You know how these are a baseline level of amazing anyway but something comes up every week that's particularly good about this specific rap?  Well, this week for me it's the way the references to past episodes so cleverly build up to RJS explaining Jake's decision.  More effective than Jake's little monologue in the…

Hadn't until now.  My life is more complete than it was previously.

Say what you will about how slight "Trials and Tribble-ations" is, but there's some craft that goes into the jokes.  I like the little callbacks - the dismissive tone towards the idea of a predestination paradox would be funny enough on its own, but then Bashir actually tries to argue for one later/earlier in the…

Probably my favorite scene in a good episode.  It's so nasty while being so understated.

Yuri:  Meh, each time they go back, both the writing and the visuals get less impressive (the Terok Nor of "Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night" could pass as present-day DS9).  "Things Past" is certainly solid, but "Necessary Evil" is a once-in-a-series kind of great.

"Traveled in his life to set wrong what once went right"

Yeah, it's definitely mentioned a few times pre-S5.  In S5 alone, we have references at the beginning of "The Ship" (O'Brien responds to Kique needling him by saying something like "you know, you're due for a transfer, Muniz.  How does waste extraction sound?") and in LFPIATWP (Quark has a line something like "c'mon,…

Prankster:  No, that is completely wrong.  Say what you will about how Dukat's endgame played out, but the character as written throughout the series is not psychologically capable of making the kind of journey that Damar can.

EliHawk - I hear what you're saying.  Chao seems to be having a blast seeing how sinister she can make Keiko by tweaking the performance just a bit here and there.

It always sounds like he's calling his language "Klingonee."

Apropos of nothing in particular, noticed that Sisko's kind of a dick these weeks.  He's thoroughly amused by his crew's misfortunes.

We're all wondering that.

Hey, thanks for reminding me of the existence of this!  I'm 31 too and listened to Howie Green's show during what must have been the same time period.  At one point he commented that he'd stopped playing it to avoid running it into the ground, and I guess it worked because the thought of the song doesn't make my skin…

Just checking in to say - damn you, Noel.  You seemingly picked up right away on the stuff about when Echo does and doesn't use her left arm - correctly linking it to the central theme of the whole episode and series.  I didn't process that until viewing #3 or so.

(Psst… the robo-Bariel episode is actually called "Life Support.")

No one seems to have linked to this yet.  It should be linked to.
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

She's more superficially smooth on _24_ than she is on DS9.

Hmmm.  Hadn't thought of it that way, but agreed on both counts.

"(There’s a lovely scene before the ships leave when Sisko finds Kasidy
and begs her to drop everything and take a trip with him to Risa. She,
of course, refuses without realizing what her refusal really means.)"

That's kinda been the IWRB gimmick since it first started.  Rick will be on a roll incisively dissecting what worked and what absolutely didn't, even if it's his own work, but all the while we know that invariably, sooner or later, something will set him off on a ridiculously self-aggrandizing tangent.  That's the…