<3 I very badly want to play her! I feel like she and Jim could talk a LOT about the fact that even though the Federation exists, and exists because world war III happened, humans will still voluntarily choose to create /gestures at all the fascism allegories
TNG is such an odd thing because its first season is so WILDLY different to the rest of it. The actors & characters are the same (sans tasha RIP!!!) but it has NO idea what it is doing
(the baseball monologue is actually very good but I do love that the two things these nonlinear aliens found in Benjamin Sisko's head was his unresolved torment over the death of his wife and baseball)