Quick Review:
Story line #1 -
Quark pays an interesting looking alien lady 3 bars of pressed latinum for the wreckage of a ship she found in the Gamma Quadrant. He normally looks through stuff before buying it but because she licks his ear, he buys it sight unseen. Inside the wreckage - a Jem'Hadar baby!
The baby, a boy, grows up faster than anything does normally.
Odo convinces Sisko to let him mentor the Jem'Hadar guy. The guy is pre-programmed to be addicted to a substance and pre-programmed to want to fight and kill and hate everyone but the Founder-guy Odo - whom he respects in a worshipful way - at least at first.
Story line #2 -
Sisko invites Jake's 20-year-old Dabo girlfriend, Mardah, over for dinner. Jake is 16. She is a very well endowed (ahem) and mature - like all the Dabo girls who work for Quark.
Sisko wants them broken up.
It's too bad she is only in this episode - she is a compelling character. I'm not sure why the writers decided against having Mardah be a semi-regular.
Also:
Odo announces to Kira (who brought him a housewarming gift for his new quarters) he doesn't need his bucket to regenerate any longer. Since hanging out with his own kind he just returns to his gelatinous self and lays around his quarters. To hear him describe it to Kira is hilarious. Kira's giddiness while being with Odo is so over the top it is disconcerting.
Odo's make-up is weirdly different in this episode. Maybe in relation to him returning from the Founders???
Avery Brooks apparently said the story of the Jem'Hadar boy is a metaphor for young men of color growing up in the inner cities of America. Addicted, hateful and purposeless in a society they don't feel a part of. As you watch this episode ask yourself if Brooks is right.
