To the best character on DS9!!

I love that they let him develop beyond a scripted holonovel character. He knew he was a hologram, and they left the holodeck on for him so he could almost live a normal life. Don’t really know why, but that’s so freaking wholesome to me. Peak Trek.

It would make The Doc over at Voyager proud.
Meanwhile, Quark's out one holosuite for a chunk of potential customers, footing the bill for power consumption, and chipping away at his profits.
- Please, he was stealing that power in the first place - and Sisko knew the whole time.
- I took it more like a screen saver in that they let Vic’s program run when nothing else was in use.
  Suspending the program is just making Vic take a nap.
- I’m sure Quark has organized some deal
  They get a dedicated holosuite at below hourly cost, Quark never has to find customers to rent it out to, has 24 hour usage, and doesn’t have to send someone to clean it.

James Darren was great, but Sinatra Jr was their first choice:

Now Frank Sinatra, Jr. is a big fan of Star Trek, so Ron Surma got in touch with him and we sent him the scene. When I spoke to Frank, he thought it was very funny, but he said that he did not want to play a singer, he wanted to play an alien. And so it did not happen. 

They could have at least thrown Frank Sinatra Jr a different alien role. Missed opportunity.
- Alien heckler who complains that his own father would make a better Frank Sinatra.
- Should have offered a double role as a waiter at Quark’s who disses lounge singers.
- He plays Alien Fat Elvis in a competing club

My favorite Vic scene is when he sings “The Best is Yet to Come” with Sisko, Avery Brooks is such a great singer.

However, the scene is contrasted with the fact that in the scene previous O’Brian was strip searched by a hologram guard. Julian asks him what happened to which O’Brian retorts “I don’t want to talk about it”. The rest of the crew join in the musical ensemble but I can’t imagine O’Brian was really in the singing mood after that ordeal.

Hey, don't hate. Twenty slips of gold-pressed latinum is twenty slips of gold-pressed latinum. Quark doesn't give away holosuite time for free. That payment has to come from somewhere.

♫ We know of an ancient radiation,

That haunts dismembered constellations,

A faintly glimmering subspace station,

While Frank Sinatra sings Stormy Weather,

The Xindi and Tholian get along together,

Cobwebs fall on an old captain’s record~ ♫

- You know Riker does an insufferably good classical Cake cover of Short Skant & A Long (Captain’s) Jacket.

Heyyy pally, right back atcha!

You have Frank Sinatra at your house‽

Just Vic Fontaine on an old VHS tape
Daft punk is playing at my house, at my house.

Regrets? I've had a few....

How was he human in the mirror universe?

My theory has always been that Vic was actually the "puppy" computer virus from s01e16, growing up and trying to get more interaction with people. That's how he could transfer himself between holodecks and access station systems. In the mirror universe the virus infected an android body and not a holodeck program.
Either Vic's appearance was based on a real person, like the EMH series, or Mirror!Vic was an android. We never actually got a decent look at his wound after he was shot.
- Smoldering, possibly charred flesh, but uncertain. I just chalk it up to "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations."