Yeah, Guinan told Troi it was "fat-free." [snicker]

Which is a shame, because Armin Shimmerman does great work, but I'd prefer a great character to have a reduced role rather than be senselessly shoehorned in week after week.

Yeah, Bashir's behavior re: Ezri is kind of dumb and atavistic. I just don't have a problem with the notion that Jadzia had strongly considered getting together with the guy someday.

Point, but while Troi is the worst and Britta is the worst I think we can agree that they're nothing like the same kind of worst.

I should have mentioned it last week, but they really should have killed Dax like Diana Muldaur on LA Law.

Good point. De Boer is agreeable enough but she doesn't show much in the way of chops.

When Ron designed the crew roster for the Defiant, Dax showed up as "Girl".

Never stick your dick in crazy ≅ Never stick your symbiont in Riker

Interesting notion about the cast being adrift without Dax, except that she's not a central enough character to really make that plausible.

They went from Jadzia Dax, whose major flaw was having no real flaws, to Ezri Dax, whose major flaws were too many to name.

Don't blame him. She's cuter than a basket full of kittens.

Tyrone Dax, there ya go. Bring back Tony Todd again in a permanent guest spot. They've had great success with him in the past.

They could integrate a civilian as easily as they did Gina on Brooklyn Nine Nine.

The cultural conditioning would be pretty strong, I think. The symbionts seem like the Trill raison d'etre, and the notion that a Trill would turn down a joining in order to save a symbiont's life is probably unthinkable.

Well, Picard can respect traditions while still not endorsing them when they cause his chief security officer to, say, drive his blade through a high-ranking diplomat's sternum.

Unpopular opinion time: I don't mind either of those ideas.

May I just say that, not watching Top Chef, this is the first time I've ever seen that absolutely gigantic scar on Padma Lakshmi's arm?

I thought at first that he ordered something called Elmer Tea. Like a brand of sweet tea or something.

Trouble is, "smart guy surrounded by dumb criminals" is a pretty good description of Boyd's MO. He's very, very good at handling dumb criminals.

For all his dead-eyed menace Marcos got flanked like a chump.