Jesus, I was just talking to a friend recently about my own regrets about inadvertently leaving Shadow behind on my first playthroughs of the game. Without friends who played the game or Nintendo Power, I had no way of knowing that I was supposed to wait for Shadow!! What if the counter got to zero and the party died…

Maybe Starfleet figured that, at that point, having Romulus declare war on the Federation wouldn't make all that much difference.

"…The Betazoids did resist the initial invasion, but Betazed fell in less than ten hours…"

It's a very good question. We should go a step further: what if the extraction of information was both 100% accurate and 0% painful? Does this method then tip the scale and become a moral action? A violation is still being initiated, the interrogated person does not willingly give up said information and as such has…

What Bashir needs to do is turn Kukalaka into his own personal Inceptionesque totem.

Ha! Maybe he was afraid he was in a simulation again.

Ah man, I was hoping that the screencap for this review would have been the "Footage not Found" screen from Arrested Development. Great review anyway!

I'm not sure how much the crime did pay in the end. His desperate scheme to enlist the Schwartz family to funnel money to Flynn is a losing gambit and would almost certainly fail; either Flynn will see his father's hand in the move, or the feds will. Skyler is left with nothing. Holly will grow up in a truly ruined…

"What the hell is wrong with you?? We're a family!!"

It's gone beyond weird; I really have no idea how to interact with people of the Mormon faith anymore. Super nice people, polite, would easily be on my list of friends….but belong to a homophobic, misogynistic religion that borders on Scientology with regards to its street cred. WTF am I supposed to do, just pretend…

Like I said, I get that people weren't wild about the idea of S31 and what it represented in the context of the Star Trek universe. I'm sure it was controversial behind the scenes and if Roddenberry had been alive it probably wouldn't have happened (DS9 probably wouldn't have happened).

I knew using the word realism would get me in trouble; I even tried to qualify it with "sci-fi", but alas.

Damn. That would have made much more sense, to have Bashir and Garak team up since it was Garak who, from the beginning, influenced Bashir in the ways of intrigue. Kind of a nice closure there. The Section 31 mini-arc should have come earlier in the series so that this scenario could have happened.

I worry about you giving away so much free alcohol, FCW, and how it might affect your employment prospects. Doesn't your boss notice how much profit he's losing when you are on the clock? Hopefully he's not a Ferengi.

You're quite right that it goes against Roddenberry's notion but, with all due respect to the man, that notion is pure sugarcandy fantasy. DS9 is what brings the Star Trek universe, at least a little, into the realm of sci-fi realism (and I get how some people weren't too thrilled about that).

He was Heywood, one of the prisoners in The Shawshank Redemption.

Maybe he had just forgotten about her. Now that would have been a double whammy to lay on Kira.

Computer, delete this entire thread.

Lessons has a bunch of strikes against it already, but for me it earns my unending hatred just for the roll up piano. It's such a fucking stupid and implausible concept that it's making my eyes bleed right now just thinking about it.

Sisko to Romulan Senator Vreenak, waving a fireplace poker: "You wanna get nuts? C'mon! Let's get nuts!"