Yeah, my understanding was that Enterprise was released first, and without much enhancement, because the show was basically designed to be easily releasable in HD formats and therefore cheap and quick to dummy up for a Blu-Ray release.

I'd love to see Netflix's stats on the various Trek shows. I'd like to think that DS9's heavy cult following and better format for streaming make it one of the more popular shows these days, but who knows.

"In Sacrifice of Angels and Tears of the Prophets big battle scenes had a clearly designed goal that you saw characters work to overcome, here it’s mostly just a big, long melee to kill time…"

It's not canon, but that's basically what happens in Star Trek Online. The Prophets transposed that fleet of Jem'Hadar from Sacrifice of Angels to the future. The Dominion agrees to help get rid of them, but only if the female changeling is released. Neither she (nor the Dominion) seems to have changed much in their…

I always figure that, no matter what happens, the novels just happen in some other reality. As it is, there are already two active Star Trek timelines right now: the novels and Star Trek Online. I enjoy both, but I doubt that any future Trek series, if they happen, will honor those events particularly closely.

If you're talking about "The Fall," I agree. Horribly uneven series, and I especially hate how (SPOILERS) all the characters go on and on about how great and wonderful their ugly new DS9 is over that "old Cardassian mining station."

Makes sense that the notes would've begun on Enterprise. Voyager launched UPN with much fanfare, but given its dismal ratings, and the overall decline of Trek as a powerhouse franchise by 2001, I'm sure UPN wanted to exert more control over such an expensive series.

Including Mayweather, who would, of course, be killed offscreen and mentioned in dialogue (but in a deleted scene).

Naomi! I actually tear up a little bit during "Bliss" when she starts sobbing over Neelix's unconscious body.

So I'm not the only one who thinks that? Awesome. While I enjoy watching the mirror universe episodes for all the TOS callbacks, I don't think they deserve 90% of the praise they get. They aren't Enterprise's best episodes. Not by a long shot. They're two hours of fanwank and Scott Bakula desperately trying to portray…

Garak isn't. Elim on the other hand…

At one point, I think Sloan says that the cure is a "simple nucleotide sequence."

I like it too. What I don't like is that many David Bell-scored action sequence on Star Trek sound exactly the same. Music very similar to the Worf-Gowron track shows up in two other episodes, at least, in the same year (Dark Frontier and Treachery, Faith…), and many more times in later shows.

I can see your point, but I thought TNG Gowron was depicted fairly similarly to DS9 Gowron. Remember how reluctant Kurn was to support him in Redemption, or how he was trying to "rewrite history" in Unification?

Yeah, I feel like they were going for a simplistic vibe with the CGI revamp to capture the TOS "feel," but it was probably more of a budget issue.

The lack of opportunities for future B5 releases, combined with the deaths of so many main cast members, make we wish for a B5 reboot rather than a rerelease or sequel series. Could be done in the same way as BSG (keep the B5 premise—to a much greater degree than BSG did—and get rid of the corny elements). In another…

About the technology becoming cheaper: One concern I have is that the VFX recompositing process used on the TNG Blu Rays will only get more expensive as the years go by. Model-based VFX shots haven't been vogue in Hollywood for a long time, apart from big name feature films. The number of people who know how to do the…

Based on the (scant) evidence available, DS9 actually had more viewers. I recall (but now can't find) someone posting Nielsen ratings for both shows and, while DS9 lost viewers at a steady pace, I believe it had a bigger audience in its final season than Voyager did when it ended two years later.

I swear, Disney must 3-D print all their new child actors off the same 4-5 templates.

That's why it's always best to ignore the technical side of time travel shows. The butterfly effect would give dramatic consequences to even the smallest changes.