Jadiza or Ezri...

[cultcross]

Sisko takes the Defient on a Star Fleet mission of some importance, and for some reason they leave Jadzia, who is a decorated Star Fleet Bridge Officer in charge of a Bajorian Space Station, should not that honor gone to Maj Kira, who after all was the Bajorian officer for Bajor on DS-9.

That was because of Change of Heart - after that, Sisko gave strict orders that Worf & Jadzia were NEVER to go on the same mission again. Since Worf went, Jadzia had to stay behind and mind [strike]the shop[/strike] DS9.

Not quite: They' weren't allowed on missions alone together again.

SISKO
I've also issued new orders
stating that you and Jadzia are
not to be assigned to missions on
your own ever again.

 

[Damask]

Either she should have been second-in-command of BOTH the Defiant and DS9 (since the Defiant crew was the DS9 crew), or she shouldn't have had rank on the Defiant at all since she wasn't a Starfleet officer.

Yes. It's bizarre as there's times when she takes command of the Defiant when Worf is right there.

 

[Saxman1]

Jadizia and Ezri are preferable to me than fanboy wank/fantasy objects like Seven Of Boobs or Seven Of Vulcan in VOY/ENT. At least they looked like real women and not stray Playboy bunnies with more silicon and colegen than flesh and blood. Talk about dumbing down ST...

Still, I think Michelle is a better actor than Terry, who tended toward woodeness or smarminess. However, I did like the intellegent Sisko/Jadzia dynamic - it was a grown-up relationship not based on horniness.

 

[cultcross]

Jadizia and Ezri are preferable to me than fanboy wank/fantasy objects like Seven Of Boobs or Seven Of Vulcan in VOY/ENT. At least they looked like real women and not stray Playboy bunnies with more silicon and colegen than flesh and blood. Talk about dumbing down ST...

Still, I think Michelle is a better actor than Terry, who tended toward woodeness or smarminess. However, I did like the intellegent Sisko/Jadzia dynamic - it was a grown-up relationship not based on horniness.

Michelle?

 

[Ethan_Hunt_IMF]

Terry was STUNNING at the beginning of the show. She was gorgeous.
Ezri grew on me after a while. She is cute, farrell was stunning.
Jadzia was the character that had more purpose.
Although a shrink on the station in the front lines, not a bad idea.
Man I miss DS9, why can't we get a TV movie?

 

[cultcross]

It was good to see that Starfleet counsellors are actually good for something in the perfect future of Star Trek - we finally had a ships counsellor in a situation where counselling was actually visibly and understandably needed on a day-to-day basis.

 

[Dale]

I liked Jadzia most of the time... until she was paired with Worf. I always thought the interesting angle would've been to give her feelings for Sisko, who couldn't get past the "Old Man" stage, with Julian always pining in the background.

That said, I preferred Ezri, I could've eaten her with a spoon. Or without one. So, SO cute! I wish she'd been around longer. I was so happy for Bashir when they finally got together at the end of the series! I also found it interesting the way her relationships with the rest of the crew differed from Jadzia's... and I loved the slap-down Garak gave her!

 

[The Great Meech]

I actually like Ezri a bit more, if only because I encountered her character first. I got into DS9 by watching reruns of the last season, so, when the series flipped back to the beginning in syndication, suddenly seeing Jadzia was actually jarring.

 

[McCoy]

The writers provided reason why they killed off Jadzia which was that they felt that it wouldn't make sense for Jadzia to leave Worf and that if she did they would have to keep providing reasons why she wasn't scene.

How about this? They're at war! Starfleet personnel are dropping like flies. Reassignment of experienced officers would be happening all the time. Someone like Jadzia, with several lifetimes' worth of Dax in her, would be very valuable anywhere. It would have been easy to get her off DS9, have Worf mention letters from her once in a while, have her back for a guest appearance or two, and be in the finale. They didn't have to kill her off. They wanted to.

