(DS9) When it Rains

[FaxModem1]

It's a shame we never got a real Romulan recurring character, it would have been interesting for briefing scenes like this one. Instead we have haughty Romulan representative who just mocks the fact that it's down to the Klingons.

Having some of the characters from 'Inter Arma...' as the Romulan voice could have helped. It's interesting to note that whenever the scene needs someone to argue with or explained to on the course of the war, it will be a Romulan.

[Admiral X]

Yeah, it's almost too bad the character they introduced in "The Search" didn't stick around.

[Madner Kami]

As a huge fan of the Romulans, I have to say: While it would have been interesting to see the race further fleshed out by a recurring representative, the series already had enough non-Federation people to observe and comment on the Human- and Federation-condition. One more such character wouldn't have added much and would have been superfluous, which would have very likely ended up in a character that says things that have already been said and who is relegated to say "Maybe, but in the Romulan Empire we do XYZ.", which, while undoubtedly informative, would have been a terrible and insufferable character.

[PerrySimm]

too bad the character they introduced in "The Search" didn't stick around.

Cardassians reassigned her to a quick job in the Badlands that went south.

[Dînadan]

too bad the character they introduced in "The Search" didn't stick around.

Cardassians reassigned her to a quick job in the Badlands that went south.

That's bloody impressive considering she was a foreign national serving in said foreign nation's military.

What most likely happened is that she was recalled and turned over to the Tal'Shiar for debriefing (assuming she wasn't an agent of their in the first place) regarding intel on the Founders and their homeworld. Actually putting it like that it's a pity we didn't see her return in 'Improbable Cause'/'The Die is Cast' as the Tal'Shiar colonel who turned out to be a Changeling in disguise.

[CareerKnight]

The difference between Marcus and Gowron is that Marcus is an idiot whereas Gowron just doesn't get it... let me explain. Marcus is a career military commander yet we constantly see him making idiot decisions and battle plans that Leeroy Jenkins would be proud of. While Gowron has had some military experience he is first and foremost a politician and sees the world that way and right now all his political instincts are screaming at him that Martok is a major threat to his position and needs to be dealt with as soon as possible. In some ways Gowron is kind of like the various groups Chuck talked about in his first Foundation video, only able to see the situation from their personal experience and unable to understand that the rules of the game have changed.

[LittleRaven]

I agree that Gowron is not an idiot. He occasionally does things that seem idiotic to us viewers, but we're seeing things from a distinctly Federation viewpoint. We tend to assume that because Gowrow manages to stay in power throughout most of DS 9's run that he is in a fairly secure position, but even within the show there are plenty of hints that that may not be the case. Both Worf and Kor seemed to feel that simply walking in with the right sword would be enough to bring his government down, and there are several comments throughout the series that intimate or just state outright that for all its power, the Klingon government is deeply corrupt and none too stable.

So for all we know, Gowron is actually walking a razor's edge most of the time, and what we perceive as short-sighted stupidly are in fact rational (if somewhat desperate) gambles to hang onto an empire that is determined to spin out from under him.