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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5 Episode 17

A Simple Investigation

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AIRED: 3/31/97

Stardate: Unknown A woman has her memories erased and stored on a data crystal to infiltrate the Orion Syndicate. Odo falls in love with her, but must save her life by finding her data crystal.

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The 40 year old changeling virgin.

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By pharoahsdance, Oct 06, 2010

There'd already been hints of Odo showing an interest in romance - in "Broken Link", "The Ascent", "In Purgatory's Shadow", his long crush on Major Kira, and of course his weird erotic link with the his fellow changelings. (In fact, until this episode, I'm not sure that dimension of the link was even acknowledged.) But here, Odo experiences romance for the first time - and of course, this being Odo, his heart is broken.

Another reviewer draws parallels to "The Narrow Margin", but there's another link here - to TNG's "In Theory", in which Data gets a girlfriend. That was a bittersweet comedy episode, but this one has a lot more depth - both because Odo has real feelings, and because there's actually an interesting mystery in "A Simple Investigation". It's not an amazing episode, but it will keep you entertained for 45 minutes.moreless
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Armin Shimerman	Quark
Terry Farrell	Lt./Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax (Season 1-6)
Michael Dorn	Lt. Commander Worf (Season 4-7)
Rene Auberjonois	Constable Odo
Nana Visitor	Major/Colonel/Commander Kira Nerys
Avery Brooks	Commander/Captain Benjamin Sisko

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Dey Young	Arissa	Guest Star
John Durbin	Traidy	Guest Star
Nicholas Worth	Sorm	Guest Star
Mark Allen Shepherd	Morn (uncredited)	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (3)
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- During "In Purgatory's Shadow," Odo says that all the regular furniture would go in storage, including the bed. Apparently, it's still in his quarters.
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- While Odo is talking to Arissa in his quarters, you can clearly see the edge of the star-field screen and the floor it's resting on through the window.
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- I'm surprised the doors in a place don't have some kind of spy hole or screen. Then again it would have been a much shorter show...
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QUOTES (4)
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- Worf: You are not talking, you're gossiping. And besides, Odo is quite capable of taking care of himself.
  Dax: Don't shout across the room. If you want to "gossip" with us then come down here.
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- Bashir(To Odo): If people are talking, it's only because they care. You put on a good front, but anyone who really knows you can see that you're lonely.
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- Arissa: You mean... you're just doing this out of the goodness of your heart?
  Odo: I don't have a heart.
  Arissa: Could've fooled me.
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- (talking about a new holosuite program)
  Bashir: You, Jadzia, will be Lady Wantsomore, a beautiful socialite who's been brainwashed to assassinate the Queen of England.
  Jadzia: Oooh, somebody stop me!
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- Nicholas Worth (Sorm) also played the role of Alien Captain in the DS9 episode Progress. On Voyager he played Lonzak on the episodes Shattered and Bride Of Chaotica!
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- This episode marks the return of Bashir's James Bond style holo-program from the season four episode Our Man Bashir.
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- O'Brien views a picture of a woman in "Queen's Gambit" on a PADD with "Holosuite Program -- 5547" in the upper right corner.
  
  Writer Joe Menosky began including references to the number 47 in almost every episode of Star Trek since season four of The Next Generation. It is an in-joke, referring to The 47 Society at Pomona College in California, a college which Menosky attended.
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- Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko) does not appear in this episode.
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- The Narrow Margin
  This episode was inspired by the 1952 Richard Fleischer film The Narrow Margin. In the movie, Charles McGraw plays a policeman who is assigned to escort Marie Windsor to an important trial in which she is a key witness. Over the course of the film, he falls in love with her, even though he knows he shouldn't, as there can be no future with her. At the end of the film, it turns out that Windsor is also a cop and is acting as a decoy for the real witness who has gotten to the trial a completely different way.
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