"Wrongs Darker than Death or Night" aired in 1998 as the 17th episode of American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's 6th season.
[9] Kira obtains station commander Benjamin Sisko's permission to consult the Bajoran Orb of Time to find out the truth.
He thanks his wife for the resources her companionship to Dukat has afforded for their family: the Cardassians released him and Kira Nerys from the refugee camp, allowed them return to their farm, and provide them with extra food.
Kira, realizing that she owes her survival as a child and even her capacity to participate in the Bajoran resistance to her mother, has a change of heart and warns Dukat and Meru about the bomb, and they escape just before it detonates.
The episode resolves ambivalently, Kira concluding that despite how outraged she feels at Meru's collaboration with Dukat and the Cardassians, "no matter what she did, she was still my mother".
"Wrongs Darker than Death or Night" is the final episode in what cultural geographer David Seitz called "the Kira parental grief trilogy", the other episodes in this informal trilogy being "Second Skin" and "Ties of Blood and Water", which focused on Kira's relationships to paternal figures, including her dead father Taban.
[12] In this trilogy, and in "Wrongs", Deep Space Nine depicts Kira as having a tremendous "capacity to empathize" by "integrat[ing] love and aggression", in Seitz's words: building on the theory of psychonalayst Melanie Klein, Seitz argues that without forgiving Meru for her collaboration or forgetting her outrage at Cardassian colonial atrocities, Kira nevertheless "learns to live with ambivalence" and recognize that life involves complicated interrelationship.
[8] Comic Book Resources ranked "Wrongs Darker than Death or Night" as the 6th darkest Deep Space Nine episodes.