him to Cardassia, but she confesses that she helped sabotage the station and says she doesn't belong on Cardassia. As she turns to leave, she tells her father that she still loves him. [[WhamShot That's when a disruptor blast hits Ziyal square in her chest]]. The shot was fired by Damar, who tries to convince Dukat to leave the station on the last Cardassian warship. Horrified, Dukat refuses to listen to him and [[DiedInYourArmsTonight cradles his dying daughter in his arms]], assuring her that he loves and forgives her.
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The Female Changeling orders a retreat to Cardassian space. Dukat finds Ziyal to take her with him to Cardassia, but she confesses that she helped sabotage the station and says she doesn't belong on Cardassia. As she turns to leave, she tells her father that she still loves him. [[WhamShot That's when a disruptor blast hits Ziyal square in her chest]]. The shot was fired by Damar, who overheard her confession and then tries to convince Dukat to leave the station on the last Cardassian warship. Horrified, Dukat refuses to listen to him and [[DiedInYourArmsTonight cradles his dying daughter in his arms]], assuring her that he loves and forgives her.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Bashir and O'Brien begin to recite ''The Charge of the Light Brigade'' in reaction to the size of the Domion fleet--''which was in no way helpful''. Nog straight-up asks them to stop, and the Chief realizes it was a bad idea when Garak asks how it ends.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Bashir and O'Brien begin to recite ''The Charge of the Light Brigade'' in reaction to the size of the Domion Dominion fleet--''which was in no way helpful''. Nog straight-up asks them to stop, and the Chief realizes it was a bad idea when Garak asks how it ends.
