I agree with all of yours. The additional one that pops up off the top of my head goes all the way back to the beginning:

I mean, I can understand UPN putting Janeway in over Sisko because it was their show on their network they were following, and Kirk, Spock and Picard are timeless beloved characters. Sisko wasn't UPN's, and DS9 wasn't as big as TNG or TOS despite its quality, so I can see them cutting him.

To be fair, it's also DS9 showing that one person changing an entire world can be an incredibly bad idea with disastrous long term consequences. It's a common theme on the show, going all the way back to The Maquis growing entirely out of how Picard's great compromise in "Journey's End" satisfied absolutely no one.

Kind of like putting Martok in charge of all those schemey Klingon houses, no? DS9 wants to give us the mega happy ending of our recurring characters leading these broad empires, but realistically, they're kind of fucked.

The Ferengi were more interesting as a culture and philosophy that challenged the Federation's way of thinking, revealed through those characters, than as a society in and of itself. How Quark interpreted the latest goings on between the Federation, and Cardassians, or Nog being a bridge between the two cultures was…

On TNG, there was no stronger argument for the anti-abortion movement than the fact that Worf was in favor of the practice.

Got it right on the last try. Good job, Yuri.

Random Trivia I like: On both TNG and DS9, the Captain directed the penultimate episode of the show. And in both cases, it's their last directing credit ever.

*sob*

Yeah, rewriting the entire species for a punchline is completely unfortunate.

Yeah. It's not as glaringly bad as something like "Prophet and Lace" or that time Quark found out his mom was sleeping with Nagus, it's just so inessential for the episode and silly for the species, turning the entire race into caricatures of liberal goodie goodies in offscreenville and all the rest. On DS9 Quark and…

I love how Damar becomes a folk hero to the Cardassian populace. Four years into the character, 8 episodes into this finale arc, Damar, Dukat’s loyal servant, drunken puppet ruler of Cardassia, has become his people’s George Washington, or perhaps just their Li Nalas. You never expected Garak of all people to be the…

DS9 did a lot of good when it treated the Ferengi seriously, both comedically in episodes like "House of Quark" or "Magnificent Ferengi" and more seriously in episodes like this season's Siege of AR-558. It's a shame they use them instead for cheep farce so often, especially in their final appearance here.

Next week, we say goodbye to Mad Space Nine…

It says "All times are Eastern" at the top.

Yeah, the only encounter AbramsTrek has with the Prime Directive is Kirk breaking it to defuse that massive volcano that was going to wipe out the species. He breaks it to preserve a technologically unadvanced species. Now, is the clunky way he did it going to have big repercussions down the line? Sure. But in terms…

And that's why we never see Denobulans after the 22nd century? Classic. I kind of like SF Debris's theory that eventually someone else who was less of an asshat came along with a cure, and Phlox's "superior species" never actually took a leap. He had them end up as the Breen, exacting massive vengeance on the…

The moment I first started watching Game of Thrones a few months ago, I was like "Yup, Worf would be the Starks if he didn't have the Enterprise to run back to every time things got real on Q'onos." It also made me wish we got more developed Klingon house dynamics than Duras = Evil, Mogh = Honorable, but Dumb.

TNG started the weird "Cosmic Plan" version of the Prime Directive that remains really quite awful. I think of the contrast between "Pen Pals" and "Deja Q": In each case, a sentient race is doomed to certain extinction due to an interstellar phenomenon that is out of their control and they don't have the technology to…

"Threshold" is horrible, and its take on evolution is moronic, but like the far better/more entertaining Genesis, you can kind of excuse it as them wanting to do some freaky body horror. On some level, the episode pretty much knows its science is crap but wants to get Tom Paris to spit out his tongue anyway. Dear…