BIG SPOILERS

Next week, on Mad Space Nine….

I watched it in South Africa once: All the fucks stayed, but saying God Damn was forbidden!

I remember when it came out thinking it sounded so much like Beck it had to be a cover and spending so much time trying to find the "original."

Looks like the review got cut off midstream…

If American Horror Story: Santa Fe doesn't encounter a singing Christian Bale, it's just not worth it…

I came up with a sweet retcon to that once, but I suspect it's lost to the combination of NuDisqus and NuAVClub.

Thank you, @davekinard:disqus for this week's edition of Enterprise Being Stupid.

He's the same guy who gave us the James Bond one though, so again, mitigating circumstances.

SHUT YO MOUTH!

But enough about Mayweather…

One week after Garak goes to infiltrate the Orion Syndicate, Starfleet Intelligence stumbles upon Garak alone in room full of corpses of entire Orion Syndicate.

He! I'm picturing how one breeds Jem Hadar to survive in the Delta Quadrant. I suspect they make them massively incompetent, completely self absorbed, and dangerously self righteous but make sure to include a button on them that resets them to square one after 60 minutes of action.

Also, given that O'Brien wasn't on the Defiant throughout the hijacking, that he wouldn't ID him either meeting him later.

Also, it helps that the Jem Hadar are much more credible people to capture a ship than, you know, the Ferengi.

Of course, Sisko trying to play various people who have hijacked the ship against each other is a throwback to countless Kirk moments on TOS as well.

They do at least give lip service to the fact that the Orion Syndicate has a mole in Starfleet Intelligence, so O'Brien is picked because he's not on anyone's list but checks the right boxes (engineering, enlisted, etc.) for the infiltration job they want.

One thing I like about "Honor Among Thieves" is just how much we get to see the darker underside of the Federation 'paradise.' Literally in the first shot you have folks pretty clearly taking drugs. The bar is grimey and dark—Quark’s it isn’t, and 10 Forward is light years away. The entire episode takes place in…

Sigh…. another casualty of the new AV Club redesign appears to be Zack's delightful alt-text.

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