Imagine if underneath the uniform, instead of a vest, we find out that Sisko had a "fake chest", like people accused Montalban of doing for "Wrath of Kahn".

Truthfully, I like both episodes in re-watch.
It is just so hard to come back to Earth after the previous episodes.

Re: the bickering - They had weeks of Kira's first-hand account of the meetings during the occupation to draw from. The only change would be Damar for Dukat, but that also let's Weyoun be more obvious with his venom.

I wouldn't give her flack for that. We love what DS9 did, because the writers made it work. If they had been even a bit less ambitious, it could have been a narrative disaster.

Sisko has just finished playing "bad cop", and yet Garak's "good cop" makes him soil his undergarments.

People talk about how dark "Inquisition" and "In the Pale Moonlight" are, but you point out that the horror is just beginning.

That's an interesting point. Sisko is tormented just before a "welcome to the war" party that (secretly) celebrates his success.

Just say that the other poster was a Changeling impostor.
(Or a carefully crafted holographic forgery.)

I can learn to live with it.

That's one thing I remember about the Say Anything commentary with Crowe and Cusack. Lloyd Dobler is a physical guy, and you can see that he wants to do the instinctual (and wrong) action. He becomes *more* heroic when we see the struggle before doing the right thing.

If Romulus had a million Senators, I imagine the Romulans would have arranged for monthly gardening conventions, with Garak as the primary speaker at each one.

No, the water boarding was not justified, for the simple reason that the results are dubious compared to other interrogation methods, and the reliability of the intel suspect. The only virtue is that it is "convenient". (There are plenty of former intelligence agents who have gone on record about other methods being…

It also helps that Moore had the final uncredited rewrite of the episode.
Between Taylor and Moore, this episode had great dialogue and scenes.

He goes from being excited about Orion Green Girls to flaccid at warp speed.

NOT AVAILABLE ON THE NEW JERSEY BOARDWALK.

“I’ve locked him in his quarters. I've also left him with the distinct impression that if he attempts to force open the door, it may… explode.”
“I hope that's just an impression.”
“It's best not to dwell on such minutiae.”

People make fun of McHattie’s unusual line reading. (One my favorite YouTube videos is where “Vreenak get’s the SomethingAwful treatment”: link ) But the more I hear it, the more I think it works (better than shouting).

THE A.V. CLUB
All I had to do was add a little petty bickering and mutual loathing.

We obviously need a sequel to this movie. The set designers can get inspiration from 10 Epic Portaits of Jesus and Dinosaurs.

Whoops! Only Saint-Saens I can remember is "Danse macabre", and that is mostly because I was introduced to it by the animation "Lazar" (which I just re-found on YouTube ).