What bothered me about it is that Quark's incredulousness makes zero sense. He's spent his entire life in close contact with a world that we know includes plenty of narcotic trading. Though the show keeps Quark out of that particular business, we know he's hardly unfamiliar with the recreational use of harmful…

"Our Man Bashir" also gets points for Garak's almost-immediate (and hilarious) meta acknowledgement of the ridiculousness of holodeck episodes in the cold open.

"I'd much rather do business with you Australians."

There's her quest to kill Whitey Klingon

Starship Down feels to me like DS9's version of Disaster, the TNG episode, where Worf also learned a lesson about things happening by the book…

That's rather similar to what I was thinking with my indulgent theory, except I did see it as a "whole collective" thing, but not a GOOD thing - an *error* in the collective. Basically the Queen emerged from the collective as a direct result of the sense of individuality being reintroduced to the Borg via Hugh. That…

That's rather similar to what I was thinking with my indulgent theory, except I did see it as a "whole collective" thing, but not a GOOD thing - an *error* in the collective. Basically the Queen emerged from the collective as a direct result of the sense of individuality being reintroduced to the Borg via Hugh. That…

It's interesting to compare the Dominion and the Borg.

It's interesting to compare the Dominion and the Borg.

Unfortunately it gets so tough to avoid spoilers at all at this point if you want to look up even the smallest things… So many seemingly inconsequential details and characters turn out to be major plot points in the future. Just looking up the actor who played a walk-on role could accidentally reveal five plot twists…

Unfortunately it gets so tough to avoid spoilers at all at this point if you want to look up even the smallest things… So many seemingly inconsequential details and characters turn out to be major plot points in the future. Just looking up the actor who played a walk-on role could accidentally reveal five plot twists…

It all had to be crammed into a couple of minutes, so the full feeling of their "oh shit this is going to be revealed so we might as well claim we discovered it" attitude wasn't really conveyed on screen — I agree that I wish they'd sounded just *slightly* more begrudging about it. But it does make sense when you…

It all had to be crammed into a couple of minutes, so the full feeling of their "oh shit this is going to be revealed so we might as well claim we discovered it" attitude wasn't really conveyed on screen — I agree that I wish they'd sounded just *slightly* more begrudging about it. But it does make sense when you…

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