History Recap / StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E04AManAlone

* OddFriendship: Nog isn't impressed when some "hewman" starts talking to him, but given that Jake is the only other person his age, they quickly bond by playing pranks. Neither of their parents is happy and forbids them to have anything to do with each other.

** Jadzia meditating before a brain teaser and claiming to have no interest in passion contrasts with the BlitheSpirit she'll later become, with her fondness for Klingon martial arts and hunky holodeck masseurs. The original concept for Dax was the symbiote (with centuries of memories) was like a zen master, and it had to constantly suppress the youthful passions of the host body (explaining Dax's 'protests too much' reaction to Bashir).

** Dax tells Bashir that Trill don't engage in romance the way younger species do, preferring more cerebral pursuits. Normally would count as EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, but it really seems that Dax is just lying to Bashir to stop him from trying to woo her, especially given that this statement is already contradicted by the ''Next Generation'' episode introducing the Trill, and Curzon Dax will be noted to have been a notorious womanizer only a few episodes later (plus Sisko implies he shared a couple of twins with Curzon in this very episode).

** This is the only instance of Sisko addressing Odo as "Mr. Odo."

* FixFic: Regarded as one for "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E18UpTheLongLadder Up The Long Ladder]]", which had been widely criticized for a scene in which Riker kills his partially formed clone without a second thought.

* FrameUp: Odo's name is on Ibuban's appointment calendar for the time of death, he was killed in a room that only a shapeshifter could enter, and Odo's DNA is in the room because he was called to investigate the killing. Odo has a motive to kill him and Ibuban had told others that he feared for his life after [[NotHelpingYourCase Odo publicly assaulted him shortly before his murder]]. Odo has no alibi as he was regenerating in a bucket in his office.

* PracticalJoke: Nog and Odo release some alien bugs that make a courting couple itch all over, then make their skin change color. The kids are sniggering at the sight when one of Odo's deputies comes up from behind and hauls them away.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Ibudan requested a room with double accommodations. At first it's suggested that he just wanted more room, but later we find out that extra space is for his clone.

** Dax tells Bashir that Trill don't engage in romance the way younger species do, preferring more cerebral pursuits. Normally would count as EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, but it really seems that Dax is just lying to Bashir to stop him from trying to woo her, especially given that this statement is already contradicted by the ''Next Generation'' episode introducing the Trill, and Curzon Dax will be noted to have been a notorious womanizer only a few episodes later (plus Sisko implies he shared a couple of twins with Curzon in this very episode). According to the series bible, the symbiote due to its excessive age really isn't interested in sex and suppresses the urges of the host body, but isn't always successful.

** Sisko points out that Keiko will have to create an educational program that caters for the different cultures of her students. Keiko is confident she can handle this, but runs into just this issue in the [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E20InTheHandsOfTheProphets season finale]].
** Rom's willingness to at least try Keiko's idea that Nog receive a formal education from a hewman female implies he's not quite the died-in-the-latinum Ferengi he's pretending to be.

** Dax tells Bashir that Trill don't engage in romance the way younger species do, preferring more cerebral pursuits. Normally would count as EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, but it really seems that Dax is just lying to Bashir to stop him from trying to woo her, especially given that this statement is already contradicted by the ''Next Generation'' episode introducing the Trill, and Curzon Dax will be noted to have been a notorious womanizer only a few episodes later (plus Sisko implies he shared a couple of twins with Curzon in this very episode).

** Jadzia meditating before a brain teaser and claiming to have no interest in passion contrasts with the BlitheSpirit she'll later become, with her fondness for Klingon martial arts and hunky holodeck masseurs.

** Most of Bajoran civilians openly treat Odo with suspicion and hostility for his former role as the Cardassians' chief of security, and FantasticRacism over his being a shape-shifter. In later episodes, Odo is a highly revered figure among the Bajorans for his maintaining some semblance of justice on the station during the occupation, and his being a shape-shifter is instead treated as something which gave him and the Bajorans a shared sense of being outsiders on what at the time was a Cardassian-controlled station.

** Jadzia meditating before a brain teaser and claiming to have no interest in passion contrasts with the BlitheSpirit she's later become, with her fondness for Klingon martial arts and hunky holodeck masseurs.

* ShipTease: Quark shows enthusiastic interest in [[HeadTurningBeauty Jadzia]], though Odo scoffs that she's well out of his league. Odo in turn thinks that Sisko is interested in her, [[AttractiveBentGender regardless of what previous relationship they had]]. Sisko later tells Bashir they're JustFriends and he's free to go ahead with wooing her, but Bashir doesn't buy the idea that someone who was intimate with Curzon (Sisko implies he shared a [[TwinThreesomeFantasy couple of alien twins]] with him) is entirely impervious. Bashir also seems out of Jadzia's league, but she gives the impression that she's protesting too much when she insists that Trills of her age aren't interested in youthful passions (she is, after all, in a new young body with the memories of [[DirtyOldMan Curzon]]).

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Sisko talking about how uncomfortable he feels [[{{Transgender}} now that his friend Dax is a woman]].