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Name: Ezri Dax
Canon: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Gender: Female
Age: Ezri is 21ish (Never explicitly stated in canon) / Dax is 357
Wing Color: White
Canon Point: Right before knocking on the door of Sisko’s in Image In The Sand, the first episode of season 7. This is immediately before Ezri’s first appearance in the show.
Canon Point Explanation: In the first 3 episodes of season 7, Ezri is a complete mess dealing with a life-changing event. After that, she is shown growing accustomed to the changes and re-integrating herself into the life of the people on Deep Space Nine, though it isn’t always smooth. By taking her from before Ezri first meets Benjamin Sisko, there is a wider arc of character development which can occur, depending on the in-game events and such. I feel justified in characterization taking her from immediately before she is ‘met’ based primarily on episodes 2, 3, and 4 of season 7, which much more fully demonstrate her personality at the time and all of the the struggles she initially suffers as a new host.
Also, Ezri’s just so much fun to play as a complete mess that I didn’t want to miss the opportunity, even if it won’t last forever.
History: Memory Alpha, the primary Star Trek wiki. This is the best internet source for all canon (Television and Movie) Star Trek information I have found.
Ezri Dax on Memory Alpha.
Dax on Memory Alpha.
Note: Since Ezri Dax, as a character, is rather complicated (namely since she now remembers 8 other lifetimes), I have also written out my view and understanding of her history to demonstrate that I am familiar with it, and to provide an overview for the mods and for anyone else who wants to look at it without having to dig through 10 or more pages on the wiki just to do it.
Ezri is a Trill, a race of people from Trill (aptly enough; also called Trillus Prime). Though a standard humanoid race (most members seemingly marked by spots and little more, though some have been seen with ridges on their nose and foreheads), the Trill are rather unique in one special way: they have evolved the capability to host another being from their world, a symbiont. Symbionts are a sentient, non-humanoid species, and the Trill and the symbionts can join. While a Trill has the lifespan of most humanoids (a century doesn’t seem to be unusual, but at that point, the trill is old), a symbiont lives for generations. Dax is 356 or 357 years old when joined to Ezri, who is the ninth Trill host of the Dax symbiont. This is important, because after joining, the Trill who is joined merges with the symbiont, who carries the memories from all the Trill who came before. Thus, Ezri Dax has 9 lifetimes of experience spanning at least 200 years, probably more, whilst prior to joining, Ezri Tigan was fresh-faced young ensign just out of the academy working as an assistant counselor on the USS Destiny.
Dax has been implanted in 9 hosts prior to Ezri, though one was only the host of the Dax symbiont for a very brief time before it was returned to Jadzia.
In order, Lela Dax was the first host. She applied to become a host at the age of 48. She was a famous legislator of her time, and was also one of the first women appointed to the council. When she died, Tobin became the second host of the symbiont. Tobin was a brilliant and accomplished engineer, though socially inept. He was followed by Emony, an athlete and olympic-level gymnast. Of note, Emony at one point spent time on Earth, where she met Leonard McCoy before he became a doctor. This would have been around, or a little prior to, 2245, but the date is not strictly canon. It would certainly have occurred after 2233, and the divergence of the ‘prime’ and ‘alternate’ timelines created by the reboot.
Following Emony was Audrid, who would become the head of the Symbiosis Commision, which oversees all facets of Trill life regarding symbionts and joining. Though several hosts had children, Audrid is often especially noted as a proud parent and concerned mother. After Audrid, Dax was joined to Torias. An active individual, Torias was killed in a shuttle crash only a short time after joining. It was at this time that Dax was joined to Joran.
Joran was a musician, accomplished and talented, like all successful initiates of the program. However, somehow, Joran was joined despite the fact that he was, in fact, mentally unsuited to life as a joined Trill. During his six months as Joran Dax, he killed three people (at least). He died when the symbiont was forcibly removed, and a memory block was put into place to prevent knowledge of his joining. This block was removed nearly a century later, and Joran’s memories are as much a part of Dax as those of any of the other hosts, though they tend to be ignored, suppressed, and regretted.
The next two hosts have much greater expansion on their lifetimes, especially since Jadzia was a main character for six years. I’m going to keep specific details down unless they are very relevant, and refer further inquiries to Curzon’s and Jadzia’s entries at Memory Alpha.
