Fridays With Eric Byrnes

Nobody understood her nickname at first so they pretty much said anything close.

What an actor.

Sisko and Garak hatch a plan to get the Romulans involved in the war. They create a fake holorecording that shows the Dominion discussing plans to attack Romulus. The Romulans send Senator Vreenak to DS9 to check it out. But after having his people examine the recording, Vreenak (with this look on his face), proclaims it a fake. So he heads back to Romulus to tell the Senate of Sisko’s treachery. But Garak, plants a bomb on his shuttle and it explodes on the way back, killing everyone. After Sisko flips out on Garak, Garak explains that during the investigation of the explosion, the Romulans will find the holorecording. They’ll view it for themselves, and they’ll see they same inperfections that Vreenak saw. But instead of coming to the conlcusion that it’s a fake, they’ll just assume it was damaged in the explosion.

And it works. The Romulans enter the war against the Dominion. A move that ultimately turns the tide for the Federation. And at the end of the episode, Sisko is making a log about the whole thing, and while drinking a glass of scotch, he explains despite the fact that what happened goes against every morale fiber of his being, that he can live it, that he has to live with it. And then he deletes the log.

Everything is about that episode is television perfection. The acting, the mood, the story, the flow, everything. I love it.