Considering how she "introduced herself" to Dr. Bashir…

The comments section just got impossible to manage, I hear.

Yeah, there was so much muffled giggling about that over here when we were talking about that episode. :)

Also, remember the only cardassian who heard the founder say "You're all dead you just don't know it yet" was not Dukat — it's a dude no one wants to hear from.

One theme that's beginning to emerge in these last few episodes is just how flimsy Federation Ideals are in the face of a threat. We've touched on it before in episodes like Homefront and Paradise Lost, but if we take these last 4 episodes in concert, what we have is a fairly disturbing pattern of the Federation…

Yeah, they underlined that at the end when it became clear Bashir was "holding back" on O'Brien in darts.

"Leeta’s weird refusal to actually ask him out her own damn self is kind of infuriating. Sure, you can say there’s some Bajoran philosophical reason that holds her back, but nobody mentions it, and that would still sound pretty dumb. "

My thought exactly. Old World Blues was brilliant.

He might have been with the touring band prior to going into the studio with him, but as I recall the only studio credit he gets as guitar on a Banshees record was for Hyaena?

As a huge Banshees fan, I have to point out that both of the major side-projects (Siouxsie and Budgie's The Creatures and Severin's hookup with the Cure's Robert Smith to form The Glove) were both pretty amazing. The Creatures used Budgie's experimental beats and Siouxsie's powerful pipes to create set pieces that…

@avclub-1cdd3d1e53f96ae7894ff6d46f59f2e0:disqus  dude—even the writers joked about what a monster Bashir was.

@avclub-0c3e626d1a287cdc48c77515c8dcc243:disqus He calls 'em "Argis."

*slow, awed clap*

Hey, it turns out we did learn that fun breen nursery rhyme in the previous ep…!

Foreshadowing Spoiler:

Yeah, she's a bit of a monster. It's probably for the best that between her Starfleet Ethics ("hee hee, we've displaced millions of people!") and Bashir's Medical Ethics ("I know, we'll transport Keiko's fetus into Bariel's dying brain, which I will temporarily keep alive by transferring Kurn's memories into… it's ok,…

Which sucks because her whole manual navigation bit when she's bringing the Defiant away from the station is so brilliant.

Huh. I thought quite the opposite. It made him look like he was a man unconcerned with, erm, "clearance issues."

That Dax toss-off at the end "sometimes I like it when the bad guys win" is such… UGH. After everything that went on in the episode, it's not a wash. Sisko has just stepped over a line in terms of Starfleet and their falutin high ideals (and I will not reveal spoilers about whether or not this is the last time but I…

I considered doing a bracket system to determine the worst episode of DS9. I'm thinking that episode would have made it into the final 4.