electricsed:

thetrekkiehasthephonebox:

Basically this:

• Ziyal/Garak made no sense and it was way creepy. If they wanted Ziyal to fall in love with one of her father’s “enemies”, age appropriate Jake Sisko was sitting right there the entire time.
• Dukat should’ve killed Ziyal, not Damar. I get that they wanted for him to be sympathetic, but then it should’ve been accidental. Ex: Dukat stuns Ziyal in order to take her off the station when she chooses to stay behind, but the weapon was set to kill by accident.
• Erase “Sons of Mogh” and instead have recovering Kurn living aboard the station along with Worf and Alexander. Maybe he becomes friends with Odo, and they bond over being outsiders in their respective cultures. Maybe he dates Kira instead of Shakaar because I never really liked Shakaar as a love interest for Kira.
• Having Alexander move onto the station when Worf does. At first Jake and Nog and him don’t get along, but then they become fast friends.
• Damar doesn’t die, because the series really needed a good guy Cardassian to balance out Garak’s moral ambiguity and Dukat’s evilness
• Kira becomes First Minister of Bajor at the end of the series. Or Kai. Either one would work really.

Pretty much all of this. Also, as I have mentioned countless times before, Damar dying made his entire change of perspective almost totally meaningless.

YES
I always thought Ziyal/Garak was less actual romance than fascination. He was the -only- other Cardassian on the station. It can be really lonely being the only Cardy around, and I think she and Garak bonded that way (as much as one can really bond with Garak). She may have had a puppy love thing going on, but I don’t think it was romantically reciprocated.

DAMAR NO YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO LIVE. Who is gonna put Cardassia back together now? HMM?