DS9 Stories/News: DS9 Slash Couples (9) – Dax & Kira

Jadzia Dax/Kira Nerys

Jadzia Dax is a major character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by Terry Farrell. A joined Trill, she is simultaneously a beautiful young humanoid woman “Jadzia”, with a strange leopard-effect spot pattern, and a 300-hundred-and-change-year-old slug “Dax”, with the memories of seven dead people. The Science Officer on Deep Space Nine, she’s qualifed in astrophysics, exoarchaeology, exobiology & zoology, is a mean tongo player and has wicked fighting skills with a batleth. Shades of canonical Mary-Sue, methinks.

http://fanlore.org/wiki/Jadzia_Dax

Her closest friend in canon is station commander Benjamin Sisko, who calls her “old man”, a reference to his friendship with the slug’s previous host, a lecherous heavy drinking old man by the name of Curzon Dax — the source of Jadzia’s love for all things Ferengi & Klingon. She is also particularly close to Kira Nerys, Quark and Julian Bashir. Both the two men harbour an unrequited pash for her, which she tramples on when she falls for and marries the Klingon security officer, Worf, much to the dismay of the many fans of Julian/Jadzia. Oh, and she also has a brief fling with another joined Trill woman, leading to the first f/f kiss in Trek history. Aside from technobabble, her interests include sex, gossip, rowdy parties and tongo.

Just as she starts getting broody, she is murdered by Gul Dukat, saving fans from the horror of a Klingon with Trill spots. Dax returns to the series as Ezri Dax, who later hooks up with Julian, which a lot of fans thought was just plain icky.

Fan Perspectives

Wendy A.F.G. Stengel writes: Jadzia is an intensely sexual character, and we learn from her recollections that in many, if not all, of Dax’s past lives, Dax has been just as sexually charged.

Stengel again: gender becomes a very murky subject when discussing Trills.

Fanfiction

Jadzia is a fairly popular character with fanwriters. Many fans felt her death was untimely and objected to her replacement with Ezri. Not surprisingly, resurrecting the character is a trope in some fanfiction, particularly in het stories. She’s most commonly paired with Bashir, known as Julian/Jadzia. This used to be amongst the most common het pairings in the DS9 fandom, though its popularity seems to be on the wane. The canonical Jadzia/Worf – one of the most interesting, complex relationships in Star Trek history, according to Wendy Stengel — is also very common. Jadzia also features prominently in Julian/Ezri stories, even though she’s dead. Often Julian hooks up with Ezri only because of his love for Jadzia, causing the relationship to fail, or he at least has to work through his feelings for Jadzia for the relationship with Ezri to succeed.

Her canonical flirt with bisexuality & general air of being up for anything means that Jadzia also turns up a fair amount in femslash. This often riffs on the idea that her gender identity is fluid because of all those memories of being a man in previous lives. The predominant pairing is probably Jadzia/Kira, though she’s also paired with Lenara Kahn (the other half of that same-sex kiss), as well as pretty much anyone with girl parts. Gen fanfiction frequently explores the otherness of the joined Trill experience.

Jadzia Dax & Lenara Khan by Spockish

We’re Focusing on Jadzia/Kira Slash in This Post

Jadzia (with Kira) on the Haven 3 cover by Christine Myers

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Kira/Dax Slash and DS9 Gab

Title: So It Is

Genres/Plot summary: Femmeslash/Fluff/PWP. A series of loosely connected drabbles detailing Jadzia’s pursuit of Nerys.

http://bt.submystic.com/daxkira/

Off Duty: The Humorous Adventures of Kira and Dax

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2401969/1/Off_Duty_The_Humorous_Adventures_of_Kira_and_Dax

“Choices”

“Minister of Lies”

[DS9] Rebuilding (Kira/Dax | G)

Summary: Jadzia has a new holosuite program. Kira is out of excuses.

List of media portrayals of bisexuality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_media_portrayals_of_bisexuality

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Jadzia Dax, Kira Nerys in alternate universe, Ezri Dax and Elim Garak.

Dax’s relationships with females portrayed as related to previous existence as a male, alternate-universe Kira portrayed as a hedonistic tyrant. Garak was originally intended as omnisexual by the actor, and many fans still consider him as such, although he never engages in an ‘official’ relationship throughout the seasons.

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Kira and Dax Wallpaper by Twisted Illusion

DS9 Stories/News: USS Defiant – Sisko’s Tough Little Ship (4)

Designing the U.S.S Defiant – By Jim Martin

Deep Space Nine’s resident warship was originally going to be based on a runabout-style design, but eventually took the shape of a vessel that had been intended for a completely different episode.

