Maybe people with a positive outlook just have better things to do than hang out on the Internet. I'll jump on occasionally, maybe leave a post or two, but I've seen some users around here who leave 100-200 posts an hour across several threads.

Subplot was perhaps the wrong word. More like keep it a running background gag.

Hmmm. Because I'm not plugged into the Internet hive mind, I was able to find this episode generally hilarious. Most I've laughed at this show in a while.

So Lindsay Lohan gets to host SNL for a fourth time, while Nathan Fillion has not done it once. The universe is not working correctly

I haven't seen the ep in a while, but I think maybe Quark's actions determined where Sisko and the others would go and the puzzles they would have to solve, and then the Wadi guy would tell Quark the result and have him roll again. The strategy on Quark's part would involve which of several paths to take, as in the…

Last night's ratings were horrible. Is there any chance this show will see a second season?

This episode was pretty painful to watch, but I found the subplot about Laura's virginity to be an interesting revelation that sheds a lot more light on her dalliance with the black sailor in the episode that would have taken place after this one. In that episode I got the impression she was a bit more "experienced."

That was some great Howard and Sheldon stuff, for as little as there was. You'd think Howard would just want Sheldon to go away, but when Penny showed up and asked what they were doing there, he got into a totally defensive "bros before hos" posture. "We're men. Men go to bars."

Then there's that whole reassociation thing, which I guess doesn't apply to her dealings with the Klingons.

And actually Death Wish was a pretty good episode. It kind of just seems like a lot more than 3 though, doesn't it?

1) Definitely true
2) pretty standard. Like the Applause sign at a talk show
3) Interesting. From the tapings I've been to, the remote segments would be shown on a screen for the audience to record their reaction and then it would be matched up later.

Reading the recap and having just seen the remastered TNG episodes on Blu-ray, that Q-Less is kind of a mini Encounter at Farpoint. Q shows up to annoy the crew and has fun watching them try to solve a mystery involving weird aliens. Only by this point Q is far less of a dick, so he doesn't really care if the DS9 crew…

The Bashir and Dax characterizations will get some tweaking in the second season. Think of these early episodes more as origin story type stuff, and the show will start to take off around "Duet."

"but mostly serves as a reminder of how important it is for DS9 to keep to its own identity."

0.5 in the demo, 1.15 million total viewers, last in its time slot.

I think the show should get a little more credit than was given in that review. That was a very enjoyable episode. I found that I kind of enjoy seeing these characters bounce off each other, and that helps if the main plot isn't being advanced. But I wouldn't say we were seeing "stall tactics." A lot was going on…

real as in really related. Since he raised her she thought of him as kind of an uncle since he was supposedly a friend of her grandfather.

they put all the prisoners on a ferry, and then the Joker blew it up

I think they've referenced the supposed post-transfer fate of some of the inmates, most of them being said to have died in their new prisons. Like Ray said Madsen died in 1964.

Did they say it was an explosion or a chemical spill?