Late Night DS9

I'm working my way through Deep Space Nine and I just got to my favorite episode of the first season, Duet. The series itself picks up shortly after the end of a four decade occupation of one world by another. Duet probes some of the backstory and very clearly establishes the parallel with the Holocaust. The former occupiers, the Cardassians, are transparent analogs of the Nazis, having brutally pushed their victims, the Bajorans, into forced labor camps and engaged in a genocidal campaign against them.

This particular episode is about the apparent capture of a Cardassian war criminal, the former commander of a concentration labor camp during the occupation. As the episode title suggests, the episode revolves around the interaction of one of the series' main characters (a Bajoran woman who fought in the resistance against the occupiers) and the Cardassian prisoner. A great episode and the performance from the "Butcher of Gallitep" is especially fantastic.



Well worth watching, particularly for the payoff at the end, if you haven't seen it before.