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Dax is at the office with Kira and is like, Hey, um so, does it really, like, change a person to murder someone?

didn't her previous hosts kill people? you'd think she'd have a pretty good idea by that point

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didn't her previous hosts kill people? you'd think she'd have a pretty good idea by that point

Whatever was convenient. One of the Dax hosts was a pilot and was apparently saw a decent amount of ground combat at some point, but that second part wasn't invented by the writers until the point in the show where Jadzia's dead, and he's portrayed briefly before that as a carefree epicurean. The Klingon-kin guy was "in battle" a whole bunch I guess, he did swear an oath to cut a guy's heart out and eat it and apparently Jon Colicos believed him, but that's likewise mostly ignored until after Terry Farrell leaves the show. The next season had a story about a one-off murder of passion by a host whose memories were suppressed in other hosts until Jadzia accepts then into herself in a hippie hot tub ritual, but it's a crap episode where she doesn't have any impact on the plot otherwise so later they decided that guy was Hannibal Lecter and kind of had his own locked apartment inside the worm.

The writers are vague from episode to episode about how directly the worm people experience the memories of past lives, in the normal way that Star Trek handles sci-fi concepts, again, it's whatever they need to tell that episode's story. But since Dax became less gnomic and more dynamic starting with the '60s Klingons episode—mainly because that let Farrell earn her main-cast paycheck by acting instead of just smiling or frowning cryptically at other actors in stories supposedly involving her character—most of what Jadzia calls up is like, blood knowledge on how to keep it real with the Klingons, or that she still wants to cuddle her worm person ex-wife. A lot of it was comedy because Farrell has good timing, a weirdly important thing for a Star Trek cast to have, because they like to do comedy but often the jokes aren't funny as written. Deep Space Nine probably had more aggregate comedy talent used more effectively than any other Star Trek thing, though the movies Nicholas Meyer worked on come close. But yeah not a lot of room for musing about how many people Dax had shot.

When Farrell got fed up with one of the bigwigs talking nonstop about her bust size and left to join Ted Danson's latest sitcom, the showrunners went ahead and cleared out their backlog of stories about how several lifetimes of memories would make you a traumatized basket-case. They dumped the new Dax role on Nicole De Boer, whose resume at that point was mostly Kids in the Hall and Cube. She does fine with it, she's talented, but her character when she's first introduced is supposed to be a highly effective and professional psychotherapist who's suddenly regressed into an emotionally unstable child, because they randomly stuck the worm in her for the epic win so it wouldn't die when Jadzia did. Since we never met the person Ezri was before, that angle didn't work, they mostly forget about it and she becomes a perky motormouth '90s-girl character who solves family mysteries and says uncomfortable things to people in between mental breakdowns. So Ezri's the one who gets trained in murderer-murdering by the leering Hannibal Lecter personality, and she's the one in the Battle of Khe Sanh episode musing about how she used to be all these battle-hardened people who played every role in the platoon so now she's a dissociative manic pixie Delta Force or something.

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VOYAGER EPISODES that are GOOD OR OKAY, from a list I made for someone a while back ('GOOD OR OKAY VOYAGER EPISODES'):

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Deep Space Nine may be a good anime.