I intentionally stopped short of the episode where they time travel because I feel like that’s going to be pretty intense.

I have some questions: Are we ever going to find out what Garak did to get exiled? Because everyone we’ve met in the high command knows who he is. I don’t trust a word he says. But I want to believe he was and is a genuinely good person.

I just don’t remember the plot line where we got Riker 2.0 in next gen, but at the beginning of that episode here, Tom Riker gets angry at Miles and says that Miles knows why. I do not know why. Why was Riker unwilling to speak to Miles?

Would it really bring down the trill system if the public found out that 50% of the population could be joined, but most of those joining would be bad and end in death? Dax’s joining to the composer technically worked, but... it was a disaster. The guy was a murderer. And he died six months later. As an initiant, I would rather live unjoined than lose more than half my life expectancy to spend six months in mental anguish. But that doctor lady seemed to think that this secret would tear down their society.

I have some thoughts: I just realized Odo is in love with Kira, and my heart hurts. I want the world for Odo but Kira is so happy with the Vedec dude and I don’t want Odo to take that away to have her... ugh.

I am still in love with Odo’s development as a character. I’m aware of how much power he has now, and I love that he tried to use it to grant the Jem’Hadar kid independence, but I just don’t think he knows how it works yet. His regard for life and justice is still beautiful to me.

I WANT DAX AND JULIAN TO GET TOGETHER BUT NO. WE GOT JULIAN AND KIRA. But it was pretty funny when he told Sisko he needed help to get his own hands off Kira. Sisko was hysterically uncomfortable with the whole thing. It was one of the few times I’ve felt like Sisko was a good character for me. I am usually not one to go for off-cannon pairings but they just work together so well.

I LOVED the episode about the station shutting down when Miles tripped a security system leftover from Cardassian rule. That was amazing start to finish. We didn’t leave any characters out, and even though they couldn’t communicate, there was a way in which they knew “We should take these steps so they can take those ones.” Garak was funny. Gal Dukat was funny. This was a really clever and relatively simple way to play with all of the history they have built into the show.

We also got some development on Dax. Some of it was good, like learning about the host that was hidden from her. That was interesting, clever, and I felt engaged. Then we had a cheesy love at first sight story. I wasn’t into that so much. I don’t have as much faith as Sisko did that she had thought it through.

Guys Miles doesn’t hate Julian anymore. But Julian is a poor wife replacement. And we saw some off-duty Kira, as enforced by Julian. I think the team dynamic is starting to make more sense.