Yes, but O'Neill returns to deindustrialization and Hub City finances far more often than he does random street crime.

I don't think that it's necessarily "worse than Gotham." They have much lower rates of clown-related murders, for example. But Gotham is defined by the contrast between its wealthy cosmopolitan glamour and the seething underclass. Hub City has already been hollowed out. There's no sharp contrast because everything in…

How can you discuss this episode without at least mentioning the wonderful cold open with Gentleman Ghost? His top hat and monocle are suspended in midair!

Finally, an album based on former Bond Girl and Law and Order star Carey Lowell!

Fair enough. I was just thinking that it would provide a convenient basis for the radical changes in Bajoran culture, and simultaneously build a little more groundwork for the whole Pah-Wraith arc, which would make the MU more relevant to the series as a whole.

Actually, the question of Imperialist Bajorans makes me think that there was a simple way to salvage the MU in DS9: Make the Pah-Wraiths the MU Prophets, and the MU Bajorans their followers.

Actually, the question of Imperialist Bajorans makes me think that there was a simple way to salvage the MU in DS9: Make the Pah-Wraiths the MU Prophets, and the MU Bajorans their followers.

Wait, you lead off every mixtape with a NINE MINUTE song? That is a pretty bold risk.