I, too, thought they had burned themselves. Oops.

Or *my* favorite moment, Worf asks for a volunteer and Sisko, Alexander and O'Brien throw a sleeping Bashir under the bus.  Love that moment.

I don't know about a Commodore.  At least a Macintosh.  ;-)

Still, when Garak enters the station and hopefully, then a little frantically, starts looking around for Ziyal, it works gangbusters. Who would ever have predicted from the earlier seasons that we'd be seeing Garak like that?

And when he had the chance during the battle of Vulcan, the Starfleet task force was destroyed off screen.

There are only two things I don't like about the battle.  (1) none of the ships have shields.  This is, of course, understandable as shields would add a lot of time and special effects to the battle.  (2) Sisko commanding the Defiant and the fleet at the same time.  I know you want to have Sisko in command, but put…

Totally disagree.  I LOVE You are Cordially Invited.  One of the most fun episodes they've ever done and well deserved after the intensity of the war so far.

Agreed.

Chills. Galactica jumping INTO the fracking atmosphere of the planet and dropping like a rock to launch its planes.  AWESOME.

I don't like him either.

Although it does have its moments.

They were luring the natives away from the edge of the volcano where they were likely to be killed. Turns out, they were right and saved the natives when their temple was destroyed.

A great moment. Both surprising and kind of moving. (And a neat reverse on a similar "fuck yeah" moment from TNG's The Defector.)

The whole Breen thing is just awesome because the dude just sits there the entire episode but when the opportunity presents itself, he saves them all.  Too bad he had to die for it.

It's such a great moment because you're like, "Oh, here comes a friend. I wonder who it will be?"

I saw this episode a few times when DS9 first aired. Then, this episode was one of the first I re-watched when I got Netflix. Even though I had seen it, I had forgotten that Bashir was a prisoner. When he walked in, I yelled.

Not to mention Moonraker.

Spock's remote control has ten colored buttons, one knob, and two additional buttons around the knob.

I haven't rewatched Nor the Battle but my memory is that the "mortar" explosions were ridiculously talcum powdery and not convincing.  Is that right?

Great point.