Thoughts on: Star Trek DS9 Season Two

• Surely, the best person to ask for advice about a first date, in this case, would be Major Kira? Who would know better on what Bajoran girls like (generally, of course) than a Bajoran woman? ("The Homecoming")
• The Government: aloud He's alive?! thinking He's not supposed to be...
• Make up a new title for their hero, then send him offworld where he'll be out of the way of their ineffiectiveness and so be unable to do what they need him to do. Something tells me the Bajoran Provisional Government is profiting somewhat on the chaos of post-occupation Bajor.
• You can tell Odo has had years of practise dealing with Quark. ("The Circle")
• It's kinda heartening seeing how confident Nog is that he'll see Jake again. ("The Siege")
• Quark's mad, yes, but he'll be proud of his bro when he's calmed down a bit!
• Figured they were going to kill off the war hero at some point. At least it was at the end of the episode.
• I don't think Quark will be adding Klingon Rodeo to the holosuites any time soon. ("Invasive Procedures")
  
• Poor Verad. I know what it's like to feel like you've been passed over for the one thing you were born for... and how hard it is to accept that.
• A stranger approaches you and calls you handsome in one of the creepiest ways possible? Yeah, I'd be biting too! ("Cardassians")
• It's good that O'Brien is finally learning more about civilian Cardassians, even if it is one who was raised with a Bajoran worldview. Such hatred of a race because of experiences at war shouldn't be tolerated, really. There has to be a seperation between how you feel about people when you're at war with them and how you feel about them when you're at peace, otherwise your whole civilisation will collapse into hatred and selfish egotism. (totally not looking critically at certain countries right now... mine included....)
• Something tells me that "Melora" was written by a non-disabled person. The way she acts is the way someone who hasn't actually been disabled thinks a disabled person would act. I'm just waiting for the revelation that when she puts her mind to it she doesn't need any accommodations... I really hope I'm wrong.
• I mean... at least he gave you a heads up, Quark. Most vengeance-minded people would just go straight to the murdering.
• Of course she wants to be 'cured'. Just like all the rest of disabled society. (Hint: I'm being sarcastic. You'll find that actually it's only a fraction of the community who want to be cured, and those are the ones dealing with chronic pain and severe physical disabilities, of which merely needing mobility aids is not one. Wanting a cure for less severe disabilities like paralysis and autism is a very ablist notion.)
• Don't get me wrong - I'm all for the option of being cured to be there for those who do want it. I have myself at times wished I was neurotypical. But I much prefer myself the way I am. I don't want the 'there needs to be a cure' to be the majority. Being autistic is far preferable to being dead, for example. (Definitely looking at the antivaxxers out there.)
• Ha - forget gift horses - at least you know you're gonna get teeth - never look a generous Ferengi in the mouth! ("Rules of Aquisition")
• The Grand Nagus continues to make cane toads look like frog princes.
• We all love a Twelfth Night plot!
• Eight names of Bajorans who were Cardassian sympathisers, maybe? There are always some like that ("Necessary Evil")
• Ooo a flashback episode! Love me some backstory!
• 'Hooray, I saved my brother's life!.... Oh no, I saved my brother's life....'
• "Ok, but don't laugh." 'I promise.' "So, there I am, barbeque sauce on my tiddies..." ("Second Sight")
• Calling it now: Fenna has something to do with the dead star. Reignition = no more Fenna, perhaps?
• Or she's Nidell! A seperate, psychically projected personality!
• Now that is what I call out with a bang!
• Looks like they have some form of xenopox. Looks like a good old epidemic episode, this one! ("Sanctuary")
• So nope, they just lumpy... and need out of the Gamma Quadrant for some reason...
• RIP Andrew Koenig.
• O'Brien's post-raquetball defeat-tantrum is a MOOD ("Rivals")
• I like the 'pe-yoww' noise the ball's bouncing makes. Kinda satisfying, somehow.
• Nothing like singing your praise of your friend to their dad, much to their embarrassment! If Quark could bottle that feeling he really would make a fortune! ("The Alternate")
• Aw noo, dead gloop! Gross, but sad.
• Bashir: "Oh, you meant an actual raktajino..."
• So; not dead gloop. Gloop poop, maybe?
• Surely as a Bajoran, Mora would surely swear on the Prophets? It seems strange that he'd say "Dear God!" upon his realisation.
• Oh wow that's a lot of Harvesters... ("Armageddon Game")
• "Another day won't kill me." Ever the infamous last words... I know he survives, but there's still the suspension of how?!
• Yes, radiation can vaporise people but they always leave a trace - the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki left haunting silhouettes of the people caught closest to the drop sites. Surely Sisko would suspect something when this supposed radiation burst left no silhouettes of the victims!
• *50s sci-fi narrator voice* 'How will our dashing heroes get out of this one? Tune in after these advertisements to: The Make O'Brien Suffer Show!'
• Ha! Of course Keiko noticed there was something wrong! No-one would know the chief better than his wife!
• Those pillows look so uncomfortable... ("Whispers")
• Maybe this is just another test of security by the Paradas; a stress test to see how O'Brien would react to being left out of something as important as security for their meeting?
• So; actually an evil clone created to ruin the peace talks. Would be really strange watching yourself die like that though...
• D'you think, perhaps, Alixus sabotaged the ship somehow when they discovered the duonetic field cancelled out all their technology so they would be forced to land on the planet and live without it? She seems the 'my way or no way' kinda person... ("Paradise")
