No need for apologizes; I find they tend to be inaccurate. They seem to be created to give humans a false sense of hope and that good will win over evil…that often proves not to be the case, if it were true I be dead a lot time ago.
I think you as they say ‘hit the nail on the head’ there my friend. Ah the glory days when I was a human those things, honor and duty, were not a distance memories. Alas the empire has fallen but I keep my loyalty to the community. Humans can never compare to the loyalty we vampires have to each other.
Cardassian? I am afraid your race has escaped my knowledge which I must say is a rare thing indeed though you as an example I have to say they sound like my kind of people.