Slight correction, had back problems. He was in a car accident and had to sit like that until it healed. By the time it was healed everyone just expected him to sit like that.

The real answer, if I remember, is that DS9 did not have Federation health functionality because it was a Cardassian outpost and was in pretty bad disrepair.

I might be in the minority, but I hated the mirror universe episodes. Every single one of them felt like consequence free filler with bad low stakes plot points. I mean, yeah people died, but not the characters I actually cared about.

As much as I like DS9, it also marks the beginning of the downfall of Star Trek for me. The episodes just stray further from the point of Star Trek as a whole.

Sure, but that’s not why this is happening. More likely it’s younger generations of people growing up with their friends having an iPhone and peer pressure forcing them to want one as well their parents buying them an iPhone because it’s what they know.

Honestly, the worst thing about these battles is the trend of coming out of warp/hyperspace/wtf you want to call it in the middle of the battle. Like, are you telling me you can detect something light-years away and have near FTL communication, but you can’t detect a massive battle happening. It’s so infuriating.