Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Season 2, Episode 4

Invasive Procedures (17 Oct. 1993)

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A jealous Trill, who had waited his entire life to receive a symbiont but never had, decides to steal one. . .Dax's!

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A plasma storm is approaching the station and almost all personnel has been evacuated, only a skeleton crew remains. Suddenly a distress call from a cargo ship comes in and Sisko decides to respond. A tractor beam pulls it in, but it's no cargo ship at all. Two Klingons, a Trill and a female Khefkan overpower Odo and O'Brien and then the rest of the crew. The Trill, Verad, is unjoined and seems very frustrated about that. He thinks is life is mediocre and wants Dax's symbiont. Bashir is forced to perform the operation that will mean Dax's life will end soon. Written by Arnoud Tiele (imdb@tiele.nl)

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Jadzia: [bereft of her symbiont] I feel so alone.
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Where was Megan Gallagher when the Dominion War began?
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Because, if Kira could beat Legate Damar's arse, and Gallagher's "Mareel" could easily kick Kira's arse, then she was one tough broad-She could have beat the crap out of two Jem Ha'Dar's easily. But by that time, she was married to "Frank Black" in MillenniuM.

"Tuvok" (Tim Russ) is a Klingon "T'Kar," and John Glover (Who played "The Devil" in the short-lived series "Brimstone") is Verad, a sniveling Trill Initiate Washout and former bean-counter, who wants DAX, I mean, just the DAX Symbiote/Symbiont. Who are these people, and why are they on DS9? How'd this all happen?

Welp, after the season 1 finale where Vedek Racthet/Winn tried to assassinate Vedek Bariel and the season 2 intro Three-Parter, which was actually a four part Arc, they had to cut some cost. So they gave Morn and The Other Ds9 Extras a week off, due to an uncharacteristic ION STORM in the "area" of The Denorios Belt. (Whenever Trek needs to clear out all extras from the Sets to cut costs, there is always an ION STORM.) During THIS Ion Storm, only the Ops crew is left on board: Picar… Er, I mean Sisko, O'Brien, Kira, Bashir, Dax, Odo... and QUARK.

Now Quark, in his incessant search for Gold-Pressed Latinum, sniveled his way onto being allowed to stay on The Station, but in reality was going to use it as an opportunity to get PROFIT. But Verad used Quark to get Mareel onto the station so she could beat up the entire Ops crew, which she was able to do after T'Kar forced Odo in a locking bucket.

Verad was lucky, that Bashir was on board. He must have had this gig planned out, since the exact people he needed, Jadzia and Bashir, are left on-board at just the time he needs them.

And so Verad forces Bashir to cut DAX out of Jadzia. Jadzia now has 96 hours to live, and the Ops crew has that much time to get Odo out of his locking bucket, cos he's the only one who can kick Mareel's arse, and she can beat up everyone else. So, it's your basic power-play, and Countdown-Timer on a drama.

Verad/Dax tries to "befriend" The Sisko, but The Sisko will not have it. The Sisko uses the opportunity to reveal to Mareel, that this is not the Verad she was in love with: As Verad changes their plans after he is Joined to Dax.

Verad/Dax intends to go to the Gamma quadrant, basically cos he knows that The Trill government AND Starfleet will never stop hunting him in the Alpha Quadrant.

The highlight of this show was Megan, who did a great job of being Veronica Lake on Steroids. In the end, The Sisko talks her into doing the right thing and helping them stop Verad: as she KNOWS if she allows Verad to leave, she'll lose him forever, and Jadzia will die, and this will be the Last Dax Ever.

It was all Quark's fault, Ya Know? He was the one who opened the locked Docking Port, allowing Verad's ship to dock with no Security Measures in place. But Quark Acquits himself pretty well, when he breaks open Odo's "Prison" - 'It's a gift," - This is the first chink in The Ferengi Armor, the first appearance of his being affected by Hoo-Mans. From here on, Quark tries his best, but he now has a conscience.

As DS9 used up their budget especially on "The Siege" which has a lot of Odo shape-shifting effects, and some beautiful special effects when Dax and Kira are flying in the Pre-Impulse ship to Bajor, that broke the budget and they had to do this one show with limited Station personnel. But if you can get past the unlikeliness of an Ion Storm in The Denorios belt, then this episode is an enjoyable drama, and has some Quark-Humour as well.

Verad was forgotten, when Jadzia had her Zhian'tara.


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