Maybe they'll end Gotham with someone killing Bruce Wayne just to surprise you. End shot: Jim Gordon standing over Bruce's grave and wondering aloud "how different Gotham might be if you'd lived long enough to follow in your fathers footsteps".

At least shoot them in the legs and see what happens

Did not know that, thanks!

Coming late to this party, but what no-one seems to have mentioned is Q-Less was almost certainly designed and marketed to use Q as a hook to get unconverted TNG fans to come watch DS9, hence why all the DS9 characters are quickly sketched out again in a consistent yet unprogressive ways: it's a jumping-on episode.

c'mon AV Club, Classic TV will be great for your SEO - keep it alive!

One is truly self-aware and sentient, the other is mindless

Does Vic really know he's a program, or is he just programmed to behave like he knows he's a program? That should be no harder than programming him to behave like a lounge singer, like Worf, like a bird etc.

Hah! Fair enough :-)

They'll have to address it in the next 6 years anyway, so why get in a tizzy about what Moffat decides does and doesn't count?

that guy was a policeman, until he got turned into the "Cream of Scotland Yard" - always loved that gag :-)