• "Instead of finding out why he needed to steal a candle and fixing the problem, we stuffed him in a box for a day to teach him and everyone else if you lack something you need, tough shit!"
• Um, Odo... have you looked at the face you've chosen in the mirror, ever? You may have decided on a-little-inhuman, but you still chose a good looking face all the same... ("Shadowplay")
• He sounds alomst disappointed at their innocence... "I thought I'd finally bust my first big case! I'm going to be a small town cop forever....."
• Something tells me the old man's attempt to start a colony in the valley wasn't actually as successful as he had hoped. And that his previous career was as an ingenious scientist/engineer.
• I'm almost happy-crying... probably because I'm tired. That was such a good episode though! I do so love a good heartwarming "beach episode". (A term from anime; a beach episode is one where nothing major to the over-arching plot happens, just a whole load of character development. For eg. 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' S03E05 "The Beach")
• You first sight of your mentor being surrounded by and gambling with a group of Ferengi is certainly a memorable first impression! ("Playing God")
• If you have voles, best let some mink loose. Worked in the UK; the vole population was fine until some animal activists 'rescued' a load of mink. Now voles are very endangered.
• It's always trouble with Quark and women! ("Profit and Loss")
• Garak up in ops? Something must be wrong if he's taking a more direct hand in things.
• A Klingon Afternoon sure sounds tiring. ("Blood Oath")
• These guys are scarier now with the foreheads than they were 30 years afore with just the dodgy tans!
• As soon as I saw the dramatic smoky lighting I knew they were going to fight.
• Well it's rather obvious where this new guy's allegiance is. ("The Maquis p1")
• Well, Dukat, if you weren't only as trustworthy as a starved snake in a rabbit warren, kidnapping wouldn't be Sisko's first response to your comment!
• I can imagine that the Federation colonists left on the Cardassian side of the border feel a lot like modern Palistinians do regarding Israelites - told that their home now belongs to someone else who would be very happy to wipe them out to the last child and the rest of the world turning a blind eye. (when they're not selling Israel more guns...)
• CALLED IT.
• 'It's easy to be a saint in Paradise.' Need that on a shirt; one to wear to charity do's held by rich people to congratulate themselves on how generous they are when they donate a pittance. ("The Maquis p2")
• I mean, mysterious headaches are a bit more of a subtle way of saying 'this character is gravely ill' than the usual secretly coughing up blood, but it's still so cliche... ("The Wire")
• He doesn't want to remove it because it's working; he wants to replace it because it's malfunctioning!
  Garak: 'Stop being nice to me! I don't deserve nice! Grrrr! I'm a scary Cardassian go away!' Bashir: 'No' Garak: =O
• For some reason, the mental image of Garak in a big floofy fur coat and Raybans is a quite amusing one!
• I hope Andrew Robinson won a whole heap of awards for this episode.
• I'm betting - going by the episode title - that flash in the wormhole was them entering the Mirrorverse... ("Crossover")
• YEP.
• I never saw the point of the Mirrorverse. A whole universe of people who are evil just for the sake of being evil. Why?!
• Ok but we all know Winn just wants Bareil 'out of the way' so she can be Kai; of course she's going to accuse him of being a collaborator. Why would Kira believe anything that comes out of that rotten potato's face? ("The Collaborator")
• The station's communication logs were wiped; what's the betting there was 'an accident' on the other end leading to their copies of the logs being wiped too?
• Odo is totally not disappointed that she's not crushing on him like he is her; no siree not at all. Odo doesn't have emotions. Not one. Nope.
• Told ya. All messages gone. It's easier to run a deadly smear campaign when all evidence contrary is gone.
• I agree with Bareil though; 48 or 1000+? We all know the answer to that particular Trolley Problem.
• He was covering for Olpaca!
• Miles, we love you, but f**k off already! ("Tribunal")
• Ah, think I've seen this storyline in The Orville; crewmember's ex-comrade-in-arms appears, and causes trouble trying to continue the war they were in...
• Ooh... or to set up said crewmember to take the fall for their attempts to continue the war?
• Sheesh, lads, at least set up a safeword first...
• The heck is that hair..?
• 'All in good time.' We gotta get your evil clone to do the crime first.
• One year from retirement? Well, that's one way to ensure a... sudden change in your career!
• Who else would want photon torpedoes? The Cardassians, of course. So they can set up an attack against them and start another war, because the military is starting to lose control of Cardassia.
• Keiko: Oh no; no reading material; whatever will we do to entertain ourselves?
• Sisko: "Computer, how do I tell a Ferengi he's being annoying and a little creepy without sounding like an asshole?" ("The Jem'Hadar")
• Well, they's some scary lizards! They make the Cardassians seem like Beanie Babies...
• Attacking a retreating enemy is not the show of strength you think it is, Dominion.
• Sadly, the Dominion's plan to insert a spy would probably have worked if they had actually put a suppression field on her.

I didn't actually expect Bareil to survive Winn's bid/ascention to Kai; people like her have a habit of eliminating their opponents in the more literal sense... Seems like things are starting to heat up a little, as the first Trek to have more of an over-arcing story to it. I'm looking forward to the rest, when I get the chances to watch it!