These episodse really pay off so much of what we've seen of the Dominion part of the war, which, post Sacrifice of Angels, has pretty much been the Damar and Weyoun show. While the two of them plotting and insulting each other has been a staple ever since the fall of Dukat, here we saw the legacy of those blows.…

Winn's role is really the best thing about her plot with Dukat, serving to deepen the character just like they did back in Rapture. The Prophets never spoke to her directly in all her life, but that’s probably wasn’t out of the ordinary in the pre-Emissary era. The Orbs were all lost, the Occupation crippled Bajor’s…

“A Klingon would die if he was captured.” – Worf, forgetting all the times he's been captured and lived.

What better way for Michael Dorn to spend his last few weeks on a Star Trek television series, after 11 seasons and hundreds of episodes, than to go back to where it all began: getting repeatedly injured by the guest star.

Next week, on Mad Space Nine…

Eh. It's more kind of like how Todd and I pointed out on Twitter right when it first came out: Destroying the Presidency in order to gain it is a fool's errand. All he has to look forward to is a positively godawful midterm, two years of vetoes overridden, and losing to Jimmy Carter. Great plan, Frank.

Yup. You think the finale we're going to spend time meeting her, and they stick her in the background for 50 minutes so they can undo and redo Barney's character development before killing her off.

Here's the thing: Season 9 minus the finale wasn't bad at all, and seemed like it was writing to a specific place, and the dramatic moments throughout had real weight to them even if it wasn't a laugh riot, and then the finale up and throws all of those character moments out in favor of a 9 year old 'plan.' That's…

It's the closest thing to an O'Brien episode all season. Maybe they ran out of ways to make him suffer, but Meaney really got shortchanged that year.

They made Sarina one in the novels, which sounds like a godawful betrayal of what little we've seen of the character.

But DS9 isn't saying "Not it can't." It's saying "It can. But it's not easy. And you're going to have to fight for it."

I always thought Ro as the leader of the Maquis on Voyager would have been fascinating, if only because she would have given Janeway someone just as tough to play off of instead of milquetoast Chipotle. But I guess two female leads for your Trek show would have been a studio no-no at the time.

Racist idiots. Don't forget. Which, again, Glee.

Well, they do both feature an underappreciated Asian character non one knows how to write for…

True, but the Archerian combination of enthusiasm, incompetence, and petulance is classic Schue.

That's not really true. It's an ongoing thing, even in that episode From the script to Reckoning:

Yeah, I thought about including that in my comment, and it would be darker, but Pike's nobility (spun out of just being the guy they didn't bring back after the pilot) was so darn great I don't mind him going out a beloved mentor instead of a baddie.

Which is good, because so much of those are very, very stupid.

The first question will be answered soon. As to the second, after Sacrifice of Angels, the Prophets essentially closed the wormhole on their own, permitting no Dominion ships through. There's no evidence the DS9 crew re-mined the wormhole. Its closure is taken as a given, which is why after "Sacrifice" it's not the…

"The needs of the many outweigh the morals of the few…"