Explain Benedict Cumberbatch, then.

Fargo without the Minnewegian accent is like porn without naked people.

No more of a POS than "All Good Things…", which is a crisis set up by a space wizard and solved by space wizardry and technobabble and also amazing TV.

It really isn't a deus ex machina, because that device requires the resolution of an otherwise unsolvable problem by the intervention of a newly introduced element of the story. The Prophets, their relationship with Sisko, their relationship with Bajor, and their immense power inside the wormhole are all…

@avclub-bbb04f2a70775131fa0397bbdb4c03de:disqus The Grand Warlord of the Nausicaans wears the Foreigner Belt as his symbol of office. He mostly uses it to play "Urgent".

I agree. Actually, it'd do a disservice to "One Little Ship", too, because it'd be an afterthought. And I want to have the chance to argue with people who think it's a bad episode.

Hey, you already saw Odo shirtless in bed after postcoital bliss with that one lady.

At one point it cuts to them sitting on a bed, fully clothed, and the FC says "so that is how solids experience intimacy" and Odo says "well, some of them, like Bajorans" and FC says it's not as good as the Link and asks Odo if he regrets not "experiencing it" with Kira.

Sisko's plan was to go down fighting.

@jerodast:disqus Behr's notes on the "Homefront" two-parter are amazingly gloomy. Same with "The Ship". If anything, he's much more likely to pick apart a success than paper over a failure.

I prefer what we see of them in "Bar Association", where they're playing darts, except instead of darts they're throwing knives into each others' chests.

I covet your wife, @avclub-285910f5ff9f9eddf129c46fc2bc5982:disqus

I love his shit-eating grin during that scene. Damar is the best.

Well, the Dominion is able to pierce Federation shields in their first appearance. So were the Borg. It's possible that when the Fed went on a war footing they started retrofitting ships to rely less on shields and more on armor-plating (like the Defiant) and pure offense (also like the Defiant).

That episode is a lot of good bits sort of mixed together in an uninteresting structure. I don't care if Worf and Dax get married or not, but…

"The Emperor's New Cloak" works for me because they just decided to go full-on trashy camp with it. I'm not saying it's an episode I frequently think about or want to rewatch, but it was fun enough.

OH GOD THE SPOILERS

Except that they only intervene because Sisko was going to die and was unwilling to turn from that course.

Star Trek has always had the "Starfleet is just one ship" narrative problem, particularly in TNG and intentionally in Voyager. One of the several ways DS9 deviates from the rest of the series is to frequently manage to avoid using that crutch.

"You Are Cordially Invited…" is really good for a wedding episode, honestly. The B-plot with the men is one of my favorite comic plots in the series, and there's just a lot of little parts here and there that I enjoy.