Kasidy Yates

[John_trekfan]

This has been bugging me for quite some time. Does anyone else feel that Kasidy Yates could have been a Maquis operative from the beginning, with the goal of getting close to Benjamin Sisko?
She and Sisko met after the Maquis was formed, and after Calvin Hudson attempted to recruit Sisko to the Maquis. Shortly after her and Sisko begin dating, she begins living aboard DS9. Its discovered later that DS9 is riddled with traps, set by Maquis operatives. A mere season after they met, its discovered that she's working for the Maquis, which doesn't provide much time for an adequate recruitment, considering how dedicated she was to the Maquis.
I believe that she initially got close to Ben, to prevent him from suspecting her of any wrongdoing, but fell in love with him, and later chose him over remaining in the Maquis.
Thoughts?

 

[Bad Thoughts]

"Operative" is rather strong considering what Yates was doing. She was smuggling goods to the Maquis, not participating in their operations.

 

[kkt]

The Maquis didn't trust her to do anything more than bring supplies. They used her to get Sisko off the station, it was as big a surprise to her as it was to Sisko. So no, she didn't meet Sisko just so she could spy on him or manipulate him.

 

[Timo]

It would seem folly to me to credit the Maquis with a unified campaign of espionage - or with unified anything.

Some of the Maquis would have an agenda of simply protecting their own garden from trespassers. Others would be in for the chance to blow shit up. Some would have ideas about hurting specific opponents (including fellow Maquis). There would be a great policy, competing with a dozen other great policies, all of them ignored by the above three factions. And there would be little chance of a strategic infiltration operation turning into a humanitarian smuggling operation in mid-run, but plenty of chance of both sorts being run simultaneously, by different factions.

Nothing improbable about one faction of Maquis using Yates to further their agenda without her knowing it, of course. But the faction that potentially sent an agent to infiltrate DS9 would not waste that agent in the "For the Cause" operation, when any patsy (including one utterly unrelated to any Maquis activity) would do.

I could also easily buy Yates having been a Maquis all along. But her angle would be to gain access to DS9 for smuggling runs, not for spying on or sabotaging the actual workings of DS9 or Starfleet.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[JirinPanthosa]

It would have made Kassidy a very different character if she was doing more than smuggling things for the Maquis. Not necessarily in a better or worse way, just if she was targeting him the whole time, then she would have to replace Eddington as his white whale.

 

[SpyOne]

I agree with those who feel Kassidy was a sympathizer, not a member, and working for the Maquis, not with them.
She was unimportant enough to them that they were willing to burn her for another operation.

And as for Maquis traps all over the station, remember that the same episode where Kassidy's association with the Maquis is revealed is the one that outs Maquis member(and DS9 Starfleet head of security) Michael Eddington. Anything she could have done could probably have more easily been done by him.