Then, there was a man named Curzon. He was a member of Starfleet, an ambassador, and a diplomat. Curzon was an important figure in the Federation, most notably as the ambassador to the peace-talks with the Klingon Empire at Khitomer, which resulted in the Khitomer Accords (many events leading up to the conference are recounted in Star Trek VI, though Curzon is not involved in the movie). Following Khitomer, Curzon maintained friendship with Kang, Koloth, and Kor, three great Klingon warriors, and he carried with him a great fascination and respect for Klingon culture. This was carried on by Jadzia, the eighth host of Dax. (Note: It is pretty much unthinkable that, as the primary diplomat for the Federation at Khitomer and an important diplomat in other times and places, Curzon did not know, or know of, Sarek, Spock’s father, who in the ‘primary’ universe was one of the Federation’s great diplomats for a very, very long time. It is more unlikely he was personally acquainted with Spock, however, as in season 5’s “Trials and Tribble-ations” Jadzia does not recall actually meeting him personally, merely makes note of his attractiveness, while she actually speaks of having met McCoy, albeit as Emony Dax.)
Jadzia was a scientist, with distinctions in astrophysics, exoarcheaology, exobiology, and zoology. She continued to maintain a fascination with Klingon culture, upholding oaths made by Curzon (though not beholden to them) and eventually, even marrying Worf, a Klingon who was also an officer in Starfleet. Jadzia also renewed Curzon’s friendship with Ben Sisko, a Starfleet officer in charge of the space station Deep Space 9 and the USS Defiant. During the Dominion War, Jadzia served as First Officer aboard the Defiant, and then as its commanding officer. She also was involved in numerous missions on the ground, in one instance joining her husband deep inside enemy territory in an attempt to recover a defector. Jadzia was killed in 2374, while in command of DS9, during the First Battle of Chintoka. Following her death, Dax was to be sent back to Trill to be implanted in a new host.
In 2370, Dax was briefly stolen by a Trill named Verad, who had been washed out of the symbiosis program. Though this joining lasted only a few hours, Dax will always carry a small part of Verad with it, as well. Generally speaking, however, he is not considered to be among the prior hosts of the Dax symbiont, and is not referenced again outside of the single episode in which he appears.
Ezri’s personal history is fairly short, prior to the joining. She was born on New Sydney, a non-Federation world. Her mother, with whom she often disagreed and even fought, is mining magnate who owns the 6th largest pergium mine in the Sappora system. Ezri hated that life, and though she loved her two brothers, left the first chance she got to join Starfleet and didn’t look back. Though not explicitly described, she would have attended Starfleet Academy, probably at least some of the time stationed in San Francisco. Given her rank of ensign, it’s reasonable to assume she spent 4 years or so at the academy, and was relatively new to her posting aboard the USS Destiny when the Dax symbiont was taken aboard following the death of Jadzia Dax. According to official, but non-canon, sources, she was only about 21 at the time.
The Destiny was tasked with taking the symbiont back to Trill, so it could be implanted in a new host, but injuries it had suffered led to it taking a turn for the worst, and as the only Trill aboard, Ezri was joined to the symbiont with virtually no preparation. This is quite unusual; generally an initiate who is to be joined has undergone years of rigorous study and trials to become qualified for a symbiont, due primarily to limited number of available symbionts.
After joining, Ezri was overwhelmed by the memories of her previous hosts. When her mother visited her in the hospital, she called herself ‘Curzon,’ and that lead to another fight when she refused to return to New Sydney. After symbiont and host have been joined, there is only a very brief window in which they can be separated again and both survive. Follow this is a longer window, usually over several days, in which symbiont and host may fail to join completly, and a rejection will occur, killing the host. Ezri missed the first window and survived the second, so the Symbiosis Commission attempted to help her adjust to her new life with books and counselling. They were not of much use, however, and so Ezri Dax took a leave from Starfleet and returned to Earth, seeking her old friend, Benjamin Sisko. She tracked him down to his father’s restaurant in New Orleans.
Unfortunately, before she reached the restaurant, she found herself instead waking up in Luceti.
