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It's not a video, but thanks for playing.

Who are you asking? Do you have an opinion of your own? Is there any chance at all you have something to say about the interview you're ostensibly discussing?

DS9 was not a UPN show - it was syndicated.

The residents of the Institute are a bit of a minefield, not least because the show didn't do much to sketch out exactly what challenges they were living with. We're unfortunately left to assume that they would be at risk of harming themselves or others were they living on their own.

I do think Lauren was portrayed as having delusions more than any kind of "sex addiction," and you could make the case that Patrick may not be able to safely care for himself.

But a lot has happened in the deinstitutionalization movement since those episodes were produced, so it's pretty tough to justify way they were treated. It is, however, a decent mirror to the way society was at that time.

I've been pretty excited for this one ever since it was highlighted as a "love letter" to DS9...but I was pretty nervous about a couple of things.

I wasn't sure how the hell they would make it relevant to the cast of this show, and keep them rightly front-and-centre. There was no obvious connection for them to do so, and it wouldn't serve them well to just do a full-on nostalgia fest.

I also wasn't sure how to explore Sisko's fate in a way that felt substantial. It seems like any story about his return would have to be pretty significant (or, alternatively, so insignificant that it would be hard to make an episode about it).

As it turns out, I needn't have worried. They threaded the needle pretty perfectly. SAM was the central character from beginning to end, and her "connection" to Sisko was uniquely intertwined with the character's motivations. And they sidestepped my second issue entirely, but in a way that I still found satisfying.

I feel bad for Ben and Kasidy's kid, though - apparently completely insignificant to the history books.

And I do hope he was able to visit them from time to time.

Is that the lesson here? 🤔

DS9 ran on fusion power, so in theory there wouldn't have been any dilithium in use (though the same couldn't necessarily be said for docked or orbiting ships).

But I tend to think the station itself should be gone by now, unless they decided to preserve it for historical reasons or something.

At least we'll always have Turner.

You don't think the mysterious disappearance of a war hero who was also entangled with non-linear, godlike beings would be interesting?

It's only sitting next to a portal to the other side of the galaxy that also happens to be the home of a species that exists outside of linear time - nothing significant there!

They seem to be tailoring the SFS previews for the social media crowd, with no "standard" formatting.

I suppose you could argue it's targeting a specific audience, but...it's weird.

Oh, interesting - not that I know of, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did some sort of tie-in.

The Chimerans were introduced about a year ago, though it's been a pretty thin year since then, and we still don't know much about them.

Oh of course, you're absolutely right!