Now get out of here, before I say something unkind

Garak's verbal beatdown of Ezri was absolutely epic and spot on

 

It almost makes you dislike him…almost.

 

Well it didn't work. Ezri stayed where she was.

 

It did hurt her, though. It took her a beat to absorb the rant and put her counselor face back on.

 

He was a bit nasty there.

But that's old Garak!
Still one of my absolute Trek favorites!

I actually like Ezri too. I'm glad that they became friends later on.

 

Well, Ezri was trying to counsel him, and thanks to the unexpected and uninvited presence of eight other people in her head, she was more neurotic than he was.

I actually wonder if the Symbiosis Commission would actually allow an untrained Trill to be joined with a random symbiont, even in extremis. Joran Dax was the product of a poorly conceived host-symbiont pairing, after all.

 

Honestly, I think that the whole concept with the Trill was totally weird, one of the few things I have my doubts about when it comes to DS9.

I mean, if I had to go around with only one other person's memories, I would probably go crazy and end up ina padded cell. Imagine having seven different persons minds in your head.
The Trill should have been named the Schizos.

But both Jadzia and Ezri were great characters despite that.
And good looking too!

 

That's why would-be hosts...
1. Have to really want to be joined.
2. Have to pass an aggressive evaluation process. Many prospective hosts (like Verad) are rejected.
3. Receive years of training and preparation.
4. Are carefully matched with a compatible symbiont.

Ezri had no aspirations to symbiosis, wasn't evaluated in any way, was matched at random, and had 15 minutes of training from a non-Trill.

 

The only thing the Symbiosis Commission cares about is the survival of the symbionts. Okay, Ezri is a lousy choice for a host, but she was the only host available. Through her Dax can survive and we'll hope for a better match next lifetime.

 

The Symbiosis Commission was not involved. This decision was presumably made by the doctor on the USS Destiny. But by the time Ezri consulted them, it was presumably too late to remove the slug without killing Ezri.

 

They didn't show that on the screen, but if I was medical officer with no Trill training, I just can't believe I would move the symbiont into Ezri without at least talking to the Symbiosis Commission on subspace.

 

Apparently not. I actually wonder how the Symbiosis Commission would react in a situation like that... sacrifice a symbiont, or risk creating Joran 2.0...

 

Given that the authority for what happened is only Ezri's flustered and breathless account to Sisko, it's quite possible that the medical officer DID check with the Commission and Ezri just thought it was obvious and not interesting enough to tell Sisko about. I'd be surprised if performing the joining surgery was written up in an ordinary passenger ship's doctor's instruction manual, they'd probably have to contact the Trill homeworld for instructions anyway.

 

"AND STAY AWAY FROM MY MAN." - Garak, probably.
Stupid Ezri getting in the way of Garak/Julian and we uh I could have got Ezri/Jake.

 

Ezri/Jake would have been a cute couple. And the dynamic with Ben would have been very interesting!

 

How do you think Ben would have reacted? I'm thinking it would not have been his favorite match, someone he had pretty wild times with two lifetimes ago with his son.

 

Sheesh, I don't know. Under any other circumstances, I'd suggest that Ben talk aboit his feelings with the station counselor, but that wouldn't really work here, would it?

 

Yeah the comment hurt Ezri, but I think it was something she needed to hear. She became better because of it.

 

What episode was that in again?

 

"Afterimage", early Season 7.