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If Word hadn't joined DS9...

When Ezri told Julian "If Worf hadn't come along it would have been you" I think that was the writers hinting at their previous plans.
 
Word up!!! :D :devil:

No, seriously.

Bashir and Ezri, yes.

Bashir and Jadzia, no no never. :klingon: Jadzia never wanted more than friendship with Bashir.

Ezri and Worf was likewise wrong.
 
She never took Julian seriously before Worf showed up, but we already know how the writers liked to pull a fast one on the actors, at least in Sid's case.
 
At the beginning of the summer of 1995, after the end of Voyager's first season and Deep Space Nine's third season, TV Guide did two successive issues - one featuring an interview with the cast of DS9, the next featuring an interview with the cast of Voyager. In the DS9 article, the cast talked about the direction of the series, and Terry Farrell is quoted as saying something along the lines of "If the ratings go below a 1.8, we (Dax and Bashir) are doin' it on the table!" i.e. they'd hook up.

The addition of Worf to the show was a later development, but I think the comment Ezri makes to Bashir about this turn of events later in the series ("If Worf hadn't come along, it would have been you." was just as much an inside joke to this It-could-have-been scenario as it was a poignant and revelatory moment for Dax and Bashir. The possibility of a Jadzia-Bashir romance was probably tossed around the writer's room at DS9 as a possible story arc to examine; Jadzia and Worf obviously nixed that, but the writers clearly hadn't let go of the notion by the time Ezri showed up.

EDIT: I believe the interview was in this issue.
 
At the beginning of the summer of 1995, after the end of Voyager's first season and Deep Space Nine's third season, TV Guide did two successive issues - one featuring an interview with the cast of DS9, the next featuring an interview with the cast of Voyager. In the DS9 article, the cast talked about the direction of the series, and Terry Farrell is quoted as saying something along the lines of "If the ratings go below a 1.8, we (Dax and Bashir) are doin' it on the table!" i.e. they'd hook up.

The addition of Worf to the show was a later development, but I think the comment Ezri makes to Bashir about this turn of events later in the series ("If Worf hadn't come along, it would have been you." was just as much an inside joke to this It-could-have-been scenario as it was a poignant and revelatory moment for Dax and Bashir. The possibility of a Jadzia-Bashir romance was probably tossed around the writer's room at DS9 as a possible story arc to examine; Jadzia and Worf obviously nixed that, but the writers clearly hadn't let go of the notion by the time Ezri showed up.

EDIT: I believe the interview was in this issue.
I remember that interview. I think that ship had sailed in the first season. By season 3, the writers had already moved on to thinking about Kira-Odo and finding someone for Sisko. I wonder if it is something that ISB decided.
 
I managed to dig up my copy (clipped from the original TV Guide). This is an excerpt from it, including Terry Farrell's comment:

TV GUIDE: So everybody's happy about the Defiant?
Cirroc Lofton (Jake): It's a good idea. You can't just wait for everyone to come to you. You gotta go explore--that's what Star Trek's all about.
MEANEY: We needed the offensive capability.
FARRELL: I think it's great, because I get to fly the ship. I feel real masculine.
Siddig El Fadil (Bashir): Yeah, you get to do the good stuff; I'm still the doctor.
FARRELL: But you don't have to sit there while they deal with all the technical stuff. The blue screen is right over my shoulder, 'cause I sit right up front.
EL FADIL: In other words, Terry likes the Defiant because it means overtime.
FARRELL: Yeah, overtime!
TV GUIDE: What about the sex quotient on DS9?
FARRELL (laughing): There isn't any quotient.
EL FADIL: There is nowhere near enough sex. We aer waaaay too cerebral.
FARRELL: I think Dax and Bashir should make out more. (El Fadil's jaw drops open.) Sorry. (She laughs sheepishly.)
TV GUIDE: When DS9 premiered, you two were promoted as the show's sex symbols. What happened?
EL FADIL: Actually [as a Trill] Terry is a reigning sex symbol -- for both men and women.
FARRELL: If Sid and I wrote the show, we'd be an item.
EL FADIL: The first question that comes up at conventions --guaranteed-- is "When are you and Dax gonna get together?" We're three years down the line and it still hasn't happened.
FARRELL: Our characters have even stopped flirting with each other. I do try to intimate [an attraction] even if it's not in the script. I will turn a line to [seem] protective of Bashir. If he talks about a girl, I try to act a little priossy. Sid gets a kick out of that.
TV GUIDE: So will they ever have sex?
EL FADIL: If our ratings ever drop below a 7--you bet!
FARRELL: Yeah! (laughs) The minute they go below a 7, we're on the table!
 
