I’m watching Deep Space 9 episode Meridian and I am disturbed.

Like this episode just feels like the creep meter is off the charts. From that alien’s literal first question to Dax being do the spots go all the way down to Quark trying to clone Kira into a hologram for some aliens perverted fantasy. I mean like gross 🤢

I still have half the episode to watch and I am hoping that the episode will redeem itself somehow but I’m not holding my breath. I remember there was a Voyager episode and I was just waiting for it to come right and then it never did.

Do you think it’s the era? I guess maybe we have more awareness of creepiness now.

I think what always makes it so weird to me is that it feels so creepy and yet the characters don’t mind it? Like Dax was going to give up her life for that guy. The Dax in my head would have brushed the guy off diplomatically, or maybe left him wondering if he had been insulted but not entirely sure, and if he had pressed it further then he would have been kissing dirt. Instead she was all over him ??

When I was watching Once Upon a Time I phrased it as feeling like I had “fallen into an alternate reality” because it just did not make sense.

Really though it’s like a “does not compute” error. I have that IRL a fair bit when things aren’t logical. So then I wonder if maybe I am missing something, and that it is actually ok despite feeling very not ok?

Anyway I suppose skeevy holo guy at least didn’t get what he wanted. But I don’t like how that was played for laughs. Surely the misuse of holo suites for things people wouldn’t consent to should have been a real ethical issue. I mean Trek is about the ethics right?