Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Action Adventure Drama. Director Rene Auberjonois. Top credits Director Rene Auberjonois. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Top cast Edit. Avery Brooks Capt. Benjamin Sisko as Capt. Benjamin Sisko. Rene Auberjonois Odo as Odo. Michael Dorn Lt. Worf as Lt. Terry Farrell Lt. Jadzia Dax as Lt. Jadzia Dax. Armin Shimerman Quark as Quark.
Monte Markham Fullerton as Fullerton. Chase Masterson Leeta as Leeta. Vanessa Williams Arandis as Arandis. Mark Allen Shepherd Morn as Morn uncredited.
Rene Auberjonois. She invites them to a reyamilk soak. Dax politely declines and leaves, though Worf is stunned about Leeta's behavior. Outside, Worf expresses his disapproval, but Dax says sternly it's not their business. She wants to go see the sights, but Worf intends on attending the Essentialists' event. At the rally, Dax and Worf see Bashir with another woman — not Leeta — and Worf is upset about that and sees this as affirmation for the thesis of Fullerton.
Arandis joins them, seeing Fullerton as entertainment and nothing more. The event is only attended by a few other people. Fullerton explains that morals have become degenerated and amusement has a higher priority than ever before. With threats from the Borg , Romulans , and the Dominion , Federation citizens can't afford this mentality. He concludes with an emphasis for hard work. Worf obviously agrees with what he said, though the others don't. Later, the group debates the topic.
Worf explains the Klingons saw the Federation as weak, inviting attack. Bashir points out none of the debate has anything to do with Risa, but Worf says he can't be certain of that. Dax says everyone needs a vacation, especially those who devote their lives defending the Federation.
Just then, Leeta arrives and kisses Bashir. Worf has had it, and confronts them. Leeta and Bashir explain that they came to Risa to break up, through an old Bajoran tradition called the Rite of Separation. They excuse themselves to "work some details out. When Dax and Worf attempt to fight back, Fullerton calls a stop to the action. It turns out that the phaser cells are empty and Fullerton arranged the event so as to demonstrate how vulnerable the Federation has become.
Worf is impressed, though says he can't condone the group's actions. Dax threatens to arrest them under her authority as a Starfleet officer, but Fullerton points out the Risians won't prosecute. Later, Worf wants to talk to Dax about their relationship. Dax is argumentative as Worf points out he sees her as his Par'Mach'kai , and therefore everything she does reflects on him, including her impulsive nature. Ultimately, he wants to know she takes the relationship as seriously as he does.
Dax believes he's taking this to an extreme, telling him he can't control her and should be more relaxed. They both agree, that each won't change who they are. Dax goes to see the damage the Essentialists have done, and finds Arandis. She takes the incident in stride, joking that Fullerton definitely needs some jamaharon.
Dax turns serious and confides about her problems with Worf while helping her clean up. Meanwhile, Leeta and Bashir complete their separation with a ceremony in which they declare themselves two instead of one.
They end with a kiss. Quark, the witness for the ceremony, was expecting more "fireworks", but is instead let down. Interestingly, Leeta says she can now be more honest about her feelings. She then reveals that she has developed feelings for Rom. Both Quark and Bashir are shocked. Quark hands over his horga'hn to Bashir, telling him he needs it more than he does. Later, Worf walks in on Dax sculpting with Arandis and is jealous.
He goes back to his room, breaks a horga'hn by smashing it against a wall, and decides to help Fullerton make his point. He tells the group he knows how to make people leave Risa. Quark and Bashir listen to Dax vent about what happened.
Bashir remarks he may have taken Worf's view if he was there. Furthermore, "figuring" Dax out was what made her so intriguing to him when he first came to Deep Space 9. However, the amount of work it took to get close to her was why he stopped. Dax shrugs this off and expresses why she likes Worf, despite the fact that he is a lot of work. She is not attracted to Vanessa Williams because she finds Vanessa Williams sexy; she might be attracted to Vanessa Williams because her last male host died having sex with her.
But the problem with Rejoined is that it still has to dress up the act of two women kissing in something else.
Oh, and that also applies to Vanessa Williams. Actually acknowledging Sulu as actually literally textually gay, explicitly and in canon, is a bigger step than implying Jadzia might be bisexual through the prism of an alien-culture specific allegory.
Live-in nanny? But it still represents a huge step forward for a franchise that is nowhere near as progressive as it should have been. The script… has issues. But producing it in would still have meant something, because it would have at least acknowledged the existence of gay character and made it possible for later writers to follow that example.
So, is Beyond enough? By no means. Is it better than the franchise has done to date? Five years later we have another Trill story where again a main character is reunited with a lover who is now the same sex as them. This time, they become lovers. The response? Feature a gay character and acknowledge them as such, without reducing them to a stereotype. Not the sixties. Not even the eighties.
Friends, which is hardly a bastion of diversity and liberalism, was infinitely more progressive than Star Trek on this front. I have to say this is my least favorite DS9 episode by far. This episode, however, is just utterly soul crushing. There are soap opera twists, a ludicrous drama plot, vapid eye candy to be there just for eye candy, as you mention a soap opera twist, and the planet of Risa. It just fails on every level. Whilst Derren is right about Worf being an stick in the mud, he lets Jadzia off the hook completely for being a self-centred airhead.
I mean seriously take the icoberry juice scene. Try out SF Debris acidic review of this episode to at least give a balanced approach to this episode. She can choose to associate with who she wants, drink what she wants, etc. It generally comes down to issues of comfort, reliability, trust, security. After all, interpersonal relationship are all about navigating boundaries of acceptable behaviour. If they cannot find a compromise, he can end the relationship. However, Worf instead joins a terrorist organisation, which is well outside the boundaries of acceptable responses to these personality clashes, I think.
