I really do love how they end the show. The early moments of the pilot featured two scenes with windows nearly back to back: Sisko and Jake looking out the Saratoga’s escape pod, as their home was destroyed and Jennifer killed, then the Siskos looking out the window as they arrived at their new home Deep Space Nine.…

Like I say upthread, What You Leave Behind is very much the end of this Alpha Quadrant universe, one that followed TOS and TNG but got generally ignored by Voyager, prequelled by Enterprise, and sidestepped by Abrams Trek. It's a fitting end for Zack's Five Year Mission.

And so, on the 173rd Day, the Sisko rose again and sitteth on the right hand of the Prophets Almighty, from whence he shall come to judge the balls and the strikes…

I love how the end shows the different understanding of victory between our Federation and our Klingon heroes: While Sisko and Ross are visibly disgusted by the devastation, Martok revels in it. Even to the end DS9 doesn’t forget that different races and cultures bring different philosophies to the same events—a…

When it comes to series finales, there are generally two types. There are those wrap up the story and see their characters off in a different directions and those that basically keep everyone in the same position, doing what they always do . DS9 is the first Trek to be the former, and really the only one. The other…

"They're dead. You're dead. Cardassia is dead. Your people were doomed the moment they attacked us."

Yup. Sometimes I have to be careful not to include dialogue that ended up cut from the actual episode. Nearly happened once for me in the 5th season, I think.

KSUT?

Because if there's one group of people who look competent on The Americans, it's the US spies. They've really got it on the ball.

One thing I really liked about the 90s cartoon show was that Jameson was a good reporter, but had a visceral hatred of people who hide their identity behind masks because a masked gunman killed his wife.

The greatest gimmick account we never got. Sadness.

I suppose it's good for sticking arbitrary complications in the way of our protagonists actually doing the right thing so we can have some drama.

Really, the existence of this entire Youtube montage. I give you "Captain Sisko yells at everyone": https://www.youtube.com/wat…

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Three words: The Minstrel Boy.

Yup. DS9's plot jazz is, after the depth of its characters, its greatest strength.

Orphan Balck sounds like he could be the protagonist of a Klingon opera.

Also from the Die is Cast:

I also think, judging by what I heard from Bryan Fuller on the Nerdist Writers Panel Podcast someone recommended last week, that Behr was just great at bossing a writers room, knowing how to nurture his writers and also protect what they wanted to do for DS9 from the qualms of Berman and the higher ups. I'm not sure…