#s04e05: rejoined

[belannaswlonkderfulworm]

person: why are you so invested?? it's just two fictional worms

me, sobbing: but she loves her, benjamin

[elizabethgoudge]

Star Trek DS9 - S04E05 - Jadzia Dax and Lenara Khan - Part3

The look of sheer love and belonging that Dax throws across the room at the end of this clip. If you have ever loved someone and lost them, and seen them again without the love diminishing a whit, this is that look.

You belong to me, I belong to you, time and space cannot part us.

The question is how such a young actress is able to put all of that into a single look. Had she already experienced it?

If you are wlw and you haven't seen rejoined, go watch it, it is still better than most lesbian movies, even after almost thirty years. Perhaps partly because it doesn't show the beginning of a relationship, but the rekindling of one. The sensitive direction by Avery Brooks is another good reason. There is so much romantic tension in this one hour of TV.