So Darren if I had a girlfriend and she was allergic to nuts and she decided to have a peanut sandwich and I objected pointing out that it could trigger an allergic reaction with potentially fatal consequences. According to your logic I would be a control freak. I am not saying Worf throwing his lot in with the new essentialists was right.
Well, to be fair, the comparison is between Jadzia maybe not being the perfect idealised girlfriend that Worf wants her to be and… Worf joining a terrorist organisation.
In the same way that there is a difference between being rude and murdering somebody. Peanut allergies can kill. Not yours. Or to pick a personal example, dating somebody with PKU, a condition where eating too much protein can cause severe debilitating effects. There is only so much protein they can have in a day. However, trust means trusting them to be able to make that determination for themselves.
Which hardly sounds controlling, it sounds more like Dax is just trying to act like a petulant 4 year old. Guess where this episode takes place? And then she needles Worf for being a stick in the mud. Even if all of that is brushed aside, would the person responable for sexing you to death talk about it so flippantly?
Sometimes you go on holidays to places that you both want to see. Sometimes you accept that what your partner wants to do is more important. Sometimes they accept that what you want to do is worth doing. Compromise is the name of the game. Sometime you show interest in what your partner wants, and sometimes they show interest in what you want. Negotiated a compromise. Once Worf agreed to go to Risa, it was pretty unreasonable for him to continually sulk about it.
And then join a terrorist organisation. She is. You can read about it on the IMDb but should the makers of that film face manslaughter charges for making one of the funniest films ever made? Do John Cleese or Michael Palin lie awake at night wracked with guilt even though he died a happy man? Somehow, I doubt it. So why should Arandis then? David Sim, your not comparing criminal battery, or the use of force against another, resulting in harmful, offensive or sexual contact that lead to death; with death by comedic joke?
If they are, they probably have a lot of explaining to do in a court of law, like Arandis. What if she was hired to kill Dax? I kinda like A Simple Investigation, if only for the two hitmen characters. The Assignment is just so lifeless to me, so generic. Perhaps A Fish Called Wanda should come with some sort of warning that it may cause death by excessive laughter?
To be fair, at least one of those three is not like the others. One is utopian, the other is not. And the New Essentialists are far more Falwell. So, testifying at the United Nations about online harrassment does not count as trying to silence opponents any more than offering testamony in a court case or to a government subcommittee could be viewed in those terms. And I should add that I say this as somebody who is extremely wary of stuff like the suffocation of free speech at American universities, and who conscious of threats to freedom of expression.
Add to the fact that the person in question is a known thief and liar, well, then yes this qualifies as tackless moral panic. As somebody who has female friends Irish film critics with whom I work on a regular basis who post on Twitter and who has seen the reactions they get when they tweet anything remotely feminist, I have absolutely no difficulty in believing that the reaction would amplified to meet the platform.
Again, this proposed censorship applies to the kind of people engaged in SWATting and Doxxing and making death threats. In its own clumsy very clumsy way this episode seemed to be trying to say that the Federation is not simply a self congratulatory liberal echo chamber and that conservatives can have a place at the table.
Of course the episode is rather dreadful, but I think the glimmers of an admirably fair minded approach can be seen. Imagine if Fullerton tried his stunt in the middle of the Dominion war, lecturing shell shocked soldiers and officers about how pampered they are, and how they were completely caught unarmed while on vacation.
Of course no one takes him seriously, lecturing other people on vacation that they should violate the rules by being armed at all times is pathetic. Pulling guns on vacationers is a crime, and terrible PR. Plus, Arandis can just injure someone to death and opening brag about it, how is this planet not a crime-infested hell hole?
This is all what makes Riza seem like a horrible dystopia, A Brave New World with sandy beaches, only the Star Trek casts are too busy trying to get laid to notice.
The line about the Risians not pressing charges is strange. Wouldnt something like this in the real world get you a terrorism charge and sent to some CIA black site? I just noticed this.
Could be a good thing, or a bad thing. On the bad side, it could just mean a crass, more idiotic Trek…. From what I hear, he always held a grudge against the producers for that. Someone on Tv. Jamaharon always sounds like a Jamaican coffee to me. If Bashir had been replaced by a Founder earlier, that may have explained why Leeta broke up with him. Is this what you would rather they were called? But yes, Jennifer is the exception there.
Mirror Ezri is definitely bisexual. I agree with this review that the episode has very childish attitude towards sex but I have to disagree with one of the main point. Much like Fullerton, he is meant to represent conservative attitude towards sex and having fun. Worf not facing any charges after this, is jsut particularly bad example of a pretty common problem through out all of Trek. He gets of free, because as far as the episode is concerned, he learned his lesson. My argument: If episode is taking his side by letting him get away with his unjustifiable and OCC actions.
I know it may be hard to notice, due how much of a prick Worf is here, but the thing is, they are BOTH controlling assholes. Yes, Worf is ordering Jadzia about not seeing her old flames is controlling and wrong and seems to be more concerned about how her actions reflect on him.
But Jadzia:. And the episode never acknowledges this. The part you cite as Worf being condescending, I find Jadzia petty and childish. And it is. But him telling her that is controlling, while her telling him to stop reading that stupid pad and having fun is fine. And going by what we are shown, this was legimately the only way he could do it. Yeah, in Star Trek the main characters receive a get out of jail free card if they learn their lessons before the end of the episode.
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