When did Eddington "Turn"?

[Guy Gardener]

This is from the gut.

No one is wrong or right, but by about which episode, whether he was in it on not on the time line do you think Eddington joined the Maquis... And really, how long after that did it take for him to be come their leader?

 

[Photon]

I think his allegiance had always been w/the Maquis. I blv he had a plan and put it into existence at the proper time. The ME arc is one of my favorites.

 

[Timo]

It's too bad we know basically nothing of Eddington's service history.

I agree that he was most likely an active Maquis player from the day he set foot on DS9. Indeed, Starfleet would be likely to send a Maquis to the station at that point: the security officers with the most experience in frontier operations, the Cardassian/Bajoran situation and the possibility of enemy operatives within Starfleet or its allies would also ironically be the ones most likely to have secretly joined the Maquis.

Eddington could well have a Demilitarized Zone background similar to Cal Hudson's, with possible combat history against Cardassians, and lots of exposure to the joys of being a turncoat (albeit in the role of the guy who gets to catch and question such turncoats). At the time of "Improbable Cause", Starfleet wouldn't yet realize how volatile such a combination could be...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[od0_ital]

I don't think he was a Maquis when Sisko brought him to DS9 in 'The Search, Part One'. I think it was something that happened as he was out there. He did pass on false information to Sisko, so there's the possibility that readin' the reports of Maquis activity / casualities / losses stirred up his sympathy, and his hero wannabe nature.

 

[nx1701g]

^ That makes sense to me. I think though they planned to set him up as a traitor around the time of Improbable Cause. He did, afterall, sabotage Defiant when they were trying to rescue Odo and Garak and possibly stop the Cardassian/Romulan invasion fleet.

I know he said the Admiral told him to do it, but can we be sure of that?

 

[od0_ital]

^

I'd say yeah, we can be sure of that, since the admiral didn't want Sisko & Company messin' with the possible genocide of the Great Link.

But, that may have given ol' Mike the taste for goin' against Sisko.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Of how easy it was to go against Sisko.

(Well, easy for him.)

 

[LeadHead]

My thinking is, that he was a loyal officer when he arrived, then on some levels started to get displeased with Sisko, his dream was command and he didn't think he'd find that in starfleet. He was stationed at "Cardassian Hatred Central" so he would have heard so many stories of atrocities during the occupation, and he began to want to join the Maquis.

In "Crossfire" he was on leave, a throwaway thing in the episode to explain Worf working with Odo, but it fits in the timeline that he went to the DMZ, decided to join, but thought for the time being he was more useful in his post on DS9. Then "For the Cause" Happened.

 

[anti-matter]

When did Eddington "Turn"?

hummm ...I never thought about that before. But I'm thinking it was sometime on the station...maybe another Maquis got something on him then flipped him. He had to be a big score for the resistance because of his security background.

 

[JM1776]

LeadHead said: In "Crossfire" he was on leave, a throwaway thing in the episode to explain Worf working with Odo, but it fits in the timeline that he went to the DMZ, decided to join, but thought for the time being he was more useful in his post on DS9. Then "For the Cause" Happened.

Seems plausible to me.