Well, it fits Eddington for his attack to not effect gravity, life support or communications.  He wants to magnanimously let you limp home… and he wants to let you know that he's doing that.

I can totally see how the holo-communicator is better from an actor perspective.  There really is an organic give-and-take to a performance that is completely lost if they're just talking to a blue screen.  By letting Brooks and Marshall be in the same room, bouncing lines off each other, it sold the scenes.

@avclub-0c3e626d1a287cdc48c77515c8dcc243:disqus There's another core problem with Voyager.  Why does she get to make that call?  Because she's the Captain.  There's no right-or-wrong morality about her decisions, just a certification of her authority to make decisions.  A problematic point that keeps coming up.

Right: the underlying idea behind the Maquis was in order to end-run around the Roddenbury Rule, and allow conflict between principles.  But they never used that.  Hell, they did a terrible job of differentiating who was Maquis.  Let's face it, a slightly different rank insignia hardly marks the line in a meaningful…

I'll take that bow, thank you.

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus Of those, it's the least bad. Mostly because of Bester.  But I lump it in there because it was more of the string of, "Here's some people who aren't the main cast!" that were focused on.

"He won't remember a thing.  I got him with a Mind Eraser Arrow."
"I've told you, that isn't a Mind Eraser Arrow.  You're just shooting them in the head."

Oh, that's not going to end well for them.

NOT AVAILABLE IN THE BADLANDS.

@Automocar:disqus I wonder if a future show might successfully fan/crowdsource that.  Like saying, "Hey, we need an alien language, here are some rough parameters: go." You'd probably have ten in three weeks.

Even "Tarkalian Needlebeast" is better than what is often done, which is just throwing an alien adjective in front of a mundane creature name.  "Tellerite Yak" or "Rigellian Boar". 

Also: the first and last moment where Sisko shows his passion for boxing.

I thought it was clear that Kira was Prin's "ultimate" target because she was the one who actually planted the bomb that maimed him.  Everyone else he killed was part of the op, but the "blame" ultimately fell on Kira, in his mind.  Which also (a little too neatly) explains why Shakaar himself wasn't a target— he…

Every good underdog movie has a Zabka, even if Zabka didn't play the Zabka.

Yes.  Because Pete didn't tip him.

They did— the one where Harry wakes up in an alternate timeline where he's in San Fransisco because he never was on Voyager, and it turns out to be crazy aliens messing with him and he resets the timeline and no one remembered…

Same here.  I had seen a handful of episodes sporadically up until this point, but this is where I was locked in for good.

This is, in essence, the choice Crichton made over the course of the series.

And that's really odd.  Because, in "Rapture", it might make sense for the First Minister of Bajor to show up when Bajor is going to join the Federation.  But, no.  Or in "Darkness and the Light", where members of Shakaar's resistance circle are being murdered, he might be part of that story.  But, no.

I'm going to lean back on my usual standby, but converse it: for most of us, if the person we know suddenly seems wrong, we'll think they're just acting strange, not that they've been replaced by their clone.  Mrs. S was fooled because what else would she think?  That Sarah would miss this appointment and send a clone…