If that's actually true, there must have been a quite remarkable collection of coincidences. Even the characters' *names*, for pity's sake.

Do we actually have any in-show evidence other than Sloan's own utterly untrustworthy words that Section 31 has more members than just Sloan? Maybe one of his fakeouts was real: he's a rogue, extremely paranoid Starfleet intelligence officer who got a lot of blackmail material on some of those idiot Admirals, enough…

Which is, again, very convenient.

He is "one of those famed Starfleet engineers who can turn rocks into replicators", after all.

The upside: bombing San Francisco like that meant a lot of rebuilding, and did wonders for its ongoing house-price problem. (In which direction, you decide. :) )

Tactical intricacy?! "Fake them into opening a hole and pour through" is not tactical intricacy, it is preschool stuff. The first battles whose tactics are on record, long predating the Roman Empire, have far more complex strategies.

Quite. It could be much worse. Case in point: every fictional relationship (filial or romantic) Joss Whedon has ever gone near. That guy must *hate* his characters.

Of course, that never really stopped the writers from e.g. wandering away from a *major war* to have a gave of frickin' baseball. I wonder if WWII commanders wandered away from the fight for a week or two to play some ball game extinct since 1650? I doubt it.

They commented at one point that they wished they could have ended the series by pulling back, showing the set, and the cameras… and Benny Russell, the writer. They chickened out. I really wish they hadn't. :)