"Doctor Bashir, I Presume" is yet another of episodes I place in the "The Federation reveals itself as having some really morally awful aspects that are totally ignored in order to make the plot go."

I would like to note that that whole exchange, while poignant, was total bullshit.

But for my money, the most thrilling development in an hour full of
pretty terrific “Fuck yeah!” moments is the discovery that Gul Dukat has
been working on secret negotiations between the Cardassian government
and the Dominion;

JMS doesn't seem to have really thought through the ISA.

I reference the Garibaldi confrontation, which I thought was weakly done.

Sheridan, Franklin or Ivanova would see through these Nightwatch chumps
before they'd gotten halfway through their orientation speech.

This is I think the mistake they made with Captain Lochley. They made
her someone who fought on the other side of the Civil War and never did
anything with it, never had her say about how dangerous Sheridan's
assumption of that much power might have been. She defines her loyalty
simply as an issue of being a good…

“Come, Captain. The greatest nightmare of our time is waiting for you.”

Andrew Robinson wrote a novel or two starring Garak.

Them's fighting words, sir.

Number One. Real name: Tessa.

Well, if you believe the "soul" nonsense.

You know, that was also ridiculous, as was Lennier wondering if the curlers were painful. Minbari have body hair, dammit! They know how it works!

Am I the only one who feels like Delenn's breakdown on-camera was bad writing?

Really, what is the point of Delenn's body switch?

Not only is she Croatian, she's spent a lot of time acting in Croatia/Yugoslavia for the express purpose of building up the theater and television industry there. After her run on B5 she could have chosen to live in the west and accept whatever work came her way and lead a very comfortable life. She decided not to.

And then there's "Minbari do not kill Minbari." First it was "we've never killed our own kind" and then they backtracked to "we haven't killed our own kind since Valen". And then for a race that supposedly regarded that as an extreme taboo, they sure as hell got over it very fast.

I consider myself cheerfully corrected as to that bit of trivia!

Well it's essentially a military coup. The fact that it happened to be
on the side of "good" doesn't really change that and the fact that the
political consequences of a rebel force (which is what Babylon 5 was)
taking a stand against the democratically elected government (which is
the worst type of government, apart…

I remain rather annoyed Scoggins wasn't featured, at all, in Sleeping in Light. Unless she died on Crusade (haven't watched it yet) that was just sort of insulting.