…we’ve shown different sides of Dukat over the years and that you get the feeling from the cumulative episodes… is that he might evolve into one of the good guys given the right circumstances. And there’s a strong temptation to do just that – to turn him into a likable rogue who helps out our characters and redeems himself in the eyes of the audience. That’s the traditional TV approach – any bad guy on screen long enough will become a good guy if you start showing “humanizing” aspects of his character. However… doing that in this case would be to deny the backstory and the character that we’ve established. He oversaw a brutal and murderous occupation. He sold his people to the Dominion. He waged a war of conquest against the Federation. He was willing to kill his own daughter if she went against him. He’s a bad guy. A fascinating bad guy, but a bad guy… He may help us on occasion, he may save a puppy from being hit by a truck, he may even make us laugh and feel good about him in an unguarded moment, but those things only round out his character, they do not salvage him as a character.
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