Except Sisko was pretty mad that all those colonists were killed by the Dominion. That, and Nechayev made it pretty clear that the Maquis were NOT acting in the Federation's interests, especially when the Maquis either sabotage Fed ships or hijack them.
I doubt that the weapons the colonists had could match anything that a Federation rescue team would bring.
It was a CHAZ. The Feds just didn't care.
There were no Federation court houses for them to burn down so they just resorted to raping white women. Art imitates life.
HE BETRAYED HIS UNIFORM!!
Seeing them all together like this brings about the sad realization that the last time Paramount did anything worth a damn with these characters was all the way back with First Contact (with the obvious exception of Worf on DS9, and arguably Troi's appearances on Voyager).
Gates McFadden looks like she's had her lips replaced with pink slugs and the moody lighting does nothing to hide it. She looks like a pouting duck. Why do these people ruin their faces with surgery?
They're putting nanites in our replicators that are turning the kids Borg! Don't you understand that!?
Have you ever seen good lip injections / fillers? Call me a h8r but I think maybe 10% look good. The others look like they are having a permanent allergic reaction.
Was Avery Brooks acting?
Honestly, that'd be one of the less objectionable things they could do. At least it would be consistent with the closing episodes of DS9 implying that Martok was setting the Empire down a more honorable path.
That was one of @Elim Garak's most hammy moments.
Honestly, given everything we know about changelings wiping them out actually seems entirely reasonable. I highly doubt Odo is going to be able to convince them of anything. How did they describe changelings? The drop becomes the ocean, the ocean becomes the drop? He's a drop trying to convince the ocean. It's actually far more likely that they're going to convince him to become a genocidal xenophobic fascist than the other way around.
Those "homegrown murder machines" were actually the biggest issue when it came to wiping out the Founders. As the Female Changeling pointed out when she was at death's door, the death of the Founders would probably cause the Jem'Hadar to go apeshit and slaughter everything in their path. Even if we presume they'd only carry on until they ran out of Ketracel White and died, that's still a hell of a lot of damage they could cause in the meantime.
Also consider that the Dominion probably only sent the equivalent of an expeditionary force to conquer the Alpha Quadrant. In their own quadrant, they didn't have to worry about wormhole logistics.
Spoken like a true Klingon.
I've been thinking on this and decided to refresh my knowledge on the subject.