Now that's not a bad thing. Again, it's war. People die. People you care about (not that her death had anything to do with the war against the Dominion). But if you're going to take that step then be brave about it. Don't dilute it by bringing Dax back in some other form that all the surviving characters can still interact with in many of the same ways they did before. That's a cop-out.

As for Ezri herself, she got way too many of her own episodes (sometimes in a row). She was not that interesting a character that she warranted the exposure she got at the expense of all the other stories going on in the final season.

 

[SoM]

It would have been easy to get her off DS9, have Worf mention letters from her once in a while, have her back for a guest appearance or two, and be in the finale. They didn't have to kill her off. They wanted to.

But there was no chance of a guest appearance, and they knew that when they decided to kill off Jadzia.

<<Seems like there's enough characters on the show, without adding a brand new cast member. If you wanted to have a regualr to replace Jadzia, it (IMHO) should have been Garak. >>

There are a couple of reasons for adding a new Dax (And none of this should be taken as a knock against Garak or Andy Robinson, both of whom we like very much.).

Without Dax we'd be down to only one regular female character (Kira) and that seemed wrong. We also wanted to keep the Dax character itself in the mix. The "Old Man" has become an integral part of the series and we didn't want to let go of that element in our show. This also goes to the main reason why we killed Jadzia in the first place: we did not like the dramatic and structural changes that we would've been forced to make in the show if her character had simply been transferred or sent off on some kind of mysterioso assignment. A couple of days ago, I said that we didn't transfer her off the station because that would've entailed transferring Worf as well and we didn't want to do that. That's true, but clearly it's not the entire reason and I probably should've expanded on that thought. I do feel that it's difficult to believe that Worf would've just waved good-bye to his wife and kept his posting on DS9, especially after "Change of Heart" -- but okay, we might've found a way around that and created some scenario that would make it work. The point is not that it was impossible, but that we didn't like it. We felt it would've been an awkward construct and that it would leave our regular characters and the audience with no sense of closure on the character.

Terry was going to be gone. She wasn't going to be popping up now and then, doing cameos on the viewscreen or dropping in to say hello, but our characters would have to act like that was always a possibility. Having her "out there" somewhere week after week, her fate unknown, while a war rages all over the Alpha Quadrant was not something that we were interested in doing. Now, you can say that it could've worked, that these problems don't seem very big to you, but we're the ones who have to actually do the work. We're the ones who have to write the scenes and adjust all the character relationships in ways we didn't believe in and didn't like. All things considered, we'd much rather bring in a new host and play the fun of our people having to adjust to her along with the audience. Having a new Dax gave us something we wanted to play as opposed to something that we saw as an unnecessary and unneeded burden on our storytelling.

And I'll say it again -- it wasn't our idea to do this in the first place. We didn't want Terry to leave the show and we said that to Terry and to the studio on more than one occasion. But $%^# happens and we had to deal with it. Jadzia is dead. We're moving on.

And while I'm posting..

Sisko takes the Defient on a Star Fleet mission of some importance, and for some reason they leave Jadzia, who is a decorated Star Fleet Bridge Officer in charge of a Bajorian Space Station, should not that honor gone to Maj Kira, who after all was the Bajorian officer for Bajor on DS-9.

That was because of Change of Heart - after that, Sisko gave strict orders that Worf & Jadzia were NEVER to go on the same mission again. Since Worf went, Jadzia had to stay behind and mind [strike]the shop[/strike] DS9.

Not quite: They' weren't allowed on missions alone together again.

SISKO
I've also issued new orders
stating that you and Jadzia are
not to be assigned to missions on
your own ever again.

Well,...

<<Why did Dax stay behind?>>

Dax and Worf were not supposed to be serving together on missions after the
events in "Change of Heart".

*shrugs*

 

[McCoy]

Well I'll concede to Moore that he didn't want to write the characters with Jadzia hanging around offscreen all season (yeah, big of me, eh?).

But dammit they should have just killed her off and have done with it. Well, maybe I'm biased. Ezri bored me. Even if the actress herself was Canadian ( ) I just can't say I liked the character.