Fascination
- Episode aired Nov 28, 1994
- TV-PG
- 46m
When Lwaxana Troi visits the station for the Bajoran Gratitude Festival, the crew is stricken with intense romantic attractions to one another.When Lwaxana Troi visits the station for the Bajoran Gratitude Festival, the crew is stricken with intense romantic attractions to one another.When Lwaxana Troi visits the station for the Bajoran Gratitude Festival, the crew is stricken with intense romantic attractions to one another.
- Doctor Julian Bashir
- (as Siddig El Fadil)
- Cardassian Computer
- (archive sound)
- (uncredited)
- Starfleet Crewmember
- (uncredited)
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
- Jones
- (uncredited)
- Broik
- (uncredited)
- Bajoran Woman
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis is one of director of photography Jonathan West's favorite episodes due to the fact that director Avery Brooks allowed West to try some new cinematography techniques: there was more light on the set than usual, color was emphasized much more so than in a standard show, all the characters were bathed in a subtle pink light to enhance the mood, balloon foil was used in the background of many shots to get random sparkles, and purple (a color forbidden from the Star Trek color palette due to its association with "old science fiction artificiality") was allowed to be used.
- GoofsLwaxana Troi is able to affect Quark telepathically, but it has been established in Star Trek canon that Betazoids cannot telepathically read or affect Ferengi due to the Ferengi's quad-lobed brain structure.
- Quotes
Doctor Bashir: Nervous, Chief?
Chief O'Brien: What're you talking about?
Doctor Bashir: That's your fifth cup of coffee in twenty minutes.
Chief O'Brien: I didn't realize you were keeping track.
Doctor Bashir: Oh, nervous and irascible.
Chief O'Brien: If you hadn't seen your wife and child for two months, you'd be irascible too.
Doctor Bashir: Well, believe me, I'm looking forward to Keiko and Molly's visit as much as you are.
Chief O'Brien: Ha-ha, I doubt that.
Doctor Bashir: How many games of raquetball have we played in the last two months?
Chief O'Brien: I don't know, um... Fifteen, maybe twenty?
Doctor Bashir: No, try seventy. I've been keeping track of that, too. And you know what all those games have proved to me? That I'm a poor substitute for your wife.
Chief O'Brien: I could've told you that sixty games ago.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Inglorious Treksperts: Wolfe in the Fold: Remembering DS9 (2019)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: Deep Space Nine - Main Title
(uncredited)
Written by Dennis McCarthy
Performed by Dennis McCarthy
While none of this makes sense, later it DOES--and it makes for a rather funny and enjoyable "what if" episode. Well worth seeing.
- planktonrules
- Dec 21, 2014