Yup. Original Joran was a flawed, unbalanced guy who killed someone. Every time they brought him back, he was a walking cliche of the "disturbed serial killer."

Yup. Making Joran super creepy-evil works when you have Avery Brooks doing the performing. Random guest star, not so much.

It's why Lofton wears a Braves cap for the practice: His uncle was playing for them then, even if he was a disappointing rental and that trade bad news. Shoulda kept Grissom and Justice!

I love Once More Unto the Breach, for reasons that are obvious for any members of the facebook group.

Weyoun: "Diplomatic Immunity!"
Worf: "It's just been revoked"

Also known as, "Whoops, we've been fucking up the Vulcans for three and a half years. Time for a retcon!"

Someone at Baseball Prospectus actually went back and analyzed Sisko's team: http://www.baseballprospect…

You know who might have been really helpful for someone woken up from a catatonic state having to adapt to a whole new world for the first time? A counselor! Seriously, for the third straight week, heo only one doing any real counseling (and doing a good job at it) is Miles.

Was it Enterprise that came up with the name Augments for genetically engineered people? Because wow, thats a stupid name. And yeah, I can buy Worf as all strength, no agility, but Bashir's superior strength and hand eye coordination should have made him Daryl Strawberry circa Homer at the Bat.

A Trek stable, for well or ill, is the romance of the week plot. But Chrysalis is a great episode because it avoids the “OMG Romance!” machinations of your standard Troi/Ambassador plot for a more sensitive look at two damaged, lonely individuals. It ISN’t a romance at all. It’s about two lonely people who come out of…

That's the thing that really sticks out in season 7. Because they went with a closing 10 hour long arc, and had a two to three episode (if you count Afterimage) mini-arc to start the season, those 13 episodes in the middle are nearly all stand alone episodes that are all clumped together and, Treachery, Faith and the…

Next week, on Mad Space Nine….

This was definitely the first one where the movie was so batshit insane I legitimately could not follow it while listening to the podcast.

Yup. We had that license plate for years just because of how much cooler it looked than the standard one.

I always get this one confused with the one where the FBI hires an unaware wannabee director Matthew Broderick to film a movie that's actually just a sting operatioin. I think they both have Alec Baldwin in it, actually.

Yeah, that episode feels like Neelix-written fan fic.

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Jadzia Dax is an interesting character independent of dealing with her Trill arcs or her other hosts' lifetimes or what have you, something that never quite landed when they built episodes around it because it's such an unwieldy concept. But the Jadzia Dax we got: Science person, practical joker, flirt, occasional…

Well, for the latter, there is Miles….

Yeah. And when they get all specific traumatic childhood memories for Garak with Tain locking him a closet instead of the great elliptical, much implied but little of it said nature of their relationship that we got over Tain's four episodes, it actively makes other, better Garak episodes not as good.