But, if you'll excuse the phrase, the die has been cast on the Eddington character, and I just can't believe him in this role. Matthew: I agree that the lack of the overbearing Les Mis plotline was a benefit to this episode. That all being said, the runabout scenes gave the Sisko/Eddington story the room to breathe to explore both Sisko's sense of betrayal and how Eddington viewed himself. The setup is a bit of a MacGuffin, and I wasn't entirely surprised by the reveal at the end, given that indiscriminate civilian deaths seemed a little outside the Maquis MO. We get all of Eddington's wide-eyed romanticism about his life without any shoehorning it into a novel. Here, the one-on-one stuff in the runabout and the lack of a hamfisted Les Mis reference really help.
Kevin: Had we just skipped 'For the Uniform' and taken his capture as read and gone right to this episode, I think the entire Maquis story would have been better overall, if only for having sidestepped the ethically gray solution in that one. Sisko and Eddington hammer out the all-important matter of a safe word.
