"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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejoined>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
King Lobengula of Matabeleland granted the Rudd Concession to
agents of Cecil Rhodes, setting in motion the creation of the British
South Africa Company.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudd_Concession>
1918:
The Armistice of Mudros was signed in Greece, ending
hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I and paving the
way for the occupation of Constantinople and the subsequent partition of
the Ottoman Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_Mudros>
1938:
CBS Radio broadcasted the radio drama The War of the Worlds,
causing panic among some listeners who believed that an actual Martian
invasion was in progress.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_%281938_radio_drama%29>
1991:
The Madrid Conference, an attempt by the international
community to revive the Israeli–Palestinian peace process through
negotiations, convened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Conference_of_1991>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
escarole:
(Canada, US) A subspecies or variety of broad-leaved endive (Cichorium
endivia subsp. endivia, syn. Cichorium endivia var. latifolium), which
is eaten as a vegetable.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/escarole>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry
dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in
vain.
--Adelaide Anne Procter
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adelaide_Anne_Procter>
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