I'm torn on "Empok Nor," as well.  Seems like Garak gets off a little too scot-free.  However, I think it's a really well-done episode visually.  Meaney, Robinson, and the actor who plays the Bolian all do a really excellent job, too.

It's excellent, @LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus!  I hope you enjoy it.  It's a great rainy afternoon movie, I think.

Marty is excellent and painfully real.  Him being talked out of going out on a second date with Clara because his friends think she's "a dog" is really well-done.  I should hate Marty for letting himself be peer-pressured out of happiness, but I don't.  Borgnine, and the writing, should be praised for that.

Hell, I do, too, sometimes.  It pains me to see kids hypnotized by the little iPhone screens at the expense of not taking in the world around them, not talking to the person sitting next to them, not reading a book.

@avclub-146bc30c345d31f3468fec764a1970e1:disqus, this is a good point.  Do these people even have basic alcohol/hydrogen peroxide/oral amoxicillin in the sickbay supplies?  Everything is so high tech (just wave this little doodad, lay down under this fancy console) that it makes me wonder what does happen when you're…

I think I need to rewatch "Barge of the Dead" because I thought it was so damn boring.  Maybe this is because of my hatred for Torres.  I should try to look at the story objectively.

As a Christian who's been a member of three different churches in my lifetime (though all the same denomination), killing ourselves before being tainted by sin makes no sense because it's impossible anyway.  We are born imperfect and will sin no matter what.  That doesn't make us damned, however.  God gave us life and…

Yeah, did Odo know the minute Kira died that he was going to, 200 years later, wipe them out of existence and that is why he purposefully doesn't get to know them?  Or did grief drive him crazy and into isolation?  He only thinks of the plan later, after his comrades have died off and there's nobody left he recognizes.

It's always a good day to think about the lovely Peacock family.

Yes, but Jake was 12(?) when his mom died.  Most siblings are within 12 years of each other.

I think they're talking about the tenth movie whose existence I refuse to acknowledge.

I like that, too, because it really is a pretty shitty thing for O'Brien to say even if it's true.  But people do say cruel things in the heat of the moment, and O'Brien is understandably the one most resistant to purposefully crashing.  Also, O'Brien just lacks that pretentious Starfleet filter most of the uppity ups…

They had a book like that in an episode of Charmed!

Oh, I agree that Our Odo is just as traumatized.  I think that's why he sees himself out pretty quickly after revealing it to Kira.  I think he knows she'll blame him on some level, even though it's not really his fault.

I think he kind of has a point, but he goes a little too far with it and it becomes condescending.

This.  I think it's why these people don't annoy the piss out of me.

Cue Johnny Mathis' "Wonderful Wonderful."

I never really thought about, until reading Zack's review, how isolated Odo is from the colonists.  Now I'm wondering how he really did spend the past 200 years or so, and it is quite sad.  Might not justify what he did, but makes it very understandable.

I love "Children of Time" because, as Zack stated, we get what we want in the worst way possible.  Yeah, our heroes survived the day, but at what cost?  The first time I watched it, I knew that the colonists would be wiped from existence, but I figured it would be because of some accident/malfunction/miscalculation. …

I love that this is such a consistent trait of the character.  I wonder if there was a reason he only had one kid (besides the writers not wanting to deal with more than one), since Sisko seems the type to want to have several.