I would watch the shit out of Chuck: Season 6. That show pushed every one of my buttons.

Pat Tallman, who played Lyta Alexander on B5, has also been on TNG, DS9, & Voyager.

That would have been either wonderful or terrible. I doubt that the writers could have pulled it off, though, so I'll lean towards terrible.

Which is…

Lucas has some free time, I hear.

…which almost justifies Vic's existence…

I disagree that the Founders/Dominion would be implacable or unwilling to compromise, for in the end that is pretty much exactly what they wind up doing. They are not unreasonable, & if you bite their carrot (Vorta), then they need never use their stick (Jem'Hadar). As we have seen with other Gamma races, if you keep…

That was… unexpected…

Didn't that come on after SHiPs?

In that version, the accents are better, the intrigue is impenetrable, & every death is (deemed) a suicide. I'd watch the shit out it.

Precisely. They are out for conquest, not genocide. It hasn't even occurred to them to slaughter their opponents. Hell, the Female Changeling threatened to exterminate the Cardassians, but what did the Dominion actually do? The annexed them instead. Murdering the opposition is such a solid thing to do.

She wasn't CLEAR on what it was for.

Okay, I've never heard of this before, but I just read the first half-dozen strips, & I'm hooked. Damn you, I was trying to be productive today.

I think the problem with this episode is that it IS just one episode. Had this story been stretched out over half a season or so, it would have had time to breathe, to collect the necessary pathos & investment in its characters to justify its existence. The cultists could have had more than 3 named characters, the…

Voyager started airing like 3 months after TNG's finale. It was less a return to TNG-style storytelling than it was a continuation of that style with cheaper actors. TNG was popular enough to keep going for years, but Paramount wanted to reduce the costs of the show, which were about $1 million per episode at the time…

This simply will not do at all! We simply must rally together & find you some gainful employment elsewhere. Another station, perhaps? I here that Babylon 5 has some excellent restaurants on the Zócalo.

Well, I understand that the traditional serving method is to lightly drizzle the sauce on the steak, but my species have a poor sense of taste, likely owing to the fact that our breathing slits are on our torsos, completely separate from our digestive tracts. Even with two tongues, there isn't much to work with, I'm…

That's what Pat Benatar meant! I get it now.

I think that you meant to say Heroes, 24, or any number of arc-based shows that have purported to have some real explanation behind all the mysteriousness & symbolism, when it's all really bullshit pulled out of a writer's ass to make a deadline.

"Death to the opposition!"