Captain Ezri Dax's Ship
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This is going to need a whole hell of a lot more context than you or that tweet are providing.
I can't do better than this.
The DS9 Documentary is doing a theoretical Season 8 pitch, this is for it.
Wow, that really wasn't so hard. Or did you just violate a sacred vow by providing the context you did?
Erm was that directed at me?
Sort of. It's more a dig at Were-Behr's lack of meaningful content and good natured ribbing about your post actually having content after Were-Behr made the claim that he couldn't talk in response my initial request for context. You provided context, I am good naturedly joking that you may have violated a sacred oath, providing context after another poster made the claim it's not possible.
Whatever.
@The Wormhole. I had no problem understanding the context of the OP, and as a frequent poster in this forum I find it difficult to believe you didn't know what this was about. All you had to do was click on the link. Need I say more?
I've never liked the idea of Ezri abandoning counselling in favour of command, its as though she's saying the thing that she trained so hard for, helping those with serious mental health issues, isn't worthwhile.
Interesting ship design, like a hybrid of the Sovereign- and Prometheus-Class.
Interesting ship design, like a hybrid of the Sovereign- and Prometheus-Class.
I've never understood the impulse for all main characters to end up captains. Nog and Ezri are both on non command career tracks, and yet are presented as future starship captains. You're right, it undervalues their actual skills.
I ignore all this Captain Ezri stuff, this "season 8" is basically fan fiction even if it's done by the actual DS9 writers and the novels were never canon in the first place.
Ezri's a councelor, that's the career she chose and that's what she's still doing until a canonical piece of Star Trek says something else, I like her being a counselor and I won't let some doc take this away from me.
Ezri's a councelor, that's the career she chose and that's what she's still doing until a canonical piece of Star Trek says something else, I like her being a counselor and I won't let some doc take this away from me.
In the novels, Ezri at some point has an experience that forces her to take command of the Defiant. It makes her realise she has more potential now as a joined Trill, and can be more than a councelor, something she felt was both limiting Ezri and Dax now. As Ezri Tigan, it was a carreer suited to her, not as Ezri Dax. She switches to Command, and at some point she leaves DS9 to become second officer on the Aventine. During the Borg Invasion, the captain and first officer are killed and Ezri is given a battlefield commison of captain. After the invasion, Starfleet allows her to stay in command.
Mind you, all of this is non-canon ofcourse.
Mind you, all of this is non-canon ofcourse.
As mentioned, she does take command of the Defiant in the novels, and is in command of the Aventine. I saw this elsewhere earlier, where there is more information on it, including a picture of Dax in her uniform.
Jono - there is a chance that this could appear in STO in the future, as I was surprised that Ezri wasn't in the game when Victory is Life was launched. Maybe they knew about this and were saving Dax for later.
Jono - there is a chance that this could appear in STO in the future, as I was surprised that Ezri wasn't in the game when Victory is Life was launched. Maybe they knew about this and were saving Dax for later.
I find that reasoning a bit offensive, as if being a mental health professional isn't something you have to train for for years. If the writer had simply stated that the interests of the new joined Ezri Dax shifted that would be acceptable (but still not something I'd applaud) but I genuinely hate framing her role as a counselor as limiting especially for the symbiont, in its natural habitat an unjoined symbiont swims around in a pond, everything they can't do in that environment could theoretcially be something they value as a new experience especially if the hosts likes and interests are added to the new joined person.
What if the host after Dax is a botanist and spends the next 15 years exploring the flora of a single continent? Is that limiting and wasting Dax's experience or potential or is it adding to it? Who says the symbiont wouldn't have a blast doing something completely different? What if a future Dax decides to become a barista or a stay at home parent or a writer of erotic holo novels?
I'd say so.
