Chapter 24 - Who was Gul Zarale? (Patreon)

He told me how he had stumbled down an embankment onto his back to find a near naked, bathing and unarmed Cardassian in a lake, who went for his weapon by his clothes and Li shot and killed the man. The man’s body had fallen on top of Li like they had been in an epic and savage struggle, and that had been how Li was found by the rest of his cell. It turned out that the man was a rather infamous Cardassian officer, Gul Zarale, who had been responsible for the massacre of half a dozen Bajoran villages and his death at Li’s hands had been twisted in the subsequent retellings to a legendary struggle, despite Li’s best efforts to set the story straight. And just like that he had become a reluctant hero of the Bajoran people and the Resistance. In telling the ‘true’ story of Gul Zarale’s death, Li told me how he would never forget the embarrassed look on the Cardassian officer’s face as he died in his underwear.