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The power levels of neither have been portrayed consistently, nor has that of the Defiant. Such is typically the case with such matters, such as the ancient quæstion whether Superman would beat Gokuu in a fight or not.

I do not. I don't care about providing ad hoc definitions for “vague words”. I simply do not utilize them to make my arguments. A word is only useful in it's usage if I can with confidence assume the person with whom I speak has the same conception of it as I. Such as, in this case, I simply...

The prrophets were never said by their religion to be omnipotent. The word “god” clearly prædates it's usage to describe the supposedly omnipotent Abrahamic god and has been used for the gods of many religions which were never said to be omnipotent. Ascribing omnipotence to gods is mostly...

Apparently in this case means that it was something that was mentioned at one point but did not make a particular impact. I can't say it made as much of an impact on me as it did on others amidst the sea of other “North American English accents” on characters that should not be having them...

Yes, that is the impression I gained but I wasn't too sure. It being for a U.S.A. audiences these references are of course more subtle than what a European can easily determine. Certainly the first artificial satellite and human in space are monumentous achievements in space exploration worthy...

Ah, now I see why they didn't do it. Apparently some people are offended at the display of Soviet achievements. Notwithstanding the many issues with humans experimenting on nonhuman animals for their own gain, let us be honest that is not an issue bound to only one side of the iron curtain, and...

Looking it up, Starship Down was indeed further back than I remember it, but also already included Worf. I'm no sure what set up Worf and J. Dax to a similar extend as that episode did the latter with Bashir.

I'm sure they could could have cut the arbitrary submarine for something as momentous as the first man in space. Perhaps he was conceived as such, but he was apparently from the U.S.A., not that I could tell the difference, of course, for as with Uhura, and Kirk their ethnicity could not really...

Well yes, because both of these couples were forced and out of nowhere. Kira had known of Odo's feelings for a long time, but suddenly now awakens to a mutual love after a poor date and that very strange argument? Dax was also clearly set up to be with Bashir and did not seem like Worf's type...

You and I both know the number is two, both having about three times the population of the U.S.A., neither having a single cast member in T.O.S..

In this case, time is a particularly poor excuse. The post you quoted pointed out that T.O.S. was actually one of the least offenders and all that came after it was even more America-centric, much of which produced after Pacific Rim. I do not particularly swallow this when quite a bit of...

The same can be said of the interpretions of diplomats in contact with any foreign nation who relay what they've seen at home.

Yes, there are many countries more populous than the U.S.A. Consider how something such as Pacific Rim did it, for a far better effect. Of course, it wasn't simply the issue that too many of the characters were nominally from the U.S.A., but that even those that weren't spoke with...

The topic of the prophets shows well how people react to arbitrarily calling something a “religion”, and how easily they are influenced by a different choice of words for the same thing. Unlike most religions, these “gods” are an accepted existence and simply an alien form of life, but the...

Ahh, yes, the man who fought long and hard to keep his slaves and fashioned his own false teeth from teeth pulled from them. I say hi back to him. George Washington was in no way a man who rose for the plight of the little man. He was a wealthy slave owner who sent men to their death to fight a...

I disagree. Even outside of such times, why did almost all revolutionaries eventually become dictators? Lenin, Castro, Robespierre, even Gandhi all started with what originally seemed noble intentions but soon revealed their autocratic and dogmatic nature. For a man to pick up the sword against...

I actually dislike that they later revealed that Odo was not as high and mighty as he claimed. I rather liked his original character as being self-righteous, dogmatic, and holding his own personal subjective views on his so-called “justice” as fact and believing it innate to his species, but...

I said so at the start that I found it unlikely that a man would pack up from Copenhagen to live in the middle of the Sahara, yes. The examples you gave are very much not comparable to that. — I believe it unlikely, because it simply does not happen. While it is true that in the case of the...

Which still does not compare to people going somewhere where not even a grocery story exists, to build one themselves.

The Borg would surely be even more inconsistently portrayed. We have always been assimilating organic life.