The Founders remain throughout, genuinely alien.  Their nature and motivations are never fully understood, right through to the end.  I think this is a strength, as it makes them more compelling and mysterious, and more open to interpretation.  It's hard really even to think of them as villians in the same sense as…

Exactly.  So much great stuff is implied here that can't really be shown directly.  I imagine the link to be like merging consciousness with someone. Merging consciousness while being high on ecstasy.  Like a level of intimacy and connection that's more intense then anything possible for a human to experience.

Small thing for Zack, alot of typos in this review.   Kira and Rom are teaming up to start a bar between the Cardassians and the Jem'Hadar?  That sounds like a much wackier episode.

I didn't mind it. I liked the episode.  It didn't have any of the crappy elements of the TNG Alexander plots, and it's cool for the Focus not to always be on the Federation. The Klingons are part of the war too.

Friggin' awesomeness.    SPOILERS        You want to be gods, then be GODS.  STOP THOSE SHIPS!….    SPOILERS

Interesting take.  The female changeling (who's not really even female of course) says at some point that Odo returning is more important to the Founders then the entire Alpha Quadrant.  But this doesn't really jive with what we've seen before.  Founders are willing to risk their lives, even sacrificed their lives (in…

or that the planet has an extremely dense core but very small surface area.

MASSIVE SPOILERS     It's actually, i think, a perfectly earned, literal deus ex machina, when the two major running plots converge for a moment.  My only real regret for the show is that it didn't somehow manage to make these plots converge again at the end.

Exactly       SPOILERS   Dukat's "unfinished business" scenes in "Waltz" aren't that different from some of the real life scenes of a strung out Hitler going mad in his bunker from "Der Untergang".  In fact, they're disturbingly similar.  I wonder if "Waltz" was at all inspired by Hitler's last days.

Also that the Dominion had repeatedly kicked the Federation's ass every time they fought previously.

I think Zack got it a bit wrong.  I don't think it was a K White factory, it was a K-White distribution station, which you would obviously need a lot of if you were the Dominion.  As far as the military stuff goes, on a war this scale, there would be so much happening that an individual mission, especially a raid or…

I really like the line "Evil must be opposed."

"It's a good time for Cardassia… and the Dominion."

Didn't care for this, generally I'm not a fan of torture porn or serial killer/slasher type horror.  I found it unpleasant.  The first time (i think) when they broke the fourth wall and said "you can end this by turning it off"  I was like, you know what, he's right.  I turned it off and that was it.

Because it's every male actor's dream to be Batman.

I was once on a cruise with people from Boston, and EVERYONE had that accent.

1)  they are    2)  Eddie.  They did, sort of.   SPOILERS       In a DS9 episode, they mention that after the events of Insurrection, the Son'a have allied with the Dominion, and their nebula has ideal conditions for producing ketracel white.

NOTE:  They do "suicide" in the Civ2 Dominion war scenario.   But the whole of self-replicating mines is that leaving any part of the field intact restores the whole field.

Or just looking into a technology that might be useful for the Dominion.  The vorta are diplomats, military commanders, scientists, spys, and administrators  ( I imagine different Vorta are more tailored for specific purposes.

The fact that they had been building up to this since season 2.