Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Summary
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s Terry Farrell , calls out the sexism in her character Jadzia Dax ’s friendship with Major Kira Nerys ( Nana Visitor ) . In the third part ofStar Trek : DS9season 2 ’s 3 - part opener , " The Siege " , Lt . Dax and Major Kira unearth an old Bajoran resistance sub - impulse plunderer and fight their way off of the lunar base where the resistance hide out the freebooter a decennium earlier . AfterKira and Dax work together to get the raider operational and vaporize like an off - kelter fighter jet , Kira flies"by the prat of her pants",and Dax targets enemy without sensors in the ensuing hassle . It ’s action - heavy . It ’s exciting . It ’s also uncommon .
Dax and Kira ’s escape from the old resistance base is nothing like the character of fit that Farrell and Visitor usually have together onStar Trek : Deep Space Nine . More often than not , Kira and Dax switch well-disposed banter in DS9 ’s Ops , or meet over a raktajino in the replimat to discuss their personal lives . While quiet here and now betweenDeep Space Nine ’s case do offer insight into their lives , Dax and Kira ’s discussion about which place residents they find attractive are pretty frivolous , especially compared to the machination of replimat lunches divvy up by Dr. Julian Bashir ( Alexander Siddig ) and entirely - not - a - undercover agent Elim Garak ( Andrew Robinson ) .
From Kirk and Spock to Burnham and Tilly , Star Trek has been home to some of the most enduring , fulfill friendships in all of science fabrication .
Terry Farrell Wanted “More Scenes In Battle” With Nana Visitor’s Major Kira On Star Trek: DS9
Less Gossip, More Swashbuckling
OnThe Delta Flyerspodcast discussingStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 2 , sequence 4 , " Invasive Procedures",Terry Farrell betoken out the paucity of military action - oriented conniption with herself and Nana VisitorinDS9.It ’s uncommon thatDax and Kira are military action heroinestogether , as they were inStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 2 , episode 3 , " The besieging " . Read Farrell ’s quotes below and hear toThe Delta Flyers , starting at the 1:25:00 timestamp .
Terry Farrell : " It was scandalous to me , we had piddling [ scenes when ] Dax is being gossipy , asking about [ Kira ] date . It used to just make me crazy . Why do n’t we have more scenes in struggle together , rather than blab about dating and dresses ? … We were two of the first Star Trek women to be seriously unassailable , set-aside woman , who also had a very salubrious sexual urge liveliness . We were sexyandwe were strong . They had a miss opportunity to have us swashbuckle together , rather of dumbing it down to girl sh*t . "
Kira Nerys & Jadzia Dax’s Star Trek: DS9 Friendship Should Have Had More Variety
There Was A Reason For “Gossipy” Scenes With Kira and Dax
There should have been more salmagundi in the scenes between Kira Nerys and Jadzia Dax inStar Trek : Deep Space Nine . More scenes of Kira and Dax " swashbuckling " , as Terry Farrell suggests , would have demonstrate thatDax and Kira ’s friendship did n’t have to be superficial . Dax and Kira rarely have the strong emotional cadence or friction between them that tightens their friendly relationship , like the story arcs for Julian Bashir and Chief Miles O’Brien ( Colm Meaney ) . There are no differences to overcome , like Jake Sisko ( Cirroc Lofton ) and Nog ( Aron Eisenberg).Star Trek : DS9doesn’t spend sentence exploring the profundity or subtlety of Dax and Kira ’s friendship , and it ’s a shame .
Still , there ’s a degree to the"gossipy"scenes between Kira and Dax , as part ofKira Nerys ' character arc . Kira comes toDS9fresh off the Occupation , a former Bajoran resistance fighter who had few chance to relax or indulge in stereotypically womanly activeness . Dax has fewer inhibitions overall , so Jadzia is able to tease some joy out of Nerys by talk about lighter topic . Dax ’s blowy friendship eases the weight of Kira ’s anger , which is no small feat , but it ’s not enough . If their scenes were n’t subject to sexist stereotypes , the friendly relationship between Major Kira Nerys and Lt . Jadzia Dax onStar Trek : Deep Space Ninecould have been so much more .
Source : The Delta Flyers , season 10 , instalment 4 , " Invasive procedure "
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