Personality: If I had to sum Ezri up in one short sentence, I’d say, “She’s a mess.” For six months, this 21-year-old kid has had to deal with the fact that her life has been completely changed by her joining with Dax. While joined Trill are seen as elite, as representatives of the best of the best of Trill society, that doesn’t mean every Trill seeks to become joined with a symbiont. Ezri Tigan was happy just being a Trill. She was going to be a ship’s counsellor. But after joining, everything was different. Unlike applicants who prepare for years before joining, she got a 15 minute lecture from a non-Trill surgeon. Months after joining, she still wakes up not sure if she is a man or a woman. She’ll speak of things that happened to a previous host as though she had done them; while Jadzia sometimes acted this way (especially when Curzon’s old friends Kang, Kor, and Koloth were involved), unlike Ezri, Jadzia knew the separateness of her two memories.
Joining is a tough process, anyway. It changes every Trill who undergoes it to a great extent. But in Ezri’s case, it’s more than a bit of a personality change, influence from 8 other lifetimes. She struggles to simply figure out what memory is hers, and what memory is from Dax. If a past host liked or disliked something, she has almost no self control in responding to it as they would have, though her own actual likes and dislikes are not the same. In one instance, she is shown ordering Raktajino, because Curzon liked it and Jadzia wasn’t awake until after she’d had some in the morning. Ezri, however, hates the stuff. She knows she does, but ordered it anyway, because Curzon and Jadzia would have. In another instance, she spends forever trying to order something to eat, but cancels half a dozen orders immediately because one host or another wouldn’t have enjoyed whatever she just asked for.
Her feelings towards her friends, Jadzia’s friends, really, mirror more of Jadzia’s memories than her own. She is in love with Worf still, she cares for Julian Bashir, and so on. Again, while Jadzia is shown renewing Curzon’s friendship with Ben and several Klingons, and even pursuing an old flame of Torias who was also in a new host, she rarely struggled to separate herself from her old hosts; her friends had to deal with who she was now, but she was still Dax. Ezri feels and often acts like the opposite of that; she is Dax, and people have to suffer Ezri tagging along for the ride, too.
On top of the confusion, she feels widely inadequate to be a host, let alone a host for a symbiont as prominent as Dax. Every other host, even the crazy Joran, were brilliant and accomplished, but she wasn’t even a real counsellor yet. All of this leads to her behaving and acting in many ways like a lost child; she rambles, she make wild conclusions, she reacts with strange and unusual emotions and actions, and in many ways can be seen as something of an adolescent. Ezri Tigan is become Ezri Dax, but the change is ongoing and very, very awkward.
The flip side of all of the problems caused by her unusual joining is the fact that Ezri Dax is, in fact, a joined Trill with 9 lifetimes and at least two centuries of experience under her belt. In episodes set after her pull point, she’s shown being more readily familiar with engineering expertise via Tobin than Jadzia ever really demonstrated, and though a green young ensign, fairly cool and capable while under fire thanks to experience from prior hosts. As she begins to come to terms with who she has become, Ezri begins to find ways to incorporate more and more of her past selves into who she is now, though it is a long process that has only started in by the end of the series. Like Lela, she often puts her hands behind her back. She is fluent in Klingon. In many ways, her lack of preparedness has given her an even closer link to her past lives, and while she may not be of the same level as they were, she does have all of their knowledge and skills to draw upon for herself. The biggest issue with that, especially physically, is turning abilities from one host into something she can do herself. She isn’t as athletic as Emony, and sometimes forgets that (like when practising for a baseball game in the 3rd episode of season 7), for instance, but at other times, that knowledge and the years of practice that she had while Emony Dax enable her to use the skill effortlessly (such as a spectacular catch in the baseball game on the holosuite). This is also more than just physical; she’s been a scientist and an engineer, been in battle and raised 9 children.
Strengths
Physical: Though young, and a counsellor, Ezri is a Starfleet officer fresh from the academy, which means she is at least basically fit. In addition to this, she has memories of a professional gymnast and at least a couple of experienced melee combatants. While not personally in the same shape as any of them, she is shown as being capable of doing flips, and pulls upon memories of combat from prior hosts, as well. She isn’t a master, but she has been in the past.
Mental: Especially when pressed to act without thought, Ezri has the knowledge of 8 capable, brilliant hosts. Engineering, Diplomacy, Science. Experience in battle, both as on the ground in a shooting war, against enemies with swords, and as a commanding officer of a starship in battle. Though she is not personally as capable in any of these situations, she has a very deep core of strength to pull upon. When pressed, this does come out.
