@avclub-b31df16a88ce00fed951f24b46e08649:disqus It also helps to explain the Prophets' actions if you envision all of their interactions with Sisko to be happening more of less simultaneously.

I seem to remember that they show up in the EU fiction.

@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus While I agree it's a little silly, you can't blame even so profligate an entity as the Dominion for being a little gun-shy. A fleet they'd been assembling for months, composed of the Prophets-alone knew how many ships, just vanishes. That's gotta be a little offputting.

I bought a Chinese bootleg DVD of The Matrix Reloaded many years ago, simply because of the movie's catchphrase: "The white men wanted a stud to breed slaves."

Also found left over from the occupation of Deep Space Nine:

Yeah, I don't really like that Sisko is commanding the whole fleet. I mean, I know we've established that most admirals are entirely useless chair warmers, but that still seems like an admiral's job.

Yeah, both TOS and TNG established that the only thing keeping a starship from completely destroying all life on a planet in seconds is the captain's good graces.

Well, some movies still have modern jet fighters flying so close to whatever they're shooting at that they run into the damn thing.

I'm reminded of The Fifth Element, wherein the border of Human space is marked by a line of glowing buoys about a hundred metres apart and stretching, presumably, about ten trillion miles.

@Chico_McDirk:disqus Be fair: half the fleet gets immediately destroyed offscreen near the beginning of the first Abrams film. The other half of the fleet—the half staffed by actual officers and not sexy students, is away doing … something.

@avclub-0c3e626d1a287cdc48c77515c8dcc243:disqus When Dukat showed up on Cardassia again he really should have been selling Amway.

Agents of SHIELD is extremely weh. At the moment it's a TV-pretty band of misfits getting into hijinks with footage of Iron Man in the background. Of course, that may just be because pilots tend to get market-tested into a grey paste.

It's true that the bridge of the Equinox was over a bowling alley and under a different bowling alley.

It doesn't help that their faces are effectively identical, not to mention her flesh-coloured unitard.

I griped about this last week, but one hideous flaw that Nemesis shares with Into Darkness is the sudden, unreasonable introduction of a "supership".

I like the idea that a really well-filled-out dress transcends all barriers between mutually hostile alien species.

Good point, though Weyoun and Dukat explicitly state that the Federation has improved their shielding to withstand the Dominion at the end of season five.

Interesting. I'd no idea. And here I thought they were just being clueless white guys.

@avclub-146bc30c345d31f3468fec764a1970e1:disqus Sadly, you know that would probably make the situation worse. It's like having a big golden box that says DO NOT OPEN on the front.

@avclub-143816c28946e8294f0bd6353b88ec2d:disqus I don't even remember that one, but that is also a great reaction to being attacked by robot dinosaurs on a distant alien planet.