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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Season 7

7x11 Prodigal Daughter

Shout by Ren
BlockedParent2023-05-09T22:41:55Z

How on earth is Ezri, this bumbling newcomer, newly promoted girl, already the superior officer of Miles? What the hell's the Chief been doing all these years that he can so easily be outranked? This is bonkers.

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Review by Alexander von Limberg
BlockedParent2023-10-29T09:02:36Z

  • I totally forget there's this episode. I wasn't a fan of Honor of thieves. Of all the episodes to be continued, they chose this one? Hm....
  • This episode also shows what's wrong with Ezri. It's not her. It's not the actor. It's not this family story per se. But they have to give her a background and a character description quickly. Other characters in the show were able to build this over the course of six seasons (or they were established in TNG). This takes a lot of time and isn't very exciting. Now, they have to dedicate a lot of time to do the basics. But this will never pay off. Eventually, it turns out, that she never had a chance to replace Jadzia. One season is just not enough time. Plus, I don't understand why they tell this story. It would have been a lot more fun, when Ezri's previous hosts would have changed her that much that she was confidently taking a stand against her mother. But no, we basically only see the "Ezri minus Dax". Well, they briefly talk about this, but it's really a missed chance to show the difficulties Ezri has to adopt to her new life.
  • I also don't like that this family is like every other rich family Star Trek. Capitalist do always have a dark secret, illicit business, criminal intent and thinly disguised misanthropic tendencies - even when it comes to their own family or friends. Rarely they are friendly intellectuals, joyful playboys, generous philanthropists, altruistic benevolent people. Capitalism destroys families and societies. This is certainly line with the original Star Trek trope, but it's just not very exciting. And since we know Ezri and her family that little, we don't really care... It's 45 minutes boring television.
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Shout by LeftHandedGuitarist
BlockedParent2018-07-14T08:47:07Z

What a horrible family, if you can even call it one.
I'm also surprised at the extremely weak writing for all the characters here. However much I adore Ezri, this is one of the worst DS9 episodes. Saved somewhat by some quite emotional acting towards the end.

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