Emotional: Ezri was a counsellor, or in training to become one. Once she gets control over herself, she is not bad at it, either. On top of that, again, is 8 lifetimes of experience in addition to her own. Two women who held high positions in Trill society, an ambassador who negotiated a peace treaty with the greatest enemy the Federation has ever had. After so much time, she has a very strong insight into other people. Usually.
Weaknesses
Physical: Ezri is a counsellor. She is not a security officer, nor an athlete, nor even someone who does regular martial calisthenics on the side. She has memories, sure, but it is not the same thing. She is not physically trained in using a sword, or doing a floor routine, and even worse, she sometimes thinks she is.
Mental: Where to start? It sounds confusing enough, having nine lifetimes, and it really is. Ezri can’t tell up from down right now, though it’s a little better that it was. She wakes up and doesn't know if she’s a man or a woman some days. She orders something to eat because some old woman loved it 150 years ago, and she even knows that she hates it now. Ezri has no idea who she is, what she likes, what she wants to do...throw in issues about inadequacy, and she’s as likely to implode in a situation as not right now.
Emotional: In addition to the above, she can’t even control emotions. If another host loved or hated or laughed or cried because of something, Ezri does, too. She’s something of an emotional wreck, basically.
Anything else?: Though not right away, there are a few items which Ezri might either look for in the item shop or request with mission points she earns. Specifically, I’m refereing to a PADD, a phaser, and a tricorder. These are all considered fairly commonplace, especially for a member of Starfleet in the 2370s, but have a large number of high-powered functions (especially the phaser, which can disintegrate a person or blow a hole in a rock wall).
Would they be feasible options to find or would they have to be ‘purchased’ with mission points, and would power/ability reductions on the devices be required?
Note: Per Mods: Regarding the equipment you requested, it's possible to get them, but they'd require either mission points to earn, or a special event where characters can gain equipment from home (eg. Christmas usually involves such a giveaway). The PADD and tricorder would be fine, but the phaser would have to be depowered within the enclosure, considering it has an insta-kill effect which would be unfair, even if the character's unlikely to use it. We don't allow death spells for the same reason. Vaporizing non-living entities is fine, however.
Name: Ezri Dax
Canon: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Gender: Female
Age: Ezri is 21ish (Never explicitly stated in canon) / Dax is 357
Wing Color: White
Canon Point: Right before knocking on the door of Sisko’s in Image In The Sand, the first episode of season 7. This is immediately before Ezri’s first appearance in the show.
Canon Point Explanation: In the first 3 episodes of season 7, Ezri is a complete mess dealing with a life-changing event. After that, she is shown growing accustomed to the changes and re-integrating herself into the life of the people on Deep Space Nine, though it isn’t always smooth. By taking her from before Ezri first meets Benjamin Sisko, there is a wider arc of character development which can occur, depending on the in-game events and such. I feel justified in characterization taking her from immediately before she is ‘met’ based primarily on episodes 2, 3, and 4 of season 7, which much more fully demonstrate her personality at the time and all of the the struggles she initially suffers as a new host.
Also, Ezri’s just so much fun to play as a complete mess that I didn’t want to miss the opportunity, even if it won’t last forever.
History: Memory Alpha, the primary Star Trek wiki. This is the best internet source for all canon (Television and Movie) Star Trek information I have found.
Ezri Dax on Memory Alpha.
Dax on Memory Alpha.
Note: Since Ezri Dax, as a character, is rather complicated (namely since she now remembers 8 other lifetimes), I have also written out my view and understanding of her history to demonstrate that I am familiar with it, and to provide an overview for the mods and for anyone else who wants to look at it without having to dig through 10 or more pages on the wiki just to do it.
