History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E20HisWay

** Vic's line "I remember that weekend with Frank" also acts as a little reference to Frank Sinatra Jr., with whom James Darren is a friend of.

* TheMatchmaker: Vic Fontaine.
* TheyDo: ''Finally.''

Bashir, Odo, Kira, Worf and Dax are in a holosuite watching a jazz performance by the character Vic Fontaine. After the performance, Bashir urges the others to meet Fontaine, who understands that he's a hologram. A self-described observer or human nature, the crooner quickly identifies the love lives of O'Brien, Worf and Dax before the group leaves. Bashir relates how Fontaine helped him woo his current girlfriend, which intrigues Odo.

* BreatherEpisode: After three heavy episodes, the only stakes in this episode are Odo and Kira's love lives.

Bashir, Odo, Kira, Worf and Dax are in a holosuite watching a jazz performance. of Vic Fontaine. After the performance, Bashir urges the others to meet Fontaine, who understands that he's a hologram. A self-described observer or human nature, the crooner quickly identifies the love lives of O'Brien, Worf and Dax before the group leaves. Bashir relates how Fontaine helped him woo his current girlfriend, which intrigues Odo.

Kira is leaving for Bajor to meet with Shakaar, her old flame. Quark criticizes Odo for not making a move on her in the year after she broke up with Shakaar. Odo decides to meet with Fontaine for advice. The holographic singer accurately assesses Odo's dilemma and decides that the changeling needs to loosen up. He recruits Odo to pretend to play piano during his next performance. After some befuddlement, Odo gets the hang of it and is suddenly tickling the ivories like a bona fide jazz man. Even while conducting his duties afterwards, Odo is infused with swing.

When Odo returns for another dose of jazz, he's shocked to discover that Fontaine has created a new performer named Lola Crystal, who looks just like Kira. After a dazzling jazz number, Fontaine suggests Odo spend some quality time with Crystal, but Odo can't go through with it because he knows that Crystal's personality is too unlike Kira. Kira herself returns to the station, and Fontaine decides to take matters into his own hands. He transfers himself into the holosuite where she goes to meditate and invites her to a date on Odo's behalf. Then he contacts Odo and claims that he's perfected a new Kira hologram for him to practice with.

Kira discusses the previous evening with Dax, who urges her to act on any moment of clarity she has. Emboldened, Kira confronts Odo about last night. Odo finally confronts her about Shakaar, and Kira insists that they remain just friends. Kira demands that they talk about their relationship, and the pair begin to sarcastically plan out a date. When Odo mockingly suggests that they skip the date and go right to kissing, Kira agrees, so Odo suddenly grabs her and plants a big one right on her lips. Everyone on the promenade gapes at the couple, but they keep on kissing. Afterward, Odo returns to Fontaine and admits that he'd been right about everything. In return, Fontaine asks only that Odo leave the program running for a few minutes because he feels like singing.

* BreatherEpisode: Particularly after the last three episodes.

[[caption-width-right:350:Vic Fontaine, everybody!! Oh, right, and elsewhere there's a RelationshipUpgrade or something.]]

* ContinuityNod: Vic was able to create a hologram of Kira due to the events of [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E10OurManBashir "Our Man Bashir"]].

* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: A minor example: while it's implied that Vic has always known he's a hologram from when he was first activated and observing people and giving them relationship advice is one of his main functions, it's doubtful that he was designed to be able to use the station's comm system to speak to people when he's not activated, move between different holoprograms at his leisure, insert and edit characters originating from other holoprograms into his own or have the station's computer recognize and execute his commands with his voice input to end his program at his own command.

* RightInFrontOfMe: Odo's date goes relatively smoothly, until he discovers that Vic didn't set him up on a dinner date with a holographic Kira, but actual, real Kira.

* ShoutOut: Music/FrankSinatra, Shecky Greene, and Creator/VictorBorge are all referenced as performers that Vic is familiar with.

Dr. Bashir gets a new holodeck program, featuring singer Vic Fontaine (James Darren). Vic is an astute observer of human behavior, and he can also read Klingons, Trills, Bajorans and even changelings like Odo very well.

Major Kira goes to Bajor for a couple of days to brief Shakaar on the war with the Dominion. In the meantime, Constable Odo seeks advice on women from Vic, who says it's easy to tell that Odo is crazy about Kira but Kira sees Odo as just a friend.

Vic creates Lola Crystal (Creator/NanaVisitor), a hologram who looks like Kira but can sing songs from the same genre as Vic. She'll be practice for Odo as he waits for the real Kira to come back from Bajor.

Soon after Kira returns, Vic arranges for her to go on a dinner date with Odo. But Vic doesn't tell Odo that he's talking to the real Kira, not Lola. When Kira suggests they leave the holosuite, Odo says that's impossible because she's a hologram. They realize Vic's deception and leave the holosuite angrily.

On the Promenade, Kira asks Odo out to another dinner date but they argue, and then they kiss.

* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: A minor example: while it's implied that Vic has always known he's a hologram from when he was first activated and observing people and giving them relationship advice is one of his main functions, it's doubtful that he was designed to be able to use the station's comm system to speak to people when he's not activated, move between different holoprograms at his leisure or insert and edit characters originating from other holoprograms into his own.

Odo seeks some advice on romance from holographic singer Vic Fontaine.