I'm frankly surprised I got an AV Club tag for that and not for "Creepy Changeling Sex Marathons" last week. Oh well. :p

Chico, I'm not sure all of the orgasms in the world could make up for the horror of taking your first BM with a fully-developed consciousness.

I'm glad they don't dwell on it. The fact that the changeling was doomed for the start fits the episode's theme.

I feel cheated out of a "Sisko goes down to Waste Extraction and shows the boys how it's done" episode.

Yeah, we were talking about that last night.

this is now canon.

Yeah, but when Odo throws that dude off of the statue, and there's NO reply? Seriously?

Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places is great just because I love Grilka so damn much.

I liked Apocalypse Rising well enough, but I did have a hard time believing that Sisko etc would have survived the drink-and-fight-a-thon as well as they did. Fine, Sisko proved he was the toughest in the yard by punching out that Klingon, but for a bunch of Tough Warriors About To Get Their Tough Warrior Medals, all…

Well, that makes sense then. :)

Hah… I actually looked it up and every website I saw said basically "one stardate unit = 1 earth day, .5 = noon, .0 = midnight" So I was basing it on that. Anyhow, I'm not going to argue if there's word of god to say otherwise.

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Salome Jens's "female changeling" is such a great character. Her affection for Odo is darkly maternal, but we get a sense of how rigid the changeling psyche is when she can barely acknowledge Sisko et al's care for Odo, much less reconsider the Dominion's plans for the Federation. You would think that seeing how the…

yeah — the question will be, will he be able to wait, or will he cheat?

Root Beer already happened..?

Uh, you might want to stop watching after this season. We don't want you to die of botulism.

Zack, I will say this for the founders, they don't seem to gloat like the Cardassians would, and as Wayoun pointed out last week, the Dominion is prone to hubris. That planet was pretty obviously on its last legs—it would have been a waste of dominion resources to beam down every few months and make sure everyone was…

Try this:

and… SPOILERS… what goes around, comes around.

Trevean's non-bad-guy-status is actually one of my favorite parts of the episode. When he comes to Ekoria when she's too sick to come to him, he's not twirling his mustache — he's applying the salve that he hopes will lessen her pain, and asking if she needs him to do anything more, and when she turns him down, he…