*cracks beer* I will join you in this.

I always thought the choice of "The Best is Yet to Come" was a great little nod to the breakneck pace the rest of the series takes.

So this is happening? You're going to let THIS happen?

Speaking of that sexy space-lesbian, she's totally the mom on "Arrow" now. Took me forever to figure out what I knew her from.

No, she's too beautiful for any world.

They always put the poorly-written female character in charge of the murder investigation, too. Remember that 7th-season episode of TNG where Troi investigates a murder?

Oh, UPN. Real 90's kids remember, etc.

Real Episode Plot: Neelix undergoes a dark meditation on whether there's life after death.

In the standard universe it's ambiguous and up for debate. But Mirror Julian kind of cements it- the kid was fine, and dad's a dick.

At least they were trying harder than the guys writing the teasers for upcoming episodes.

That is, in the words of Gandalf, "The deep breath before the plunge."

Shut your mouth or we'll strand you in a Troi's Mom Episode. Then you can see what a week part really feels like.

A ship is a closed system though, everybody's already together. The station is open to exterior traffic, and people would be arriving at all sorts of weird hours depending on what planet they were coming from. You'd think at least Quark would have had the idea to force somebody to work the overnight shift to sell…

"We can assault here and here… what do you think, Julian?"

"DS9, this is the Terellian Freighter requesting docking clearance-"

There's no feeble episodes after this because there's no episodes after this. Next week is setting the stage and then it's basically a 9-part miniseries till the end.

Don't think of it as "a Vic episode." Think of it as "Sisko's Eleven."

This… I like this.

I never really got why DS9 would even have a "night." YOU ARE IN SPACE.

I always assumed that Vic was probably based on a real person (like they do now, using models headshots to code video game characters) and that was him.