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* PersonaNonGrata: Trills take the taboo of "Reassociation" ''very'' seriously, with any joined Trill found guilty of it being sentenced to exile. In addition to the Trill being barred from returning to their homeworld, this would also mean that their symbiont would not be passed on to a new host when its current host dies, with its potentially centuries worth of cumulative memories and knowledge being subsequently lost. Because Trill society values their symbionts so much, this is a taboo very few would dare commit.
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* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Creator/ColmMeaney was unavailable for most of the episode's filming dates, including the scene where Dax rescues Lenara from the plasma fire. This has the somewhat odd result of Eddington essentially filling the role of chief engineer for most of the episode, despite being a security officer rather than a member of engineering.
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-->'''Bashir:''' ...the whole point of joining is for the symbiont to accumulate experiences from the span of many lifetimes. In order to move on from host to host, the symbiont has to learn to let go of the past, let go of parents, siblings, children, even spouses.
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-->'''Bashir:''' ... the whole point of joining is for the symbiont to accumulate experiences from the span of many lifetimes. In order to move on from host to host, the symbiont has to learn to let go of the past, let go of parents, siblings, children, even spouses.
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* LongLastLook: Dax watches from the Promenade's upper walkway as the Trills leave. Lenara turns for a last look at her...[[HopeSpot then walks out the door]].
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* LongLastLook: Dax watches from the Promenade's upper walkway as the Trills leave. Lenara turns for a last look at her... [[HopeSpot then walks out the door]].
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-->'''Kira:''' I don't understand how two people who've fallen in love, and made a life together, can be forced to just walk away from each other...because of a taboo?
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-->'''Kira:''' I don't understand how two people who've fallen in love, and made a life together, can be forced to just walk away from each other...other ... because of a taboo?
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** Dax claims she's never let relationships from her previous lives interfere with her life as Jadzia...ignoring [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E08Dax when she went on trial for possible murder as Curzon]] and volunteered for a [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E19BloodOath Klingon revenge mission.]]
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** Dax claims she's never let relationships from her previous lives interfere with her life as Jadzia... ignoring [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E08Dax when she went on trial for possible murder as Curzon]] and volunteered for a [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E19BloodOath Klingon revenge mission.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: Dax saves Lenara's life, but Lenara still can't bring herself to commit to such a taboo relationship, and Dax can only watch and [[CryCute weep]] as Lenara leaves with the science team.
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* BittersweetEnding: Dax saves Lenara's life, but Lenara still can't bring herself to commit to such a taboo relationship, and Dax can only watch and [[CryCute weep]] weep as Lenara leaves with the science team.
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* WhatHaveWeEar: The episode opens with Dax demonstrating her sleight of hand tricks for Quark and Bashir, ending with pulling a bar of latinum out of Quark's ear. Quark assumes she just used a teleporter. Later Bashir [[BrickJoke does the same trick]], causing another Ferengi to peak in Quark's ear to see if there's any more latinum in there.
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* WhatHaveWeEar: The episode opens with Dax demonstrating her sleight of hand tricks for Quark and Bashir, ending with pulling a bar of latinum out of Quark's ear. Quark assumes she just used a teleporter. Later Bashir [[BrickJoke does the same trick]], causing another Ferengi to peak peek in Quark's ear to see if there's any more latinum in there.
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* SeriesContinuityError: The taboo about reassociation was never mentioned when [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E23TheHost Odan fell in love with Beverly Crusher]] and wanted to continue the relationship despite moving to another host. Then again, Odan was portrayed as [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness significantly different]] from the Trills ''Deep Space Nine'' viewers would be familiar with.
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* SeriesContinuityError: The taboo about reassociation was never mentioned when [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E23TheHost Odan fell in love with Beverly Crusher]] and wanted to continue the relationship despite moving to another host. Then again, Odan was portrayed as [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness significantly different]] from the Trills ''Deep Space Nine'' viewers would be familiar with.with, and there is likely also a difference when two joined Trill are involved rather than a Trill and a human.
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* NotADate: Dax asks Lenara to join her at a dinner she's having with Bashir. The next scene shows her asking Bashir to cancel a prior appointment so he play along. The scene after that has Bashir looking glum and bored as Dax and Lenara chat happily away.
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* NotADate: Dax asks Lenara to join her at a dinner she's having with Bashir. The next scene shows her asking Bashir to cancel a prior appointment so he can play along. The scene after that has Bashir looking glum and bored as Dax and Lenara chat happily away.
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Dax is wowing Bashir and Quark with some sleight-of-hand when Sisko calls her to his office. Stone-faced, he informs her that the station is about to be visited by a science team including a certain joined trill named Lenara Kahn. Rather than go on leave to avoid Lenara, Dax decides to stay. She joins the welcome party and meets the team: Hanor Pren, Lenara Kahn and Lenara's brother Bejal Otner. Dax and Lenara exchange stiff pleasantries about it being "a long time" before Lenara leaves for her quarters. When Kira looks at Dax askance, she explains that Lenara was once her wife.
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Dax is wowing Bashir and Quark with some sleight-of-hand when Sisko calls her to his office. Stone-faced, he informs her that the station is about to be visited by a science team including a certain joined trill Trill named Lenara Kahn. Rather than go on leave to avoid Lenara, Dax decides to stay. She joins the welcome party and meets the team: Hanor Pren, Lenara Kahn and Lenara's brother Bejal Otner. Dax and Lenara exchange stiff pleasantries about it being "a long time" before Lenara leaves for her quarters. When Kira looks at Dax askance, she explains that Lenara was once her wife.
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* DiscountLesbians: Of the Trill variety. Dax more so than Lenara.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Condemning the symbiont to exile and final death seems a bit excessive for simply reassociating with a lover from a former life.
