7. Rejoined (Deep Space Nine)
Plot in two lines: A Trill whose symbiont was previously married to one of Dax's previous hosts in a former life visits the station.
Why Your Trek Friend Says It's Good: It's all about
that kiss! Finally Star Trek admitted that there were single sex relationships in the world with this story. It's only taken 29 years for the franchise to give it screen time and now it's been added to the Star Trek universe. Well done to the creators and writers for letting this one in. It's a great moment and it's only a shame that it was never explored further with Hawk in First Contact.
Why It's Not Actually That Good: It's lip service (pardon the pun) and the entire episode and the hype is all about ten seconds of screen time. It's a massive disappointment and a badly done, fumbled moment that should have signified so much more. For those fanboys who haven't seen daylight in the last three decades it's probably a must see, but for all reasonable people who do leave the house it's an insult to sexuality by not being totally honest to itself and Star Trek's supposed moral standpoint. Just as the interracial kiss from Plato's Stepchildren was a "forced" event, this wasn't a straight single sex kiss thanks to the addition of the Trill Factor. It's a fairly average episode that deals with relationships and the transition of them between Trill hosts and ignores the burning issue that Star Trek has sidestepped and continues to do on screen to this day.