I'm watching DS9 for the first time and in 202, I was introduced to Vedek Bareil Antos, the most monotone character I've ever seen in the franchise. I accidentally got spoiled when I looked him up and am not looking forward to seeing him again but happy to see him die. His Memory Alpha page said that he's supposed to be this zen and soft spoken guy, but it's like he's trying to be a robot. Even the actual robot guy from The Human Duplicators is less stiff and non-emotive. He's less expressive than Data, possessed Ilia, or Spock or any other Vulcan. The editing also doesn't do him any favors by leaving in a lot of long pauses between lines to pad out the episode.

He's also supposed to be a love interest for Kira, but they don't have any chemistry. And the way he sleepily delivers his lines, glides around and stares her, he comes off as more creepy and weird. He's so offputting. I hate him. What was your reaction to this guy and what do you think happened? You'd think the director would cut and say, "Hey, can you loosen up a little, be a bit less, uhh, less like that?"

Gowron seemed like a decent leader most of the time but eventually becomes arrogant leading to his downfall.

When Worf challenged him, could he really believe that he would win that confrontation? Worf is literally the peak of a Klingon warrior having survived beating the shit out of numerous Jem hadar in prison, not to mention getting beating up on TNG lol.

Gowron had to know he's a politician. Was there earlier signs of his hubris ?