Indeed, it’s Eddington who both returns to Deep Space Nine and exits it in a blaze of glory.
The tragedy of the Maquis might be unfulfilling in one sense, but in terms of motivation Michael Eddington? At the same time, I don’t want that to seem condescending, mostly because I STILL HAVE LOTS OF DEEP SPACE NINE TO WATCh, and this show often likes to keep me totally unprepared. If this is indeed the last we’ve seen of the Maquis – and I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case – they more or less fizzled out, victims of their ambition and perhaps a case of the writers not knowing what else to do with them. Sometimes, I feel like the writers realized that in the Maquis, they’d created a force that had a legitimate reason to dislike the Federation, and in order to keep Star Trek a largely positive force for the Federation, they had to make the Maquis out to be villains and terrorists. Intrigued? Then it’s time for Mark to watch Star Trek. In the twenty-third episode of the fifth season of Deep Space Nine, Sisko tries to stop a war.
