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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9756873" data-attributes="member: 78087">Back to another episode I didn’t see back in the day, which is Facets from season 3.This is all pretty interesting. Firstly, it’s well put together - the main plot of Jadzia meeting her previous hosts via her friends, and confronting the feeling that she wasn’t good enough to be bonded, is parallel to Nog’s story of passing the preliminary Starfleet exams (despite being sabotaged by Quark, whom he’s surprisingly quick to forgive). The forgiveness is paralleled in Jadzia’s forgiveness of Curzon for being such a toxic @$$hole.Honestly, I’m sort of glad I didn’t see this back in the day because seeing it now puts a lot of Curzon and Odo’s characterisation in a modern context, and it’s terrible. Curzon is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_stair" target="_blank">missing stair</a>, a narcissistic and abusive supervisor who indulged his pathetic and inappropriate crush to ruin his charge’s career and is now trying to influence an impressionable changeling for a second go at life. Good thing he didn’t stay bonded to Odo - he’d now have two unrequited crushes on his female colleagues. Honestly, Odo, you wanted this guy to share your head for the foreseeable? You have a lot of issues.</blockquote>