Bashir and Jadzia did some genetic engineering.

Correct.

Stardates are relative, not an absolute date in the sense of our calendar.

I'm from the US and I call it a car-hole.

No.  King's novels are more about being sucked into the atmosphere.  He paints good pictures, They rarely make for good literary analysis.

I liked the minimalism of it.  The way the story was structured, each "incident" was really given time to breathe.  And it worked as a "kid learning about his dad and following in his footsteps" story.  And the whole angle of the dad having a different reaction then everyone.  Like, how could the fact that this exists…

Man I read that thing in straight through over the course of a few days  (again, was 15, it was the summer)

Licncoln;  I think you mean you find it nauseous, whereas it makes you nauseated:)

I thought you were talking about the final battle, which can't really be described.  And that scene you're talking about didn't bother me.  Maybe reading it at 15 helped, but it sort of made sense to me.  Like it was really a magical ritual or something to bond them so they could all face IT.  And kind of upending a…

or just watch on the cbs website

I think watching TNG as a kid helped, whereas I didn;t like Ds9 back then, and only got into it when I was much older.

AKA,  we don't want "those people" coming to the AV club.

"My power is dying."

The scene From Batman/Superman Apocalypse where Batman faces Darkseid is up there.

Really?  Better then Red Hood?

Harry Kim from Star Trek Voyager?

ICE to see you!!!!

Why did they redesign the characters?  Except for Batman himself, they all look worse.

And alot of ads in comics.

I genuinekly found the mystery interesting, and didn't see the solution coming.