Even before then, when it comes to Trek. Remember what the Maquis turned out to be on Voyager? Chipotle and Torres weren't actually committed to violent political struggle, they just thought stuffy ol' Camp Starfleet had too many rules.

Sure you can. Her Twitter feed offended so many Vedeks that they decided to shut down the whole process.

To be fair to the DS9 finale, Odo really did have to go now. His planet needed him!

"The mother dies? 'Aunt' Robin? The fuck?"

I remember being surprised when I found out he was Alan Alda's running mate in the last two season of the West Wing.

Yes. It's telling this is the only 24th Century Trek finale that doesn't do the 'future fast forward.' It's committed to telling these character's epilogues in the here and now, and letting you imagine where they go forward.

I still think he's closer to Captain Will Schuster, but we'll have to agree to disagree on that. But having seen Dear Doctor, I don't think anything will inspire me to write something as long as my takedown of it for Enterprise again.

It would have been less bad than the Pah Wraith stuff, but also infinitely less good than the Damar stuff we got. Damar's morally compromised—he killed Ziyal after all—but he was politically redeemable. He could be the emblem of the Cardassian awakening precisely because prior to that he'd been an emblem of regular…

And only remembered we didn't kill Lt. Carey just long enough so we could kill him again!

I've started watching it because I can't not write in to the JR Watches Star Trek guys. (Seriously, after 66 straight podcasts marked by my long, long written in reviews, it messes with the rhythm!) It's not that good at all, and I point out the flaws (I'm 2/3 through season 1) but at its heart it's just so clearly…

ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

Between that and its fate in Trek '09, when it comes down to it, the Romulan Government really was the O'Brien of the post-DS9 24th Century.

Yes. For once Zack can read the entire comment sections without fear.

It probably also helped that you had Sherman and Co. proving as well that "This is what happens when you try this."

And that, my fellow changelings, is how I met your Odo.

The Facebook group?

Given that on some level one of the key terms of the agreement is "Odo returns to and cures the Link" on some level they do admit that. Odo may be the carrot, but they're aware there's a rather large stick attached as well.

So DS9 ended in a spinoff where Joe retires, moves in with Sisko, who now hangs out a lot with his previously unmentioned younger brother and their daffy home care professional? Sign me up!

It turned out the real exploration the link was looking for when it sent out the 100 wasn't what was out there, but what was inside each other all along.

Heh. If you think about it looking backward, Alcoholic Damar has his Yeltsin moments, and Garak is certainly able to be Putinesque. Welcome back to Mother Cardassia?