Return to Grace story
Dukat seeks Kira's help in regaining his rank in the Cardassian Empire. Directed by: Jonathan West. Story by: Tom Benko.
11 total · 2 choice · 2 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| the desire for prestige | choice | Dukat wanting to restore his reputation after having been ostracized by the Cardassian government |
| the desire for redemption | choice | Dukat wanting to restore his reputation after having been ostracized by the Cardassian government |
| father and daughter | major | Dukat and his illegitimate daughter Tora Ziyal |
| remorse | major | Dukat felt remorse about his daughter and maybe about the war crimes |
| career choice | minor | Dukat tried to convince Kira life as a rebel was preferable to administration |
| ethnic hatred | minor | Kira advised Ziyal that she needed to hate the Klingons to go to war with them; Kira explained to Dukat how she used to live on hatred of the Cardassians |
| female attraction to powerful men | minor | Dukat chided Kira about the men she fell for |
| human parenting | minor | Kira convinced Dukat that his warship was no place to raise his daughter so Kira took her to live on the space station |
| interfactional mediation | minor | Kira was off on to attend a diplomatic conference; Dukat was discouraged when Cardassian government decided to pursue a diplomatic resolution to a dispute with the Klingons |
| resistance movement | minor | Dukat started a resistance movement against the Klingons. |