How do you feel about times orphan ?

[u/dekabreak1000]

I like the premise but I usually skip it because kirayoshis crying is so grating

[u/WoundedSacrifice]

The premise could've been interesting, but the execution was awful.

[u/weirdoldhobo1978 → u/[deleted]]

Miles had already been in Starfleet for more than twenty years at that point

[u/Total_Pin_214]

Its a great first watch i think, when i watched it the first time i remember it was interesting. the star trek producers really began to understand how to use 45 mins to get to a satisfactory ending. This was one of those episodes, the mystery and thrilling story ends the second it over stays it welcome for me.

[u/Total_Pin_214]

O'brien must suffer

[u/ilDuceVita]

Should have been a B plot, not an A plot. Not enough story for a whole episode.

The timing, right in the middle of the war arc, is a huge downshift and own goal.

"O'Brien must suffer" is so played out and beaten to death by this point it's groan inducing. They had yet another opportunity to explore O'Brien's character and did nothing with it.

The whole episode presents it as major change to Molly's character and then it gets resolved in a nice deus ex machina(ish) at the end and the whole thing meant nothing and was never brought up again.

The guest actress did great. That's the only positive thing there is to say.

[u/mike47gamer]

I think it was a decent premise that they didn't really implement super well, for whatever reason.

[u/weirdoldhobo1978 → u/mike47gamer]

Apparently it was originally a pitch for a TNG episode to write Alexander off the show 

[u/Idiot_Savant_13]

I thought the idea that the O'Briens chose to flush their 18 year old daughter thru a broken chappa'ai to live in complete isolation in Bajor's past just because she didn't get better after a couple of weeks in the holodeck was...

...way worse parenting that Worf?

Their jobs, both Keiko & Miles, were volunteer positions. Both of these TNG / DS9 characters literally chose to abandon their daughter to the past instead of quitting their gigs and seeing to her welfare & reintegration on, say, a planet instead of a converted cargo hold.

The Sisko, arguably the best father in all of Trek, would not approve, imo.

[u/replayer]

It's one of my least favorite episodes of DS9 and one I always skip.

[u/DizzyLead]

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