for curing her by being the woman of his dreams. At the end, she leaves DS9 for a scientific internship. Casting and production The actors playing Sarina, Jack, Lauren, and Patrick had previously portrayed the same characters earlier in the series. However, Faith Salie, who played Sarina, had to re-audition for the role before being cast in this episode, since in her previous appearance she had had no spoken lines. Although the character would have to sing in the episode, singing was not part of her audition; but Salie was able to harness her previous experience doing musicals in school and theater for this role. The musical scene took a day of filming at the Paramount lot, and then a separate recording was done to dub the audio. Tim Ransom, as Jack, was unable to sing, and so the character's singing voice was dubbed by a different performer; the other actors dubbed their own voices. Reception In their 2003 book Beyond the Final Frontier, Mark Jones and Lance Parkin say that Alexander Siddig and Faith Salie's performances as Bashir and Sarina in this episode give depth to "a pretty unpromising story", and describe the episode as one of the better Star Trek romances. Keith R. A. DeCandido of Tor.com gave the episode 6 out of 10. References External links Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (season 7) episodes 1998 American television episodes Television episodes about eugenics