"CAREY, DIANNE - CALL TO ARMS" - читать интересную книгу автора (Carey Diane)

you suggesting that dukat's priorities and the vorta's may not be in
line?"

"would yours be, if you were dukat? the cardassians were once supreme
here. now they have formed a devil's deal with the dominion. i'm sure no
cardassian is fool enough to think the dominion will allow anyone to be
its equal partner. i suspect dukat views the arrangement as temporary,
until his own ends can be met."

"what do you think dukat wants?" kira asked. "in the long run?"

"i don't know." once again odo gazed down the now-empty corridor. "but
if i were you, kira... i'd be watching him for clues."

"our shipyards... destroyed!" the vorta's controlled features took on a
ghoulish twist which gave dukat definite satisfaction.

"torros three," he uttered, placidly looking over the report damar had
just handed him--even worse than the early reports. "the entire dominion
shipyard, decimated."

they stood now on the shattered remains of the operations center,
strangely resembling the condition of the station when dukat had left it
behind years ago. he too had destroyed everything he could before
leaving. he handed the padd back to damar. "acknowledge the information,
damar, but make no reports yet about the condition of the station. i'll
handle that myselfi later." "yes, sir." as damar left, weyoun watched
dukat. "is this what you consider normal? to gain a station and lose a
shipyard? is this what cardassians consider effective warfare?"

"we gained the station because we lost the shipyard," dukat told him.
"or the other way around, depending upon your perspective."

"do you mean to suggest that this was all some kind of starfleet plan?"

"oh, not exactly. i'm sure they have no pleasure in losing the station,
but when that became inevitable i'm also sure they determined not to
suffer a loss without a gain. the distraction allowed starfleet ships to
broach the lines and destroy torros three, yet they also managed to put
up and activate that mine field. though they lost the station and
control of this sector, they did make us pay for the exchange. that is
the nature of war, weyoun... at least, it is on this side of the
wormhole." weyoun leered at him, but regained control over his
expression. "about that mine field... if they're self replicating mines,
what can we do to bring the network down?"

"they're not actually self-replicating," dukat enjoyed pointing out.
"when one is destroyed, its neighbors fill the gap. that's not 'self'
replication--"