In the episode "Dep Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" "Duet" (June 14, 1993), a cardiac named Marica (Harris Fulin) stood from the station to treat for a rare disease. The disease, however, was once arranged by residents of a special cardboard camp for death during their military occupation of Bayor. This is proof that Marica can be a war criminal who has tormented and killed thousands. When Major Kira (visitor to Nana), once a fighter for Bayran's resistance, reveals that the Cardian war criminal is at the station, she immediately seeks to be arrested. Most of the "duet" consists of scenes in the DS9 Brigade, with Kira facing Marica for his crimes.

Marica initially claims that he was an officer in the mining camp files and was not witnessing any war crimes. Kira does not believe in him after witnessing first -hand horrors. Marica is also arrogant about her time there, encouraging the seriousness of military occupation. But there is a twist. After some investigations, Keira reveals that the man in Brig is not a Marica file clerk, but the leader of the death camp, a wicked general named Gul Darhel.

Once the truth is revealed, Guluul Darhel's attitude changes. He does not minimize his crimes, but he begins to say it - from his dark fascist point of view - the execution of the genocide was a perfectly logical course of action. For Darhel, there was nothing wrong with the occupation and he is not shy to say it properly on Keira's face. Kira and the audience should face the logic of Darhel's dark-look. His crimes were too big to achieve justice. Even if he is tormented and killed, the damage is done.

But there is a second twist in "duet" that moves the audience from that darkness and returns it to the sphere of cultural justice. It is a satisfactory end to a writer's perspective, but it makes the audience miss the hook in terms of morality.

However, for a few moments, the audience is forced to listen to the logic of Gulul Darhel. At that time, viewers would see his philosophy as parallel to that of the Nazi, although he could be considered a view of any fascist in the modern world and how they think. Darhel exhibits Darkly: Cartasians needed Bayor's resources to protect their empire and he saw nothing wrong with the planet's robbery, especially after Bayran's government surrendered to them. If the Cartasians could erase the "brazen fertilizers" on the planet, Darhel said, "So much better."

The most difficult, Gulul Darhel claims that the military tribunal will guarantee nothing for the recovery of the Bayran people. The dead, he claims, are still dead. Bayor is permanently damaged and there is no chance of recovering culturally. To put Dareeel on trial? Finding him guilty and publicly punishing him? These things can fulfill a sacrificed thirst for revenge, but will not unbeat the damage it has done. And he will certainly not force him to feel something like remorse. He did a job and feels that he was doing his job very well, a full station.

For a few dark moments, "duet" is in the sphere of Athonian Glasser 2023 film "The Zone of Interest", A frightening dead drama about the Nazi family living next to the door of the Auschwitz concentration camp. That film showed how easy it is for the Nazi general and his family to ignore the screams of terror and the clouds of black smoke, which are constantly from the camp. They were not separated. They just didn't care. It was a career for them. A job that brought them a beautiful house. They used the ashes of the killed Jews as a fertilizer in their garden.

Guluul Darhel is that Nazi. He has no thoughts about the humanity of his victims. He only sees a job that can be proud of. That is Dark episode (and almost dropped differently).

"Duet" could have ended there, of course, to realize that the damage to its planet could not be exposed and that the perpetrators would never face justice. That the victims of widespread genocidal efforts, the military occupation, of a harmonized government of violence, will never see that their perpetrators face any kind of revenge that may match the horrors they have committed. It would be a very dark place to end the episode, of course, but it would force both Kira and the audience to face the true horrors of fascism.

But the "duet" kind of back in the last minute. Gulul Sharhel has been discovered was actually Marica as he initially said. Marica, it turns out, was present for war crimes in Kardasia, but was extremely horrified by them. He felt that the Bayranci deserve justice, so he received cosmetic surgery to look like Gulul Darhel and orchestrated a scenario where he could be "detained" by the Bayran people. He was ready to afford to be executed if it would be the closure of the Bayrani and forced the Cartasian Government to recognize its crimes. Kira, learning the truth, reveals that the monster he was talking about was a noble man in masking. She no longer wants him to die, knowing that it will be no justice.

The second twist communicates with Deep Space Nine viewers that there is really nobility in the world, even in the shade of genocide. There are many people, both sides who want justice, and that gives us a shine of hope. Whatever happens to Marica (and he fulfills a sad fate), hope will still exist in the galaxy. Kira thinks the world is a little more complex.

But giving us viewers, a drop of hope allows us (at least partially) to ignore the constant darkness of the fascists. Woulde were much more depressed not to leave that sense of hopelessness, but it would have been far more effective. And, unfortunately, visible. However, "Duet" is one of the best episodes of "Deep Space Nine", and you can check out other episodes at top levels here.