Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 30, 2021
"Rejoined" is the sixth episode of the fourth season of the American science-fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, originally airing on October 30, 1995. Marking one of the first televised lesbian kisses, it received a record volume of feedback from series viewers, both positive and negative. In the episode, Jadzia Dax struggles with taboo feelings for the widow of an individual whose body she used to inhabit as a symbiont. The episode was the first that series writers Ronald D. Moore and René Echevarria wrote together, and it was directed by main cast member Avery Brooks. The taboo was intended to be an allegory for homosexuality and homophobia. "Rejoined" received a Nielsen rating of seven percent on the first broadcast in syndication. Reviews of the episode were mostly positive, especially for the acting and the message, but the plot was faulted as tedious. (Full article...)