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Year of birth : Place of birth: Education : Rank : Race : Position: Defiant: Status : |
Jadzia
Dax
2341 Trill Starfleet Academy, 2359-63 (host) Lieutenant Commander Trill Science officer Helm officer "Killed in action in 2374--location:DS9" |
***Starfleet Biographical File
2369 -- As lieutenant, posted to DS9 as science officer
2372 -- Won promotion to lieutenant commander
2374 -- Combat promotion to commander, U.S.S. Defiant, during DS9 occupation
Jadzia
has two parents and one sister, all still alive by 2372. Although she was
not above breaking windows
at
night as a crack shot with rocks when younger, the quiet, shy and naive
young woman had worked hard
since
childhood to qualify for the Trill hosting program and received academic
degrees in exobiology, zoology,
astrophysics
and exo-archaeology at Starfleet Academy, although at the time of her DS9
posting at age 28 as
a
lieutenant she has never served on a starship.
In
2367 at age 26, Jadzia made history as the only rejected Trill initiate
to return successfully and pass the
program.
She had spent three years in all as an initiate and hardly ever left its
complex; she didn't receive
basic
flight experience certification of Level 3 until her last year of training.
Ironically,
after acceptance she chose the Dax symbiont previously hosted by Curzon,
her harsh field docent.
He
had rejected her in the first place after only two weeks of field training
as unmotivated and unfocused --
an
act which dogged Jadzia for years, despite her success; she had studied
his infamous record and was
already
nauseated with the pressure, crying herself to sleep each night until she
was dropped. It was only
later,
after she redoubled her efforts and passed the training with his approval,
that she learned he had really
rejected
her only out of misplaced guilt due to his sexual attraction to the attractive
young woman. The Joining
was
completed as Curzon neared the end of a slow, lingering death in mid-year.
Such
a turbulent relationship with the previous host of the symbiont she now
carries has haunted Jadzia, who
has
found herself in a love-hate relationship with his legacy that at times
has bordered on sheer competiion.
In
addition, due to her off-world posting Dax has probably endured more conflict
due to symbiosis than the
typical
Joined Trill.
Accused
of Curzon's alleged murder of Klaestron IV's General Tandro by the general's
zealous son, she had
preferred
a death sentence rather than expose Tandro's role as a rebel collaborator
and Curzon's affair with his
wife,
both eventually revealed. In 2370 she supervised her own first initiate
trainee, Arjin, only three years
younger
than she, and came to grips with some suppressed bitterness about Curzon's
treatment of her.
Curzon
figured again weeks later when she swore to uphold a blood oath of his
on an unauthorized quest with
Klingons
Kor, Kang and Koloth that could have cost her life, much less her Starfleet
career.
Dax
has also been forced to reintegrate memories from two unexpected hosts.
One, in 2370, was the once-
rejected
host candidate Verad who hijacked the symbiont from Jadzia. The other came
a year later, when a
failing
memory block revealed in series of nightmares the onetime murderer Joran
Belar and the yet-unrevealed
Symbiosis
Commission cover-up of the error 85 years earlier.
After
years of procrastination due to her uneasiness at confronting Curzon again,
she underwent her first Trill
zhian'tara
Rite of Closure to meet all previous hosts; ironically, the uniquely melded
Odo/Curzon reincarnation
almost
decided to stay in that form permanently. The eventual return of Curzon's
memories to Jadzia allowed
her
the additional experience of a changeling's perspective. The other hosts
and people to reflect them are:
1. Lela (Major Kira)-Legislator;
2. Tobin (Chief O'Brien)-Mathematician;
3. Emony (Leeta)-Gymnast;
4. Audrid (Quark)-Symbiosis Comm. head
5. Torias (Dr. Bashir)-Short-lived;
6. Joran (Capt. Sisko)-Insane musician;
7. Curzon (Odo)-Sisko's old friend. (as mentioned above)
Dax's
personal as well as professional reunion with Curzon's old protege Ben
Sisko at DS9 is unique in some
ways
in light of the Trill taboo against reassociation. Even more so, in 2372
she had considered remating with
former
host Torias' widow's symbiont Kahn in its current host, Lenara -until Lenara
succumbed to the social
pressure
and broke it off. Earlier, her only romantic encounter since ca. 2270 had
been a bittersweet encounter
with
a resident of planet Meridian, a dimension-shifting world destined to appear
in solid form in this universe
once
every 60 years.
Despite
this rarity of outward sexual intimacy, Dax's long life as both genders
has if anything broadened her
perspective
on romance, sex, and multiculturalism, not diminished it. She generally
enjoys the attention shown
her
by men overall and is tolerantly amused by the crushes of Bashir and Quark,
actually enjoying the Ferengi
oddities
that turn Kira off. She's been studying up on the Rules of Acquisition
and had always wanted to see a
Ferengi
in Starfleet but like Sisko was skeptical of Nog's Academy application.
Dax even thinks Morn was cute,
but
once turned down his dinner invitation; she later accepted one from the
clear-skulled Gallamite Capt. Boday.
Still,
her longevity has fostered a cavalier attitude about others' privacy and
secrets: she is somewhat jealous
that
Sisko willnot share his personal side as much as he did with Curzon.
