Synopsis: Beverly reveals her long time lust for Riker while we learn she is not bi-curious.
Memory Alpha Summary: So I got this nagging pain in my side…
Review: The Trill, much like the Bajorans, are a race that become much more developed during DS9. However, their introduction is plausible and successful enough to create an interesting story. The dispute Odan has to resolve from this never before seen planetary system is just a distraction from the love story. Some people find it objectionable that Crusher was immediately turned off when Odan became biologically female but was able to overcome her discomfort when Odan was in Riker’s body. I say hogwash; human attraction always starts with the physical and it becomes part of the person we come to cherish. Crusher just doesn’t dig chicks or her mate changing bodies every two days for that matter. What I find objectionable is that Crusher fell in love with Odan in the span of a week. Perhaps it’s what happens on deep space assignments when you don’t use the holodeck enough, but I’m tired of it being used to create plots that last only one episode. It feels very high-schoolish.
Also, why do Beverly and Odan sneak around Data? The best way to safeguard a romance from the rest of the ship is to tell Data and tell him to keep his mouth shut. If you make him guess he’ll start asking everyone else questions.
Death By Troggles 
The problem with Beverly rejecting Odan-as-female has less to do with her rejecting a female – which is, in and of itself, a very natural reaction – it’s in her explanation of the rejection: That Odan has had too many physical changes. Even this would be acceptable if Beverly hadn’t simply USED Riker’s body – and thoroughly ignored and rejected what Riker might think of her and Odan using his body to further their intimate relationship.
A better way to illustrate the problems with this is to flip the genders. Imagine Riker being the one to fall in love with a female Trill. What kind of objections would arise from him making love to Beverly’s body (inhabited by Odan) – then rejecting Odan-as-male.
The issues with these circumstances have less to do with a straight person rejecting the love of a same-sex suitor, and more to do with the inherent inconsistencies of violating the body of a friend, in the name of love-despite-physical-appearances, then rejecting the object of your love …. because of physical appearances.
Solid argument. So not only does Beverly fall in love within the span of two weeks, she uses Riker’s body to pursue such an eternal love. Gross.
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