I was thinking exactly this after seeing the latest Superman trailer. Yeah, it looks dark and gritty, but it only serves to underline the optimism inherent in the Superman mythos.

@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus To be fair, I think it would be some pretty bad ass improv'ed piano jazz and beat poetry.Sisko: "Take it, Mr. Eddington, you pile of filth! Lay DOWN some boogie!"
Eddington: "You were always too constrained by your allegiance to the Federation to truly appreciate my…

Yeah, Darkness and the Light was kind of a let-down, but I remember practically jumping of the couch and cheering for Odo when he recovered his shape-shifting. I was an excitable young nerd.

A buddy of mine was relocated to SLC for work, and upon coming back to my godless northern stronghold, was delighted to find a beer with 6-10% ABV easily available in both the grocery store or at a bar.

Hot drinks are the devil's temperature!

Oh man. Handlen better stick around. I don't know what I would do without his Thursday Star Trek reviews.

It always ends with David Carradine putting on the Sunglasses of Justice, and then the Who starts blaring in the background, and I crack up.

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As I read it, the Great Link is kind of a euphoric experience for the Founders, and seems to have an addictive component to it. There are people who recognize that, say, doing meth is horribly destructive to them and those they love, but do it anyway. At least, that would explain why Odo feels the way he feels.

@avclub-b31df16a88ce00fed951f24b46e08649:disqus Ultimately, I think it depends on the DM. Maybe all of my DMs were a bit more goody-goody. As I have played, the difference between an evil character is in the way they view their actions. Garak actually likes assassination and torture, and sees these as pleasurable…

Hammock-time!
Yo!

While I certainly wouldn't peg him as a lawful character, his devotion to Cardassian society as an orderly thing tends to cancel out his chaotic methods, putting him more at Neutral on the law/chaos axis. In fact, I might even put him at Neutral Evil, though only just barely, due to his complete lack of remorse over…

Yeah, especially given that everyone in Starfleet is hyper-literate, and has read Heart of Darkness.

My best friend's dad did a stage show with Kate Mulgrew many years ago, and it turns out the reason that her voice sounds the way it does is that she deliberately shot it to hell with cigarettes in an attempt to sound like Marylyn Monroe. ACTING!

IMDB lists his trademark as "Facial expressions with bloodshot eyes". Yeah, that sounds about right!

The splinter group were most certainly evitable.

I think that Kira is the one that tends to bring the "good" element of the equation to the forefront in Odo's life. Kira confides in him and trusts him, not just because he is lawful, but because he is also good. Yeah, if not for Kira, that good part of him would probably have withered, but it's no less there.

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In "In the Pale Moon Light," we see that it doesn't take Garak very long to figure out how to bring the Romulans into the war. You almost get the sense that he was just waiting for someone to ask.

Yeah, WifeofN0thing has a couple projects due tomorrow, so I need to do the housework to make sure that House ofN0thing does not descend into full-blown madness. I shall have to live vicariously.

@avclub-285910f5ff9f9eddf129c46fc2bc5982:disqus Good thing that never happens to me. *phew*

I figure Garak was probably able to cut a deal somewhere along the way by providing intelligence on the Romulan forces deployed to the Gamma Quadrant as part of the Tal'Shiar/Obsidian Order joint mission. Sure, they were all destroyed, but knowing just how much the Romulan empire invested in the venture would…