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Garak is one of the best of the bunch. In a show filled with great character like DS9 that’s saying something.

I agree a lot, but for me it’s: 1) Deep Space 9 by a country mile. Lightning in a bottle. It’s a series so it’s not as consistently...

Probably because something similar happens to him every third episode. He doesn’t have time to think about that particular trauma as...

Also, from a certain point of view (the scientifically correct view) it happens every time someone gets transported. People in the 25th...

Can we also talk about how the real, original Miles O'Brien is just straight dead? And he straight gets replaced by a version of him...

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...