** Put into a larger context, it makes sense. As explained in other places, the reassociation taboo isn't just some token rule for the betterment of the symbiont, but to keep the Joined from forming an aristocratic elite that cannot be penetrated by the now lower class. It's a harsh punishment, but it's a hardline attempt at preventing tyranny and oppression.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Oh boy, yes. The DVD features have quite a few people talking about how much joy they took in walking right up to the line of Rick Berman's ban on homosexual material. Technically Dax and Lenara are simply resuming a previous heterosexual relationship, but the audience can never forget that they're actually seeing two women acting out a romance.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Condemning the symbiont to exile and final death seems a bit excessive for simply reassociating with a lover from a former life.
** Put into a larger context, it makes sense. As explained in other places, the reassociation taboo isn't just some token rule for the betterment of the symbiont, but to keep the Joined from forming an aristocratic elite that cannot be penetrated by the now lower class. It's a harsh punishment, but it's a hardline attempt at preventing tyranny and oppression.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Oh boy, yes. The DVD features have quite a few people talking about how much joy they took in walking right up to the line of Rick Berman's ban on homosexual material. Technically Dax and Lenara are simply resuming a previous heterosexual relationship, but the audience can never forget that they're actually seeing two women acting out a romance.
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* DiscountLesbians: Of the Trill variety. Dax more so than Lenara.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Condemning the symbiont to exileand final death seems a bit excessive for simply reassociating with a lover from a former life.
** Put into a larger context, it makes sense. As explained in other places, the reassociation tabooLenara's original marriage was heterosexual, so their continuing romance isn't just some token rule for the betterment of the symbiont, but to keep the Joined from forming an aristocratic elite that cannot be penetrated by the now lower class. It's technically a harsh punishment, but it's a hardline attempt at preventing tyranny and oppression.
lesbian relationship.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Oh boy, yes. The DVD features have quite a few people talking about how much joy they took in walking right up to the line of Rick Berman's ban on homosexual material.Technically Technically, Dax and Lenara are simply resuming a previous heterosexual relationship, but the audience can never forget that they're actually seeing two women acting out a romance.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Condemning the symbiont to exile
** Put into a larger context, it makes sense. As explained in other places, the reassociation taboo
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Oh boy, yes. The DVD features have quite a few people talking about how much joy they took in walking right up to the line of Rick Berman's ban on homosexual material.
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* ExcusePlot: The justification given for Lenara and her team being on [=DS9=] in the first place is that they're conducting experiments into generating artificial wormholes, but there's never any explanation given for why they've come there specifically.[[note]] The fact that [=DS9=] is itself right next to a wormhole, which could have provided an explanation -- the team might have wanted to study it as part of their work -- isn't even brought up.[[/note]] You'd think that a ''science'' ship would be better equipped for their work than a warship like the ''Defiant'', not to mention that doing their work ''literally anywhere else in the Federation'' would avoid the risk of violating the reassociation taboo.
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* ExcusePlot: The justification given for experiment that Lenara and her team being are conducting on [=DS9=] in the first place is that they're conducting experiments into generating artificial wormholes, but there's never any explanation given for why they've come there specifically.[[note]] The fact that [=DS9=] is itself right next just an excuse to a wormhole, which could have provided an explanation -- the team might have wanted to study it as part of their work -- isn't even brought up.[[/note]] get Dax and Lenara together. You'd think that a ''science'' ship would be better equipped for their work than a warship like the ''Defiant'', not to mention that doing their work ''literally anywhere else in the Federation'' would avoid the risk of violating the reassociation taboo.
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* JustFriends: Lenara/Dax according to Lenara when her brother questions her about it. No-one buys it, least of all Lenara and Dax.
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* JustFriends: Lenara/Dax according to Lenara when her brother questions her about it. No-one No one buys it, least of all Lenara and Dax.
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* [[LittleSisterInstinct Little Brother Instinct]]: Bejal talks Lenara out of staying with Dax.
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* [[LittleSisterInstinct Little Brother Instinct]]: LittleSisterInstinct: Bejal talks Lenara out of staying with Dax.
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* SeriesContinuityError: The taboo about reassociation was never mentioned when [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E23TheHost Odan fell in love with Beverly Crusher]] and wanted to continue the relationship despite moving to another host. Then again Odan was portrayed as [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness significantly different]] from the Trills ''Deep Space Nine'' viewers would be familiar with.
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* SeriesContinuityError: The taboo about reassociation was never mentioned when [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E23TheHost Odan fell in love with Beverly Crusher]] and wanted to continue the relationship despite moving to another host. Then again again, Odan was portrayed as [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness significantly different]] from the Trills ''Deep Space Nine'' viewers would be familiar with.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Lenara leaves at the end of the episode rather than pursue an illegitimate relationship, and we never see any homosexual relationships on ''[=DS9=]'' again. Except of course in the [[DepravedBisexual evil Mirror Universe]].
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Lenara leaves at the end of the episode rather than pursue an illegitimate relationship, and we never see any homosexual relationships on ''[=DS9=]'' again. Except of course in the [[DepravedBisexual evil Mirror Universe]].relationship.
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* WhatHaveWeEar: The episode opens with Dax demonstrating her sleight of hand tricks for Quark and Bashir, ending with pulling a bar of latinum out of Quark's ear. Quark assumes she just used a teleporter. Later Bashir [[BrickJoke does the same trick]], causing Rom to peak in Quark's ear to see if there's any more latinum in there.
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* WhatHaveWeEar: The episode opens with Dax demonstrating her sleight of hand tricks for Quark and Bashir, ending with pulling a bar of latinum out of Quark's ear. Quark assumes she just used a teleporter. Later Bashir [[BrickJoke does the same trick]], causing Rom another Ferengi to peak in Quark's ear to see if there's any more latinum in there.
