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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...

Yeap, I think thats the issue with Jake, He has motivations, but his agency always seems kneecapped. Sometimes by his father's...

I think that’s definitely the character concept and the team (especially Lofton) delivers it very well, but it becomes a significant...

I think that sets up why Jake has to do the severing, and why its so hard for Ben to live through. Even if Jake never fully matures we...

I really think Jake doesn’t get a fair shake in DS9, and that’s basically because he’s always defined as a child, an adjunct to his...

The dramatic beats felt very dated, quite like war films from the 50s and 60s, which were mostly about WW2. The angry complaining, the...

I mean there's a stark difference between "power corrupts", which is a truth of human nature (the degree to and way in which it corrupts...

So, we're still on Netflix so we can finish DS9. The last two nights were the Nog-focused two-parter (not actually a two-parter since...

“A small regional station with an audience about eight times the size of my country, nothing to write home about.”

I think there definitely was a bit of a reassessment of superheroes and whether there was any "hero" in there really after MoS (he did...