Unfortunately, the Goran'Agar Rehabilitation Clinic actually has a very low success rate
Unfortunately, the Goran'Agar Rehabilitation Clinic actually has a very low success rate
[Image transcription: A "Doctor's hate him" style meme titled "The Founders HATE Him" about Goran'Agar. The side text reads "He beat his ketracel-white addiction in less than 35 days using this simple trick. FIND OUT HOW"]
The fact that he didn't realize he's not addicted until stranded suggests that few Jem'hadar ever personally experience withdrawal. They receive regular doses and then die in combat, so it rarely comes up. Almost everything they know about the effect of white withdrawal is received knowledge.
If it weren't canon that they need white to survive, then my headcanon would be that that they could totally survive without it and they've just been lied to all along. Like that episode of TNG.
My interpretation was that ketracel-white was both chemically addictive AND needed for the specific amino acid (or whatever it was that their body could not produce).
This, to me, meant that any Jem'Hadar that wanted to drop ketracel-white would go through withdrawal and then die painfully. For most Jem'Hadar the two different aspects would be indistinguishable from each other and viewed as one effect.
Not sure if you are aware, but as far as I can tall, this post can only be seen by certain instances. I bounce between this account and my main at lemmy.world (world tends to have trouble uploading) and I can't see it from there.
It's because not everyone is federated with Beehaw and if the instance isn't federated with them you won't see posts from their users. You can see which instances are federated with your instance by going to servername.whatever/instances. So for us we would check at https://startrek.website/instances and then you just search for beehaw. If it shows up in that list then you will see their posts. If not, you won't.
Maybe hot take: This was the episode that confirmed my feeling that Miles O’Brien isn’t necessarily a good person, there are definitely aspects to him that are good, he does do a lot of good, but he is chock full of a lot of prejudices he just often doesn’t seem interested in overcoming and everyone around him seems ok with just letting him be that way.
It seems like being xenophobic is a deliberate part of his character (look at how he treats Cardassians too); but I am always taken aback when he says something awful, because it feels so out of place in the optimistic future.
Plus, it seems like even the other in-universe characters are bothered by it (Keiko and Dr. Bashir have raised issues with it by the episode I am up to), so it is extra strange that he is "allowed" to just go around being casually xenophobic and hasn't been sent to Federation sensitivity training or something.
The way I read it is miles o'brien is supposed to be the blue collar everyman character that draws in people who don't usually like star trek but they just miss the mark on that often and they make it doubly uncomfortable by also making miles o'brien a very flawed, pretty close minded person which causes cognitive dissonance like you said because all the other characters love him.