Ezri is a Trill, a race of people from Trill (aptly enough; also called Trillus Prime). Though a standard humanoid race (most members seemingly marked by spots and little more, though some have been seen with ridges on their nose and foreheads), the Trill are rather unique in one special way: they have evolved the capability to host another being from their world, a symbiont. Symbionts are a sentient, non-humanoid species, and the Trill and the symbionts can join. While a Trill has the lifespan of most humanoids (a century doesn’t seem to be unusual, but at that point, the trill is old), a symbiont lives for generations. Dax is 356 or 357 years old when joined to Ezri, who is the ninth Trill host of the Dax symbiont. This is important, because after joining, the Trill who is joined merges with the symbiont, who carries the memories from all the Trill who came before. Thus, Ezri Dax has 9 lifetimes of experience spanning at least 200 years, probably more, whilst prior to joining, Ezri Tigan was fresh-faced young ensign just out of the academy working as an assistant counselor on the USS Destiny.
Dax has been implanted in 9 hosts prior to Ezri, though one was only the host of the Dax symbiont for a very brief time before it was returned to Jadzia.
In order, Lela Dax was the first host. She applied to become a host at the age of 48. She was a famous legislator of her time, and was also one of the first women appointed to the council. When she died, Tobin became the second host of the symbiont. Tobin was a brilliant and accomplished engineer, though socially inept. He was followed by Emony, an athlete and olympic-level gymnast. Of note, Emony at one point spent time on Earth, where she met Leonard McCoy before he became a doctor. This would have been around, or a little prior to, 2245, but the date is not strictly canon. It would certainly have occurred after 2233, and the divergence of the ‘prime’ and ‘alternate’ timelines created by the reboot.
Following Emony was Audrid, who would become the head of the Symbiosis Commision, which oversees all facets of Trill life regarding symbionts and joining. Though several hosts had children, Audrid is often especially noted as a proud parent and concerned mother. After Audrid, Dax was joined to Torias. An active individual, Torias was killed in a shuttle crash only a short time after joining. It was at this time that Dax was joined to Joran.
Joran was a musician, accomplished and talented, like all successful initiates of the program. However, somehow, Joran was joined despite the fact that he was, in fact, mentally unsuited to life as a joined Trill. During his six months as Joran Dax, he killed three people (at least). He died when the symbiont was forcibly removed, and a memory block was put into place to prevent knowledge of his joining. This block was removed nearly a century later, and Joran’s memories are as much a part of Dax as those of any of the other hosts, though they tend to be ignored, suppressed, and regretted.
The next two hosts have much greater expansion on their lifetimes, especially since Jadzia was a main character for six years. I’m going to keep specific details down unless they are very relevant, and refer further inquiries to Curzon’s and Jadzia’s entries at Memory Alpha.
Then, there was a man named Curzon. He was a member of Starfleet, an ambassador, and a diplomat. Curzon was an important figure in the Federation, most notably as the ambassador to the peace-talks with the Klingon Empire at Khitomer, which resulted in the Khitomer Accords (many events leading up to the conference are recounted in Star Trek VI, though Curzon is not involved in the movie). Following Khitomer, Curzon maintained friendship with Kang, Koloth, and Kor, three great Klingon warriors, and he carried with him a great fascination and respect for Klingon culture. This was carried on by Jadzia, the eighth host of Dax. (Note: It is pretty much unthinkable that, as the primary diplomat for the Federation at Khitomer and an important diplomat in other times and places, Curzon did not know, or know of, Sarek, Spock’s father, who in the ‘primary’ universe was one of the Federation’s great diplomats for a very, very long time. It is more unlikely he was personally acquainted with Spock, however, as in season 5’s “Trials and Tribble-ations” Jadzia does not recall actually meeting him personally, merely makes note of his attractiveness, while she actually speaks of having met McCoy, albeit as Emony Dax.)
Jadzia was a scientist, with distinctions in astrophysics, exoarcheaology, exobiology, and zoology. She continued to maintain a fascination with Klingon culture, upholding oaths made by Curzon (though not beholden to them) and eventually, even marrying Worf, a Klingon who was also an officer in Starfleet. Jadzia also renewed Curzon’s friendship with Ben Sisko, a Starfleet officer in charge of the space station Deep Space 9 and the USS Defiant. During the Dominion War, Jadzia served as First Officer aboard the Defiant, and then as its commanding officer. She also was involved in numerous missions on the ground, in one instance joining her husband deep inside enemy territory in an attempt to recover a defector. Jadzia was killed in 2374, while in command of DS9, during the First Battle of Chintoka. Following her death, Dax was to be sent back to Trill to be implanted in a new host.
