Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places

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.

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.

With a possible Treaty with the Klingons on the Horizon, Klingons are now coming back to The Station... Namely Grillka, who comes to visit her ex-husband Quark.

And YES... Hitchcoc hit the stembolt right on the head in his review, this is Worf's version of Cyrano de Bergerac... we saw Lieutenant Broccoli do it in "the nth degree"- and so now, Worf channels Broccoli

Unless you had seen "House of Quark", this episode will make not a whit of sense. But in fact, circumstances had already brought Quark to Qonos and to the former "House of Kozak", which would have been the "House of D'Ghor" had not Quark discovered, D'Ghor had brought down the House of Kozak- By using Filthy Money! And thanks to Quark, it is now the "House of Grillka".

But Worf gets one good look at Grillka and almost develops a Gorch (Or some other adolescent "growth"!). He thinks just because he's a Klingon, he can use Klingon Methods to attract her. Nope! Sorry, Worf.

His advances are doomed before he even tried them. Mainly we can say "Poor Worf"- Here is one really magnificent Klingon Woman, but she's not on the Station to have Worf dribble and drool and deliver a fresh Lingta.

There is one man on DS9 who can Bring Home the Lingta - Quark. But he doesn't know a groat's worth of Klingon Mating Rituals. So who do you think he has to ask? Of all the... We know Worf, although denied any romantic involvement with Grillka, he has no reason to do what he does next- He gives Quark every detail he needs to have a romantic, candle lit evening of listening to Klingon Opera over the Lingta Haunch.

While Worf is demeaning himself to help Quark get a date, who is stewing in the background other than Jadzia Dax? It's up to Worf to realize as magnificent as Grillka is, there is someone on the station even now, who is more suitable for him. It's a match made in Sto'Vo'Kor! Will Worf figure it out?

But during Quark's Advances, he is Challenged once again, a fight to the death using Battehl's- He can't simply get out if it the same way he did on the Klingon Homeworld- Sometimes, you can't just Ferengi your Way out of a Fight!

One thing I had forgot to mention, this episode has the first ever real musical sample of any Klingon Opera.

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.

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.