I would guess that if you were going to take the notion of inter-species relationships seriously, it would be sort of a required cultural value to accept ALOT of weirdness.I mean, Kira/Odo is a basically human person with a self aware collection of immortal quantum goo that can reform itself into anything…

Yeah, but doesn't her species only live for like, twelve years or something? It's kind of hard to extrapolate human age values onto that. And she certainly seems like a mature adult person. But yeah, Neelix comes off as a dick, from what I remember.

Lack of writing skill?

Chakotay and Vedek Bareil should have had a bromance.

I think the point is that in 1998, the whole PUA thing didn't exist, or if it did it was very underground, so that comparison wouldn't have immediately occurred to the viewers or writer. I think the episode works best when viewed as a sort of Star Trek fairytale.

It's a paradox. BUT, let's give it a shot. Let's say, from their perspective, the Prophets inside the wormhole can perceive the Many Worlds of MWI. However, when they leave the wormhole, or interact with "linear" beings, they are forcing a wave collapse event to make one of the potential timelines "real." *It's…

I think it was more that Sisko had faith that the Prophets would be victorious. His experiences in "Rapture", "Far Beyond the Stars", "Sacrifce of Angels" are the kind of life changing things that might give you a very different spiritual perspective. (Note potential false foreshadowing in "Far Beyond the Stars",…

Some Thoughts on Kira/Odo. Actually, the idea of her being potentially atrracted to him DOES make some sort of sense. In the past, she's gone for stoic, strong, silent type authority figures. Odo meets those qualifications. She can also relate to Odo in the sense of someone who is strongly motivated by…

But The Prophets stopped the Dominion ships, and no Dominion ships passed after that point. It's not clear if the Dominion, without proximity to the wormhole on the alpha quadrant side, was still in contact.

Given the way things were going, that would have been a shocking plot twist indeed, since it pretty much would mean the Federation collapses in a few weeks.

Depends on the Romulan. (if you substitute "any human ethnicity" for "Romulan" in your post, it sounds hillariously racist,lol) But of course we tend to think of star trek as planet of the hats…

"It's easy to be a saint in paradise." -Sisko

I loved the scene where Sisko plays bad cop to Garak's good cop. It's one of those moments where you really just go "whoah". It comes from the Sisko we're used to, but dialed up and kind of taken to a dark place.

That's just their cover story. ENT and Into Darkness clearly establish them as super black ops types The TITLE Section 31, refers to something in the Federation charter I believe.

Disagree. I think profit and lace, time;s orphan, and the sound of her voice are weak. The others are fine.

"A Starfleet officer's first duty is to the truth."

Oh yeah, that brings something else up. It wasn't one criminal and one romulan senator. It was one criminal, one senator, and his bodyguards.

ANSWER: (By the way, I'm sonofsonofspock so fanwanking's my thing). Garak burned some of the imperfected areas before setting off the bomb. The message recvoered will be messy, but enough to get the job done.

SO YOU"RE THE BASTARD WHO FUCKED UP MY TAIL LIGHT! I'LL GET YOU ZACK HANDLEN IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO!

I meant sealed by the Prophets. No question, when the Dominion was occupying DS9, they were in contact with the Gamma Quadrant. I meant after that. And like I said, it's not clear