I don't know if I'm willing to grant that TBBT is actually pretty funny. I'm thinking back and trying to remember the last time it made me laugh and it was quite a ways back.

Yes it was.

He's always been a republican.

Because the existence of a certain personality type automatically makes them a candidate for lead character on a light hearted, weightless hang out comedy.

I'll give you this. Any sufficiently long running sci-fi or genre show will eventually do a Groundhog Day episode. SG-1 does one of the best.

Plus, also, Bashir is an idealist. Star Trek in general has a pretty idealistic bent and Bashir is on the far end of that spectrum. I think that he'd be inclined to think that even if the Jem'Hadar would be more dangerous free it's still wrong to keep them enslaved and that it's still the right thing to do to try to…

Not strictly speaking true. It's a possibility (one that comes up later in the series in "To the Death") but Bashir - ever the optimist - is convinced by Goran's behaviour that without the white driving them Jem'Hadar could be civilized.

I'm British, I don't even know where I'd get a gun.

I'm British, I don't even know where I'd get a gun.

@critic You'd have to throw those DVD's pretty fuckin' hard.

@critic You'd have to throw those DVD's pretty fuckin' hard.

I feel almost sorry for that guy. What a way to live.

I feel almost sorry for that guy. What a way to live.

Pretty sure they're running to the defense of the first amendment.

Pretty sure they're running to the defense of the first amendment.

I choose to believe that you are a remarkably gifted troll. Because the idea that you really believe the things you say makes me, literally, suicidal.

I choose to believe that you are a remarkably gifted troll. Because the idea that you really believe the things you say makes me, literally, suicidal.

Stand your ground?

Stand your ground?

Well, given that humans have 46 chromosomes (in 23 pairs) and only two of those are the X chromosomes in the XX pair (XY in men) then I guess she specifically the meant the X and only X chromosomes.