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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Playing God (1994)
Response and review- Contains Spoilers
I am going to ignore the primary plot about the trill initiation as well as the sub plot about Jake Sisko dating a dabo girl.
Rather, I will point out a misrepresentation made in one review above: At no time did that episode claim that the "proto-universe" (real physics aside) was only developing single celled life forms. Kira implied it. However, the analysis performed by Dax showed massive energy consumption and non random energy usage- Demonstrating heavily that a very large civilization (Most determinately intelligent life) was at work. The moral dilemma faced by Sisko was the idea (As clearly stated) of destroying a Civilization to save his own. Not single celled organisms. The individual the wrote the review above was clearly not paying any attention to that discussion in the show. Now that that correction has been covered, it demonstrates far more heavily why this is an Awful bit of story-telling.
Here is this expanding proto-universe within our own that will engulf our own and destroy us all... A Major Moral Dilemma faced: To destroy a civilization to save our own OR to somehow find some amazing way to save both... And the end resolution was to... Take it back to where they found it in the Gamma Quadrant and drop it off In Our Universe? How does THAT simplistic and completely absurd "resolution" make any sense at all? That "resolution" leaves it to destroy our Universe - yet this problem is conveniently ignored by the writers. The problem was never resolved at all, the moral dilemma was suddenly forgotten and the opportunity to cover the fundamentals was swept under the rug by the same writers who gave themselves that opening in the first place. Whatever moral ground they wished to cover was completely wasted with that juvenile story-telling.