I was looking at last weeks and it only had TV Club Classic at the top. It's weird.

Has anyone else noticed this doesn't get put in DS9's own section anymore? It's all falling in under a generic "TV Club Classic" with The Simpsons and Mad Men. Thanks again, nu-AV Club. Whoever said they're phasing classic review out aren't kidding.

First Willem DaFoe abandons him in Colombia, now he gets abandoned on an asteroid. Will someone just give him a hug?

Even though he’s on the periphery of the plot, Siege is about as close as we get to a good Sisko episode, and it's another one about him in command, showing how he leads and how the tough choices weigh on him without devolving into him monologuing about the strains of leadership. One of the cliche ‘Starfleet command…

Quark is so good in this episode, it makes mindless crap like ‘Profit and Lace’ all the more infuriating. Like all the way back in season 2’s “The Jem’Hadar” he’s an outsider commenting and judging starfleet and the Federation from an outsider’s perspective. His relationship with Nog really culminates in this episode.…

Yeah, Wire season 2 definitely has the strands of what I think Simon et al originally thought the show would be, where it would be one case from start to finish, and a fresh organization to go after each year, even if it ultimately didn't go that route.

Plus, the prospect of getting Hugh Grant to sing at the Oscars would have been ratings gold!

I remember being so glad this was the song that won that year, but it was criminal nothing from the genius compositions of Walk Hard or Music and Lyrics got nominated that year, given they gave Enchanted three nominations and August Rush anything.

It's currently airing most nights at 11:30 on NBC, so it's fine.

On Enterprise, it was. But I'm not a 10 year old boy who doesn't even know how to find Maxim, so I'm clearly not the target audience.

Also, plenty of the characters on DS9 are deeper because they had Jadzia to bounce off of. Sisko sure, but also Worf and to an extent Bashir. As much as DS9 gets characters, it gets building relationships better, which in turn benefits the characters.

It's also telling it showed up more on Voyager—a show 70,000 light years away from any and all Ferengi—than on DS9, a show that used the Ferengi extensively but had a consistent idea how.

To be fair, it's not that Nog is super good at it, it could also be that he's good at it playing among the Federation. Being better at understanding commerce than those guys is like being the best basketball player on your middle school JV team.

I was thinking more of O'Brien helps Nog through his pain instead of Vic. Making O'Brien scarred by war wouldn't be nearly as good. There's a reason he's not in AR-558: he already is.

For me the final episodes of DS9 were at 11:35 or so on Saturday night or 11 am on Sunday mornings on CBS. So these weren't prime airtimes for the show. That anything in syndication could draw 31 million viewers and a 24% share like TNG did with its finale was impossible by the late 90s.

I definitely agree on Picard and Data, but get past them and it's thinner pickings. Worf gets deeper on Deep Space Nine. Far too often on TNG, he was just either speed bump for the intruders, "Thanks for the suggestion Worf, but we're going to do it Troi's way for now" or being barbarian Klingony, especially outside…

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Or Enterprise? Or even, if you get down to it, Next Gen? People have been ripping Jadzia for being underdeveloped, but it only looks that way because everyone around her is so much more developed.

The show greatly benefited from, however briefly, having someone exist to call everyone on their bullshit.

Given that this week's desk subplot is about the most interesting thing O'Brien gets to do all season, I'm kind of regretful about that, and I love "Paper Moon."