Review of The Host

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Host (1991)
Season 4, Episode 23
4/10
REVIEW 2022
10 September 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Dr Crusher has got herself a new flame. Yet the planet Peliar Zel is having problems, and the Trill Ambassador Odan is trying to sort out the problems of the two sides that act like squabbling little children who live on the beta moon of the planet. Odan decides to pop down to the moon of the warring factions in an attempt to find a peace settlement. Something of a love story between the Trill Odan and the Doctor.

I have always been a fan of Dr Beverly and certainly had a crush on her back in the days when these episodes were first aired. Personally, I don't think Dr. Pulanski was that bad a replacement for Crusher during season two, but I was glad when Crusher returned to the Enterprise.

This is the first time we meet a Trill. A host and a symbiont. I never really felt comfortable with this idea. Of course, the back-story of the Trill would be better explored in Deep Space Nine, through the DS9 crew member Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax. I personally found that Dax stories were among the weakest in DS9 and I could understand why Dax was linked with Worf from season 4 of that series, in an attempt to beef up her stories.

I didn't really care for this episode. The panned-pipe music also seemed so far out of place.

This Episodes Clue: Doctor Caroline Ryan.
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