Dax

Dax: "I’d forgotten how different this was."
Kira: "How different what was?"
Dax: "Being female. I haven’t been one in over eighty years. All this attention!" – Babel

It’s taken me a long time to face up to writing this post.  As much as I love Jadzia, she is by far the most complicated and difficult of all the staff on board DS9.

She’s certainly a tom-boy in some respects, and plays hard with the boys and can give as good as she gets (I guess that has to do with her background and having once been Curzon Dax).  She also has a very gentle and loving, even mothering side to her nature which disarms me, as it turns up when I least expect it.  She’s very fond of the boys, but it’s obvious that part of her looks down on them, in a sense as though that’s all they are – mere boys, not really worthy of  her attention.  She was involved with a Klingon at one stage, one who visisted on the Bajoran Transport, but since that Transport has ceased stopping by the Station, it seems that that relationship has been put paid to, and I can only say I’m relieved. He wasn’t worthy of her.

She’s girly: she loves pink and shoes and lipsticks and hats and even took courses in Ballet and gymnastics once. But she’s also a black belt in Tal- Shaya and Mok’bara. She’s adventurous and determined and completely her own person. She likes to be answerable to no-one, and that’s where we clash. But I admire her tenacity and I wouldn’t want to crush her spirit, so we exist in a kind of constant tension.