Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax
Science
Officer, Deep Space 9.
Starfleet science officer assigned to Deep Space 9 in 2369, shortly after Starfleet took over
the station. Jadzia Dax was a member of the Trill joined species. Jadzia had wanted to become a
host since she was a child and worked very hard at winning the honor. Neither
of her parents nor her sister underwent symbiosis. Before joining with the
Dax symbiont, Jadzia was a brilliant but shy young woman. She did extremely
well in the initiate program, winning Premier Distinctions in exobiology,
zoology, astrophysics, and exoarchaeology, and even won a third-level pilot
certificate. Nevertheless, her training under field docent Curzon Dax went
poorly, and Curzon recommended she be rejected for joining. Curzon's harsh
evaluation helped Jadzia realize she needed to find her purpose in life
before she could be a successful Trill host. Jadzia did not realize that the reason
for Curzon's harshness was the fact that he was in love with her, a most
inappropriate situation given their teacher-student relationship. Curzon
felt guilty over his treatment of Jadzia, and later consented for her to
become the Dax symbiont's next host upon his death in 2367. As Jadzia, Dax
had been a close friend of Benjamin Sisko, but she noted that such friendships are often
difficult to maintain when a Trill has a new host, particularly one of a different
gender. As is characteristic of Trills, Dax's hands are cold. Although Jadzia believed
she was Dax's seventh host (In order: Lela, Tobin, Emony, Audrid, Torias,
Curzon), she learned in 2371 of a previously unknown host. This deeply held
secret was revealed when Jadzia began experiencing vivid hallucinations
and a dangerous drop in her isoboramine levels. These symptoms were found
to have been caused by the deterioration of a memory block created by the
Trill Symbiosis Commission in 2385 in hopes of suppressing knowledge of
the existence of Joran Dax. In 2370 Jadzia almost died when a Trill named Verad briefly stole her symbiont. Later
that year, Jadzia honored Curzon's blood oath of vengeance against the Albino
and accompanied Kor, Kang and Koloth to Secarus IV to kill him. She battled
the Albino but could not bring herself to kill him. As an attractive woman,
Dax drew the attentions of many men, including Dr. Julian Bashir. Dax considered
herself above such interests, although she once admitted that she thought
Morn was cute. As of 2369, Dax had been attempting to master the Altonian
brain teaser for 140 years. She is now involved with Lieutenant Commander Worf.
