Odo may have broken, but so did Garak, and he did first. He can't go so far as to just shut the machine off to spare Odo pain….but Garak screaming at Odo to tell him something, anything, just so he can END THIS, is a moment of remarkable beauty and pain rolled together.

Odo may have broken, but so did Garak, and he did first. He can't go so far as to just shut the machine off to spare Odo pain….but Garak screaming at Odo to tell him something, anything, just so he can END THIS, is a moment of remarkable beauty and pain rolled together.

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Keep this in mind for next week-originally, Improbable Cause was going to be a one-off episode. Garak's line about the data rod to Bashir would be a plot point, he'd use it as a trump card on Tain, and he and Odo would have gone safely back to DS9. Instead, the showrunners decided that wasn't a good ending, made it a…

Keep this in mind for next week-originally, Improbable Cause was going to be a one-off episode. Garak's line about the data rod to Bashir would be a plot point, he'd use it as a trump card on Tain, and he and Odo would have gone safely back to DS9. Instead, the showrunners decided that wasn't a good ending, made it a…

I never heard of him before, but he sounds like he was a wonderfully brave man.

I never heard of him before, but he sounds like he was a wonderfully brave man.

I like Waltz, and I have reasons beyond "Dukat be acking cray-cray!" But I want to save it for either Waltz itself, or at least an episode that has Dukat in it.

I like Waltz, and I have reasons beyond "Dukat be acking cray-cray!" But I want to save it for either Waltz itself, or at least an episode that has Dukat in it.

"If we can calibrate the isolinear tunnels to catch the Frabijate radiation before it hits the star's corona, we might be able to supercharge the transposed emitter and-"

"If we can calibrate the isolinear tunnels to catch the Frabijate radiation before it hits the star's corona, we might be able to supercharge the transposed emitter and-"

I'll give "Distant Voices" this much credit: it demonstrates that Bashir has a strong enough will to survive on his own, and now we've seen him act sensibly enough to believe that. Imagine how much worse it would have been as a Season One episode, as they tried to convince us our resident horndog doctor actually was a…

I'll give "Distant Voices" this much credit: it demonstrates that Bashir has a strong enough will to survive on his own, and now we've seen him act sensibly enough to believe that. Imagine how much worse it would have been as a Season One episode, as they tried to convince us our resident horndog doctor actually was a…

"I have a Federation boyfriend, you wouldn't know him, he's on DS9."

"I have a Federation boyfriend, you wouldn't know him, he's on DS9."

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I think part of it is the fact that the very first episode confirmed that the Prophets were real in some sense, so DS9 never debates if they exist, just if they are gods or not. That debate is still ongoing at this point in the series, and it's a more interesting question to grapple with for a science fiction series.…

I think part of it is the fact that the very first episode confirmed that the Prophets were real in some sense, so DS9 never debates if they exist, just if they are gods or not. That debate is still ongoing at this point in the series, and it's a more interesting question to grapple with for a science fiction series.…