Incidentally, the team aboard Rubicon makes a good deal of sense, too, though arguably there should've been a few more junior officers instead of the chief of operations and chief medical officer of DS9 (but, you know, show logic). Science officer in charge, medical & engineering personnel to monitor the effects of…

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Hadn't even realized it either, but yeah, Dax was in charge of the Rubicon the entire time. And it makes sense that nobody even needed to point it out; she's the science officer, she was running things back when they were just running an experiment in miniaturization, and so she keeps running things aboard the…

Also, Slate itself tends to get too contrarian for its own good.

I am tempted to speculate that the Order didn't necessarily mind the communications relay going up, and perhaps wanted to test out an aspiring agent, see if she was up to doing field work. I might also wonder if they could've had two plans running, with Dejar's work distracting attention from the other plan - say,…

'Briscoe and McCoy work to preserve Law & Order. Next!'

I'm not entirely sure Dejar wanted to disguise herself, necessarily - at least, not to her fellow Cardassians. She seemed to be there as much as a 'minder' as as a saboteur.

Let's see… Remember the Titans, and Rudy, repeatedly, to kill time at the end of the year; The Corporation, in economics class (incidentally, our econ teacher also ran the young republicans club at my high school); Secret Window, in psychology.

Eh, I don't think it's too much of a stretch. Not everyone is interested in history for the same reasons, or interested in the same sorts of histories.

Well, the editor has a separate room from which he can look out and see the writers at their desks… which is a bit like Terok Nor having the commander's office above the underlings.

Slight, possible, counterexample: Dax assimilating towards Klingon values?
But yeah.

I'm just now realizing that they echoed this very exchange in the episode where the Cardassian scientists went to DS9 to set up the comm relay across the wormhole.

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Stewart's reading, or Shimerman's?

Why was Sisko a Commander for the first three seasons?

Maybe she could've had a story she was working on?

Looking at it from another angle, perhaps part of the problem Sisko has with it is that he knows too much about the period the Vic Fontaine holoprogram is evoking to be able to easily suspend disbelief. Like Neil DeGrasse Tyson's complaints about the inaccuracies in Gravity, or some criticisms I've seen from veterans…

Liked, not least for the image of a Jem'Hadar having to serve as a canvas.

One thing that strikes me about Russell's breakdown - it's not despair, it's defiance.

Likewise, but without the fish juice.

groundhog day's my birthday. i think that could get kinda tiresome for me.