And very Cardassian. It's not like the people of Cardassia weren't cheering for him at the time. If the Dominion were winning, Cardassia wouldn't be rebelling. As it stands currently, after all, they have neither.

You've covered the ones I listen to. How far along are you w/ JR? I started writing in once they got to the TNG movies and have contributed a ton over the years. I've had to put down Mission Log though; just not into the animated series. Even on TOS though I'd only give it time if I liked the episode discussed.…

To be fair, I think he pretty decisively beat Kahless back in "Rightful Heir" when Worf got his ass kicked by him.

Yeah, except the whole reveal that it's all just Hydra kind of echoes the copout non-DS9 Trek has with Section 31. Instead of presenting these guys as an idea that's at parts sympathetic and maybe even neccesary if ultimately immoral, and can drag you down into the muck, it just gives you a 100% evil antagonist that…

To use that analogy in my argument, the Klingons need an Atlee, but installing Martok's just getting a more competent Churchill.

When you say "fingerblasting the Kai" do you mean Chancellor Palpatine fingerblasting or Don Draper fingerblasting?

"Damn it Worf! You were supposed to abduct Gowron, give him a ton of plastic surgery, wipe is brain, and tell him you have no chancellor. Not all this ritual murder crap. I even got Julian ready to go. I mean, I was perfectly clear. Do I have to draw you a diagram!?"

Yeah. The CMO, whether they're a full commander like Crusher, a junior lieutenant like early Bashir, or a rankless computer program, have the ability to issue certain commands that can't be countermanded (like declaring someone, even the Captain, medically unfit for duty). At the same time, they by and large aren't in…

I'm kind of glad they never meet. Sloan's really the only human we see that approaches Garak's level of sneaky plans within plans, and putting them together could only diminish that, though making Sloan go down so easily here kind of hurts the character too.

As much as we make fun of Julian's, shall we say, selective medical ethics here and in Life Support, among others, I just watched "Dear Doctor" all the way through for the first time, and dear lord I'll take his ethics over Dr. "Lebensraum for the superior race! Evolution says so! I did a survey!" Phlox any day.

Glad someone caught my little Bowie reference. When I found it in the script, I couldn't resist. So nostalgic / sad I only have one of these left!

Yeah, but we know the Intendant having fun at Quarks = Giant Orgy, not wrecking the place.

That was on Saturday nights (along with 11 am on Sunday mornings), when DS9 aired first run when I was growing up in Atlanta. So consistency at least.

I agree, and now a days I'm sure we'd get some episode or two where they intercut flashbacks to Mogh's experiences with some current Worf plot for more insight. Alternately, they may just pull the Enterprise thing (I think other genre shows have done this too?) where you flashback to a generation before, and your dad…

Perhaps it's also for me, realizing that for as much as the money line of Ezri's piece is "The Klingon Empire is dying, and it deserves to die," the end result is that it doesn't. Martok replacing Gowron doesn't really change all of the honor worship and warrior growling that undergirds the entire Empire. Martok is a…

Voyager cared about getting there. The Barclay/Troi stuff was fine enough if only because Barclay (and, that one time, Zimmerman) were more interesting flawed characters than we were getting on the show. But in 2 years after the end of the most devastating war in Federation history, Voyager's interest in what's going…

I always felt Gowron was a perfect choice to be Klingon Chancellor, He was always presented as a 'politician' first and foremost, and as thoroughly as Trek likes to go to the Klingons as honorable space vikings, someone like him being in charge of managing all the various Houses and High Council on the rest made far…

It's actually really kind of true. Zach kind of gets at this in the review to Tacking Into the Wind… The Klingon storyline here started on TNG, and the Cardassian one at least partly was too—certainly the backstory of David Warner's Gul from Chain of Command helps illuminate what made the Cardassians what they are.…

"I…er…. Ezri needs you. Yup. Ezri needs you."

Extreme Measures is all very convenient. How convenient that Section 31 sends Sloan after Bashir again. How convenient that Sloan's brain looks exactly like DS9. How convenient that Sloan remembers this cure perfectly. And convenient how he's kind of easily captured and not near as clever an sneaky as he was in his…