Knowing what I do now I can't help but wonder if this episode exists so that Dax's death in the near future felt like it had more impact. So far we haven't seen anything to indicate that the Worf/Dax relationship is about anything other than violent sex and this episode works to fix that. Unfortunately it just didn't really work for me. First of all the idea that Starfleet would send a married couple in a tiny, underpowered ship to rescue one of their most important operatives seems silly. Surely something this has happened before and led to a "no married couples working alone on super critical missions" order. The Bashir and O'Brien learning to play tongo bit was actually really good and I wish it had been more of the episode.
We begin with Worf and Miles watching Jadzia play tongo against Quark who is having quite the winning streak. Worf bets on Dax but O'Brien wins with Quark. Later that night Dax and Worf get summoned to Sisko's office. There is a Cardassian operative who for some reason is transmitting a message to a spot in the badlands so they have to be there to receive it. They are sent along on a runabout on this super important mission. They get the message and the dude wants to defect, like now. They head to the jungle world he is headed towards to meet him after a many mile trek through untamed jungle. Worf is having a great time and Jadzia isn't. They joke around and get ambushed and Dax is badly hurt. Worf eventually leaves her to go to the rendezvous, but turns back and leaves the spy to die. Back on the station Miles talks Julian into taking on Quark at tongo but Quark distracts Julian with talk of Jadzia and wins. Worf gets home and saves Dax, but gets a mark on his record for disobeying orders.
Review: As you can probably tell from my short summary I found this one kinda boring. Most of it is Worf and Dax fighting about dumb stuff and I don't know if you have ever been around when another couple is fighting about nothing forever, but it is actually the worst.
3 out of 10
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