I am going to keep this fairly short as I got stuck late at work due to an incident outside the park and I have to be back tomorrow morning to lead a trip to Pinnacles so yeah, need to sleep soon. But I did actually end up enjoying Afterimage. Mostly I enjoyed Garak as I usually do and it was nice to see Worf decide to stop being quite so stubborn about at least one thing. Ezri is settling in a bit and I am finding I like her character more than I was expecting. They do need to do more to establish who she is as Ezri though rather than just as Dax.
Ezri is having a hard time dealing with having memories about a place she has never been before and starts by talking about it with Morn and then Quark, but Quark mostly just wants to hit on her. She tells Sisko she plans to return to her duties on the Destiny, which clearly disappoints him. In Quark's Miles and Julian are planning their next holosuite adventure and Odo is in on it as well. Garak is there to provide the costumes, but he is agitated and trying to work on his projects for Starfleet Intelligence. He leaves and returns to his shop, which is closed, to work decrypting Cardassian transmissions. Odo stops by and he collapses, unable to breath due to claustrophobia.
Ezri gets the job of trying to get him calm enough to work again since she is a ship's counselor, well, assistance counselor. She talks to Garak and he admits he was locked in a tiny space as a child when his father wanted to punish him and maybe just maybe that is what is causing him to be so claustrophobic now. She admits she has space sickness and leaves with him feeling more claustrophobic and her feeling space sick, but the next day he is back to work on the decryption. She is having a worse problem with Worf though, he refuses to talk to her and when she tries talking to him he says he doesn't know her or want to know her and leaves. Garak has another freak out and tries to claw his way out of an airlock.
The problems with Worf and Garak lead Ezri to decide she needs to drop out of Starfleet entirely and she submits her resignation. O'Brien though talks to Worf and gets him to admit that he needs to talk to Ezri to honor his wife, not to disgrace her. He talks to her and tells her he doesn't think she should leave Starfleet. She also learns that while talking to Garak as he tried to space himself that she gave him the perspective he needs, he realizes he feels bad for what he feels is his betrayal of his own people. The two events convince her to stay in Starfleet, but not just that, to stay on DS9.
Review: Not the best episode in the series, but again it lacks significant flaws that would doom it to early TNG level.
5 out of 10
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