They kept coming at such a rate that my demeanor moved from pleased to overwhelmed to defeated. No, the writers didn't step up to the plate for the final episode. If the pop humanism of the late '60s gave rise to Star Trek as well as Towering Inferno and the Airport series, then it seems appropriate that the first part of the DSN finale seems like a cross between Towering Inferno and I Claudius. DSN has reached a new zenith in this endeavor. In this finale, children make little faux-poignant comments that real children would never make.
People have deep, two line conversations.
Perhaps most annoying is that the characters close out the series with dilemmas that ignore their characteristics that have been built up over the past seven seasons. In this episode his only problem is that his buddy, Miles, is leaving. Dax get more lines. Well, I think I'm well-adjusted . . . They must not conduct interviews.