He's just talking about Thot!

I love Garak emerging from the shadows to talk about Rusot. It's the most over the top, blatant way to use the enigmatic spy character you could…and yet it's a great moment, not a stupid one, because that's not how Garak normally works. He seems dangerously in his element, now that he's back in Cardassian space and…

NOT AVAILABLE IN A MINDSCAPE.

Narratively sadistic for Kira? Sure. But then, who else would they send? The Maquis were all killed off screen in previous seasons, and Star Fleet doesn't regularly train guerrilla fighters, either within their own ranks or to fight for them as a proxy. And considering the way things are building up, separating the…

Well, that comment was….distasteful.

God, yes, we get it, you're sensitive about this! No need to yell!

At least this time he gets to do more than snarl before being beaten up. Weyoun might not be a real opponent, but it's still a great little scene.

Does he actually respect him, though, or is he just saying that to try and make Bashir more pliable? Hard to say, really. You could go either way with it.

This is probably a weird way to put it, but this brief hookup plays better in the aftermath than it does in the moment. It's still not great, though.

I see it more as a rapier countering a saber. The Federation doesn't want to get ahead with wetwork and black ops-even Section 31 doesn't talk about things like that. But someone at the beginning basically said "look, we are dealing with enemies that will do this, so we need to be prepared to handle it." When Picard…

It certainly helps explain why the Tal Shiar and Obsidian Order didn't just mop the floor with Starfleet Intelligence decades ago-they're dealing with more than one opponent, and it's debatable if either organization understood that fact. For all we know, there have been long strings of attempts to bring down the…

Well, now I can't edit it to be correct. Damn you, Yuri!

Mmm, good point. The experience of Benny Hill might not have been real, but he still had it. Maybe he studied the 20th century in his spare time after that, so his newfound anger about Vic is partly being newly exposed to the details of US Segregation.

I wonder if part of that was the fact that the two were running concurrently for a time? Maybe if TNG had gone off the air and DS9 had started afterwards, they would have just carried on with the regular "the holodeck's going to kill us!" plots, because they wouldn't have been competing with TNG in that regard.

I get the sense that Laas and Odo have taken two different paths to being outside the Link. Odo went with repression, and Laas went with…dickishness.

I like the fact that "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang" is so light hearted both for the characters really investing in something unimportant, and the fact that the writers didn't try to make it into a bigger deal, like "Oh, if this happens, then somehow the central computer will explode!" But I also like some of details, like…

Profit and Lace is so bad that it just craters anything near it. Time's Orphan and Sound of her Voice have enough good points to not feel like a total waste of time, and Emperor's New Cloak doesn't reach the Lace Horizon of Suck.

I don't know what's worse-Emperor's New Cloak for having no good ideas, or Field of Fire for wasting a potentially good one. Not the "Ezri gets in touch with Joran" thing-that's a nonstarter for me. But I could see an ensemble episode where they search for a serial killer on the station, frustrated by the fact that…

Anything with Profit and Lace is the roughest by definition.

My point exctly. Troi was introduced with a position that made sense within the world of the show, but it didn't make sense in the show itself, or with the other characters. Everyone was fine except Wesley, and even he was fine for a teenager….and since the show didn't do a lot of continuity, it didn't make sense to…