Concept artist Jim Martin was given the job of designing the USS Defiant NX-74205 when the producers of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine decided to introduce a new warship that could take on the Dominion. When designing the Defiant at the end of the second season, the original plan was to make it a ‘beefed up’ runabout. Martin describes designing the Defiant saying, “I started with the cockpit windows, and worked my way out, adding things on top of the runabout, making it look like they were adding systems and weapons to an existing ship.” The runabout design was abandoned after the producers saw Martin’s finished drawings and decided they needed to go a different direction. “After the idea for the runabout was shot down, it was replaced with the writers’ idea that it was going to be a full-fledged fighting starship called the USS Valiant.

“Under the supervision of Herman Zimmerman, I did a first batch of ships. The writers requested a small starship which was designed by the Federation to battle the Borg. I drew some familiar looking Starfleet designs, but also included a drawing of a small, compact ship that I had done for an entirely different episode of DS9. This is the direction that they chose, I think it was because it was so unique.” A second pass at the Defiant refined it further and helped bring it into the design realm of Starfleet, but it remains in the spirit of the initial drawing. Model maker Tony Meininger worked with Gary Hutzel to create the model as we know it.

Looking back, the Defiant is probably Martin’s biggest contribution to Star Trek. The Defiant was first major starship that didn’t have external warp nacelles. Martin recalls, “When you’re in the art department and you’re doing the job from episode to episode, you don’t really think, ‘Boy, this is really going to revolutionize Federation design.’ You’re getting a design out of the way. It’s only after the fact that you think, ‘Wow, that was a different idea.’ I’m glad we took the chance to take a little bit of a departure.” The whole idea of having twin nacalles on outriggers originated in the very first season of Star Trek; they are away from the ship because they are creating the warp bubble that the ship that the ship is inside. We were trapped in the nacelle thought and I remember turning in some things that were a little off the mark; they were runabout-ish, but they were also nacelle-ish. The final design was based on something that Zimmerman had seen tacked about my desk that I had done for a totally different episode. It was originally Sisko’s raider [in 'Crossover'], if I remember rightly.

“I think it’s a unique shape; it’s very different to what they were doing, and I can’t take sole credit on that because a lot of people worked on the Defiant.”

Models of the Defiant have been made by AMT/Ertl, Galoob‘s Star Trek Micro Machines range, and by Furuta. Corgi planned to release a model of the Defiant in 2007, however this was canceled. In 2008, the Japanese toy company F-Toys released a model of the Defiant, as well as a transparent “cloaked” version.

The USS Defiant could be seen in the Discovery Science program Ultra Science (an episode about time travel).

An unused door signage for the Defiant was sold off on the It’s A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay

The USS Equinox, a Nova-class vessel, was designed based on the design of the Defiant “Pathfinder” vehicle, registry NXP-2365WP/T, found in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual.

The Defiant appears in all Deep Space Nine episode title sequences starting with Season 4 and beyond.

Plus the movie, First Contact

The class ship of its type is the only one produced as a compact yet heavily armed escort ship to meet the Borg threat, with no scientific or other extras save what is needed for combat.

Designed partly by Commander Sisko from Utopia Planetia and then mothballed in the Sol system, Sisko returned to Deep Space Nine with it in 2371 to help meet the Dominion.

In the video game Star Trek: Encounters, the Defiant appears in the two levels based on Deep Space 9. In addition, the Defiant appears in the game’s last level where it briefly visits an alternate timeline in which the Romulan Star Empire has conquered the Federation. The Defiant later helps the USS Enterprise-E, the USS Voyager, the USS Enterprise-A, and the Enterprise NX-01 defeat a combined Xindi, Klingon, Romulan, Dominion, and Borg fleet.

Also, the game Star Trek: Legacy features a mission depicting the Defiant‘s shakedown cruise under the command of Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Sisko. The ship encounters Romulan Tal Shiar forces preparing to ambush T’Uerell within Federation space and despite trying to evade them, is captured. The crew and the ship are rescued by a task force led by the USS Enterprise-D.

DS9 Stories/News: The Finest Geek TV Marriage Proposals

Source: http://www.denofgeek.com/television/1260700/the_finest_geek_tv_marriage_proposals.html

Louisa Mellor and Caroline Preece

From Battlestar to Buffy, it’s not only rom-coms that love a marriage proposal, plenty of sci-fi and fantasy TV characters have popped the question too…

Published on Feb 26, 2012

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Jadzia Dax and Worf

Some years after Worf proposed to and was rejected by former mate K’Ehleyr in The Next Generation, he finally gets a yes from Deep Space Nine’s Dax. Well, all those missions and bat’leth training sessions in the holosuites had to be leading somewhere…

Worf and Dax’s wedding was a theatrical affair, full of fire, ceremonial drums and stage fighting. It certainly outdoes Will and Deanna’s ceremony in Nemesis, even if Whoopi Goldberg was on the guest list for that one and Data sang a song.

Yay or nay? She had a wobble just before, but those two hearts were destined to beat as one.