I’m not a Kai Winn stan my fun villain of choice is Weyoun but. When she said out loud to Kira Nerys “stay as long as you need. Even a whole week if you have to” with complete composure like. I think we all respected her after that. Not everyone has the guts to be so brazenly fake. I wish she and Garak had gotten in the same room more I mean they would have Verbally Sparred ™.
Now I kinda want to see fic where Kai Winn decides that Garak should get kicked off the station. This does not go well for her, obviously.
(I’m thinking that this isn’t even about Garak personally, it’s basically just some sort of annoying powerplay on her part aimed at causing problems for the Emissary. It probably involves some posturing about ‘how dare the Federation grant asylum to a Cardassian’ etc. And she just massively underestimates what kind of opponent Garak is. And along the way they are Polite at one another in the most aggravating and passive aggressive way possible.)