Plus: Jane Fonda in Great White Hunter Gear. 

I guess part of the challenge is the "mini-missions" don't seem clear to me.  Kiera mostly seems to be blowing in the wind, doing whatever VPD needs her to do to blend in, and doesn't seem to have much of a goal right now of "what to do next".  She's biding her time, and I'm not sure for what.

Yeah, for me, the most clever aspect of the set-up is the fact that Kiera is essentially fighting for a future that isn't that great.  Sure, she's got a good life (and how much of that is due to Sadler positioning her into one?), but the show hasn't been shy about making the future seem pretty horrible.  Thus they…

BINGO!

@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus Brakiri will click "like" on anything.

Yeah, it's one of those bits of worldbuilding that doesn't quite land.

@avclub-0806ebf2ee5c90a0ca0fd59eddb039f5:disqus That's because Jason Carter pretty much is a foppish playboy.

I remember at the time tons of analysis online about who was quarter-turning and who was just looking straight at the camera, and what that might mean for each of their characters for the coming season. 

I think the show lays out explicitly that Sheridan's decision (and not trusting anyone back home on Earth) was an unequivocal good.  I never got a sense that we should question the weight of it, not yet.  Of course, at this point, Sheridan's still walking the line.  Now that I think about it, the events of "Severed…

It also sets up, "The White Star is cool, yes, but in a fair stand-up fight against a Shadow Vessel… it'll lose."

Wasn't that Roger Rees?

I would imagine most grave-robbers/salvagers aren't using jump-capable ships.  But then again, some of the logic behind the illegal/legally gray stuff in Bab5 verse never quite worked for me.  Take, for example, the Raiders in Season 1.  They were always attacking transport ships in normal space, but… why were they in…

@avclub-6d8e5be200a835beb77d899f00b890a5:disqus Well, there are books that do pretty horrendous amounts of fanwanking.  There was one about a year ago, where Geordi suddenly commands a ship of every engineering character whoever showed up on screen, so his crew included Barkley, Scotty, Nog, and Nurse Ogawa (amongst…

True.  But I'm saying it's a lot easier to examine such a choice in a hypothetical than it is to actually be in the position to make it.

I'd argue that Voyager's claims of their aims were high, but their actual aims were fairly average.  

@avclub-0806ebf2ee5c90a0ca0fd59eddb039f5:disqus Probably "Equinox" represents the biggest one of those, where there's a faster path home that relies on murdering intelligent hyperdimensional creatures. 

Plus you wouldn't have needed the somewhat dubious set-up of, "The entire senior staff is tooling around in the Gamma Quadrant… just for something to do."

I might argue that, conceptually, it could have worked even better on Voyager.  Because then it represents a real hard choice: do we accept this fate, which wasn't what we wanted but is, all told, a decent result for the lost crew… or do we roll the dice to try and get the outcome we REALLY wanted?

There are two post-DS9 Klingon focused books that J.G. Hetzler had a hand in, but I never read them. 

Also, it's one thing to say, hypothetically, "This isn't a hard choice", but it's another to actually press the button that causes that choice to be.