If any Vorta would know…

They are not linear they can understand stuff retroactively.

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Well Star Trek (2009) has a sort of Enterprise finds the remains of the Battle of Wolf 359 style moment when they get to Vulcan, but yeah, outside of the Dominion War, there aren't really many large scale battles like that.

Same here, in particular I remember thinking just how far effects had come if we could see the frame of the ship as it was being ripped apart.  The Miranda-class destruction was the most memorable part of the battle footage for sure.

Aren't Dominion ships able to cut through shields?

I think that's a pretty fair read of the episodes, especially since I agree that the Prophets' intervention was not so much a deus ex machina as it was inevitable.  I tend to be a defender of that twist for that reason.  And I think another gigantic battle would honestly be a bit tiresome.  In a way DS9 deserves a lot…

I thought they were both Peter Jackson.

Jay Leno grew up in Depression-era Andover, MA.

I kind of wish this type of thing happened just a little bit more on SNL.  What's the point of a show being live if there isn't an element of danger there.

Oh, so it'll be like the X-Men franchise.  Gotcha.

So…are these still going to be called Episode VII-IX or whatever?

In BSG, there's another example.  They saved Helo because he was a hit with the fans and it provided this whole other arc.  But BSG had a lot of DS9 writers on it.

When I was a kid I used to wonder (more like wish it weren't the case) that ships only showed battle damage in the movies.  After TNG it became far easier and cheaper to show that stuff.  It was pretty cool seeing that stuff in the battles, but especially towards the end of season three of ENT (SPOILERS) when,…

DS9 was the king of organically developed storylines.  I like that even in the first two seasons the sci-fi plots tended to stem from the political situation and the characters.  The station would go screwy because Bajoran terrorists left a booby trap on Terok Nor years ago, stuff like that.

I think DS9 might even be the most hopeful show of the lot, precisely because does actually try to diagnose and prescribe for the problems that might arise in attempting a utopian society.

All this talk about Dorf, I thought you were talking about episode 7.

Interesting especially because earlier in the series they explicitly say that Sisko wanted to be an admiral.  I think he's like the only captain that actually had that wish, although Archer comes close to that wish by (SPOILERS for In a Mirror Darkly, Part II graphic) by becoming an ambassador to Andoria, signer of…

Reading the DS9 Companion I learned a lot about how helpful it was for the writers to have general ideas in place for where they wanted to go, but to be flexible enough to change things on the fly.  That's part of what I mean about the balance acheived on the show.

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