"When I reach the halls of the hallowed dead, I will find your beloved, and remind her that her husband is a noble warrior… and that he still loves no one but her. Goodbye, my friend - live well."

That's why I said second. They already had him. Seven made two.

Which is precisely what's great about "The House of Quark" and "The Magnificent Ferengi." They're used in that role perfectly.

TNG shuttlecrafts, maybe.

SPOILER

I love DS9 is still worldbuilding in its final season. That's commitment. Memo to 1999: Do more of that, and less Silence of the Ezris, please.

Provide them with a second interesting character. (I almost said talented actor, but Mulgrew's impressed me on Orange is the New Black, so I'm more willing to blame the writers.)

Worf didn't Seven (or Ezri) the show in part because he came in as an already established character and there was no need to give him tons of backstory, and DS9 had writers comfortable enough with what they were doing (studio pressure aside) that they didn't get too distracted by their shiny new toy, instead using him…

Heh. After starting to wtach Game of Thrones recently, I almost immediately came to the conclusion that Worf and the House of Mogh would be the Starks of the Klingon High Council if he didn't have the Enterprise to run off to every time shit gets real.

TOSK!!!

Yes. That final scene completely fits the theme of the episode and the conflict between Martok and Kor far better than any "Bam! They're friends!" moment ever could.

So like every character on Voyager from the beginning, then?

But it's REAL! Don't you understand?

As good as Auberjonois and Dorn are, this week is really triumph of the recurring characters: Combs, Biggs, Eisenberg, Hertzler and the sadly departed Colicos are all the hearts of these episodes.

One thing that's great about T,F,& the GR is that it’s an episode about Faith that avoids the Bajorans entirely, but treats the Dominion and Ferengi belief systems with total sincerity, even as the former are played for pathos and the latter for some pretty great laughs. The founder's illness makes Weyoun’s defection…

Jeffrey Combs has a great quote about playing the Weyouns: “I thought of each Weyoun as a different slice of the same pizza. One just didn't have any pepperoni on it.”

I love the Davy Crockett debate that starts the episode, and not just for reasons not just obvious for those on the Facebook group. Over the years we’ve had Garak and Quark provide a foreign culture’s interpretation of Human culture, but rarely do we have Worf or the Klingons do it. Here it’s perfect, both for its own…

"When I reach the halls of the hallowed dead, I will find your beloved, and remind her that her husband is a noble warrior… and that he still loves no one but her. Goodbye, my friend - live well."

Next week, on Mad Space Nine…

Yes. He could get her phone records by just checking her phone bill, which would list every number she called or was called by: As her friend/reporter, shouldn't be that hard to ask the permission of her parents / next of kin.