Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places

After "The Ship" episode, where we don't only see the troubles of being captain, but also the cost of a life of a person you know it closely, we have "Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places."

Basically this episode took two subplot who are similar if you analyze:

In one hand we have Worf dealing by the fact the person he is attracted don't look at him, and decide to give an hand to Quark instead of being jealous, if you trully are interesting in someone, you want to see it happy no matter who is, right?

By other hand, O'Brian and Kira deals with intimacy while Keiko don't care since she is open minded and see Kira as a reflect of herself, after all; Kira carry their offspring as we see some episode ago, Keiko want to see O'Brian treat Kira as her.

Some people complain about the characters acting dumb sometimes, but after all, who don't act dumb at an moment in your life?

This is the good thing of Star Trek series, one episode can be full of action sadness, and another episode can talk about day-to-day topics.

Grilka returns to DS9 and attracts the attention of both Worf and Quark.

This is a pretty funny episode with some amusing character moments.

If you liked 'House of Quark' you should enjoy this story which reacquaints the Klingon character Grilka with DS9 for some courtship-related shenanigans, based on Rostand's 'Cyrano de Bergerac'. This episode has a stronger romantic theme involving numerous characters and it's all done in a rather lighthearted way.

The best scenes involve Quark, Worf and Jadzia, but there is a reasonably good b-plot involving Kira and the O'Briens that, thanks to the weird surrogacy arrangement, is full of nicely awkward moments.

All actors seem to be having fun with the material, particularly Terry Farrell. Rene Auberjonois has a particularly humorous scene with some great jealousy dialogue.

This was a fun episode. Romance was in the air. Dax jealous of Worf's attraction to a Klingon woman of a great House. Quark catching a beat down for his troubles.

Overall, a nice respite from the battles to come.

In the IMDb reviews, Hasjtracker calls this the worst show of the series while Tweekums LOVED it. As for me, I'm more agreeable to Hasjtracker's views but I don't think it's THAT bad!

When this episode begins, Quark's Klingon ex-wife (from "The House of Quark") comes to the station to visit. When Worf sees her, he's instantly smitten and thinks that Grilka is the most amazing female he's ever seen! And, surprisingly, for once Worf is jealous that Quark is so close to such a gorgeous lady! Unfortunately, because of Worf's discommendation , there is zero chance that he could ever possess Grilka. However, later, Worf doesn't envy Quark at all. In fact, he must help Quark to avoid being torn in half!

The other plot involves the O'Briens. Miles and Major Kira have been spending more and more time together--intimate sorts of time. And, the two start to realize that his giving the Major massages to ease her pregnancy paints is probably no longer a good idea--but Keiko keeps encouraging these two to spend time together. What's with that?

As I alluded to, I wasn't at all thrilled about this episode. While I didn't hate it, the plots were pretty stupid. It was VERY obvious that Quark was cheating when he fought the duel--so much so that you can only assume everyone is stupid in order to believe it. As for the other plot, there was NEVER any chemistry between Miles O'Brien and the Major--and all this seemed very contrived and dumb as well. It's clearly badly written but some episodes from season 1 managed to be worse!! Perhaps it's the worst of season 5.

This is a lighter episode, full of humor and strange bedfellows. Remember that Quark was married for a brief time in order to help a Klingon woman get her property back. He managed to survive in combat because of intervention by Gowron. Now she is back and they hit it off again. Worf is head over heels when he sees her but his disgraced family makes it impossible for him to woo her. So he takes on the role of the advice giver and confidante to Quark. How this plays out is a lot of fun. The other plot is that Kira, carrying Miles and Keiko's child, has allowed Miles a great deal of rope when it comes to his relationship with Kira. Miles begins to have serious feelings for Kira and this is truly dangerous. Keiko is utterly clueless. Anyway, things are pretty tense. I really hope this baby is born soon.