In 2370, Dax was briefly stolen by a Trill named Verad, who had been washed out of the symbiosis program. Though this joining lasted only a few hours, Dax will always carry a small part of Verad with it, as well. Generally speaking, however, he is not considered to be among the prior hosts of the Dax symbiont, and is not referenced again outside of the single episode in which he appears.
Ezri’s personal history is fairly short, prior to the joining. She was born on New Sydney, a non-Federation world. Her mother, with whom she often disagreed and even fought, is mining magnate who owns the 6th largest pergium mine in the Sappora system. Ezri hated that life, and though she loved her two brothers, left the first chance she got to join Starfleet and didn’t look back. Though not explicitly described, she would have attended Starfleet Academy, probably at least some of the time stationed in San Francisco. Given her rank of ensign, it’s reasonable to assume she spent 4 years or so at the academy, and was relatively new to her posting aboard the USS Destiny when the Dax symbiont was taken aboard following the death of Jadzia Dax. According to official, but non-canon, sources, she was only about 21 at the time.
The Destiny was tasked with taking the symbiont back to Trill, so it could be implanted in a new host, but injuries it had suffered led to it taking a turn for the worst, and as the only Trill aboard, Ezri was joined to the symbiont with virtually no preparation. This is quite unusual; generally an initiate who is to be joined has undergone years of rigorous study and trials to become qualified for a symbiont, due primarily to limited number of available symbionts.
After joining, Ezri was overwhelmed by the memories of her previous hosts. When her mother visited her in the hospital, she called herself ‘Curzon,’ and that lead to another fight when she refused to return to New Sydney. After symbiont and host have been joined, there is only a very brief window in which they can be separated again and both survive. Follow this is a longer window, usually over several days, in which symbiont and host may fail to join completly, and a rejection will occur, killing the host. Ezri missed the first window and survived the second, so the Symbiosis Commission attempted to help her adjust to her new life with books and counselling. They were not of much use, however, and so Ezri Dax took a leave from Starfleet and returned to Earth, seeking her old friend, Benjamin Sisko. She tracked him down to his father’s restaurant in New Orleans.
Unfortunately, before she reached the restaurant, she found herself instead waking up in Luceti.
Personality: If I had to sum Ezri up in one short sentence, I’d say, “She’s a mess.” For six months, this 21-year-old kid has had to deal with the fact that her life has been completely changed by her joining with Dax. While joined Trill are seen as elite, as representatives of the best of the best of Trill society, that doesn’t mean every Trill seeks to become joined with a symbiont. Ezri Tigan was happy just being a Trill. She was going to be a ship’s counsellor. But after joining, everything was different. Unlike applicants who prepare for years before joining, she got a 15 minute lecture from a non-Trill surgeon. Months after joining, she still wakes up not sure if she is a man or a woman. She’ll speak of things that happened to a previous host as though she had done them; while Jadzia sometimes acted this way (especially when Curzon’s old friends Kang, Kor, and Koloth were involved), unlike Ezri, Jadzia knew the separateness of her two memories.
Joining is a tough process, anyway. It changes every Trill who undergoes it to a great extent. But in Ezri’s case, it’s more than a bit of a personality change, influence from 8 other lifetimes. She struggles to simply figure out what memory is hers, and what memory is from Dax. If a past host liked or disliked something, she has almost no self control in responding to it as they would have, though her own actual likes and dislikes are not the same. In one instance, she is shown ordering Raktajino, because Curzon liked it and Jadzia wasn’t awake until after she’d had some in the morning. Ezri, however, hates the stuff. She knows she does, but ordered it anyway, because Curzon and Jadzia would have. In another instance, she spends forever trying to order something to eat, but cancels half a dozen orders immediately because one host or another wouldn’t have enjoyed whatever she just asked for.
Her feelings towards her friends, Jadzia’s friends, really, mirror more of Jadzia’s memories than her own. She is in love with Worf still, she cares for Julian Bashir, and so on. Again, while Jadzia is shown renewing Curzon’s friendship with Ben and several Klingons, and even pursuing an old flame of Torias who was also in a new host, she rarely struggled to separate herself from her old hosts; her friends had to deal with who she was now, but she was still Dax. Ezri feels and often acts like the opposite of that; she is Dax, and people have to suffer Ezri tagging along for the ride, too.
