While not one of the best episodes of Deep Space Nine this was still entertaining enough and featured a good turn from guest star Majel Barrett as Betazoid ambassador Lwaxana Troi who is attracted to Odo after he recovers an item of stolen jewellery.
Several Star Fleet ambassadors are on board the station when an unmanned probe comes through the worm hole from the Gamma Quadrant. It appears to contain a computer program which Chief O'Brien transfers to DS9. At this point things start to go wrong; while the computer claims to be operating properly it clearly isn't as Odo and Lwaxana get trapped in a turbolift, communications fail and Dr Bashir and three ambassadors are nearly killed in a fire. As he tries to figure out what is wrong Chief O'Brien comes to believe that the computer is creating problems just to get his attention. This sounds far fetched but it is possible that the program they downloaded from the probe may be an life form which just wants some attention.
While the main story about the computerised life form was fairly average the side story where Odo was stuck in a turbolift with Lwaxana was rather touching as she was able to reassure him as he had to turn into his liquid form, a private thing he'd never let anybody see before.
Several Star Fleet ambassadors are on board the station when an unmanned probe comes through the worm hole from the Gamma Quadrant. It appears to contain a computer program which Chief O'Brien transfers to DS9. At this point things start to go wrong; while the computer claims to be operating properly it clearly isn't as Odo and Lwaxana get trapped in a turbolift, communications fail and Dr Bashir and three ambassadors are nearly killed in a fire. As he tries to figure out what is wrong Chief O'Brien comes to believe that the computer is creating problems just to get his attention. This sounds far fetched but it is possible that the program they downloaded from the probe may be an life form which just wants some attention.
While the main story about the computerised life form was fairly average the side story where Odo was stuck in a turbolift with Lwaxana was rather touching as she was able to reassure him as he had to turn into his liquid form, a private thing he'd never let anybody see before.