I wondered that, too. I seem to remember their mentioning something about his protesting when the rations were cut, but I always thought there had to be more to it than that, so in this series, there definitely will be. The funny thing about Tain. You never know exactly what he knows. He's just really good at implying. He's not done tormenting Julian by a long shot. :-D

Yeah, Garak seemed particularly upset in the shuttle ride, and Dax seemed equally convinced that the Bajorans were polite to him, so I'm going to have fun playing with that juxtaposition of viewpoint and how and why that came about. For the record, I think the name tag was rude and intended to be so. Thanks for the read and review!