Not a terrible episode, but it felt like this one probably had some road bumps in the script they just couldn't quite work out. It is mostly about Jadzia coming to terms with being the host of the most notoriously troublesome symbiote in all of Trill society and having to decide if she will recommend a new host to receive the a symbiote. That may not seem like a bad idea for an episode, but it just didn't really work for me as executed. Also the moral debate over whether they could destroy a proto-universe seemed a little poorly thought out as well. If it was really going to expand to the size of our universe rapidly would putting it in the gamma quadrant really save that much time? Isn't it going to inevitably wipe out all life as we know it?
The episode opens with Julian meeting a Trill candidate who is to train under Jadzia on a transport and taking him to meet her, in Quarks where she is gambling and winning with a bunch of Ferengi. Arjin, the candidate, is clearly horrified by what he sees and it doesn't really change much as the episode goes on. When he goes to meet her in her quarters he finds an alien man there while she is in the shower, her wrestling partner apparently. The two set off on some sort of undefined mission to the gamma quadrant and get another universe stuck to the warp nacelle. They bring it back to the station but it starts expanding and threatening to wipe out all life as we know it. There is also a B story about Cardassian voles loose on the station chewing up all the cables and stuff but that doesn't really get resolved or go anywhere.
Basically it boils down to Jadzia thinks Arjin is boring and doesn't know what he wants to do with his life and that is basically correct. They dance around it most of the episode but in the end Sisko decides to send the two of them back through the wormhole with the proto-universe and I guess he doesn't mess up piloting so she likes him now? He does stand up for himself a bit as well, but none of it shows what he will bring to the symbiote he is trying to get so she probably honestly shouldn't recommend him, but I guess she does. We also learn Jake is in love with a dabo girl, but that is a story for another episode.
Review: Not a bad concept for an episode, but it really didn't seem to hit it's marks very well. The only enjoyable bits really were Miles' attempts to free the station of voles driving big eared Quark crazy with the sound and getting a flute from Julian.
3 out of 10
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