Mediocre. That's probably supposed to be an exploration to Torres' bi-polarity (if that's the right term) but it's not really impressive I must admit. To begin with, I don't like the idea that you could split a person in two. How is that supposed to work? Roughly, you are made out of 50% your father DNA and 50% of your mother DNA. How the Vidiians are able to reconstruct the missing DNA portions is beyond me. Especially since the Klingon DNA can't be reconstructed from one of the other prisoners - there's simply no other Klingon DNA pattern. And why isn't she becoming a male paternal and a female maternal Torres then? And how exactly does the doctor undo the DNA separation?
The biggest problem: this episode came way too early. I mean we know from previous episode that she got a temper from her Klingon side but we know her so little yet that we can't really tell how discomforting this combination is. It doesn't seem to me really important. Compare that to Jadzia Dax's existential struggle when she discovered that she was previously joined with a murderer and how hard she fought to accept and control this side of her. Even Worf appeared in episodes that show the conflict and incompatibility of his humans vs his Klingon side very well. This episode is nothing alike. It's merely a chance to show the actor behind the Torres mask.
Review by Alexander von LimbergBlockedParent2021-12-25T15:00:47Z
Mediocre. That's probably supposed to be an exploration to Torres' bi-polarity (if that's the right term) but it's not really impressive I must admit. To begin with, I don't like the idea that you could split a person in two. How is that supposed to work? Roughly, you are made out of 50% your father DNA and 50% of your mother DNA. How the Vidiians are able to reconstruct the missing DNA portions is beyond me. Especially since the Klingon DNA can't be reconstructed from one of the other prisoners - there's simply no other Klingon DNA pattern. And why isn't she becoming a male paternal and a female maternal Torres then? And how exactly does the doctor undo the DNA separation?
The biggest problem: this episode came way too early. I mean we know from previous episode that she got a temper from her Klingon side but we know her so little yet that we can't really tell how discomforting this combination is. It doesn't seem to me really important. Compare that to Jadzia Dax's existential struggle when she discovered that she was previously joined with a murderer and how hard she fought to accept and control this side of her. Even Worf appeared in episodes that show the conflict and incompatibility of his humans vs his Klingon side very well. This episode is nothing alike. It's merely a chance to show the actor behind the Torres mask.