Jadzia Dax is the station's chief science officer, and is close friends with commander Benjamin Sisko and Bajoran first officer Kira Nerys.
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15 Facts About Jadzia Dax
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The symbiont inside Jadzia Dax becomes ill, making her ill, and Dr Bashir must separate them in order to treat the symbiont.
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At the beginning of the series, Jadzia has just recently been joined with the symbiont Dax after the natural death of the previous host, Curzon Dax.
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Curzon had been a friend and mentor to station Commander Benjamin Sisko, and as Jadzia Dax, they continue this friendship despite the change in circumstances.
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Jadzia Dax's begins the series at the rank of lieutenant; at the start of the fourth season, she becomes a lieutenant commander and remains one until her death in the sixth-season finale.
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Writers on Deep Space Nine had previously hinted at a potential same-sex relationship in the first-season episode "Dax", when Jadzia Dax says goodbye to Enina Tandro, a former lover of Dax's previous male host, Curzon.
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Episode "Rejoined", in which Jadzia is reunited with the wife of a former host of the Dax symbionts, features one of the first televised kisses between two female characters.
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Jadzia Dax was initially pursued by Dr Julian Bashir aboard the station.
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Jadzia Dax appears at first to be oblivious to this attention, and in the fifth-season episode "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", he becomes enamored with a female Klingon named Grilka.
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At first, Jadzia Dax is loath to pay Sirella the required respect, and the lady is unwilling to accede to Jadzia Dax's request.
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Jadzia Dax is murdered in "Tears of the Prophets", the finale of the sixth season.
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The resulting joined Trill, Ezri Jadzia Dax, becomes a main character during the seventh and last season of the series.
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