[p class="InternetPedant"]Actually, the Monolith was not an obelisk.[/p]

Julian Bashir is a young up-and-comer in the spy game who always follows the book. Elim Garak is the veteran renegade who doesn't play by the rules. Benjamin Sisko is their boss, who doesn't have time for this cowboy shit.

Zach doesn't seem to like the bit about Garak's claustrophobia, but I think it makes sense in that it fits with his general paranoia. As someone who was essentially raised in spycraft, having an easily-accessible escape route at all times would have been something drilled into him from the start. If you have an escape…

This middle stretch of the 5th season is series firing on all cylinders. The events of "In Purgatory's Shadow/By Inferno's Light" in particular really set the tone for the remainder of the show, and plus, we get to see more Garak being Garak!

When you look at how Layne Staley died…well, this kind of explains a lot, now doesn't it?

Am I to assume that Dowd is our new Metal Overlord? This site has been lacking a Metal Overlord since the last Loud wrapped, and I needs me some o' that!

@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus  Law of averages says something's gonna get through eventually.

Hell, even the Klingons are fairly eurocentric, what with their obsession with Shakespeare and the like.

Enabran Tain and Garak's mother met at the Amusement Center in Lakarian City one night in the 12th month of the year. He was a young up-and-comer within the Obsidian Order. She was one of the maintenance workers. When the order was given, the erotically charged Cardassians were ushered into their respective climax…

The Starfleet Academy entrance exam contains a comprehensive section devoted to classic literature. This is why they are all so well-read.

@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus Done and done.

@avclub-749a8e6c231831ef7756db230b4359c8:disqus I think that comparing us to a collective Garak is probably the kindest thing anyone has ever said about this commentariot!

Yeah, the Martok/Worf pairing is an incredibly fruitful pairing. Martok provides that additional shading to Klingon culture that is only possible for someone living within it who isn't entirely comfortable with every aspect of it. Plus, J.G. Hertzler is pretty much the best.

Lose the eye, grow the beard, shave the head, kick the ass.

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Apparently, it was the result of a back-injury that made it difficult for him to do the normal sitting motion. Still, it's kind of hilarious in that none of the other characters even mention that this is even slightly out-of-the-ordinary.

The wisdom of Worf cuts deeper than a mek'leth.

Whelp, looks like the guys over at Rifftrax will have a whole new batch to mock!

Gotta' say that I thought it was genius to segue from a scene between two of the most adept conversationalists in Westeros (Tywin and Olenna), and two of the worst (Sansa and Loras)..