Oh, but I love Charlie Rose!  He's so good at interviewing. Really knows how to ask provocative questions of his guests.

That does absolutely seem in character for everyone involved.  It's like when a shifty mechanic tells someone who he thinks knows nothing about cars that their [I tried to think of a good word that sounds like a part of an engine but I couldn't think of a good word, so insert-fake-engine-part here] is the problem, and…

"As Scrubs went along, I think more and more of the other 97 ideas were making their way onto the show. "Well, Season 8 was a nice redemption compared to Season 7.

I've said since Scrubs ended that if you could magically condense it to 5 or 6 seasons, it would be one of the best sitcoms in history, but as is there's way too much filler. JD and Elliot breaking up and getting back together so many times definitely falls into that, and this episode was the beginning of me finding…

I had the opposite experience: had a fun date that ended in making out through the movie, so I have very positive associations with the movie even though all I remember is some dancing to Hold Me Tight in the beginning followed by, I think, singing Don't Let Me Down at some point.

@avclub-14e4cee178d88fb9aa346dbcc11f2873:disqus , I'm late to this party, but look up The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk if you think Germany winning WWI would have been good.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…  It would have turned Eastern Europe into German puppet states. I'm now convinced that the US entry was a tremendous…

There was also a Sliders episode where they went to an Earth that was all fire and they accidentally brought a sentient flame with them onto the next Earth and it started burning buildings.  I remember liking it as a kid (which granted means it could could have been objectively awful)

OK, if Sisko mentioned it, I stand corrected.  I guess I need to pay more attention.

Good point, and I see the parallels except Egypt *nationalized* the canal.  They charged a toll; they didn't mine it. And you can sail around Africa adding only a couple weeks to your trip. You can get to the Gamma Quadrant without a wormhole only after many years (I don't know how many. It's 75 to the Delta…

OK, that makes sense.  And it also makes sense that Sisko would then want to preserve DS9 for the Bajorans to eventually get it back rather than completely destroying it, while at the same time making things difficult for the Cardassians.

Hmm, maybe, but I don't remember anyone in the episode suggesting, "Hey, Sisko, this isn't your call," so I would think it just wasn't thought out. If there had been some moment of an admiral saying, "Starfleet has left this at your discretion, Captain," or some red shirt saying, "Captain, you can't mine the wormhole…

With the callback to First Contact in In the Cards, it feels appropriate to me to ask why Sisko didn't "blow up the damn [station]"?
I know he disabled the computer, and Quark would lose his investment in the bar if he blew it up, but wouldn't it be a bigger blow to the Cardassians to have no space station near the…

One thing I only thought of now: shouldn't whether and when the wormhole gets mined be at the sole discretion of the Federation's civilian leadership?  Seems you're leaving the question of whether to start a war to the military, which isn't considered a  good thing in democratic countries. 
I mean, mining a neutral…

Oh, yeah, that's the real-world explanation, as Jerodast confirms.  This is just my in-universe explanation. Call it a fan-wank if you like.

I absolutely love that Nog's response to "we work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity," is "What does that even mean?" 
My little explanation for the fact that Jake and Picard use the same wording is that there some speech/manifesto/book/constitution of the Federation that says, "We work to better ourselves…

Hmm, @avclub-13d7df3c17502af69aafccc758195f96:disqus , this is me belaboring the point, and countries obviously do irrational things in war all the time, but if you just want to intimidate your enemy, I'd still think a bomb is scarier than crazy guy, no matter how steroided up he is.  Unless he's bulletproof.  And…

Yet when would a Hulk-type super-soldier be better than a bomb?  If you just want to cause mayhem, carnage, and confusion in the enemy (and you don't care that the Hulk might kill your own men) a bomb seems just as good and probably will always be less expensive than genetically engineering Hulks

To be fair, he has one of the best temporary insanity defenses imaginable.
I think Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, said in an essay on why the future won't be like Star Trek something like, "If the future were like Star Trek, no one would ever be able to be prosecuted for anything.  You'd just always say, 'Oh, some alien…

Of course, if you really want a super soldier, you don't want a person at all.  Get some drone aircraft (and spacecraft) for brute killing and some robot who's one step down from Data in terms of artificial intelligence for occupation.
(It's established that no one but Soong could develop Data-level AI, but any
of the…

One of you guys should actually make one of these videos.  You're guaranteed at least 7 views. No one else will get it.