"Dax's glibness still leaves a bad taste."

For all the times when Sisko's reactions are too over the top to work, I'd much rather have a character be too passionate than have no passion at all.

It sometimes seems like this is the show where they realized they could do characterization with Klingons.

Listen: If anyone mentions Dax and a pig in the same sentence, skip the thread. Just skip it, don't ask questions, TRUST ME.

This is just a series of hard hitting episodes, this week and the next.

NPR Favorite: Wait Wait, Don't Tell me
NPR Bleh-Tell Me More

This was weird.

Note that whenever an admiral appears on any Star Trek show, the officers ask about why they came. There's never "Oh, hey, Admiral! Good to see you for your annual visit. How are the kids?" It's always "Oh, what brings you here?" Because as Willy Pete said, they never come to just chat, so it's best to find out what…

I will admit that my fanwank has some flaws, like assigning logic to Prin's actions when he's clearly pretty bugnuts. But second in command on a military base is still far below "Prime Minister."

I thought part of it was Kira's position. Shakaar is too high up to realistically assassinate, but everyone else is low level. In post-occupation life, Kira is the highest member of the group that's still alive, but realistically within reach of Prin and his assassination plans. At least, that's one fan-wank…

It's probably better than trying to invent a faux Bajoran phrase, too. It's a legitimate continuity hiccup, but would it have been better if Mora had said something like "spare the Bafalian pain stick, spoil the youngling?"

I'm glad to see the "Kira's pregnant" storyline is gone, even though I didn't have a serious issue with it. Mostly because getting rid of it kept the thing from overstaying its welcome too badly.

I posted on this back in the comments for the alignment chart itself, so I'll just post it here with some editing:

Yeah. It's fine with me. It's not great, but it's still a lot better than having a whole season of Kira only being seen from the neck up or behind furniture, like they did with Gates McFadden. Besides, all of the weird super science parts go down easier with the characters we know when it happened.

I used to have problems with Far Beyond The Stars, but when I last rewatched it, it was a lot better than I remembered. It's not perfect (though I won't discuss that here, since it can wait until that actual review), but it's still stronger than I expected.

I like it a lot too, but I know many people don't feel comfortable with it, or think it brings down the show compared to the more political elements, especially if it seems to come out of nowhere. I don't agree, and my point is that even if you don't like the Emissary plotline in general, "Rapture" is just a damn good…

THEY ARE WITHOUT HONOR.

I don't want to say Rapture redeems all of the Emissary business with Sisko, but it makes it work, at least for this one episode. Without anyone actually outright questioning Sisko's sudden faith, they manage to make a lot of reasonable objections…and the only thing we know Sisko does with the insight is find B'hala.…

Didn't Riker get addicted to the terrible video game on Risa too? Or was that another pleasure planet he doesn't talk about?

When my girlfirend and I watched "Let He Who Is Without Sin…" together, at the moment when Bashir asked "Why?" in response to Dax saying she loved Worf, my girlfriend said it too. The exact same moment.