On top of the confusion, she feels widely inadequate to be a host, let alone a host for a symbiont as prominent as Dax. Every other host, even the crazy Joran, were brilliant and accomplished, but she wasn’t even a real counsellor yet. All of this leads to her behaving and acting in many ways like a lost child; she rambles, she make wild conclusions, she reacts with strange and unusual emotions and actions, and in many ways can be seen as something of an adolescent. Ezri Tigan is become Ezri Dax, but the change is ongoing and very, very awkward.
The flip side of all of the problems caused by her unusual joining is the fact that Ezri Dax is, in fact, a joined Trill with 9 lifetimes and at least two centuries of experience under her belt. In episodes set after her pull point, she’s shown being more readily familiar with engineering expertise via Tobin than Jadzia ever really demonstrated, and though a green young ensign, fairly cool and capable while under fire thanks to experience from prior hosts. As she begins to come to terms with who she has become, Ezri begins to find ways to incorporate more and more of her past selves into who she is now, though it is a long process that has only started in by the end of the series. Like Lela, she often puts her hands behind her back. She is fluent in Klingon. In many ways, her lack of preparedness has given her an even closer link to her past lives, and while she may not be of the same level as they were, she does have all of their knowledge and skills to draw upon for herself. The biggest issue with that, especially physically, is turning abilities from one host into something she can do herself. She isn’t as athletic as Emony, and sometimes forgets that (like when practising for a baseball game in the 3rd episode of season 7), for instance, but at other times, that knowledge and the years of practice that she had while Emony Dax enable her to use the skill effortlessly (such as a spectacular catch in the baseball game on the holosuite). This is also more than just physical; she’s been a scientist and an engineer, been in battle and raised 9 children.
Strengths
Physical: Though young, and a counsellor, Ezri is a Starfleet officer fresh from the academy, which means she is at least basically fit. In addition to this, she has memories of a professional gymnast and at least a couple of experienced melee combatants. While not personally in the same shape as any of them, she is shown as being capable of doing flips, and pulls upon memories of combat from prior hosts, as well. She isn’t a master, but she has been in the past.
Mental: Especially when pressed to act without thought, Ezri has the knowledge of 8 capable, brilliant hosts. Engineering, Diplomacy, Science. Experience in battle, both as on the ground in a shooting war, against enemies with swords, and as a commanding officer of a starship in battle. Though she is not personally as capable in any of these situations, she has a very deep core of strength to pull upon. When pressed, this does come out.
Emotional: Ezri was a counsellor, or in training to become one. Once she gets control over herself, she is not bad at it, either. On top of that, again, is 8 lifetimes of experience in addition to her own. Two women who held high positions in Trill society, an ambassador who negotiated a peace treaty with the greatest enemy the Federation has ever had. After so much time, she has a very strong insight into other people. Usually.
Weaknesses
Mental: Where to start? It sounds confusing enough, having nine lifetimes, and it really is. Ezri can’t tell up from down right now, though it’s a little better that it was. She wakes up and doesn't know if she’s a man or a woman some days. She orders something to eat because some old woman loved it 150 years ago, and she even knows that she hates it now. Ezri has no idea who she is, what she likes, what she wants to do...throw in issues about inadequacy, and she’s as likely to implode in a situation as not right now.
Emotional: In addition to the above, she can’t even control emotions. If another host loved or hated or laughed or cried because of something, Ezri does, too. She’s something of an emotional wreck, basically.
Anything else?: Though not right away, there are a few items which Ezri might either look for in the item shop or request with mission points she earns. Specifically, I’m refereing to a PADD, a phaser, and a tricorder. These are all considered fairly commonplace, especially for a member of Starfleet in the 2370s, but have a large number of high-powered functions (especially the phaser, which can disintegrate a person or blow a hole in a rock wall).
Would they be feasible options to find or would they have to be ‘purchased’ with mission points, and would power/ability reductions on the devices be required?
Note: Per Mods: Regarding the equipment you requested, it's possible to get them, but they'd require either mission points to earn, or a special event where characters can gain equipment from home (eg. Christmas usually involves such a giveaway). The PADD and tricorder would be fine, but the phaser would have to be depowered within the enclosure, considering it has an insta-kill effect which would be unfair, even if the character's unlikely to use it. We don't allow death spells for the same reason. Vaporizing non-living entities is fine, however.
