The lasers were part of anti-drone tech being tested over El Paso airspace, without notifying the FAA, as payback for El Paso voting against ICE getting a concentration camp in their city.

And somebody got jumpy and blasted a balloon they thought was a drone.

Trailer:

Wanker

THIS. This would've been SO much better.

Garak playing matchmaker with Ziyal and Jake, just to piss off Dukat. The artist and the writer, young love. All that jazz.

Way better than Garak randomly sleeping with an underage girl (just so the execs could prove he and Bashir weren't a couple).

It was a twofold shoehorning... they didn't want him and Janeway to finally get together at the end.

And they needed to give him SOME kind of story development after forgetting to give him one for seven seasons.

Actually, there was a planned reveal in the series finale that wound up not making the final script... where it would turn she and Joey were friends with "benefits" all along. That for the entire series they were sleeping together whenever the other wasn't seeing anybody.

What's crazier is they originally planned for Joey/Monica to get together.

Of course this motherfucker defends him

He got stuck on a boat in the middle of "IT'S A SMALL WORLD" for a half hour.

That song's enough to drive anyone crazy.

It's more of a spoof of the then recent Francis Ford Coppola version

Without warning the FAA... because they wanted to teach El Paso a lesson for voting against allowing an ICE camp there.

Looking tough and running drone drills over their heads.

They sure looked real tough blowing up a kid's balloon.

Embarrassing that this is true

Unless you want to end up with a kid that grows up to become Freddy Krueger