Odo's also basically a teenager anyway. He's what fifteen in the first season? He's a lot younger than Auberjonois anyway, because alien.

Well that's a conflict within the orthodox Bajoran faith, though. But you're right that the blandness of characters like Bareil (and later Shakaar) is sort of what killed enthusiasm for Bajor plots.

Apparently, there just aren't enough of us, Internet Trek Dork. The amount of people who read reviews of current shows and don't comment are much more than the anonymous classic readers.

I'd say the key thing is that "Our Man Bashir" is just an episode that is having so much fun with its Bond parody (and Alexander Siddig is such a good Bond it's a shame he never was.)

I want this on my grave.

Well Quark is better off because he makes a mint.

Oh Jeri Ryan's in this?

TNG was actually a huge improvement on TOS. In TOS, intelligent robot life was always something to be outwitted or destroyed, proof that someone had lost their humanity or had never really attained it.

See I'd disagree there because Kira/Odo was a great unrequited relationship that then because requited because of reasons. Paris and Torres had stuff like "Blood Fever", where it's obvious they both like each other but they're not going to that next level yet.

Well more people who identified with Janeway, you understand, but yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a crossover with Roslin/Adama shippers.

My problem with TNG holodeck episodes is basically the assumption that there must be mortal peril for the episode to work. I'd be totally down for an episode of Trek where people are just having fun by play-acting.

…yeah, to be honest I think I'd have more to say about Voyager than most shows. It was my first real, in-depth experience with internet fandom.

Immaterial. A lot of holodeck malfunction episodes do not actually involve a malfunction. For example, "Worst Case Scenario" in Voyager involves a hidden program left there by a villain.

The essential issue with the Bajorans is they weren't very popular and - according to Ron Moore - when they polled viewers Bajoran stories always came dead last. The gradual retooling of the show to a broader, galactic scope - possible really because Next Generation was off the air and Voyager was in another quadrant…

Honestly if they were going to add more to the Bajor religion I would have preferred, instead of Pah-wraiths, to be alternate interpretations of the Prophets. Where are the Bajoran Lutherans, basically, there has to be theologically heterodox Bajoran opinions that clash particularly with the increasingly dogmatic…

True, but a lot of the ground the Doctor covers, at its worst, feels like a rehash of Data's rights. The most interesting twist obviously is while Data is a unique and singular android built by a genius scientist whose work can't be replicated, the Doctor is essentially a futuristic version of Microsoft Office, a tool…

The thing is TV Classic is on the way out. After 2015 that is it, it is dead. I think we can take it as writ that Voyager is never going to happen (though if it did I'd be so there.)

It was a different time, @Roswulf:disqus, and it needs to be pointed out that Janeway specifically had (and really, still has) a lot of fans. She was a character a lot of women Trekkies in particular identified with.

You and a lot of people. That was the biggest non-heterosexual fan pairing, but the thing is the J/7 fans knew they'd never get their wish so they didn't exactly lose their shit the way the others did.

I feel Vic is a bigger problem structurally than say Star Trek: The Next Generation's holodeck adventures. I mean, sure, the fact those always depended on a malfunction was a huge strike against that story, but it was a rare case where a Trek episode could use props and costumes they didn't have to make themselves.…