You know what would have made Enterprise perfect? Or at least tolerable? Just one moment, you have Bakula look in a mirror, and you see Avery Brooks. You see, the end result of Sisko becoming unstuck in time with the Prophets is that:

Insurrection actually takes place during Season 7, at a contemporaneous time with the war. The Enterprise is specifically ordered to be on diplomatic duty, putting out all these little diplomatic brush fires and welcoming allies while the rest of the Federation is, you know, dealing with a massive war for galactic…

The real finale for TOS is Star Trek VI. And it's one of the best.

Always tough, with so many shades of grey to her, prickly and an unrepentant terrorist. Trek would never give us this complex a main character again, and the later shows (and their first officers) suffered for it.

Of course, What You Leave Behind is literally Sisko's baseball, yet again the centerpiece of the end of a finale, signalling The Sisko will one day return again from the Celestial Temple. Not bad for something that came out of "If Wishes Were Horses…" with Rumpelstiltskin and Bashir's Sex-Dax.

Of course, it's fitting we have one last bit of Counsellor Obvious when, after we see the Cardassians switch sides, Ezri grins and goes "They've switched sides!" so the slow children in the back can understand what happened too. Maybe Troi didn't tell us that aliens firing on the ship were hostile because empathy was…

Of course, a weakness of late DS9 is having leaders of empires being only people we know. I kind of like that Cardassia is up in the air a bit.

They're so different, with different goals and purposes. All Good Things.. is probably better, but that's because it can be a summation rather than an ending. In the end, the TNG crew flies off into the sunset (and the movies) and so instead we get a warm, humanist farewell journey with Picard and Q using technobabble…

Lousy Smarch Janeway.

It's Duet.

Yup. It's fitting that Damar is ultimately a symbol for Cardassia (as mentioned in the prior episode) rather than becoming a professional politician in the promised land. He's Li Nalas rather than George Washington.

I think the Prophet stuff worked through Sacrifice of Angels, which was the culmination of Sisko deciding he was the Emissary and them deciding to intervene. But like Dukat's arc, it's another plot that came to culmination a year and a half before they ended the series, and they didn't have an idea where to take it…

Independent of its actual content, I love the scene of Sisko, Ross and Martok surrounded by the rubble of Cardassia. The effects and art direction do a great job of providing even a small scale of the massive destruction planet wide (which is more than we got in early DS9: Bajor never looked this wrecked when we got…

Yeah! Worf doesn't need behind the scenes production decisions to seem like a complete dick. He can do it all on his own, thank you very much!

And of course, that moment ends in a particularly glorious bit of bleak irony: When the Dominion finally opens its doors, which starts their final downfall, it's to execute their final Cardassian toady.

We'd be better off getting him to review the DS9 Season 8 Twitter feed.

The problem with Dukat is that, as Zack points out, he (or at least his story) really died with Ziyal. Waltz was a good benediction on that story, but where they chose to take the character next never quite worked out, and neither did giving the Prophets their own anti-Prophet eeeeevil energy beings as opposed to…

The final battle really does come down as the BATTLE OF THE STOCK FOOTAGE. At one point, there’s a run where I literally remembered each episode the effects were from: Sacrifice of Angels, Tears of the Prophets, Star Trek VI, Sacrifice again, etc. The battle as a whole suffers from a general problem of confusion. In…

Odo's link causing the female founder's change of heart is a bit of a cheat, but it does make at least some sense sense for the character. Odo is finally able to overcome his adolescent timidity when it comes to dealing with his own people. In a way it’s a mirror of what happened in the arc to start Season Six. Then…

There really are a lot of echoes to The Vistor here. We leave Jake alone, looking out the window for his missing father, Sisko forever in an all white room, stranded out of time. I'm not sure if we figure out that his fate here is part of the penance from "Sacrifice of Angels" but it does hit home "The Sisko is of…