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Was it treason? I thought it was - what was the episode where they have that old friend of O'Brien (but really a Cardie) come on DS9 and entrap him?
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"Tribunal". O'Brien intends to go on a vacation with Keiko when he meets an old friend who is in fact a cardassian masquerading as O'Brien's old friend. The guy hides photon torpedoes in O'Brien's runabout without him knowing. So a nice Hideki-class patrol ship (my first sighting of...) stops Miles and he gets thrown into prison pending execution, being charged as a maquis-collaborator, I think.
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One thing I never got about that ep: why in the galaxy was the Federation worrying about how to defend O'Brian at a trial that, by design, he can't win? They entered Federation space without permission, forcibly boarded a military craft, abducted a military officer, and harrassed another Federation citizin. You don't worry about how to defend him at his unfair trial. First you ask for him back, then you demand him back, then you forcibly retrieve him.
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The O'Briens probably weren't in Federation space when they were captured. After all, Bajor supposedly is far away from the Federation, at least relatively speaking. And the runabout was traveling at impulse. Perhaps the O'Briens were still within the Bajoran system, trying to steer clear of the star or something? *Bajoran* demands for prisoner extradition from Cardassia would surely fall on deaf ears.
The distance from Bajor to possible Fed reinforcements may also have been a factor in Starfleet not trying to effect a jailbreak for the Chief. There may simply not have been enough time. Whatever transportation Sisko had at the end of the episode to arrive to the trial in time, it must have been really fast (and really clandestine)...
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If if they were in Bajoran space, the Cardassians had no right to take them. The Feds would still be able to use the ask/demand/take strategy.
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Orion Syndicate
He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
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This was just a trial to show the Cardassians that their justice system works, and what better way to achieve this than to kill a Federation citizen under their legal system. It didn't matter who it was, as long as they had a history of hating the 'Cardies' and din't hide the fact. This would convince the public even more that he deserves to die. O'Brien was just unlucky.
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