Ezri Dax /ˈɛzri ˈdæks/, played by Nicole de Boer, is a counselor aboard Deep Space Nine in the seventh season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Casting[link]

The role of Ezri Dax was created when Terry Farrell (who played Jadzia Dax) decided to leave the show and her character was subsequently killed by Dukat.^[1]

When Nicole de Boer read for the role in 1998, she was considered "one of the busiest actresses in Canada but a relative unknown south of the border".^[2] She used her own camera to tape her audition.^[2] De Boer admits that prior to being called to the show she did not know what a Trill was.^[3] But she made sure to study, and watched previous shows, though careful not "to watch a whole bunch of Jadzia stuff."^[3]

Story overview[link]

Ezri Dax was introduced in the first episode of season seven. The back story states that Ensign Ezri Tigan, a Trill Starfleet officer, upon leaving Starfleet Academy was assigned to the USS Destiny as assistant ship's counselor. She had no interest in becoming joined with a Trill symbiont.^[4]

After Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax is killed aboard Deep Space Nine, the Dax symbiont is saved by Dr. Julian Bashir and sent to Trill.^[1] However, the symbiont becomes gravely ill during its journey on the Destiny and, as the only Trill on board, Ezri is asked to join with Dax in order to save its life.^[4] Ezri is Dax's ninth host.^[5][6]

Upon joining, Ezri is assigned to Deep Space Nine and promoted early, because of her extensive Starfleet experience and knowledge from the Dax symbiont, to lieutenant, junior grade.^[7] She serves as counselor.

Jadzia was married to Lieutenant Commander Worf, who at first refuses to speak to Ezri, convinced that Jadzia has gone on to Sto-Vo-Kor and can no longer exist through the Dax symbiont.^[7] However, the two later become friends and, briefly, lovers.^[8]

Toward the end of the series, Ezri begins a romance with Dr. Julian Bashir.^[9]

Depiction after the series[link]

In Pocket Books' non-canon DS9 Relaunch novels, Ezri remains on Deep Space Nine but moves from counseling to command, receiving a promotion to lieutenant and becoming executive officer of the USS Defiant. Following a mission on the Trill homeworld, she and Bashir end their romance but decide to remain close friends. In the Star Trek: Destiny trilogy Dax has become captain of the Vesta class ship USS Aventine.

Reception[link]

Compared to Jadzia, Ezri comes across as very insecure.^[10] Some fans derided Ezri Dax as "Ally McTrill" (in reference to the title character on Ally McBeal), and one TV Guide reviewer took a cue from the fans. Nicole de Boer, however, took this as a compliment.^[11] It was necessary that the character of Ezri avoid being a carbon copy of Jadzia, just as it was necessary for Commander Benjamin Sisko not to be a copy of James T. Kirk. The differences drove the character development. In one scene, for example, Ezri admitted to having never liked the Klingon food Gagh, even more so now that she had vivid memories of Jadzia relishing the food's spirited attempts not to be swallowed.

Ezri Dax was the only member of the main cast not to be made into an action figure by Playmates Toys.

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References[link]

External links[link]

• Ezri Dax at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Ezri Tigan (mirror) at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Ezri Dax at StarTrek.com

Dax may refer to:

In business[link]

• DAX, a German stock market index
• Dax Cars, a British car maker

In computing[link]

• Data Analysis expression, a language used by the Microsoft PowerPivot software
• Microsoft Dynamics AX, an enterprise resource planning software

In geography[link]

In French geography:

• Arrondissement of Dax, an arrondissement of the Landes département of France
• Town of Dax, Landes, France

In media and entertainment[link]

Fictional characters[link]

• Dax (Star Trek), a character from the television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Dax (Power Rangers), the blue ranger from Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
• Colonel Dax, a character played by Kirk Douglas in Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957)
• Dax, lead character from the novel The Adventurers (novel)
• Dax, on the TV series The Philanthropist (TV series), the main character Teddy Rist's bodyguard played by Michael K. Williams
• Diogenes Alejandro Xenos (DAX), a character in Harold Robbins' 1966 novel and Lewis Gilbert's The Adventurers (1970 film)

In television[link]

• "Dax" (DS9 episode), the seventh episode in the first season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

In people[link]

Given name Dax[link]

• Dax Cowart, an attorney noted for addressing issues of patients' rights
• Dax Holdren, AVP player
• Dax McCarty, American soccer player
• Dax Pierson, keyboardist associated with Anticon
• Dax Riggs, lyricist and vocalist for the Louisiana metal band Acid Bath
• Dax Shepard, American actor

Pseudonym Dax[link]

• Dax, pseudonym of Davide Cesare, Italian antifascist activist killed in Milan in 2003

In other uses[link]

• Dax (typeface), sans-serif typeface designed by Hans Reichel
• DAX1, a protein involved in sex determination
• Honda Dax, motorcycle model
• US Dax, a rugby union club based in the French town of that name

See also[link]

• DACS (disambiguation)
• Daxter

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