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🖖Star Trek DS9 2x6 Full + Watch-Along (Patreon)

Published:
2025-06-15 20:14:51
Edited:
2026-03-25 01:07:14
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2x6 Melora

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This week we get to see a much more sincere Dr Bashir and I'm here for it! Curious to see if the character introduced here will stick around or pop into future episodes or not. Engage! 🖖

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Comments

Jeremy Nuss

This is one of my least favorite episodes of the series. I feel someone who would spend the time and energy to overcome the gravity of her world in order to join Starfleet would not have such thin skin. The Klingon makes it worth watching though

Preaching to the Horse's Mouth

I didn't really have a clear recollection of this one, probably would have just it off as run of the mill, and maybe it is, but I really enjoyed it too 👍🖖

phillip giroux

Not one of the strong ones. Feels like it was intended to be a TNG episode for Geordi that was rejected and pushed onto DS9

Ian

The silver button looks great sitting there behind you Jen 👌 love it 🔥

Summer

No one knew how smart he was

Cinedazed

So apparently one of the original pitches for the character for the show's doctor was that they'd be a paraplegic and it would be an opportunity for the show to further explore disability issues. But then Siddig was so impressive in his audition for Sisko (but was so young that the idea of him as a dad - a key concept for the character that they didn't want to abandon - wouldn't work) that the producers reconceived the doctor so they could cast Siddig in that part. So basically Melora is a version of their first draft ideas for the station doctor. And makes me glad they abandoned those ideas because it's so ham-fisted and on-the-nose in how they handle the issue it sinks the whole ep. Do love the Klingon restauranter though.

Opti_Frog

Not a bad episode per se, but neither really exciting or thought provoking. For nerds like me, i guess the most interesting point is that Melora was played by Daphne Ashbrook who was the love interest of the 8th Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.

Summer

I do always forget this is the episode with that Quark storyline

jon bolton

I'm glad that you are growing to love Julian more, he's one of my favourites.

jon bolton

That makes two of us. I forgot about the Quark story too.

Sykonee

'This week, on a Very Special Episode of DS9...' The intent was sound, but clearly difficult to translate to script to screen, as noticed by all the writer credits. Still don't mind returning to this episode for the little world building touches you don't always get to see (Klingon Restaurant, Vulcan composers, discussions of 'subspace relationships'...)

William Rosmer

today on "things that would probably get jullian fired if he were a real doctor," we have, dating his patient

Desmond

One show that really does focus a lot on gravity (in a realistic way) is the Expanse. Usually hand-waved away on Trek, but on the Expanse, gravity is a very real concern for many of the characters, and it's constantly a factor in the plot.

Banes

Liked it! Two good ones next week...if the baby holds off another week, that is! x)

William Rosmer

the disney version of the story has a happy ending, the original story does not.

Marcus Hicks

Not even close. If Wishes Were Horses and Move Along Home are far, far worse.

Curran Dobbs

I don't know if it's too early to mention or if the comment section on a DS9 episode is the place to do it but the DS9 episode S02E19 has a bonus connection to the TOS episodes Errand of Mercy, The Trouble With Tribbles, and Day of the Dove (I believe Day of the Dove hasn't been done yet). The plot itself is completely separate from the TOS episodes and I suspect any further specifics would go into spoilers.

Zack

Skip fir me

The Star Treker (aka Michael)

This episode hit a little close to home for me. I really connected with Melora and enjoyed her scenes with Dr. Bashir. I was born with a physical disability too—cerebral palsy and a speech impediment. Mine is mild, it isn't as severe as others, and I'm able to walk, move around, and even drive. I value my independence, but yeah, there are still moments when I need help. That’s just reality. Seeing Star Trek acknowledge disabilities, even just a little, meant something. It's rare in the franchise, and I appreciated that they tried to explore it here. Someone called this the worst episode ever—honestly, I don't get that. It's not my all-time favorite, sure, but I think it's a solid, meaningful episode. It represented me, and that matters.

Over50Gamer

Me personally, now that I'm older and have more life experience, I can appreciate what they tried to do with this episode. However, the only bad thing is Julian dating a patient. Yes, the way they made their characters fall for each other seems sincere (the actress playing Melora, and Siddig, really knocked it out of the park!), buuuut from an ethical standpoint, Julian really should have put up more of a boundary. On the other hand, i understand he's the only doctor on the station, so we do have to give a little leeway here; can't expect the dude to be celibate forever if everyone on the station has him as their doctor! 🤣 Besides, they're two grown adults and should have some maturity in navigating a complex relationship.

Rob Nichols

Good point, those episodes introduce characters that will appear in DS9. Likewise with the TNG movies coming up soon, Jen should watch the TOS episode Metamorphosis before Star Trek First Contact.

William Rosmer

i'm not sure he is the only doctor as much as the only named doctor

Chris Biebel

In the original Little Mermaid story, the Prince marries someone else and the only way for the little mermaid to return to the sea is for her to stab him with a dagger and drip his blood on her feet to return to being a mermaid. She can't do it and ends up turning into sea foam instead. Disney decided that wasn't the ending that they wanted for their version of the story, of course, so the movie ending is happier.

Over50Gamer

Well, we have a show that has a budget to allow for engineering extras to be shown as O'Brien's team, but for some very odd reason we don't have nurses to help Bashir and not even a mention of any other medical professional on the station so, yeah, at this point in the show, I'm betting he is the only doctor on the station, at least from the beginning (S1-E1) to this episode.

Marcus Hicks

Its no "Duet", but its also not remotely an "If Wishes Were Horses" either. For me its just an enjoyable, middling episode that I can just have some fun with whilst waiting for the weightier, story-arc episodes.