I'd fear it would be a lot of battling and ginned-up drama instead of the more philosophical one-offs that make the individual series work. I'd be a bloated Trek movie, in other words.

Fair point. But hadn't the Defiant also been destroyed earlier in the series? I should remember with more certainty, since I've watched the series at least 3 times through, but ship stuff is my weak point…

But by the time this episode aired, the Enterprise had already been destroyed in Generations and resurrected with a messier, more muscley bridge in First Contact. Ship destructions on shows that essentially require ships always strike me as phony, since we know they'll just have a ship again in the next episode or…

Avery Brooks as Joran as Moriarty.

"…and since we’re talking spin-offs, I really want a show about Bashir solving medical mysteries, and O’Brien hanging out with him."

I wasn't around for it either, but I've watched it twice on Netflix and have read several Sagan books. I highly recommend his Cosmos if you've got the time!

I'd support this choice only because it would get Colbert away from his shtick, which I think is beyond tired at this point.

Underrepresentation is usually a symptom of discrimination. There's no need to answer a question like "why is discrimination a problem," so I'll simply illustrate for you how the discrimination works in this case. Talent-finding and -developing shows like SNL seem to discriminate against women because of entrenched…

I personally don't feel that it was a disaster, though it was certainly a disaster in the sense that most people think of it as a disaster. It failed to be anything more than a silly 2-part episode a la Season 6 or 7, but by the same token, it succeeded in being a silly 2-part episode a la Season 6 or 7, which I'd…

But we have nuCosmos, which is Cosmos with 'splosions but without Carl Sagan! So we've got that going for us, which is… nice. :(

If it's not a woman, there's a real problem. OK, we know there's a real problem, but it's time to demand that a network, in this case CBS, do something about it.

I think I responded to you last week on this point. Movies are different than television, but that doesn't excuse the soulless Trek movies that we tended to get and are still getting. They could have been different-good instead of different-bad. There are character-driven, idea-driven sci-fi films out there,…

I agree, but on the other hand, the Breen are near the top of those trivial lists that Trek characters rattle off, so it is perhaps justifiable to assume that they are among the more significant in terms of their galactic influence.

Damar's "Why don't you go ask Worf?" is probably my wife's favorite line in the series, and one we quote often and laugh about while remembering about how damn fun Damar, Weyoun, and DS9 in general are.

I'm obviously missing something here.

I just don't want it to end!!!! Let's do one episode a week from here to the finale.

I agree with you completely. This is the right culmination for Dukat's character, in my book. His most interesting psychological trait all along was that he wanted the Bajoran people to look at him as a savior, a father figure, someone who made the occupation as painless as it could have been under the…

Garak would eat Sloan alive.

SPOILER ABOUT TOPIC, NOT CONTENT, OF FUTURE EPISODE.

Yes, I agree, realism is no defense for crappiness.