I believe this bears repeating:

The prison arc did a few things:

I thought the characters have ended up exactly where they were supposed to and it was the great ending of their arcs this season.

The clues were hidden in Seinfeld reruns.

Except for the part that none if that matters. The show has bent over backwards to establish the fact that Elliot is the unreliable narrator, so now they can use that to handwave anything that doesn’t make sense.

Agreed. And part of the beauty was that we got to really know him. He wasn’t just a guy who showed up in a handful of episodes, like a Q or Harry Mudd or even Khan...we lived with him, leading up to and through the Dominion War. We saw him win and then lose, and eventually descend into psychosis. It was powerful, as…

Also, it’s my firm belief that Gul Dukat is the best Star Trek villain of all time, excepting Ricardo Montalban’s Khan.

Garak was one of the best parts of the show, his and Sisko’s interactions were some of the best moments on the show. He is one of the reasons I got so interested in spy’s and military intelligence. It was actually being part of the apparatus that made me disinterested.

My favorite line from Garak is still the one about the lesson he learned from the Boy Who Cried Wolf story. That, “you should never tell the same lie twice.”

What’s even better is later in the lift Garak tells Sisko he left Tollar with the impression the door would explode if he tried to escape and Sisko looks alarmed and says he hopes it’s just a threat and Garak just says it’s best not to dwell on it, but anyone watching knows he really did rig it to blow.

Allow me to present a counter-argument:

I would think that Garak would like not to be mentioned. After all, what contributions can a humble tailor provide?

I can’t claim this, but I remember reading somewhere that Garak is a character that speaks entirely in italics. I think that about sums it up.

Got through the entire article describing why this is the best ST world (I agree, especially after the first 1-2 seasons), and didn’t even have to mention Elim Garak. Well done. Still, he must be mentioned somewhere.

I think the point is that Newt and Hick’s death was un-earned. A rug-pull.

You mad, bro? You seem mad, bro. Don’t be mad, bro.

See, I love pointing out to Patriots Apologists that the Ideal Gas Law does not work with air, and that they have to use Van Der Waals Equations.

Rooting for the Patriots is like rooting for the Lannisters to take over Westeros. Belichick is Tywin, Brady is Jaime, and Gronk is the Mountain but much funnier. Dion Lewis is Tyrion and often treated badly by everyone but Brady (Jaime).