YMMV / Star Trek Deep Space Nine S 04 E 21 The Muse

• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Odo's public Love Confession to Lwaxana is actually quite sweet.
  • At the end Lwaxana tells Odo that she can't be with him because while he simply doesn't want to be alone, she is still in love with him.
  • Odo playing hide and seek in his quarters with Lwaxana is great. She's set aside her depression and Odo is actually having fun and smiling, casting aside his usual stolid demeanor.
  • Quark attending Odo's wedding and throwing him a party. For enemies, they sure do get pretty friendly.
• Genius Bonus: Onaya mentions that she previously serviced "Keats" and "Catullus." John Keats' career was famously cut short, and Catullus, a Roman poet, also died before the age of 30, hinting that Onaya was behind both their accomplishments and their short lives.
• Protection from Editors: Of a sort; the episode went through significant rewrites by just about every member of the writing staff, but despite reservations about the storyline, they knew that they couldn't just outright reject it, as for one thing they were running short on usable scripts, and for another, they knew there'd be hell to pay if word got out to the fans that the writers had rejected an episode co-written by Majel Barrett.
• Squick: Having Jake Sisko (played by the then 17-year-old Cirroc Lofton) be a clear object of desire for Onaya (played by the then 48-year-old Meg Foster) naturally didn't go down well with some members of the viewing audience.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Even during Deanna Troi's later appearances on Voyager we never see any of her reactions to having a new sibling. Again, this is only addressed in the ebook in which her half-brother (named Barin) is born, when she gets to learn her mother was pregnant from Worf of all people.