As a sports fan, I love the way Sisko uses the analogy of baseball to explain to the wormhole aliens the concept of linear time- If the outcome of the game is already known, then the game wouldn't be worth playing. For me, this was one of the best moments of the series, and especiallly as the baseball analogies would…

"The finale airs on Sunday. God is certainly too busy to be involved on a Sunday, right?

Susan Oliver, the actress who played Teeyna, also played Vina in the Star Trek pilot "The Cage", which also featured a human caged up in a zoo.

Maybe he'll get kidnapped at the end of the season by a bunch of hillbillies wearing fake beards and he will never be seen again except for the odd cameo. Then the creators won't have to find a way to explain why he's aging so quickly.