History YMMV / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E22TheWire

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Bashir asks Odo if it's really legal for him to routinely monitor Quark's outbound calls, to which the constable replies "it's in the best interest of station security." Odo's attempt to sidestep Bashir's question isn't ''entirely'' without merit, as Quark is a shady individual who has compromised the station's security and endangered its inhabitants multiple times. In the last episode alone, he helped facilitate the sale of weapons to the Maquis and earlier this season, he was complicit in a plot that nearly killed Dax.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The Obsidian Order's name was not the agency's original name. Robert Hewitt Wolfe initially intended for it be called the Grey Order, but decided to change it because of ''Babylon 5'' (due to the Minbari Grey Council). Wofle created a list of alternative names and ultimately selected the Obsidian Order (and has stated he's fine with this change and liked it more than the original choice).

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The Obsidian Order's name. Robert Hewitt Wolfe intended for it be named the Grey Order during pre-prodiction, but decided to change it because of ''Babylon 5'' (due to the Minbari Grey Council). Wofle wrote a list of alternatives and ultimately selected the Obsidian Order (and has stated he's fine with this change and liked it more than the original choice).

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Bashir asks Odo if it's really legal for him to routinely monitor Quark's outbound calls, to which the constable replies "it's in the best interest of station security." Odo's attempt to sidestep Bashir's question isn't ''entirely'' without merit, as Quark is a shady individual who has compromised the station's security and endangered its inhabitants multiple times. In the last episode alone, he helped facilitate the sale of weapons to the Maquis and earlier this season, he was complicit in a plot that nearly killed Dax.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Very subtle, but it is still interesting to see Bashir's Bajoran nurse show the same level of concern as the good Doctor over their ''Cardassian'' patient.

* HarsherInHindsight: The book Garak gives Bashir at the end hovers right on the line between this and HilariousInHindsight, depending on how one looks at it. According to Garak, "it takes place in the future during a time when Cardassia and the Klingon Empire are at war." Guess it's the [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E01E02TheWayOfTheWarrior very near future]], then.
** [[spoiler:Apart from the outcome.]]

** Garak's outright creepy demeanor in his first appearance is CharacterizationMarchesOn, but now there is a Watsonian explanation: he may have been particularly high that day.

** [[spoiler:Apart from the outside.]]

* HoYay: This episode is repeatedly cited as a favorite for those who ship Bashir and Garak, the most popular slash ship (and one of the most popular ships period) in the DS9 fandom.

* HarsherInHindsight: The book Garak gives Bashir at the end hovers right on the line between this and HilariousInHindsight, depending on how one looks at it. "It takes place in the future during a time when [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E01E02TheWayOfTheWarrior Cardassia and the Klingon Empire are at war]]," you say?

* HarsherInHindsight: The book Garak gives Bashir at the end hovers right on the line between this and HilariousInHindsight, depending on how one looks at it. " It takes place in the future during a time when [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E01E02TheWayOfTheWarrior Cardassia and the Klingon Empire are at war]]," you say?

* FridgeBrilliance: The joke about the Cardassian repetitive epic is a dig at the kind of people who expect the same thing over and over again in their storytelling, aka, the kind of people who crapped all over [=DS9=].

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Bashir asks Odo if it's really legal for him to routinely monitor Quark's outbound calls, to which the constable replies "it's in the best interest of station security." Odo's attempt to sidestep Bashir's question isn't ''entirely'' without merit, as Quark is a shady individual who has compromised the station's security and endangered its inhabitants multiple times. In the last episode alone, he helped facilitate the sale of weapons to the Maquis.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Bashir asks Odo if it's really legal for him to routinely monitor Quark's outbound calls. This isn't ''entirely'' without merit, as Quark is a shady individual who in the last episode alone helped facilitate the sale of weapons to the Maquis.

* FridgeBrilliance: The joke about the Cardassian repetitive epic is a dig at the kind of people who expect the same thing over and over again in their storytelling, aka, the kind of people who crapped all over DS9.