"His Way" (season six, episode twenty; 20 April 1998): Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: After years of will-they-or-won't-they tension, the romance between Major Kira Nerys & Constable Odo finally blossoms due to the mentorship of Vic Fontaine, a self-aware hologram. Once again, Deep Space Nine steals the thunder of its corporately favored but vastly inferior sister show, Voyager. The Maquis were created for VGR, but D.S.9 made better use of them. VGR featured a self-aware hologram as a main character, The Doctor, but they wasted the talents of actor Robert Piccardo on incredibly stupid & ham-fisted "hologram rights" storylines; Vic Fontaine (played by the late James Darren) is how you handle a self-aware hologram, especially "His Way" & season seven's "It's Only a Paper Moon."
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