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"Maybe, maybe,maybe, maybe The Spider is a guy just like anyone else. You ever think about that? You ever wonder what his problems were? He's swinging around burning buildings, saving people…"

Sisko: You killed him. Garak: That's right. Sisko: That's what you planned to do all along, isn't it. You knew the data rod wouldn't hold up to scrutiny. You just wanted to get him on the station so you could plant a bomb on his shuttle. Garak: It wasn't quite that simple. I did have hopes that the rod would somehow pass inspection, but I suspected that Tolar may not have been up to the task.

Ever since this episode first aired, I've felt that Garak wasn't being quite honest and that it was his plan all along to assassinate Vreenak. He planted the bomb on the shuttle before Vreenak had a chance to study the data rod which meant that it really didn't matter if it stood up to scrutiny or not.

And the more that I think about it, I believe Garak would see this as the correct thing to do even if he believed the data rod would stand up to inspection. It's not just Tolar's ability to create a perfect forgery that's in doubt, but there's also whether Sisko could lie to Vreenak in a convincing manner. For all we know, Vreenak did not find any flaw in the forgery. (He's a senator, not an expert in data forgeries.) He just made the accusation to see if Sisko would give up a tell. After all, Starfleet officers are not practiced in the art of deception.

(Now that I think about it, I wonder if I would've seen the option if I had gone into the Prime Video app on my streaming device rather than just starting the series from the main menu.)

"We wanted to create a show that is inspiring but also a show that is full of adventure. They are unlikely heroes. And the fact they are older is why they are heroes… The central question of the show is what will you do with the time you have left. They all realize they've all got more life left to live."

Will Matthews & Jeffrey Addiss, creators and showrunners for The Boroughs

BTW, there's been a number of shows recently featuring senior protagonists which help to debunk certain stereotypes regarding older adults. A Man on the Inside. The Thursday Murder Club. And now The Boroughs. And over a dozen years ago, British illusionist Derren Brown set out to do the same by recruiting a team of senior citizens to pull off a real life art heist. This is also a very fun watch.

Most of the discussion was about their previous work with Alfre talking about Star Trek First Contact, Alfred talking about Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Bill talking about Spaceballs. There was one question about what may come if there is a season 2 of The Boroughs but the showrunners didn't divulge anything to the cast.

For the Trek fandom, the most interesting thing to me is that Johnathon Frakes is Alfre's godson and she did the film because of this! And she tells an amusing story about a mishap during the shooting and Frakes' reaction to it.

Alfred talked about how Raiders was his first time working in a movie and that it launched his film career. Before he was cast, Spielberg asked Molina if he could do a latin accent and if he was afraid of spiders.

Pullman talked about how much he enjoyed working on the first Spaceballs movie and his real life son will be playing his son in the new movie.

No surprise that Jon Favreau reached out to Roy Choi to come up with an actual sandwich for a scene in The Mandalorian and Grogu. It was great seeing these guys cook together again. I need to rewatch The Chef Show.

When Olan Rogers was remembering what it took to get Final Space on the air, he eventually shed some tears. And when he talked about all the challenges to get the book out, it looked like he was fighting back tears. (x)

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