Jake's Cougar Hunt

[Melakon]

^It's basically a rule that the youngest you're supposed to date is your age divided by two plus seven.

Well that's a little better than the method I use, where I consider anyone 18 years younger than me is off limits. The formula above allows me to consider someone 38 instead of mid-40s. I stopped buying Playboy after the centerfolds were being born the year I graduated high school.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

I dunno, Dukat was always wanting Sisko's approval and I could see him using a relationship between Jake and Ziyal for that.

Exactly, imagine him trying to ingratiate himself with Sisko once Jake and Ziyal got together.

 

[Deckerd]

Did anyone else feel uncomfortable with Jake's relationship with the Dabo girl? I was a little uncomfortable, but my wife was appalled when she watched that episode with me. There were also other moments when the writers hinted at Jake with older women (that woman who forced him to write to drain his energy had sexual imagery). And this was in the early seasons. He was still a minor IIRC?

A twenty year-old and a sixteen year-old is not a cougar hunt.

 

[Takeru]

Jake was sixteen, that's old enough and it would have been interesting if he had a thing for older women (not Mardah, she was almost his age). It would have been nice to see a sixteen or seventeen year old with an active sex life, american tv is way too prudish most of the time, it's like every teenager declares "I wouldn't do THAT, we only hold hands and kiss on the porch until we're married!", that's not even close to the truth based on the american teens (well, former teens by now) I met.