I don't think the PD is so much of a supreme moral argument as a pragmatic principle designed so starfleet can have a consistent guideline as what to do in a variety of situations that inevitably come up.   I think it's sort of an equivalent to "we're not here to be the policeman of the galaxy" non-interventionist…

The situation was bit more complex then that.

On even more nitpicky grounds, it wasn't two birds of prey, it was a bird of prey and an older D-7 class cruiser.

The best is watching an overseas broadcast.  The british commentators are awesome.

Fleet shots:  It actually makes alot of sense.  They would have had alot of decomisioned excelsiors over the years, and once the war broke out, refitting them with new systems and weapons would have been one of the first things you would do.  Shipyard production would be focused on whatever was good for combat, so…

well   I guess they could create nerve endings and um,  brains.  Odo uses his eyes to see after all.  The best way to think about it is they are reforming themselves into something else on the quantum level.

You have to understand, Worf was on a mission from god.  The same god he got all of his honorable ideas from..   He was the chosen one.  I think the show was sort of saying religion+personal ambition was the cray gas

here we go:

wait a minute here.  If it's a volume issue, then just ask them if they could lower their voices.  If it's "they shouldn't be discussing this interest in public"  then you're just a douchebag.

there's different degrees. For whatever reason, My Little Pony is more specifically an "aspie" thing then something like Doctor Who.

trolling or serious?

while trek fans and comic book fans probably have a big overlap, they are not one in the same.  I recall when i was younger, trek was considered "nerdier" then comics.  It was more socially acceptable to be into x-men and batman then star trek

i.e.  There may be some girls who have only a passing interest in comics and such and would not go to a convention if it weren't for the opportunity to dress up "sexy".  For long time comiccon goers, this phenomenon may be on the rise as "nerd" culture becomes more mainstream and socially acceptable.   The "fake nerd…

From my understanding, the idea goes like this (and I am not speaking for or against the existence of such, because I have no direct experience, although my suspicions).  The complaint is that "mediocre" women (average looking women) will go to events like comic-con dressed in revealing cosplay motivated more so by…

Not really.  I don't know.. I feel like you can genuinely be friends with someone but also have a hint of "feelings" or whatever that would come up when someone died/was near/death/getting married/having a baby.

Well "taboos" are always weird.  If you want to retcon riker, you could say that the symbiont being in a non-trill host overwhelmed riker's persona, that the trill who looked different was a different ethnicity of trill or something, and that symbionts and non-trill tend to make the symbionts into selfish dicks (see…

yeah, but come on, it was really, really hot.

Yes.    But the Jem'hadar have an easier time blaming the Vorta (the ones they actually see and who give them their white)  the their gods the founders.

O'Brien brings this up at one point.

I think Zach got the right impression for the episode.  It's supposed to leave you with a bad taste in your mouth and not quite able to reconcile the character of Dukat.