Synopsis: When Quark’s ex-wife visits Deep Space Nine, emotions run high all around.
This episode can be seen as an analogy of another way that bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious can come to the attention of the Logos-driven rational conscious ego. In this case, through the emotion of love. The English translation of Par’Mach.
In “Looking for Par’Mach in All the Wrong Places” Quark’s ex-wife Grilka arrives on the station and asks Quark to help her look over her financial documents. Lt. Commander Worf is enthralled by her, but when her companion says that because Worf’s house has lost its honor he cannot court her he agrees to help Quark win her over. As does Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax. They come up with an almost Cyrano de Bergerac-like scheme to bring Grilka and Quark together and it works. In the meantime, Worf and Dax find each other as well.
Toward the end of the episode Worf bemoans that Quark doesn’t even see what is so good and lovely right in front of his eyes. He says this to Dax, who then tells Worf that he doesn’t even see what is so good and lovely in front of his eyes. Then she begins a Klingon mating ritual. The episode ends with both Quark and Worf having seen what was right in front of them and having made love to it. This is analogous to when the conscious ego acknowledges emotions from the unconscious and is the better, and eventually happier for it.
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