For context, Rugal was the young Cardassian boy raised by Bajoran parents. Sisko is deliberating between sending Rugal back to Cardassia to live with his biological father when Rugal wishes to remain on Bajor with his adoptive parents. Sisko decides to send the boy to Cardassia to live with his biological father who he doesn’t love or remember. What the fuck Sisko? It’s a completely ass backward decision on his part, if you ask me which of course you don’t. Poor Rugal.
Doesn’t feel dramatically different from how Picard had to consider the boy in “Suddenly Human”. Except here the orphanage Dukat part off it makes it possibly worse.
I was thinking that in both episodes there are compelling cases for both options which is what makes it a hard decision. Maybe DS9 went with the opposite resolution from TNG to highlight that, and possibly to be different from TNG.