@avclub-b31df16a88ce00fed951f24b46e08649:disqus I hadn't thought along those lines, but it does make sense that the order things happen in have no connection to the order the Prophets do them.  All the Orbs might be something they sent out (throughout points in time) as a result of things Sisko tells them.

It's a repetitive epic, I bet, but one in which a young Cardassian woman, and then seven of her descendents, all fall in love with the same immortal vatakyr (a creature from old Cardassian legends, that was usually portrayed as a monster, but there's been a literary resurgence of making them alluring.)

There is no rest until "These Are the Voyages".

If Superman saves the day in a Superman comic, well its because it is
his story after all.  But if he shows up in someone else's story
(sometimes even in someone else's story in the same DC universe) it can
seem forced and fake and all those other things Horace was trying to
avoid when he coined the phrase.

It is literally a deus ex machina, yes, but it's one that works all right by me.  I mean, you have a situation where the passage the enemy has to take is literally controlled by gods.  And Sisko is the one person who has a direct line to those gods.

Oh, man, does trying to figure out the stellar cartography of Trekverse drive me nutty.  Vulcan's star being 40 Eridani A is pretty solid (confirmed in essence in Enterprise, if not specific text, in that Trip said Vulcan was 16ly from Earth).  But "the Vulcan Border"?  I suppose member states of the Federation would…

Was that a closet, or Dax's bathroom?

Every great advance in human history is followed by the question, "How can we use this to see more naked people?"

You just have to teach them both Faiths, and let them decide for themselves.

Not to mention that most of the survivors— including the main characters— were far too interested in their own personal situations to care about Solving the Island like it was Myst.  Which is what plenty of fans wanted them to do.

I believe it in the sense of the Changelings work the long game.  Their biggest moral problem is one of their own is on the wrong side.  So, bring him to the Link, work on him for 50 or 100 years until he's seen the light, and THEN crush the Alpha Quadrant.

@jerodast:disqus Well, I've got no problem with different species maturing at different rates than humans.  Ziyal, at 14 might well be the Cardassian (or Bajoran) equivalent of a human 19-year-old.  Hell, the average 14-year-old Ocampa has been dead for 5 years.  And a Vulcan 50-year-old is considered…

@Chico_McDirk:disqus I think the idea comes from when "syndication" was mostly local broadcast stations looking for stuff to fill their airwaves.  I could see the presumption being, if each one was handled locally, they'd just play whatever episode they felt like playing next.  And you still see it a bit: syndication…

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Can I just say that Renee Auberjonois would probably kill it in a guest role on Mad Men?

Of course, that comes from a persistent Trekian problem that between various forms of mind control, telepathy, alien possession, bizarre diseases and who knows what else, you can do just about ANY heinous act and then go, "Oh, I was not in my right head, but I'm fine now" and the only consequence is, "Schedule some…

I'm with @avclub-0c3e626d1a287cdc48c77515c8dcc243:disqus.  Time's Orphan is nothing special, but nor is it worthy of derision.  The worst I could say about it is its the weakest entry of the Torture O'Brien Canon.  "Sound Of Her Voice", however, is a whole lot of nothing.

@avclub-0c3e626d1a287cdc48c77515c8dcc243:disqus  To follow up on @avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus, we get more of a sense that Ezri had a whole life, plan, and intention that had nothing to do with Joining.  I mean, we given to understand that only 1% of Trill get Joined, but yet we see it as the…

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"we have nothing for Dax"