Ahh, aristocrats…never realising the true feeling of the common man. When the legates toasted peace to the Bajorans years ago, it was no surprise that Central Command would be overthrown. The costly sacrifice of our boys and girls from North Torr and other military districts meant that their relatives could never…

Kanar, please. This is a happy occasion. Let's not spoil it.

I must admit what hits me the most is that final scene and then the final shot, of Jake staring out the window and Kira joining him.

To talk about the books, I do think it is important that both Robinson and then Una McCormack have made friendships vital to Garak's continuity, principally the Alon Ghemor and Dr Parmak characters. Definitely there feels like a suicidal nature to the man in A Stitch in Time until he decides to become involved with…

More so I loved the insinuation in McCormack's The Crimson Shadow that Garak was 'damaged goods' to post-war Cardassia. That he reminded everyone too much of the past - the Order and the militaristic secret state of just a decade before. Damn, I love how McCormack writes and frames him - the scene in the Never-Ending…

Even after Unity they are good. The novellas about Bajor, Andor and Cardassia are each wonderful - distinct attempts to subvert genre within the books and be about cultural exploration. The one about Ferenginar is such fun, and the Dominion one really beautifully written. Warpath is an excellent chase novel (and…

(My) Insect Overlord, Wise's character, Liko, doesn't turn up in any novels as far as Memory Beta - the sister site to Memory Alpha dedicated to licensed trek products (comics, novels, rpgs) tells.

Zack, after you finish the series, is there any chance for you to read & review the post-series novels? You can preview the omnibuses of the first eight novels on googlebooks :)

They are well worth it! As well as the other mirror books like Rise Like Lions which follows directly on from them and the various anthologies.

The producers did want the TNG cast to cameo in nonspeaking parts at the marriage, but it didn't come to pass, alas. They talk about this desire in the Companion book - I think some actors could appear (Frakes and Burton were in town, of course), but others not at all. And it didn't come to pass.

That is how the post-series Ds8 novels, especially Warpath, Fearful Symmetry and The Soul Key, took it - some kind of nonlinear loop of meeting and engineering Sisko to exist, in all dimensions, so that the Temple be revealed. It's rather fab. There are these wonderful scenes of Sisko meeting his other-dimensional…

Also there is the books too! I would love to see Rowan tackle the Psi-Corps books, especially the third with Bester à Paris

Yeah it's all very interesting. One only hopes….

Yeah, this is front and centre on the TV page! I would love this to come back: it was a very good rewatch.

Nerys, check out this podcast interview with Mack (it begins after a ten minute drama) about Ceremony, but also his connected books including the probs of ZSG: http://www.trekmate.org.uk/…

De rien! I'm really glad someone else has thought and read about this, and feels that Behr, Wolfe (& Beimler, Weddle & Thompson, Echevaria and the earlier team of Pillar, Berman, Fields and so on) were all important, not eclipsed by individuals on the staff. And that collaborative vibe - that writer's room where…

Ah, great recall! Even the orchids are there (which Robinson used in 'A Stitch in Time'. A good resource to check all these facts. A good resource is a script database like this - http://www.st-minutiae.com/…

Was that established as occuring after this episode, in 'Inter arma' or was it mentioned before? Anyway, you should check out Andrew Robinson's ideas of what his time on Romulus was! It's one of the most interesting aspects of his written biography of Garak, and involves his gardener skills. :D

I always forget about that! Ahaha, there is sometimes such instability with regards to Sisko's attitude to the wormhole. How true to life.

That does happen in some books, actually. 'Hollow Men' for example, which addresses the pacifistic identity of the Federation struggling with a long war and its strange bedfellows. Indeed it's set right after this episode, and has this wonderful atmospheric run through misty London and another scene with a rally by…