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Honestly, Keiko is one of my faves. I really wish she'd gotten more screen time. Miles is a lovable dork, and their relationship just...

Especially when he otherwise acts completely uncomfortable about the idea of being romantically/sexually connected to either of them in...

It’s a common joke at our table that as soon as Sisko gets to go to the Mirror Universe he immediately has sex with his coworkers with...

We're almost through the first three seasons of our re-watch (we never made it past season 4 our first try through, mostly because my...

Yes, profession often means "something you pay someone to do", like lawyer, doctor, accountant, soldier, or sex worker. We probably...

So there we were, watching the 1943 Phantom of the Opera, complete with the subplot about getting Lizst to play a concerto composed by...

DS9 managed to make the pining of a puddle of goo for a reformed terrorist into compelling TV. That's damned amazing.

DS9 might have been lightning in a bottle. They got so many seasons and so many episodes that we are discussing a character like Jake...

The examples the OP gives are not a problem. Bioessentialism becomes problematic when two things happen: 1. The essentialism is about...

One interesting comparison is DS9 not to other ST series (or even B5) but to concurrent urban fantasy series such as Buffy. Buffy and...

It appears you are skipping a mountain of development for the Bashir character and simplifying it down to a single story line. All I can...

I'm unreasonably mad you didn't give Kira 5/5 and I can't find any logical reasons for being so mad or to argue with your rating lol.

Yes, it’s true - he gets some general maturity and moral/emotional flexibility/range, not least from his friendship with Garak. The S31...

Part of it is that he's a regular cast member so he keeps on having to be around (unlike Keiko or even Nog, Martok, or Garak) but...

Going back and watching a few earlier episodes before plunging back into the latter half of season 7. So yesterday we watched The...