Series: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Season 5, Episode 3
Original Air Date: October 14, 1996
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Grilka, Quark's Klingon ex-wife, arrives on the station. Quark wants to sleep with her. Worf is deeply impressed by her, too, but alas his family dishonor puts him out of the running. Instead, he agrees to help Quark woo her. Meanwhile, Miles and Kira, the live-in surrogate mother of his child, are growing too close for comfort.
Star Trek can get pretty heavy. Every once in a while, we need a story that's just flat out funny. L4piAtWP delivers. The story is a Cyrano de Bergerac send up. The exploration of Klingon mating rituals alone is worth the price of admission. And the Cyrano character (Worf) gets the girl. But it's a different girl from the one he initially had in mind. Dax seduces him, the beginning of an important DS9 romance.
Acting Notes
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On top of everything else, we get the return of an original series guest star: Joseph Ruskin. This time, he is Tumek, Grilka's advisor, his second appearance in the role. In TOS's "The Gamesters of Treskelion," he was Galt. Overall, Ruskin had six different Trek roles over four different series and a movie.
Ruskin was born Joseph Richard Schlafman in Haverhill, Massachusetts, April 14, 1924. He served in the Navy before studying at Carnegie Mellon. Other television appearances include Mission: Impossible, The Twilight Zone and Hogan's Heroes. Films include The Magnificent Seven, Prizzi's Honor and Indecent Proposal.
Raskin was on the board of the Screen Actors Guild for 23 years. He passed away in 2013.
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