As a matter of fact, the finance guy Geoffrey works with in the corporate workshop is played by Bob Martin, who wrote the Drowsy Chaperone and played the character Man in Chair during its original production run. My guess is that the world of Slings & Arrows is populated by people who, having dedicated their lives to…

Ellen: Thank you.
Geoffrey: We lost all our previews.

As problematic as the depiction of Bajorans was, the fact is that this episode was meant to highlight Sisko, not Bajor… so long as I keep my mental focus on him, it starts to make more sense.

The Ferengi have a number of serious moments, yes, and a number of those are my favorites (Rom staying behind after the Feds bug out of DS9, Quark tending to Nog in "Siege of AR-558), but Ferengi episodes are always comic, and frequently as a result the species as a whole is undervalued. Consider the first Ferengi…

This is true, but sill comes off as ineffective. The trouble is, Star Trek tries to be an objective show, where we the viewers see everything, including each character's individual prejudice. By pulling the "if only you'd known the power you had" trick, it supposes that we've been seeing Bajor through Sisko's eyes…

DS9 is never going to really figure out the Ferengi. It did a great job at rehabilitating the species and giving them depth, but every 'Ferengi episode' is going to be played for laughs. Which is a bit of a shame, but eh, you can't have it all.

Agreed. Part of the reason I like the side plots is that the writers go out of their way not to overtly link them in. If this were a real-life story, nobody would criticize Kate and Jack for falling in love if doing so failed to relate to the production at large.

I always saw Ellen as being a someone who has the capacity for heart, reliability and brain (great analysis, btw), but somewhere along the line became quite jaded and more or less gave up on the first two. The show heavily suggests that this change happened around the time of Geoffrey's breakdown. Her arc over the…

Funny you should mention cavemen… wait till season 3  ;)

Every episode, every season… that collar is like a barometer of his mental state. (Note: That state is always deranged.)

No, Todd, that's not a Canadianism. That's just an embarrassment, which happens to be the province of government agencies the world over.

I wasn't a fan of the technobabble solution to the Worf/Kurn problem - it felt like a cop-out for me. Worf may as well have killed Kurn, he actually did commit Kurn to a lifetime of uncertainty and always feeling somewhat out of place, he relied on some convenient family friend who just happened to be loony tunes…

Oh, Geoffrey's ep1 speech was more than enough to hook me to watch the rest of the season, but ep3 is the first one with that ineffable quality of all-over awesome we look for in our TV. (At the risk of being too elitist, I'll freely admit that I'm a sucker for Project Runway and So You Think You Can Dance.)

Some years back Patrick Stewart did a MacBeth set in what looked like Soviet Scotland, and it was exceptional. Anything CAN work - even the stuff that shouldn't   :P

Exactly. My sister insisted I watch S&A some years back and I was lukewarm through eps 1 and 2. I finished #3, then turned to her and said, "I think this show is kind of brilliant." Honestly, segueing from a swordfight (interrupted by a bitter, unimpressed stage manager) to a couple of lovebirds spittin' from a…

My favorite running gag in the series is barely a gag - it's a costuming choice. Anyone else ever notice how Geoffrey's collar is always half bent out of shape?