"Rick Astley! He put TINGS in my ears! Aargh!"

I also loved the pairing of "academy / dad & me".

Have we EVER seen Worf's ears? What do they look like? Does he even HAVE ears?

It's not cheating if your morphogenic matrix just happens to allow you to touch every circle simultaneously, regardless of the number of other participants. It would be condescending to play below one's abilities.

Letting Odo play would have been an unfair advantage (not to mention a budget-breaker, which I suspect is the real reason why he sits this one out). Then again, the Vulcans had an unfair advantage, so maybe it would have balanced out.

No Trek sport is complete without a Nausicaan. Or better yet, two of them: one to distract from the front, one to stab from the back. Soccer would be so much more interesting!

According to Memory Alpha (I say that too much), that Nog scene was based on an incident that happened to Ira Steven Behr in a Little League game.

"I am NOT a merry man!"

He also had improved hand-eye coordination, which would be helpful in a game of baseball. Reflexes, too. Some people say that he has increased strength, but there's little evidence of that.

A Klingon warrior dies on his feet, in battle, not at home, in a cushy bed, like some petaQ.

What does one put yamok sauce ON, exactly? I like the tang, & the earthy, semi-bitter smell, but I never have anything that it goes with…

Counter-quibble: Kasidy bonded with Sisko because her brother played baseball on a revival team on Cestus III; it was implied that she was an enthused spectator, not a true player per se.

It has been noted by the DS9 writers that Season 7 was running a bit thin, plot-wise, & that they didn't have enough stories to pad out the season. Thus, when Jadzia "needed" to be replaced by Ezri, the writers were grateful for the filler material. I personally feel like this is an admission of creative fatigue, &…

I was trying to remember that quote, but you beat me to it. If you'll allow me to be pedantic, the proper quote is from the Guy's Hospital Gazette (1914), & goes like this:

According to Memory Alpha, that is the proper rule number for that clause in the baseball rulebook. I wonder: do you think that Odo memorized the entire book, or that he was particularly aware of that clause because he thought it might come up (possibly due to him knowing Sisko's volatile nature)?

Okay, as an expert on Spira, I'll give you the short version:

That's why the Prophets/wormhole are never mentioned in the MU, I'll bet.

"That is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard and I resent the implication!"

Well, they had the wisdom not to do that with Farrell, I'll give them that. But that an exception to the general rule, yes.

Maybe that's how Klingon memories work. The dead are gone to Sto-vo-kor; there's nothing more to say. It would make it far more acceptable to kill if your dead are swiftly forgotten.