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  • Best Known for the Fanservice: It's a Risa episode, so there was guaranteed to be a lot of this (namely Jadzia, Leeta, Bashir and guest star Vanessa Williams in bathing suits, plus lots of innuendos.) The plot of the episode itself is generally disliked.
  • Designated Hero: It's unclear why Worf got away with joining a terrorist group, even if he eventually helped to stop them. On a more meta level, Jadzia doesn't seem have to apologise for her side of the relationship conflict.
  • Narm: There are several examples.
    • The leader of the New Essentialists group talks more like the announcer in a 1950s soda commercial than a religious fanatic and generally comes off as boring and uncharismatic.
    • Worf's speech about why he's such a stick in the mud has gotten comments from fans about being too overdramatic.
  • Narm Charm: Some people really like the reveal of Worf's backstory here, even if they think it's a bit overblown.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: While Worf's behavior is at least acknowledged as wrong, Jadzia is treated as completely in the right. Yet despite Worf's paranoid jealousy, he is at least willing to meet her halfway, while Jadzia always does what she wants, including talking to their friends about things he wants to keep private and expects Worf to go to a place he doesn't want to, dress the way she tells him to, and constantly brushes off his attempts at discussing their problems—which is the whole point of them going there—and decides to simply ignore him when he makes it clear he won't just shut up and have fun. That being said, Worf does spend half the episode as extremely controlling, presumptuous, surly, and suspicious.
  • Voodoo Shark: Aside from coming out of nowhere, some fans felt there wasn't a need to explain why Worf is so serious all the time, other than him reading about the ideal Klingons as a child and aspiring to be like that, while having no real examples to why Klingons aren't actually like that. There's also concerns about whether the writers needed to have Worf accidentally kill a fellow child to make their point.

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