To be fair, they wanted Paris to BE that cadet but some kind of rights issue happened.

"The girl drives away, we see a vision of future death."

Eastern Badlands today, Eastern Badlands tomorrow. Justice shall never reign until the sundered Cardassian empire is once again whole.

I always assumed she was purged as part of the Detapa Council, but of course, the books say she lived to be the new Fed Ambassador.

Yes and no; it's kind of a grim note to leave on when DS9 valued the democratic process in all its messy complications. But more importantly, that the entire war is secondary to Odo returning to the Link has been well-established at this point.

If we're going to be reaaaaal about this topic, the last time we see the Prime!AQ is in the reboot, where we learn Spock has just about sign, sealed and delivered diplomatic relations between the Feds and Romulus when the entire planet gets destroyed.

I'll miss Zach's reviews and the community around them a ton, but let me say that one of the nice things about participating here was "seeing" so many familiar faces from the fandom I had lost touch with as well as new ones. Even though this experience is ending, I hope we'll all meet again someday… if not right here,…

*wipes a real tear* You are by far my favorite gimmick account anywhere. The amount of work this must have taken you to pull off, week after week, at such high quality, is appreciated and reminds me of the Good Ol' Days of the Internet.

Although of them (Rom, Martok) Garak by far has the best qualifications as Tain's bastard son groomed as his heir.

Every time I hear that song, I remember that bit and get a smile out of it.

Yeah, the one thing saving the final shot from utter bleak despair is that Jake's entire life (symbolized by Kira) is still living on the station. He's no longer the young teen with nothing as support structure except for his father.

It's a deliberate callback, one for me that just balances on the precipice between hope and despair.

I've always viewed it as she doesn't really care about spending the rest of her (immortal?) life in Fed prison so long as she gets her real goal: Odo to return to the Link. In many ways, the entire Dominion War is nothing to her outside of that.

"The Visitor" - yeah, it's super manipulative but I don't have a great relationship with my folks and I was ten and Sisko was in many ways, a stand-in - like many tv dads - for all the things I was missing out on.

I think we're going to see a lot more passive aggressive scrapping from Aslaug as she tries to secure her sons' places in some kind of succession. Especially since right now Bjorn is a healthy mature warrior of nineteenish, and her eldest son is what, four?

I thought for sure the punchline was going to be Warren getting a lot of dates out of the field hockey experience. Just based on my own high school experience: I went to a school with 70% girls and it seemed like the straight boys got their pick.

Still a fond memory, that; he made me proud to be an American.

Now that Bjorn is back, isn't he basically heir apparent? She has reasons to want to suck up besides feeling threatened by Lagertha.

I imagine getting a small toddler to hold still so they can CGI or put a contact in is too difficult.

For a while, I thought they might off traitor!brother!Rollo and have Aslaug pop out another son whom Ragnar would name Rollo. But the window for that seems to have closed.