Actually, the title is Return to Grace

Regarding your "Changed Premise" in Return to
Grace. I don't know if the Star Trek: Next Generation and Deep Space Nine Customizable Card Game by Decipher, Inc.(they have a web site) is canon, but in it it says that the modern K'Vort class bird-of-prey is three times as big as the ones from Star Trek: Original Series time.

Nit. The title is "Return to Grace"

Why is Shakaar ordering Kira to help the Cardassians? Both Shakaar & Kira fought the Cardassians for years and now suddenly they are helping them? Either the Bajorans are an incredibly forgiving people, or they must really fear the Klingons. Even if they do believe that the Klingons are a greater threat to Bajor than the Cardassians, why not just give the information to the Federation and let them share it with the Cardassians?

After being given various shots by Dr. Bashir, Kira gets nauseous and runs out of Sickbay. My mom wondered where she was going? Kira is in Sickbay, don't they have facilities for people who are throwing up, or have the runs? Bashir even warned Kira about some of the side effects, so why didn't he have a barf bag at the ready? (And if Kira had the runs, I think she should have been wearing an outfit that would be easier to remove in the bathroom. Skin tight, one-piece outfits don't seem like the wisest choice of apparel in those situations.)

When asked about herself and Shakaar, Kira tells Dukat, "None of your business!" This is a change from how she got rid of the unwanted affections of Tiron in Meridian. In that episode, rather than telling the guy to bug off, she pretends that she and Odo are lovers. (Of course, this change in attitude may have something to do with the fact that there is no one on the ship that she can cozy up to and pretend to be lovers with.)

My mom thought the ridges around the viewscreen on the Cardassian ship looked like an eye with lashes.

Cardassian sensors are good, at least the ones on run down old freighters. They picked up the Bird of Prey before it decloaked, whereas the sensors on DS9 didn't pick it up until after it decloaked.

Why didn't the Klingon sensors detect power going to the disrupter in the cargo bay?

A Cardassian freighter and a Klingon Bird of Prey fight over a planet that is also a weapons facility, but after destroying the freighter, there is not a peep from the planet or even word from Dukat telling the people on the planet that Cardassians now control the Bird of Prey. Did I miss something? Had the Bird of Prey already slaughtered the people or do the weapons makers just mind their own business?

The coonference Kira was going to was not really a mission to help Cardassia, but a conference on the Klingon invasion. Bajoran resentment of the spoonheads would likely take second place to the immediate threat of the Klingons overunning Bajor. So the intelligence shared on the Klingon invasions is of benefit of Bajor. Besides the Cardies have trouble enough with the Klingons, they are not in a situation to harrass Bajor.

Perhaps this is the Cardassian equivalent of thinking you're Napoleon?
After they succeed in defeating the Klingons, Dukat says that he will request his Legate title be reinstated. Legate title? When has he ever been a Legate?

Dukat was made a Legate after "Way of the Warrior" and he lost his Legateship after "Indiscretion."

Where was this established? What episode featured him addressed as Legate?

A different girl is playing Zeyal than the previous time we saw her in "Indescretion"

I believe also this episode marks the first time we see Damar. He'll play a pivotal role in later episodes

Dukat mentions contacting the Central Command at least twice in this episode, but I thought that the Central Command was disbanded when the civilian government took over.

I had the impression Central Command was simply placed under civilian control when the Detapa Council took charge. In other words Central Command was relegated to the same position StarFleet have in the UFP.

Hmm, you might be right. "The Way of the Warrior" was a little unclear on the subject. I just checked and they said the civilians "overthrew" the Central Command but didn't really say that it didn't exist anymore.

When Kira was describing the differences between the Cardassian and Federation rifles I was rememinded of Vietnam vets contrasting the AK-47 and M-16 rifles. I found that a little strange because most of the time the Cardies have more in common with Nazis than Soviets, and I had the impression the Klingons were meant to represent the communists. I know these things are not so cut-and-dry but that was how I perceived it.

Dukat says that he will get everything that he lost back...

Does that include his wife and kids?

well that would be part of the "everything" he lost wouldn't it?

well, seeing how he refers to Zeyal (sp?) as all he has left, I'm gonna guess he never got them back

I am watching DS9 from start to finish, and I was looking out for Dukat's promotion to legate since I had heard of it. For one episode, "Indiscretion", Dukat wears the same Cardassian Union symbol on his uniform that legates like Kell, Ghemor, and later Damar wear. Apparently he was indeed promoted after his actions in "Way of the Warrior" and lost it after "Indiscretion".

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