If my memory serves me correctly it was established in a 'Trapped in a small space' episode that Dax enjoyed being pursued. I think if Worf hadn't come along, Bashir/Dax probably would have happened, if only late in the series' run. As we know, when the characters' sense their TV show is about to end it's their natural instinct to pair off.
 
If it didn't happen for three years, it's probably not going to happen. Okay, Kira and Odo, but they use up DS9's quota of unlikely romantic happenings for the show.
 
If it didn't happen for three years, it's probably not going to happen. Okay, Kira and Odo, but they use up DS9's quota of unlikely romantic happenings for the show.

Long running TV shows hook random people up all the time, especially in the final season. In Friends, Chandler and Monica were the end of season four. TNG, Worf and Troi in season 7.

It would have happened the moment the writers ran out of things to do with their character, or if not that, in season 7.
 
If it didn't happen for three years, it's probably not going to happen. Okay, Kira and Odo, but they use up DS9's quota of unlikely romantic happenings for the show.

Long running TV shows hook random people up all the time, especially in the final season. In Friends, Chandler and Monica were the end of season four. TNG, Worf and Troi in season 7.

Yes, but you could argue that the teases, clues, hints, and testing-the-waters with Monica and Chandler were there from the beginning. It's subtle (and sometimes not at all) but it's definitely there.

The writers toyed with a Worf Troi romance as far back as season four. It's rather ironic that we see only finally see them on an actual date in the final episode. :lol:
 
If it didn't happen for three years, it's probably not going to happen. Okay, Kira and Odo, but they use up DS9's quota of unlikely romantic happenings for the show.

Long running TV shows hook random people up all the time, especially in the final season. In Friends, Chandler and Monica were the end of season four. TNG, Worf and Troi in season 7.

It would have happened the moment the writers ran out of things to do with their character, or if not that, in season 7.
However, Dax-Bashir was teased out hard in the first season ... to universal indifference.
 
I don't think Julian should have ended up with Jadzia if Worf hadn't joined the crew. I'm not saying the writers wouldn't have done it anyway but I don't think Jadzia ever had romantic feelings for Julian. Like JIRINPANTOSHA says above, it's likely the writers would have just thrown them together at the end of the series if Terry had stuck around for Season 7.

I don't think Julian and Ezri should have happened either. I didn't for a second buy it when she told Bashir it would have been him if Worf didn't show up. That's never how it played out on screen. I'm sure they broke up about 5 minutes after the series finale. Totally incompatible.
 
I have to agree with Terek Nor. I can't see Jadzia and Julian getting together, I don't think they are suited.
 
I don't think Julian should have ended up with Jadzia if Worf hadn't joined the crew. I'm not saying the writers wouldn't have done it anyway but I don't think Jadzia ever had romantic feelings for Julian. Like JIRINPANTOSHA says above, it's likely the writers would have just thrown them together at the end of the series if Terry had stuck around for Season 7.

I don't think Julian and Ezri should have happened either. I didn't for a second buy it when she told Bashir it would have been him if Worf didn't show up. That's never how it played out on screen. I'm sure they broke up about 5 minutes after the series finale. Totally incompatible.

Attention! Spoiler!

They broke up in the novels, remaining friends after an adventure on Trill
 
I don't think Julian should have ended up with Jadzia if Worf hadn't joined the crew. I'm not saying the writers wouldn't have done it anyway but I don't think Jadzia ever had romantic feelings for Julian. Like JIRINPANTOSHA says above, it's likely the writers would have just thrown them together at the end of the series if Terry had stuck around for Season 7.

I don't think Julian and Ezri should have happened either. I didn't for a second buy it when she told Bashir it would have been him if Worf didn't show up. That's never how it played out on screen. I'm sure they broke up about 5 minutes after the series finale. Totally incompatible.

Attention! Spoiler!

They broke up in the novels, remaining friends after an adventure on Trill

That makes total sense. As it should be:bolian:
 
Cor blimey the Bashir/Dax litverse stuff is great in my opinion! Won't spoil anything (heeding above spoiler warnings XD) but really enjoyed seeing what happens to/with them!
 
Might have been interesting if DS9 had continued past Season 7 to have Ezri die and put the Dax symbiont in the Mirror Universe version of Jadzia. I'm thinking Mirror Jadzia was killed off too but I'd quite like to see what would have become of Julian, Worf and their relationship with the Dax symbiont.
 
As much as I found Worf enriched the show, I found Jadzia's romance with him did not. It got old and stale pretty fast (Let Who Who Is Without Sin.... wow). I recall reading an article with Terry Farrell (sp?) during season 1 of DS9 where she stated that Dax wouldn't be up for "office romances" or any other long term commitments. I guess after a few years of that the writers reneged on that idea.

Anyway... Worf on DS9 is :thumbsup and the Alexander and Kurn storylines were great, too.
 
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