I have dreaded the coming of this episode for a while now. It still is not the worst episode of DS9--that honor goes to “Profit and Lace”--but it is the worst execution of an episode in the series. The concept is done poorly and there is not a single one of the main characters who comes across as likeable. First problem, the concept. ‘Let He Who is Without Sin…” is all about sex. Giggly, junior high level, fantasy sex. Such appears to be about as much as Trek can muster. Sex is nothing more than a laugh line here.
The catalyst for the story is that Worf and Dax caot have sex with one another without bruises and broken bones. Dax decides, while discussing her sex life with Odo and Sisko, they need a vacation to improve their relationship. Worf reluctantly agrees for thesole purpose of working out their problems. Bashir and Leeta ask to go along so they can engage in a break up ritual that involves having lots of sex with the person you are trying to get rid of. Quark comes along just for the sex. He turns out to be the most reasonable of the five. At least he is beig honest with his intentions.
Second problem, the characters. I have ripped Dax on a number of occasions for being a shallow, self-absorbed bimbo. I consider this episode my vindication against anyone who disagrees with my assessment. Dax’s complaint about worf is he is too controlling. So she forces him to go on vacation, forces him to spend said vacation on Rsa, picks out all his clothes for him, demands he spend all of his time doing activities she wants, and all the while complaining about his domineering attitude. Yes, really.
I feel a lot of sympathy for Worf up to a point. I the middle of all this, the villains arrive in the form of the New Essentialists. In spite of the episode title being inspired from jesus’ admonition to the men about to stone a woman for adultery, there is nothing religious about these guys other than the slight Mormon hint of their outfits. They are not claiming people are sinful for their hedonistic practices, but that they have become complacent.
Their complaint falls pretty flat until dax, who up util this point has been aggrevating Worf, decides to run off and have some pseudo-lesbian un with Ananda, the woman who sexed Curzon Dax to death.
I did say this was all juvenile, did I not? What is worse is that Ananda is played by Vanessa Williams. She is famous for being the first black Miss America--a title which did not last long after some old photos of her simulating lesbian acts were unearthed. One wonders if her fling with Dax is supposed to be a cute nod to the scandal. It did not work for me I so.
Worf is so upset, he jois the New Essentialists and sabotages the artificial ecosystem to help them get their point across. Worf is not the kind of guy who would joi such a group in the first place, but to ruin a whole planet’s worth of vacationer’s fun in his own irritation is the epitome of douchebaggery. All my sympathy for him goes out the door and does not return even after he prevents the New Essentialists from escalating their terrorist acts. Somehow, his actions magically fix his and Dax’s relationship. Well, good.
One final bit of idiocy. Bashir and Leeta are breaking up so she can pursue Rom. I can accept that Rom is an idiot savant with a skill at engineering, but I cannot believe a hot chick, even dumb as Leeta is, would dump her doctor boyfriend for a toad like him. Call it throwing a bone to all the geeky fan boy rom types out there watching who fantasize the same thig will happen to them.
Skip this episode at all costs. I even hate the grammar error in the title. It should be “Let Him Who is Without Sin…”
Rating: * (out of 5)
