Star Trek Retro Review: 'Meridian' (DS9) | Worst Episodes Ever

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[justinaclayburn]

This was the episode of Star Trek where I turned to my dad and said “people fall in love awful fast on Star Trek” and he replied “people fall in love awful fast on The Bachelor”.

[hadorstapa]

I totally believe that Teran knows senior people in the Ferengi Chamber of Commerce and the Dominion, but I bet he's never seen in the same room with either of them.

[chrisblake]

I don't buy Meridian because apart from the scene with Sisko, Dax doesn't act like Dax in one key way. Not once does she seem concerned about the symbiont. Nearly every Dax episode at least mentions their relationship or its safety. Yet it never comes up here. Additionally, there's no way Bashir could even guess what would happen to their joint consciousness on the other side, even if his transporter hijinks worked. It's the fulcrum for every other swing in Dax's character development, but never comes up in this episode. That's what took me out of the story.

[BlownMacTruck]

I challenge anyone to identify a Star Trek character that radiates more dad energy than Colm Meaney playing Miles. He looks like your friend’s dad. He’s shaped like a dad. He talks like a dad. You just want to give him a hug like the confused teddy bear that he is.

[jimballard]

What makes this episode so regrettable is Terry Farrel absolutely CAN do believable, tempestuous, love at first sight: we see her do it in the one where she meets the woman whose stomach holds the worm that her stomach-worm used to be married to. And despite how I phrased that, I still believe the relationship she and the other actor portray!

[ultra]

I love how nobody ever thinks to just take the Meridian colony away from their planet and relocate them somewhere else.

[alexhirsch]

Its actually hillarious that this one episode in particular is referenced TWICE in Lower Decks season 2. Once when Mariner teases Quark about having a copy of the Quark/Kira holo-program, and once in the finale when they visit "one of those planets that phases into our dimension for a few hours every couple of years"

[spidersinatrenchcoat]

This episode stood out for me mostly because I loved Kira’s voice when she said “but I’ve never won anything before!”, Nana Visitor really gave so many good little moments that fleshed out that character

[DerMannDerSeineMutterwar]

It says a lot about DS9 that it's worst Episode would be just a mediocre one in most other Star Trek Shows.

[gingerestkitten]

The theme of both storylines in this episode is definitely “how far will someone go to get sum fuk”

[julietteangeli]

Quark's come-hither look in the Kira hologram will never stop being amazing and hilarious.

[danielyeshe]

I think this should have been a Bashir episode. It is far more believable that he would fall in love so fast.

[jonsvendsen]

DS9 truly outshines most other Trek series with how the crew talks to each other. They're like people, talking to other people about stuff other than the plot of the week and/or technobabble. Personal stuff that people need to talk to other people about!

[LoreTheDarkElf]

Miridian reminds me of Classic Trek. A member of the crew falling in love the moment they hit planet side and then Something Terrible kills the guest star they were head over heels for- occasionally their entire spieces.

I think that's happened to Kirk at least six times.

[MrJohndoakes]

The A plot of this is just "Brigadoon" (1954) in outer space.

[alissapyrich]

That's a creepily good Jeffrey Combs voice.

[Rocketboy]

My problem is that this is a TNG or Voyager type story. A story of weird planet of the week with a one off romance is what auto populates when you tell an AI to outline a Star Trek episode.

DS9's strengths are in its ongoing story of religion and clashing empires. This show has none of that. This is a Troi or Harry Kim episode.

[renatocorvaro]

Wait, about that weirdo.

Isn't everyone played by Jeffrey Combs?

[lightsabermetrics]

I was always quite impressed that 90s Trek episodes that took place outdoors in a park-type setting still made those outdoors settings look like stage plays.

[JohnMinehan-lxts]

Meridian AKA "Brigadoon II."