PrimeWire

Sometimes it’s nice to fight a battle where the odds are stacked against you and there is no chance of winning, but in reality you have a stacked deck so you can experiment with the hopeless situation and perhaps learn something that will help if, God forbid, that hopeless situation manifests outside the holodeck. Miles is a soldier with a heart and a conscience through and through, and so is Bashir, in all the ways a doctor with a complicated past can be. It’s sort of a poetic nod to how excellent they’re both written, imo at least.