Meh, this isn't really their best effort. It tries to be an episode about a secret but when the secret is revealed it is what you thought the whole time and it isn't really clear why Dax would be willing to let herself be taken to probable execution killing both her and the symbiote that is so important to her. Bashir is in full loverboy mode again which isn't my favorite. Also the so called extradition is clearly a kidnapping under any legal code. They should obviously have contacted station security. The damage they did to the tractor beam alone is probably enough for a diplomatic incident.
The episode opens with Bashir and Dax hanging out while she tries to fix some part of the station and he tries to get into her pants. She isn't having it and leaves but he follows despite being told not to. This time though she is attacked by three unknown aliens who drag her to a small ship despite Odo and Sisko's best efforts to stop them. They have even disabled the tractor beam but Ben manages to get it working just in time to stop the ship and drag it back to the station. The chief alien presents Sisko with a warrent for Dax's arrest. Sisko manages to stall by calling for a Bajoran extradition hearing and sends Odo to try and find the truth. Through the entire episode Dax refuses to say anything to help herself and it is up to the other characters to save her life.
Long story short it turns out she was sleeping with the wife of the man she is accused of killing at the time she allegedly committed the crime. The hearing drags out way to long and it is clearly just a stall tactic which works perfectly because just before the end the dead mans wife shows up and admits to having been in bed with Dax when it happened. Her son who was the one trying to arrest Dax is horrified.
Review: I get that they were trying to make this episode about the ethical complexities of a species where part of the being dies and is replaced every couple decades, but by making it a super obvious mystery instead those issues are honestly never really dealt with.
4 out of 10
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