The premise of Odo's "Dad" scientist coming on board and them exploring a potential link to Odo's roots has a lot of promise. Unfortunately some seemingly poor writing got in the way and turned this into a mediocre episode.
Many things confused me in this episode:
This could have been such a better set up story for Odo finding his people, the Dominion, etc. instead it was just wonky and confusing.
Many things confused me in this episode:
- Why does Dax so nonchalantly rip sacred statues from the planet? Federation doesn't care about heritage site looting?
- What purpose did the statue serve anyway? They learned nothing from it. I hope it plays a role in future episodes (I'm watching in order) otherwise that was a total waste of time and plot
- Why does Odo alternately care about Dr Mora and then want to attack him via his poison gas alter ego? Does he like him or hate him? Why the focus on him?
- What happened to the original organic material, and since alter-Odo freed it in order to "rescue" it, why did it die?
This could have been such a better set up story for Odo finding his people, the Dominion, etc. instead it was just wonky and confusing.