So, Vic can access the computers, and can shut down his own program. Can he transfer his own program off the holosuite? Can he edit himself? Could his program be placed inside a replicated shell that would exist off the holosuite?
[admittedly, Vic probably wouldn't care to… but what about some other self-aware…

Or… Drew Carey just liked using that line for a quick joke.
/or, maybe I'm letting my nostalgia for US Who's Line win out?

American Who's Line was as good as, and arguably better than, British Who's Line. In my opinion, anyway.

The last civ game I had played was Civ 3, and the one I had played most was civ II… then, this year, I got a steam account and bought civ 5 [with gods+kings] when it was on sale for ridiculously cheap. it's a damn good timewaster, and I like a lot of the changes they've made since the last games I had played. no…

Let's see…
TV - Futurama, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Wire
Books - I'm not sure I actually read any books written in 2013 this year, so, uh, everything that I have read?
Games - Civ 5, Kerbal Space Program

Bashir already got a big-picture analysis of the war back in Statistical Probabilities - and since then, things have taken a turn for the worse.

Jutland ensured that the German Navy would never break out, that the British blockade of maritime trade to Germany would not be defeated - which ultimately meant that Germany would be starved out in 1918.

SPOILERS FOR EVENTS FROM A CENTURY AGO AND A SEASON TO COME
It almost feels like Sisko could be T.E. Lawrence here, though not really. I'm half-tempted to put Damar in as Ataturk… except, well, Damar dies.

Peldor joi!

SPOILERS FOR THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND DS9
So, is Martok Kerensky, Kornilov, or somehow Lenin?

According to the script, Betazed's fall apparently put Vulcan, Andor, Tellar and Alpha Centauri under Dominion threat.
Alpha Centauri is 4.2 light years from Earth - it's the closest star to us (at least in our reality; Trek may have put a star or two closer in).

Tal Shiar didn't die entirely - heck, Vreenak was the Vice-Chairman of the Tal Shiar. The Romulans were able to handle the losses at the Omarion Nebula; Cardassia, being a weaker power overall, was not.

SPOILERS
They don't operate on the timescales of the Solids, though. And until the female Changeling was dying, until the Great Link was dying, until the Cardassian people were turning against the Dominion, they seemed content with letting revenge be a longer-term prospect.

According to the script, that's who he was meeting with.

Shuttle's logs of the trip to DS9 might not have survived the bomb, and would've undoubtedly been wiped beforehand even if they weren't gone. It may be that as far as the Tal Shiar know, Vreenak was coming back from Dominion space.

Did they know the forgery was a failure?

Or Germany attacking the USSR while Britain was still in the war. Which strikes me as the best analogy for the situation, really - the Soviets [Romulans] were in an uneasy alliance (the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) with the Germans [Dominion], who've been more successful than anticipated against the Brits & French…

With you, it's never petty.

But it makes Vreenak into an enemy undercover spy, rather than a neutral diplomat. It changes the moral stakes by simplifying them.

The Great Material Continuum will provide.