[Morgan]

Thanks! We're still discovering new things in this line, surprisingly enough.

Yeah, it's interesting that after the first Q episode the writers never revisited it again. DS9 had Ferengi episodes for comic relief instead -- gawd knows there were plenty of those. In hindsight it makes sense. But then Voyager went really heavy on Q episodes.

DS9 never had a Borg episodes even though a bunch were pitched by the writing staff, and it had a very minimal amount of space-science episodes (unfortunately mostly as a mechanism for time travel stories). But it did indulge itself in holodeck episodes towards the end of the series, which was a bit controversial -- the whole shtick with Vic and Las Vegas was a little too much of 20th century U.S. culture, as if Star Trek was not Americentric enough.

I think DS9 could have pulled off a token Borg episode -- it didn't have to be too fancy. If Enterprise could do it, DS9 could do it.

DS9 is also the source of the most obvious recurring characters that were never made, as Playmates kind of gave up on the series halfway through. So we never got Martok, Weyoun, Damar, Eddington, Admiral Ross, the Dominion leader, Breen, etc.