These men died for us. Frequently!

Ah yes, the Monster A Go-Go strategy.

You know, nerd culture has become mainstream, so when you use it as a pejorative, you're the one who's outside the zeitgeist.

But surely we could go just a little further?

25 when it came out, maybe 24 when he filmed it.

This is true. I just find it sort of amusing how completely committed to his part and how helpful to the Federation the Bashir changeling was, even leaving aside this hypothetical appearance in First Contact.

Then again, since we're being purely hypothetical anyway, it wouldn't be impossible to tweak the DS9 story so that First Contact happens after "By Inferno's Light." There's already that discrepancy with the stardates, anyway.

Yeah, I just realized that. So, uh, throw him out of the mix then.

Since the Defiant basically just functions as a way to get Worf back from DS9, I was recently wondering whether they could have theoretically used it as a way to bring in one or two other DS9 regulars as well. I'm definitely not suggesting a full-scale crossover, as there are about a million real-world reasons why…