Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Rejoined

Deep Space Nine, Season 4
"Rejoined"
Airdate: October 30, 1995
76 of 173 produced
76 of 173 aired

Introduction

Lenara Kahn, a Trill scientist is coming to the station to work on her attempt to create an artificial wormhole. Normally, as science officer, Dax would be nothing less than eager to help. However, a previous host of hers, Torias, was married to a previous host of the Kahn symbiont, a marriage that ended all to quickly when Torias was killed in a shuttle accident. Even though they both might be willing to pick up where they left off, Trill society frowns on such relationships, under threat of expulsion from Trill society. How can Jadzia risk everything she has worked for? How can she not?

Kiss! Kiss! Ki-- oh, never mind, They just did.

Homosexuality and Star Trek

This is a bit of a touchy subject for me and I seriously debated whether I should delve into it in this forum. Ultimately, I decided that it would at least spur some interesting conversation, and that's why we are here. When you get right down to it, if you made a pie chart showing how my mental resources are apportioned by topic, that pie chart would look a little something like this:

The biggest two popular culture influences of my life are hands down watching endless reruns of Star Trek and endless reruns of The Golden Girls. Sadly, Bea Arthur and Estelle Getty's passing makes the irresistibly charming crossover now impossible. But can't you picture it? Admiral Zbornak, the tough as nails bureaucrat, giving Captain Picard a hard time? Ambassador Deveraux sleeping her way through the crew? I digress, but it's safe to say that it's even odds on any given day whether "nerdy homosexual" or "homosexual nerd" is the most accurate description of me. So, it's sad that Star Trek has at best been silent on an issue of such importance to me. I've decided to structure this essay around a list of episodes and incidents that touch on this issue, discuss them individually, and then wrap up with some thoughts and conclusions. Structure is good. It will keep the post devolving into me loudly typing how I want to see hot guys making out on the bridge of the Enterprise. Though, for the record, I do. I really, really do. Anyway, first up is TOS...