Let He Who Is without Sin...

This was a silly episode but what it's characters on vacation. Lol. I can't quite figure out why Quark is along. They didn't even try to find something to do with him at all, which is a shame. His personality is so strong it should have been easy. There's not a whole lot going on plot-wise but there's a conversation between Dax and Worf that is great character story for Worf. The episode certainly could have been given more depth & substance. The overarching conflict isn't very convincing but I don't agree it's as awful as the rating would make people think. A bottle episode. Skip it if you want but watch it sometime for fun.

This is a really great episode, it doesn't deserve all the negative reviews. If you don't get this one, there's some stuff you don't get about Star Trek. Worf and Dax's relationship glows in this episode, we learn more about Worf's past, Bajoran relationships and even the society of Risa. Dax shows us the strength and knowledge and patience of being a multi-century old being. Her and Worf talking about these things is essential to the rest of their eventual relationship. This villain also is classic Star Trek. The allegory to real life is clear and essential for almost any time in modern politics. This ep has a lot of great messages that went over a lot of heads.

... but in this episode he's completely out of character and basically should be fired from Starfleet after his actions.

The story is just too light and tries to do commentary but never gets to a point where it's interesting. Couples having petty arguments rarely makes for good tv, especially in a sci-fi series

Skip this one.

I'm currently watching DS9 for the first time.

I'm always looking forward to episodes involving Risa, the 'pleasure planet' of the Federation. So when Dax, Worf, Bashir, Leeta and Quark all go there together in this episode I was looking forward to a 'light' episode with lots of comedy and 'pleasure'-like moments, just like an episode of good old 'Fantasy Island' that I enjoyed very much when I was a kid, or when Picard goes to Risa in the TNG episode where he meets the archaeologist lady.

It could have been a fun episode to watch to take a break from the darkness in DS9 at this time.

It turned out that this episode was very disappointing. It was not fun to watch at all. Some comedy mainly by Quark, the rest was just depressing and unconvincing.

Michael Dorn was given a role and lines that were ridiculously childish and negative even for him, and it affected his performance, and this seemed to reflect onto the others as well. Everyone performed pretty bad compared to other episodes, and the chemistry between them was all gone.

The villain was like something from the 1930's, and the writing was overall very bad.

It all felt very childish.

My least favorite episode of DS9 so far, sorry.

I just cannot get behind the dax/worf relationship. They are constantly at odds and their nonstop arguing is tiresome. Just break up already. This episode shone a bright light on how ridiculous this combo is. Terry's high school play acting skills don't help. Her trying to act tough is laughable. Worf is a shadow of what he was on TNG. He complains about Dax's dishonorable behavior and Dax complains that Worf acts like a Klingon. One that she desperately pursued. Best part was Bashir and Leeta breaking up.

Vanessa Williams looked amazing and did a wonderful job. Quark was just along for the ride and offer some comedic relief, which he always delivers.