Oo Birgitte.

DS9 and Voyager both had declining viewership yearly, with IIRC Voyager doing better.

My source is the Star Trek Compendium. If that fact isn't in there, well, bad memory. But the important thing is being able to show real world cars in "Miri" was financially very good for the show.

All that needs to be said about this week's episodes is we'd rather talk about Voyager.

The ape smart virus that allowed Caesar to talk is airborne now so probably?

That was a B-plot in a season seven episode which semi-contradicted what "Blood Fever" said about how holographic sex just wouldn't cut it, so yeah, by that point it just felt like an obligation Voyager had to get out of the way.

Oh, but we will.

"The Measure of Man" isn't much relevant to DS9, but it's one of the best episodes of the show. In the same token, "Yesterday's Enterprise", "The Inner Light", "Darmok" and "The Drumhead" are some great episodes you haven't referred to, but are well worth seeing.

Precisely. There's also a character in that episode who is pregnant and has a baby. Just so Data can react to that.

Well I'll grant you I'm pretty okay with Spock/Uhura. This is not just because it resulted in her first name being spoken.

Right but there are so many permutations of the holodeck malfunction episode. Hell, "Elementary Dear Data", an early, classic one, only implies a danger that's not really present in that when Moriarty gains sapience he kind of loses any supposedly murderous impulses and he and Pulaski are drinking tea by the time Data…

I kind of figured that's what they'd use TV Reviews for, but so far not yet.

I remember reading a interview with Jeri Taylor (I think) who said that was their way of doing what fans expected they'd do (a pon farr episode feels inevitable with ticking time-bomb Tuvok over here) but not in the way they'd think (hence it being the show's other Vulcan, the occasional crewman played by Taylor's…

To be fair O'Brien was less a character than a prop at that point. "Data's Day" was the most character work he'd ever got at that point (though soon topped later the same season with "The Wounded.")

They are The Heroes. Actually, "Our Man Bashir" has to have a record for how many heroes it puts in danger of death by holodeck.

How much better would His Way have been if it was just an episode about that conversation? Like all the highs and lows the weaknesses and the vulnerabilites, Odo's insensitivty and secret yearnings… just this stark chamber drama or something.

Just remember Star Trek waited until the third season to break out the money for a Klingon starship, and when they did they immediately also used it as a Romulan starship.

Oh absolutely. I was just saying that JMS is specifically invested in Catholicism in a way that's unusual for the genre.

I love that they break up when Kes is being mind controlled by an evil warlord… and yet they actually don't get back together after that.

You see what I like about it is that episode ends with a kind of acceptance: No, its not going to work out. He feels bad. But that's life.