Poll Worst DS9 couple.
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I thought the Dax-Worf relationship felt pretty natural. Having decided that Worf should be paired up with an existing regular, Dax was the best choice.
As far as Miles and Keiko, I can't believe some people think they're an example of a bad couple! They were the most realistic depiction of a strong marriage on any Trek show. A strong marriage doesn't mean you never disagree, it means you figure out a way both parties can get what's most important to them. And both make mistakes.
As far as Miles and Keiko, I can't believe some people think they're an example of a bad couple! They were the most realistic depiction of a strong marriage on any Trek show. A strong marriage doesn't mean you never disagree, it means you figure out a way both parties can get what's most important to them. And both make mistakes.
Dax and Sisko could have made a go of it, but then they would have had to write the show differently starting in "Emissary"...
Quark, Rom - just no. Bashir - they seemed to be lining them up for a while but it felt forced. O'Brien - I don't think they want to show cheating on the show. The kids - Jake and Nog - too young even when Dax was 22-ish. Odo - I don't think so.
I adore Miles and Keiko. I have watched tube videos/read articles about how Keiko was written as the stereotypical nagging wife, and that Miles was the suffering husband. Silly over-analyzing, in my opinion, and I believe they are the realest couple in Star Trek history. Dax-Worf are my favorite, but Miles and Keiko were the closest to my own personal experiences in life, and are therefore the most relatable. Miles is a fantastic portrayal of a working Dad with a family at home. Perhaps even a soldier whose duty station changes, and his wife comes along for the ride. Army vet myself, so this makes perfect sense. He just goes to work as usual, new duty station or no, while his wife has to start all over again in a new and uncertain place. So dynamic, and very real!!!
No one. Worf already had a developing relationship, he didn't need a love interest on his tour of duty on board the station.
They should have asked the writers to make it more natural then...It felt off and it was boring.
She didn't need to be with anyone, they were in the middle of a war. There was plenty to focus on. But since you mention it, having her be the cool party girl who has flings with strange looking aliens would have been better than her losing herself in a relationship with someone who didn't appreciate her the way that she was.
That's actually not a bad thought. I could imagine some suggestive dialogue between her and other characters about the biological peculiarities of her latest date.
Right? Like sex and the city but with aliens. It would have been great. And fit in more with the Jadzia Dax identity we knew and loved.
That's just not how it worked. If the actors gave a hint of something in their performance, the writers might be encouraged to write stories to develop it. Actors seldom made requests, and those requests were seldom approved. The only real exceptions were Visitor preventing a romance between Kira and Dukat and Brooks getting a more ambiguous, non-death ending for Sisko. When Dorn and Farrell tried to get a romance going for their characters, they did it with more flirtatious acting, not penning a letter to the writers room.
The Worf/Dax relationship never worked for me and judging how her death was handled and Worf didn't have any part of a resolution for Dukat killing her off tells a lot.
Yeah... Both his lovers were murdered...
On the subject of Winn/Dukat, I don't like them as a couple, but find it oddly hilarious. I think it's because they're both such rotten people.
Sometimes they're the best matched... if you ever saw "Intolerable Cruelty", the two leads were both such despicable people, you didn't care which of the two got it in the end.
On the other hand, Jadzia was not fridged!
Okay Winn and Dukat were great together. She was so horrible that we had no problem with Dukat tricking her and using her. If she hadn't stopped the reckoning because of her petty jealousy, his seduction of her wouldn't have happened. They were great TV at that point in the series.
NGL, I'm hoping he or another one of his species shows up on LD one day, I feel like that's a concept best achieved with animation
As for my pick, as much as I never cared for Worf and Dax, I gotta go with Garak and Ziyal for the full blown case of the Not-Gays they were trying to push on Garak. It's no shade to its fans who liked it or have founds ways to make it work in fanfiction, but the origin of their pairing just doesn't sit right and it doesn't help that Ziyal gets fridged eventually. It's giving Remus/Tonks, even down to the suspect age gap. :|
Garak and Ziyal never had sex in my head canon they just had a weird relationship where he supported her and she made him dinner sometimes but definitely knew he was on/off again with Julian on the dl...so they never bothered me as much as the 5-7 Ziyals that I had to pretend were the same person.
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