Kevin: I liked a lot of the exploration we got of the Maquis ethos generally, and I could even argue it built well on the foundational stuff laid out in TNG. The character lacks the gravitas to make his confrontations with Sisko feel realistic. But we never saw Eddington as anything but a dutiful officer initially, we never saw him develop his snotty cynicism, we didn't see the development of Eddington's homicidal tendencies (he claims he intends to kill Sisko after all), and we certainly never saw the Maquis "enjoy their greatest victories under his leadership." It all just rings so hollow.
There is an attempt, I think, with Eddington waxing rhapsodic about fresh food, but it's just not enough. There are two reasons for this - the first being that it was a complete and total retcon of the character from the start, the second being that we never see all of the things we are told Eddington has done.
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.
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