“You exist here.” The emotional gut-punches continue as we look at the second half of DS9’s pilot “Emissary.” We manage to have a focused discussion, covering all the aspects of this pilot that make it the best we’ve seen so far: intriguing and complex political relations, importance of religion as an organizing force in Bajor’s society, fully realized female characters, therapeutic wormholes aliens, and science fiction baseball metaphors. Body count: no one?