What’s the general consensus on Gul Dukat? I personally thought he was a strong, even occasionally empathetic, villain, but then once he started on all the devil worship stuff he just got silly. When they made him a weird serial-womanizing cult leader it just got impossible for me to appreciate the complexity of his character that had been established before.
I loved him before he turned Bajoran in the final episodes of season 7
I agree, but I think the last time he was a great villain was in “Waltz” when he’s losing his mind. Personally I think that would’ve been the best way to end his character. His weird cult-leadership in that early Season 7 episode was too weird for me too. He never struck me as that type. The Bajoran stuff with him was just a distraction from the Breen/Dominion plot and the Cardassian rebellion, which I think are great and intense.