Actually,
her relationship with Bashir has matured from his puppy love to a deep
friendship. She submitted
Bashir's
Carrington nomination through an old friend of Curzon's and throws him
a surprise birthday party each
year;
he, in turn, has risked his life and career on more than one occasion to
save hers, usually due to a quirk of
her
symbiotic state. Thanks to Lwaxana Troi's Zanthi fever - which only acts
in case of latent relationships
already
perceived - Bareil pursued her and she Sisko during the 2381 Gratitude
Festival.
Dax
remains in superior physical condition, enjoying Galeo-Manada style wrestling
as well as the more well
-known
Klingon marital arts, which she began studying after her Joining thanks
to Curzon's extensive contact
with
the culture. A nea- match in combat expertise for Worf, she became his
unexpected confidant when the
Klingon
signed aboard the station in early 2372, searching with he and Kor for
the Sword of Kahless and
intercepting
his brother Kurn's Mauk-to'Vor ritual suicide.
Personally,
Dax is a self-professed a "night owl" and hates to be "appropriate" - thus
explaining her interest in
forgotten
composers like the Romulan Frenchotte, Yridian symphonies and Klingon opera
as well as interstellar
gourmet
and Klingon food. She is better at poker and Tongo than Curzon ever was,
but she and Sisko are an
even
match at traditional 2-D chess. She also inherited a love of steamed azna
from prior hosts, along with the
Altonian
brain teaser puzzle some 140 years before her Joining - when either Emony
or Audrid were Dax's host.
A
Black Hole is one favorite drink, although on duty she usually prefers
an iced raktajino with extra cream. Her
quarters
are heavily decorated with small sculptures, knick-knacks, and scientific
antique tools; circa SD 48212
she
briefly coifed her hair in a more matronly style before returning to her
former look.
File Update: CMO J. Holzken reporting
I have assumed responsibility for this task for the first time since my posting at this station.
The
past year has been one of relatively quiet jeopardy for Jadzia Dax, which
may explain why she now seeks her
bumps
and bruises as Lt. Cmdr. Worf's Par'machkai. I have watched as their mutual
affection grew into full-blown
romance,
thanks to Worf's one-time attraction to Grilka, and consider it a new twist
and a challenge on all the
more
mundane romances Dax has seen in its prior six lifetimes as Telnorri has
noted above. While her abandon
seems
to run counter to his renowned Klingon conservatism, the formula seems
to be a perfect yin-yang match
of
opposites, with Worf showing only occasional bouts of jealousy over past
lovers, such as Risa's facilitator
Arnadis
(with Curzon) and Capt. Boday, the Gallamite. One wonders, though, how
long her Trill superstructure
can
withstand the ongoing punishment of Klingon passion.
Officially,
so far the relationship has not affected their job review -- aside from
a small amount of duty time missed
for
recuperation. Dax returned safely from both the mission to retrieve the
downed Jem'Hadar ship and her
experiences
in the past aboard Kirk's 23rd century Enterprise.
Although
Jadzia speaks rarely of her family and homeworld, she regularly writes
to her mother back on Trill;
she
still is a night owl and often runs anomaly scans in Ops at night to relax.
With her longevity, saving and a
cquiring
do not register with her, so it is not surprising she has no more than
two bars of gold-pressed latinum
when
three-time Tongo champion Capt. Ramirez beats her in a no-limit game at
Starbase 63.
Capt.
Benjamin Sisko
I am
always steeled to the possibility that at any time I will be compelled
to make a final entry into the personnel
files
of those under my command, especially in the midst of war. Somehow, with
her having survived seven
lifetimes,
I just thought it would not be for Jadzia Dax -- at least not so soon.
In
hindsight, I knew the eighth Dax host for only a fraction of the time I
knew Curzon Dax, her predecessor.
But
this is different -- perhaps because that was a mentoring relationship
for me and this was one of near-equals,
even
my subordinate when it comes to rank.
She
was so happy with her marriage to Worf. She was so happy at the prospect
of having children. I know he
grieves,
as do I in an odd way, that she did not meet her fate in "glorious battle."
Somehow,ending this life in the
Promenade's
Bajoran shrine as the victim of a pah-wraith -- a cast-out Bajoran Prophet
-- inhabiting a humanoid
form
(Dukat, of all things) is so .... unfair. Unsatisfying. Useless. And not
to mention troubling, especially for one
supposed
to be cast in the role as Bajor's Emissary from its Prophets. Very troubling,
in fact -- it is part of a
situation
that has my soul in a death grip I fear I may not shed for some time.
Commendations
-- personal if not official -- to my CMO Julian Bashir for saving the Dax
symbiont, who is already
en
route to Trill on life support. Whomever its new host will be is a matter
for the Symbiosis Commission, but I
find
myself wondering if I shall ever see Dax again. It is not a thought I ever
pondered after Curzon's passing, but
after
working alongside two of these Daxes -- one Joined for nearly a century,
one all too brief -- I am struck by
the
fact that the symbiotic Trill are supposed to outlive their more pedestrian
humanoid companions -- and not
the
other way around. I do not know if I could bear to go through this again.
END PERSONAL LOG---and may you walk with the Prophets