There was also a cute scene where Picard contacts Admiral now has to call him “sir”
“Huh. So that’s what it feels like to hear you say that”

Hmm well the poisoned chalice sure was interesting, we didn’t kill Tom Riker, Bashir’s safe for now and we got a lovely confrontation in the President’s office. We also got a neat little recruiting speech and a new version of White-Blue

It wouldn’t just be his head on the block; his wife and executive officer would suffer, and he would drag the others down with him, taint the name of Titan and her crew for decades to come. They would speak of him in the same sentence as men like Erik Pressman, Robert Leyton and Lance Cartwright, and his officers would pay a high price.

Rear Admiral William T. Riker

Its the small things I like. In the Poisoned Chalice for example, not every human serving in Starfleet is from Earth. Not even counting series regular Christine Vale (Riker’s XO and onetime Enterprise E security chief) from Izar we’ve got that Magna Roman (or Magna Romanii) First Officer I was talking about earlier when Vale was given temp command of Lionheart. Now there’s the captain running Jaros II from Terra Nova, Warden Sisterson (a sub par but important Ent ep. as I recall). Tuvok’s team meanwhile has a merc from Zeon sporting tribal tattoos that I want to know more about…