What I didn't like about "Meridian" was the quick way Jadzia Dax fell in love and decided to leave a career in starfleet behind to become pure consciousness. I mean, WTF? Isn't the idea behind a Trill and symbiot going through rigorous psychological and mental testing to become joined to make the world, or Alpha Quadrant, a better place?
The episode is about the discovery of a planet in the Gamma Quadrant that shifts between corporeal reality and pure energy. Dax falls in love with one of the inhabitants and he chooses to leave his homeworld before it shifts again and remain in his material state to live with Dax. Nothing is mentioned about the big worm that resides inside her and is part of her, both physically and mentally.
Then he decides to stay with his people because he's concerned about leaving them. Why? If they can survive as pure energy for 60 of our years, what's there to be concerned about? If their dwindling population is of concern in corporeal form, then wouldn't a pregnant female only carry the young for such a limited time in each phase shift, only to return to energy for decades? There were children present, so why not let them populate the species, considering it will take them hundreds of years to grow up? And there was talk that each phase in corporeal form was getting shorter and shorter. If they were to remain as pure energy one day, then why worry about populating the species?
Wouldn't it have been wiser for all the inhabitants, who are worried about disappearing forever, to want to leave the planet and live on another planet or even in the Alpha Quadrant? As the shift occurs, Dax is unable to phase out with the rest and is beamed back to the runabout.
This episode, which was directed by Jonathan Frakes, was full of more holes than a slice of swiss cheese. The episodes only redeeming quality was the side story involving Quark getting a holographic image of Kira to please a creepy customer who is paying for a customized holosuit program.
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