YMMV / Star Trek Deep Space Nine S 03 E 18 Distant Voices

• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot
  • The concept of Bashir or any other character trying to repair a damaged Deep Space 9 that symbolizes their mind with crewmembers that represent different aspects of their personality could make for a great reveal or twist to an otherwise normal episode. However, Bashir figures it out and spells it out for everyone about halfway through the episode, so any sense of mystery or intrigue from the viewer figuring out the twist is quickly thrown away.
  • The opening scene has Bashir and Garak discussing Cardassian mystery novels, where the style of writing is that "everyone is guilty", and the mystery is in figuring out how and of what. Coupled with Bashir noting that O'Brien, Kira, Dax, and Odo are acting peculiarly out-of-character, this seems to be setting up the episode as a Cardassian-style mystery where the ship's lack of power is somehow everyone's fault and Bashir must figure out how they caused it. However, the plot goes in an entirely different direction.