Phlegm573 posted:
Also, I never could decide whether that one episode where Sisko turned into a 1950s sci-fi writer was an epic tribute, or maudlin weaksauce.
I'd put it in the top 5 episodes. It was handled well, but to be honest I liked the performances of most of the rest of the cast. Avery Brooks had his moments, but they were few and far between (and never in the first three seasons). I read that there was an alternate ending where the writer was going to be standing in front of a TV studio holding a script titled "Star Trek" but they decided that would be too much. I think that ending would have been better than Sisko's monologue while staring just barely off camera.
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