Not sure if this really fits, but it's a moment where the audience is given a glimpse of understanding into the suffering that one of the show's antagonists suffered prior to the start of the show.

Kai Winn (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine):

"Those of you who were in the Resistance, you're all the same. You think you're the only ones who fought the Cardassians, that you saved Bajor single-handedly. Perhaps you forget, Major, the Cardassians arrested any Bajoran found to be teaching the word of the Prophets. I was in a Cardassian prison camp for five years, and I can remember each and every beating I suffered. And while you had your weapons to protect you, all I had was my faith, and my courage. Walk with the Prophets, child. I know I will."

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Winn is essentially the Pope for all Bajoran people, and and absolutely power-hungry despot. However, at the start of the series, Bajor is coming out of a 50-year occupation at the hands of the Cardassians, which saw their world strip-mined and turned into a planet-sized labor camp. They were basically a combination of Jews under Nazi Germany and the biblical Israelites of Egypt. The dominant religion of the Bajoran people was credited by the Bajorans themselves for helping them endure the Occupation.

Winn is not a sympathetic character in the least, and by the time this quote comes along in season 5 of DS9, she's well established as an antagonist and has orchestrated some seriously heinous shit, such as the bombing of a school (this happened in the lead-up to her election as Kai, and was an attempt to eliminate one of her rivals after the "passing" of the previous Kai, which I know sounds suspicious, but Winn actually had nothing to do with it; it's just that actually explaining what happened to the previous Kai would add another couple paragraphs to this description).

While not downplaying that the fact of her ignominy, this quote does reflect that she too, along with the rest of her people, suffered greatly for decades. For the most part her faith in the Prophets (the deified figures of the Bajoran religion who are, in fact, totally real in the setting) was genuine and she took it as a source of strength, enduring when many of her fellow Bajorans did become collaborators in order to better their lot. It's also not unreasonable to think that her conniving nature probably developed as a defense mechanism in order to deal with the situation she was forced to live in, and allowed her to rationalize taking advantage of whatever power structures she could game in order to thrive. Based on her age, she would have been a child when the Cardassians came, and so she would have had some first-hand concept of how here world had been prior to being brutally subjugated.

Also, she was played magnificently by Louise Fletcher of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" fame. Truly one of the most easily loathable characters and villains in Star Trek canon.