Wow, a cheap joke imbued with profound irony. How typical.

I think you're getting a little overly caught up in semantics here.

All good points. I think what I was picking up on was the way the guy's tone seemed to be celebrating his ignorance

Well, no. I was saying there wasn't much point in discussing the minutiae of Bajoran farming techniques, but simply the broader implications of what the episode was presenting. The episode itself wasn't so interested in Bajoran farming techniques as it was what these people may or may not have been able to add to the…

Hmm. Maybe they should have had him marry the lesbian and play off that dynamic. Sham marriage Raj

"Wow, you're pretty condescending for a guy who doesn't see how "we can
assume this happened off camera" and "I'm only talking about what's in
the episode" are contradictory."

Oh, you're a clever one. Unless you thought I meant off camera to mean using a camera to see Bajor's lands, when I was referring to it happening outside of what we see in the episode, which is the common usage of "off camera" when discussion a television or movie production.

I haven't seen the episode in a while, but wasn't the idea that they try to take over a subcontinent or whatever of land that had been pretty much abandoned by the Bajorans as too damaged by the occupation? So their settlement would be mostly isolated from the rest of Bajor. I can see Bajor's perspective, though, that…

I'm not saying what the Skrreeans were saying would have been true, only that they were saying it and that's the way it was written. For all we know some of them did study Bajor's problems off camera. I'm not trying to debate the merits of the situation, only what the episode would have us believe, and the…

Remembering it to recite it is one thing. Hearing enough of it to sound familiar is another thing.

"As she says, she and her people are farmers, and they might have been
able to help Bajor with its current food crisis. (Although maybe not;
that’s basically a dig against the farmers already on Bajor, as though
the Skrrreeans have some special touch that would allow them to grow
crops more readily than the natives…

Second Sight is largely forgettable, but a couple things that stood out to me:

"Oh right, Kira gets a musician a gig at Quark’s place. I wouldn’t be
surprised if we see him again …"

At least Chase turned the bizarre situation back at her by breaking into HER house

I was kind of surprised that the Executive Office Building wouldn't have air conditioning. Is that the case in real life? One would think the government would spring for a retrofit.

I think relinquishing PM duties like that didn't the Dayana personality we've seen, which is trying to prove to others that she's capable of handling anything. She seemed to be under the impression that having the PM title would force the others to like her when all it seemed to do was cause a little power trip that…

I think from Don's perspective it was a statement about loyalty, but I can see the other side of it too. Like you say, a company isn't going to be prone to hire Don if they think down the road they may have to leave him and could get hammered in the press for doing so.

Well, I meant not stepping up as a PM, but same so be it.

I think she's trying to be modest because she doesn't want to appear to be gloating when she's married to the boss.

Ian Fleming was dead by 1966, but a couple of Bond novels published after he died. The Man with the Golden Gun came out in 1965 and Octopussy and The Living Daylights came out in June 1966. But the latter was a compilation of short stories and only 94 pages long and Don's book seemed a lot thicker.