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• Actors: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Cirroc Lofton, Alexander Siddig, Colm Meaney
• Directors: Winrich Kolbe
• Writers: Evan Somers, Gene Roddenberry, James Crocker, Michael Piller, Rick Berman
• Producers: David Livingston
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: September 16, 1997
• Run Time: 106 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304564163
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #563,028 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Ensign Melora Pazlar (Daphne Ashbrook) arrives at the station on a mission to chart the Gamma Quadrant. Melora is from a planet with very low gravity and must use a wheelchair to get around in "normal" conditions. Though she resents any special treatment, a smitten Bashir (Siddig El Fadil) outfits her quarters with a gravity device which allows her to "fly" around.

Meanwhile, Quark (Armin Shimerman) welcomes Fallit Kot (Peter Crombie), an old acquaintance who announces that he intends to kill the Ferengi. Odo (Rene Auberjonois) assures Quark he will not allow that to happen.

When Melora is injured in a fall, Bashir develops a new technology which allow her to walk without crutches. But it will also prevent her from flying. While she struggles with the decision, Kot ignores Odo's warnings and closes in for the kill!

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bashir is once again in Love, June 29, 2000

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MRT (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 26: Melora [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Melora is assigned to Deep Space Nine, but she comes from a world where the gravity is lighter than ours, and therefore can't walk without support or has to use a wheelchair. Doctor Bashir, finds a way of providing a remedy for helping her cope with our gravity, and becomes attracted to Melora.

In the meantime Quark is stalked by an ex-partner who was put in a Romulan Prison for 8 years, and Quark of course gets out of going to prison, and the ex-partner is trying to kill Quark, and Hijacks a run-about taking Quark with him and Judzia Dax and Melora are taken hostage as well.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Cardassians don't follow the ADA regs..., November 5, 2004

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Shelley Gammon "Geek" (Kaufman, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 26: Melora [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The first Elysian to join Starfleet, Ensign Melora Pazlar (Daphne Ashbrook) is a fiesty visitor to DS9. Bashir is excited to meet this "remarkable woman," a species adapted to the low gravity on their world where they literally fly around. The heavier gravity that is the norm for the majority of humanoids is crippling to her. She simply doesn't have the muscle strength to cope with the intensity and must rely on an electric wheelchair when she is not using a mobility unit suit and a cane. Her quarters have been customized to simulate her homeworld gravity so she can relax. It is incomprehensible to imagine the stress a person would endure to have to live and work and think for that matter, under such hostile conditions - where the gravity is pushing all over you, but Melora copes - mostly by having a bitchy attitude and biting everyone's head off.

The crew has bent over backwards to put ramps everywhere - as the Cardassians put a lip on every door on the station - the broken ankles alone must keep Bashir busy. The Cardies obviously didn't employ disabled people to work on the station. Despite these efforts, Melora is rude and offensive and criticizes Bashir for customizing her chair.

Despite being almost constantly emasculated by Melora, Bashir is smitten with her and it's not long before they are doing the horizontal mombo - or actualy, the vertical mombo - since they end up floating around on the ceiling of her quarters. I'd love to be a fly on the wall to see how they'd pull that off, but fortunately, we're spared the details.

While Bashir continues to bat his eyelashes at Melora and helps to chisel off her witchy exterior, Quark has an unpleasant blast from the past s Fallit Kot (Peter Crombie) visits him in his bar. Thanks to previous (and naturally dubious) business dealings, Kot has been in a Romulan prison at hard labor for 8 years when Quark left him holding the bag. Kot announces he has come to kill the little troll.

Quark seeks Odo's help, but Odo has his "hands" tied since Kot hasn't actually done anything... that is, until he kills a trader that looks like a cross between a Uridian and an Oompa Loompa, then takes Quark hostage aboard the Rio Grande, along with Dax and Melora onboard.

Bashir has been giving Melora therapy to help her better cope with the earth-like gravity aboard the station, which ends up also saving her life. In a display to prove he will kill hostages if Sisko doesn't release the tractor beam on the shuttle, he shoots Melora at close range. This would have normally killed any humanoid, but thanks to all the synaptic therapies she's been getting, it just knocks the wind out of her.

Thought to be dead, Melora turns her disability into a superpower and saves the day.

In the Star Trek version of the future, when most disease is eliminated, wheelchairs are unheard of for the most part. Since most Federation citizens have never seen someone disabled to this degree, they are not accustomed to reacting properly - being overly helpful and intrusive, keeping Melora from accomplishing tasks she does all the time on her own. An interesting insight to being disabled in an able world - and how not to be a thorn in everyone's side while maintaining your dignity.