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I've just finished watching the DS9 baseball episode, in which a (rather unpleasant) Vulcan challenges Sisko to a baseball game for no apparent reason, and the rest of the DS9 core cast for no apparent reason go along with it.

I know I'm fixating on the wrong thing - and that there's no way you can justify taking the episode seriously - but the thing that really stopped me being able to suspend my disbelief is that neither O'Brian nor Bashir made the 'rounders' crack, or argues out that any or all from a list of cricket, football, rugby, hurling, Gaelic Rules football, or, indeed, rounders was a superior game to baseball, and better for the character.

I also think it would have been infinitely more amusing if it had been cricket, although admittedly given war-time conditions they could hardly have played a full test.

I have to admit that I wouldn't mind trying Miles' whisky flavoured chewing gum, though.

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I'd forgotten the Mysterious Extinction of Organised Sport (I've find it mildly improbable that there doesn't seem to be any sport in the 25th century - dabo doesn't count)

Then again, the missed opportunity that really annoyed me was in Voyager where the crew ended up playing WW2 French Resistance characters on the holodeck after being captured by that hunter species -- and at no point once they realise what's going on does Chakotay or Torres or anyone else tease Janeway about finally having been part of the Maquis

*headdesk* Missed opportunity, scriptwriters (I haven't seen that episode, but knew of its premise, and had assumed that joke was a given).

Virgin is currently selling series of DS9 at silly prices, which is why I embarked on my long delayed watch of series 7 now...

Sisko's gf is called Kassidy(sp?) Yates, btw.