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Deep Space Nine (DS9) Season 3 Guest Reviews

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Meridian Stardate 48423.2: Dax falls in love with a guy on a planet that keeps disappearing. Dax wants to disappear with him.

I only watched this episode because of the silly side plot that was Quark and Jeffery Combs. And I only watched THAT because I wanted to see Quark in bed saying "I've been waiting for you" *bite*", because that's the funniest thing I've seen in DS9 for a long time.
But yeah, other than that little tidbit, the episode is boring and unbelievable. I'm surprised that within a day or so, Dax is ready to give up her life as a joined Trill and her Starfleet career, just to be a spirit with this dude she just met. And that's pretty much ALL THAT HAPPENS. The whole romance thing only really works if it isn't someone she only met a few days ago.
In my opinion, half of this episode is worse than Silicon Avatar. I'd give it a one for the other half, but even that's feeling too generous.
Rating: 0 (Hon. David Kulessa)

Meridian Stardate 48423.2: Synopsis in main DS9 listing

What tripe, Jeffrey Combs saves this from being unwatchable. Dax spends maybe a few hours with a guy and suddenly wants to resign her commission with Starfleet and give up her life to be with him in whatever capacity is possible once he, the other inhabitants of his world, and the planet himself vanish into some non-corporeal dimension. One wonders how the people penning this episode thought this could be credibly presented without depicting Jadzia in an unbelievable way. And it doesn't help the guy playing Deral isn't the best of actors either, so the entire romance fails to convince.
But as I said, this episode features the first of many Star Trek appearances for the brilliant Jeffery Combs playing an alien obsessed with getting it on with a holographic Major Kira, attempting to bribe Quark into getting a holographic representation of her makes for some very humorous scene's culminating in a Quark-headed Kira attempting to seduce Tiron in the holosuite, after Kira and Odo catch on to Quark's plans. A lowly 1 star is all this episode deserves, courtesy of the B-plot.
Remarkable quote #1: "Of all the stories I've done for Star Trek, 'Meridian' is my least favorite." -Hilary J. Bader, the writer for this episode
Remarkable quote #2: "I don't think anyone likes the show. I don't think we liked the show. This one just went wrong. It never jelled." -Ronald D. Moore
Remarkable quote #3: "A classic case of making it up as we go. I don't want to talk about it." -Visual Effects supervisor Glenn Neufeld
Rating: 1 (Cameron)

Fascination Stardate not given: Synopsis in main DS9 listing

This is not Star Trek, that's not a comment on Deep Space Nine itself but just this episode: Trash. This is a bad romantic comedy where the actors thought it would be a laugh to parody Star Trek characters while whining about their relationship problems over the course of some silly Bajoran festival.
The addition of Lwaxana Troi doesn't help matters, one wonders why they persisted with her character after TNG, she was a nuisance then when pestering Picard and (s)mothering Deanna, there's simply little point in bringing the character back just to force some stupid romance plot with Odo on us. And the Bareil/Nerys story is equally stupid and, IMO unrealistic.
But of course, we find out every one's under Lwaxana's influence, leading to a humorous scene where everyone is horny and in the same room trying to get IT on if you know what I mean, and I think you do.
But all the same, this is just a rubbish episode, no doubt the cast and crew thought it may have been a good idea at the time to do something light hearted, but there could've been other ways to have done it without making the episode nearly unbearable.
I'm very, VERY tempted to give this a zero, especially after the pitiful "Meridian" screened a week before, but while that was just idiotic scripting in it's treatment of Jadzia, this episode is just a harmless farce, so it gets a 1.
Remarkable quote #1: "In some ways, it (the episode) works very nicely. And in some ways...you know." -Ira Steven Behr
Remarkable quote #2: (regarding this episode) "I thought it was embarrassing." -Armin Shimmerman
Remarkable quote #3: "(The episode was) memorable for not quite pulling off what it attempted to do." -Alexander Siddig
Rating: 1 (Cameron)

Prophet Motive Stardate not given: Synopsis in main DS9 listing

This is a stupid pointless episode, the Grand Nagus arrives on DS9 with a revised version of the 'Rules of Acquisition' which promote integrity, family, all that nonsense Ferengi's care nothing for of course ;)
But we find out the aliens in the wormhole altered Zek, as if it's there place to decide how to change people, of course they're ignorant of such things, and another silly vision sequence occurs with Quark convincing the 'Prophets' to return him the way he was. The B-plot is just Bashir believing he doesn't deserve some award then seems to have his heart set on it only to lose.
The whole episode just seemed amazingly unnecessary, the Nagus is back, Bashir's gonna get over losing the award he was never keen to win by the time of the next episode, and that's that. Sorry, I'm giving it 0.
Remarkably disturbing scene: I don't know about you, but I wasn't too comfortable watching Quark getting oo-mox in the opening sequence considering we ALL know what sort of allegory that is...
Rating: 0 (Cameron)

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