captainsblogsupplemental:

gallifrey-via-pylea:

I saw this after DS9 and I always wondered why Miles could articulate this so clearly in TNG and sort of fall back on a not-quite-understood anger in DS9, that he would express in genuinely prejudiced ways sometimes. And I think it’s not just that DS9 was the darker show, but that the Enterprise, even with Cardassians onboard, is his space, a safe home. Whereas Deep Space Nine, formerly Terok Nor, is a Cardassian space station, designed (as pretty much all of Cardassia is) for military purposes. He’s in their territory, and he feels it.

I saw this after DS9 as well. I can rationalise it as Miles being aware of his own prejudices after this point, but because he’s not confronted with Cardassians that often in his day to day life he still hasn’t been able to overcome those prejudices.