See, now, I think the affair subplot will come back. Because it was mentioned in the pilot and then dropped for 9 episodes. And this week we got the "we should split up" line.

Yeah, but with Fuller gone it's likely that Clancy will be having an affair with George's friend from college rather than that guy he was hugging at the funeral.

anterograde

Showoff. I just learned that word this week.

And people buy Abercrombie clothes to keep the photographer in business, don't they? I mean, the clothes may be overpriced, but just think: a portion of every sale goes toward keeping homoerotic imagery staunchly in the public eye!

My favorite Trek is one that doesn't exist. It had a combination of Picard and Janeway as captain, and... oh yeah. It was what I was hoping for when I sat down to watch the very first episode of Voyager. It sticks in my mind, though -- a female captain with a sense of presence, no Riker or Troi, entirely new situations which will constantly challenge their ingenuity and work against their functioning as a coherent whole, given the absence of anybody who knows what the hell Starfleet is...

Yeah. That's my favorite: my idealized version of Voyager. I liked pretty much all the bridge crew. Found Neelix a little too cartoony, thought they had way too much emotional stuff, and was repeatedly unimpressed with the writing. Which made me really really sad. But Chakotay! And Tuvok! Sniff. Ah, Voyager that Never Was, how I miss you!

I wish in some ways that DS9 had been a stand-alone series, or had been the last of the Treks, for one simple reason.

In the episode "Far Beyond the Stars," and later on in the final season, they played with the premise that the events and characters of DS9 were the invention--and obsession--of an embittered science-fiction writer in the 1950s.

If DS9 hadn't been so wedded to the Trek franchise, I would have loved to have seen more done with that idea.

The one who become something Dax after Jadzia died? Whose name I can't remember, though I think it begins with E? Who ended up with Bashir? Wrod.

X-posted, but yeah, Ezri. I felt bad because I really liked the actress and some of what they did with the character, but she started out too perky and neurotic.

Fundamentally, the character conception was WRONG, because Dax should have come back as a man that last season if Dax was going to come back at all.

a female captain with a sense of presence

Like Genevive Bujould?

sobbing

because Dax should have come back as a man that last season if Dax was going to come back at all.

Oh, see ... now you're making me want something I can never have! Harrumph. That woulda been cool.

Wasn't there supposed to be a big kerfluffle about Dax just stepping in and basically resuming the life the previous host had been living? I thought that was a big no-no to the Trills.

Anne--I loved those episodes. When Sisko is standing in the space station looking out at the stars and you see the reflection of Benny and he asks the question about I am I real or a dream I cried.

DS9 had more power over me than anyother Trek. I never felt the kind of emotional pull with Trek. I can't really explain it with TNG, when I first watched it I was totally into the episodes. Yay and good. But looking back and watching them again, I like them but they don't have the same emotional impact.

I've gone back and watched episodes like the one where O'Brien has broken some law on a planet and been implanted with memories that make him think he's been imprisioned for decades, in a cave like cell and he keeps hallucinating about his cellmate after he returns to the station. That, after watching it even years later, still gets to me. Miles and his pain, and him and Bashir at the end.

Like Genevive Bujould?

Um... yes, I suppose so. Why? Oo, it's the French teacher! Cool!

See, I actually liked Mulgrew okay (actually, I was kind of psyched -- her brother worked for the same company I did at the time), but I thought they were just trying too hard. Trying to make her In Charge and In Command and like that wasn't weird at all, but also trying to make sure we knew she was Feminine, darn it, and Not A Bitter Spinster At All. It never really looked natural.

Plus, looking at other pictures of her -- the woman's main feature is a wry smile. That's just her thing. Which is fine, but it was wasted on that role.

Wasn't there supposed to be a big kerfluffle about Dax just stepping in and basically resuming the life the previous host had been living? I thought that was a big no-no to the Trills.

MmmmHmmm. They actually had a really good episode with Jadzia Dax dealing with that issue when a wife from a previous life came back. So, yeah, whatsit Dax - Ezri - probably wasn't supposed to go back to DS9. Probably justified it with the whole, big Dominion War thing. I guess. I don't remember specifics, though.