Genuinely bummed about this, because I think it had a lot of potential, but backstage drama during the PILOT means maybe an abortion was for the best.

He drank a lot of the fan kool-aid on things, and wasn't above teasing the slashers when he felt it benefited him. And why not, since the fan kool-aid was paying his mortgage?

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I've always espoused the 'their 25th is different, so there was an election post-Nixon' theory myself.

Good call.

I love how Section 31 is actually a black-ops organization dedicated to overseeing Asimov's psychohistory. And that's the second time this season that DS9 has tipped its hat that way… and judged the entire concept to be creepy.

It's West Wing in/with is one of the most tired pitchlines ever, because none of the people who have used it have understood what made West Wing tick as a show. It isn't Sorkin's writing explicitly or hunger for American political dialectic on a nighttime drama or… whatever else people have thought over the years.

In the future, all girls are Goldie Bloxx girls.

Upvoting for truth. But then there are those people who will clutch their pearls while shouting about the Beastie Boys.

I would put all my credits on it.

My favorite part of BSG was how s4 is Ron Moore just rehashing a lot of DS9's subplots, but GRITTIER this time.

It's pretty much the only redeeming plot point to the Khan thing too, since if you're a DS9 fan you're coming into the movie knowing that S31 has some kind of super weak spot for idiotic plans involving the genetically enhanced.

I'd argue that the serialized storytelling gives DS9 more space for powerhouse morality plays, it's just that fans want their morality plays to be neat and tidily wrapped up in 45 minutes or less. They're uncomfortable with the idea that Bajor as Holocaust is something they have to continue to deal with…

I once made the mistake of overhyping "The Visitor" to a friend watching the series for the first time, and have always regretted it.

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The episode that really creeps me out in this vein is "Homefront/Paradise Lost". Historic terror attack leading to the eroding of civil liberties and blatant power grabs by the military-industrial complex? You don't say.

Actually, it's really surprising that none of the main cast of West Wing have ever been on Trek, considering Janney, Schiff and Whitford were jobbing actors for a long time before it gave them their break.

Evil, polytheistic witch. You can bet your dollar there'd be a scene where she makes spirits fly out of a cauldron or something. Assuming she doesn't just die off screen, or that the King isn't turned into a young hottie.

Evil witch?