It's so hard for me to wrap my head around anything other than feelings of negativity when it comes to the whole Dominion conflict, but this made me stop and think about what it must have been like on the other side. So in essence, this really fell in line with the challenge of "forgiveness" on a personal level. Good stuff.

That was one interesting expansion of the story of how the Dominion imposed the Teplan plight. I always thought it was the Dominion who made the aggressive move and the Teplans gave their all fighting against the Jem'Hadar. But now it seems the Teplans started this conflict and possibly brought about their curse (the Blight) due to terrorism and guerilla warfare.

Having said history is written by the victors, so I feel the Dominion -- or particular the Vorta who are in charge of administrative affairs and record keeping -- put a positive spin on their actions by claiming that the Templan were the aggressors. In other words the Dominion are trying to portray themselves as a fair civilization, or organisation, when really every Dominion world and citizen is at the mercy of the Founders.

An interesting twist that is for sure.

Also, why do I get the feeling that Admiral Monroe and Eris have a relationship of sorts going on? It's just Monroe does seem to be around Eris a lot. So it's strange...

Author's Response: Thanks for the feedback, and don't worry. Eris is still faithful to Liska. Also, the Founders do very little governing in the grand scheme of things, leaving the Vorta to pretty much do everything. After all, why concern themselves with the affairs of solids when you can have your grander existence in a giant ocean?