If Zack or anyone else hasn't read the book in addition to seeing the movie (which is also pretty great), please read it immediately.

I didn't remember the details, but they talk about it a bit on the commentary.  Just when "Destiny" was about to air, a few fans saw Kane in a crowd while they were shooting something or other.  A few "Christian Kane is back, but now he's playing 'Todd!'" stories happened, but on the whole, the Internet-using crowd…

I really only have one thing to say before going into the trivia:  "If you're here to tell me about how you killed your parents, perhaps we could wait for another time."

No details, but I wouldn't really characterize his motivations as "straight up evil."  It's a little muddier than that.

He had it during the filming of "Conviction," but I think it had fully resolved by the time of "Lineage."

I think just for the purposes of ITHOTP (let's ignore later episodes for now), he serves his role pretty well.  Bajor needs a voice of modern religion, and it gets one who's likeable and calculating at the same time; not innocent enough to be a saint, but about right to be a politician who's on "our" side.  Winn is…

Yeah; to put it more directly, "In The Hands Of The Prophets" is designed in large part to set the agenda for S2 - or at least, what the writers imagine S2 will be about without having sat down to write it yet.  All the DS9 finales do that.

Fine by me.  I'm a big believer in thinking about each episode as an individual unit of TV even if it's also part of a larger story.  Some reviewers, including Zack himself, often review a multi-parter as if it were a single long episode, but it's really not.

Cool story, bro.

I'm fine with Garak only popping in every few weeks or so if he's saving it up for posts like this one (finally, Lwaxana makes sense!  And still laughing at that last line).  The problem is that he's easier to forget about, as I did when I preemptively proclaimed Rappin_Jake_Sisko as my favorite of the gimmick…

More action and angst throws the quieter moments into sharp relief, though.  When I watch enough BSG in a row, I find myself imagining how much I'd savor moments like playing cards with my comrades in arms in a situation like that.

They are.

STILL SPOILIN'

Tonal shifts abound.  As the review says, what's funny on page might not be on screen.  I kinda feel like neither episode totally succeeds in balancing the comedy and the serious themes.  I kinda hate LOTP for all the terrible "comedy," but as long as I can remember the better bits without actually having to watch it…

Is it too trite to just post a "great review, Zack!" post?  Because I just need to mention once again in case you're not getting enough reinforcement that this is some great writing; please keep it up.  It's a pleasure to see that, overall, you're enjoying DS9 and its ensemble as much as you are, and it's making it…

The way I heard it, the Defiant was supposed to get destroyed in _First Contact_ until the DS9 staff fought hard not to let their show get gutted that way.  Instead, FC got the Defiant on and off screen quickly, got Worf on board, and threw in a bit of continuity porn ("she's a tough little ship") in the process.

Apparently in some bullshit S7 TNG episode that I've never actually seen, Picard had an adult son, but the whole thing was a fabrication…

It works for me because Bashir being devious is consistently played throughout the series as a guy playing dress-up and dabbling in a world in which he doesn't belong.

That's what I keep saying too.  Total agreement.

And do I lose any credibility if I mention that I've been continually chuckling at "there wolf" too?