Is 'liking' broken at the moment? I 'like' this for its wisdom, because it's true. He's mostly creepy to her when he gets her alone. Which is depressingly often.

Right, but Garak is pretty much making a smarmy joke out of it. And you'd think that maybe, just maybe, it's something that Odo or Dax would eventually comment on with genuine concern.

I really, really fucking hate that episode because it's one of those 'creator makes fanservicey episode to slap in the face of bad fans' things.

Made worse because the writing for Bashir here is THE citation for all the crappy shit in STID.

@avclub-da2cfbc3287da0f4f985aa7350b8831b:disqus is probably right that the in-world answer is the Vorta leaving it on Bajoran norm as a goodwill gesture of respect.

@avclub-469855b15af87afcbf7d29ea09e321ed:disqus makes an excellent point, although it also seems clear that by this point in the Dominion's history, the Changelings are rarely leaving the Link to serve as Battlefield Commanders.

It's a neat trick to engineer a client species to worship you on an instinctual level, send them out to be murdering despots, and then ensure your own safety by locking your front door.

I feel like this is also explained in the Companion as being too difficult for them to do on a regular basis.

She was allergic to the prosthetic glue, I thought, which is why they changed the Trill design.

I also don't think the Changelings care much if they go bug fuck crazy on civilians, either. As long as the Jem'Hadar don't go bug fuck crazy on Changelings, everything is operations normative for them.

I actually think the main difference between the Sorkin-era and the Wells-era is that Sorkin wrote incredibly flawed characters with such candy colored gloss that it was impossible not to love them. And that the Wells-writers were actually interested in delving into the flaws, minus the gloss.

I actually think the main difference between the Sorkin-era and the Wells-era is that Sorkin wrote incredibly flawed characters with such candy colored gloss that it was impossible not to love them. And that the Wells-writers were actually interested in delving into the flaws, minus the gloss.

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