The writers seem like they haven't figured out what to do with Jadzia. Just a few episodes ago she was determined to prove to the world that she wasn't Kurzon any more and now she is willing to potentially throw away her entire career in starfleet to fulfill a promise he made decades earlier. And in the end it seems like they are trying to show that she wasn't capable of it after all. Sure the other Klingon interpreted it as her saving the death for him, but really it seems like she just didn't have the guts for it. And I guess just like Worf she is given a free pass to abandon her duties to go seek revenge against a bunch if humans in guard masks? Also she doesn't seem to have any problem probably killing a bunch of them, but when it comes time to kill the one guy she has spent 80 years hating who is clearly a bastard who revels in having killed children she wimps out? I really don't get what they were trying to say here.
The episode opens with a drunk klingon refusing to leave a holosuite. Odo shows up to get him out and takes Kor to a holding cell. His colleague Koloth comes to take him out, but is so ashamed of his drunken antics he leaves Kor behind. In ops Jadzia hears about Kor and Koloth and asks if Kang is there as well, but he isn't yet. She bails out Kor who has a hard time accepting that she is still Dax but eventually does. But Koloth and Kang aren't easily convinced. It seems Kang has learned the location of the albino, an evil man who they attempted to kill many years earlier and who killed their first born children as revenge including Kurzon's god son who he swore a blood oath to avenge. Jadzia spends most of the episode trying to convince them to let her go along even though she is clearly not actually prepared for it.
They eventually agree and despite Sisko's protestations she goes on the mission. Along the way she learns from Kang that the whole thing is a trap to the three, now four, comrades can die honorably together. She convinces them to take a slightly less suicidal path and it works. They manage to kill a bunch of guards because come on, are guards even people if you can't see their faces? They get into the albinos house and he is super evil of course because there can't be any moral dilema. But even after talking about how proud he is of killing children and that Jadzia is a wimp she in the end can't kill him. Kang does kill him though but Koloth dies. She shows up at the station again to silence from Kira and Sisko.
Review: Jadzia is really starting to fall apart for me as a character. They want her to be strong, and she is at times, but then is also super weak with really no explanation. She goes from being the most self confident character on the show to totally indecisive but it seems more like the writers just can't decide what to do rather than something from inside her.
3 out of 10
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