But hasperat is supposed to be, like, crazy-spicy.  At least, that's how Ro Laren's father made it.

Exactly.  There's one point— I forget if it's this episode or one the later ones— where he leaves the house to go to Zoe's, and flat out tells Claire that's where he's going, and she's fine with it.  Not the typical, "icy, we-have-an-understanding" sort of "fine" you usually get in political pieces, but like, "Oh, OK,…

It took me a bit to realize this, but it occurred to me that Underwood's affair with Zoe was essentially part of his overarching ploy.  He wasn't particularly interested in Zoe sexually, but he wanted her to believe he was.  So he starts the affair with her (and Claire is completely aware of it) because he wanted her…

Murc- Voyager's 7th Season episode "Author, Author" does, in fact, quite directly address it. 

Arex— the book didn't go into that detail.  The purpose was to distinguish it from the Miri planet, which (in the context of that book) was an actual alt-Earth from a different timeline that had somehow slipped into the regular timeline (which then tied to key plot-points for the rest of the book.)

The other gift "Journey to Babel" gives us the idea that cemented in early fandom (later solidifed in Enterprise) that the founding members of the Federation were Humans, Vulcans, Andorians and Tellerites.  Of course, that's because of "Journey", because that's the only episode that gives us any other members in the…

"The Muse" scores a couple points for using Meg Foster as she was intended: totally freaky. 

No, but Kira got one as part of the B-Plot in "Looking for Par'Mach in All The Wrong Places".

The thing with Geordi, and in a less "perfect" version of TNG they would have gone deeper in this well— he's kind of a dick.  Almost any time he's dealing with an underling (Ens. Gomez, Ens. Taurik, Barclay), he has a whole, "God, why do I have to deal with you?" passive-aggressive attitude.  Maybe that's why my…

One of the Trek novels had a throwaway bit to try to salvage "Omega Glory", basically mentioning that someone dug through records and found a massive Prime Directive violation had happened a century earlier, where some stupid captain surveyed the planet and was all, "Hey, these guys are like early Americans!" and gave…

I just imagined Klingon doctors infecting themselves with whatever virus they're trying to cure, in order to truly earn the victory.

It's an inverse of the Airplane trick.

The fact that Arsenal didn't show up tells me he's going to be a trump card in the end game.

"No mercy! Victory is life!"

Well, I think the fragility of Bajor is a critical point.  They still are only four years out from the Occupation.  How long has it been since they stopped calling it the "Provisional Government"?  Two years?  They're still a very broken people, hungry to be "fixed".  They're desperate for any kind of strong…

Of course, part of the point in how readily the Bajorans accept Akorem's edicts of returning to the D'Jarras is demonstrating the pure, raw power The Emissary has.  Sisko never takes advantage of it, of course, but if he decided to be the Great and Terrible Tyrant, they'd accept it without question.  I always saw that…

"Now I have a cyberarm. Ho. Ho. Ho."

"Come out to the WarWorld, we'll get together, have a few laughs…"

I'm looking forward to what was clearly set up here: Roy as John McClane.

Right.  I mainlined the whole thing in about 72 hours, and the borders of what happened in which episode are kind of fuzzy.