STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE "Dax" #40511-408 Story by Peter Allan Fields Teleplay by Dorothy C. Fontana and Peter Allan Fields Directed by David Carson THE WRITING CREDITS MAY NOT BE FINAL AND SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR PUBLICITY OR ADVERTISING PURPOSES WITHOUT FIRST CHECKING WITH THE TELEVISION LEGAL DEPARTMENT. Copyright 1992 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved. This script is not for publication or reproduction. No one is authorized to dispose of same. If lost or destroyed, please notify the Script Department. Return to Script Department FINAL DRAFT PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION NOVEMBER 17, 1992 STAR TREK: DS9 - "Dax" - 11/17/92 - CAST STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE "Dax" CAST BENJAMIN SISKO ENINA KIRA PEERS ODO RENORA BASHIR TANDRO DAX N.D. VOICE OVER QUARK COMPUTER VOICE Non-Speaking Non-Speaking SUPERNUMARIES 2 KLAESTRON OFFICERS N.D. BAJORAN DEPUTIES STARFLEET SECURITY GUARD DABO GIRL FERENGI WAITER MORN STAR TREK: DS9 - "Dax" - 11/17/92 - SETS STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE "Dax" SETS INTERIORS EXTERIORS DEEP SPACE NINE DEEP SPACE NINE AIRLOCK CORRIDOR CORRIDOR ONE KLAESTRON PLANET CORRIDOR TWO DAXIS QUARTERS KLAESTRON SHIP OPS PROMENADE LOWER LEVEL OUTSIDE QUARK'S SECOND LEVEL REPLIMAT SECURITY OFFICE SISKO'S OFFICE ENINA TANDRO'S MAIN ROOM STAR TREK: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - PRONUNCIATION GUIDE STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE "Dax" PRONUNCIATION GUIDE Bajoran bah-JOR-an Bajor Bay-jor Cardassian car-DASS-ee-en raktajino rock-ta-GEE-no Ilon Tandro EYE-lon TAN-dro Klaestron KLY-stron Renora ren-O-ruh Ardelon ARE-de-lawn Enina e-NEE-na DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - TEASER 1. STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE "DAX" TEASER FADE IN: 1 thru OMITTED 3 3A EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL) SISKO Station log. Stardate 46910.1. Chief O'Brien has the sad duty of escorting his wife back to earth to attend her mother's funeral. For the next few weeks, it will up to the rest of us to keep this station up and running. 4 INT. REPLIMAT Dax and Bashir are having some coffee as she studies a PADD... BASHIR It's almost as though the re- filtration processors were waiting for Chief O'Brien to leave before breaking down... DAX The technology looks like something the Cardassians might have taken from the Romulans... (to herself) Is that an R-C-L type one matrix field? BASHIR (bored, trying to be clever) Perhaps we ought to call in a Romulan repair service... He gets not a crack of a smile from Dax who studies her PADD... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - TEASER 1A. 4 CONTINUED: DAX (to herself) Or is it an R-C-L type two... Bashir frowns at her nonresponsiveness, more bored, he sips the last drop of his coffee... BASHIR (re: the coffee) Another raktajino? DAX (still studying, no eye contact) It would keep me up all night. BASHIR (flirting) I know better ways to keep you up all night... and they're more fun than drinking Klingon coffee... Now she looks up evenly... he smiles boyishly at her... she looks back down at the PADD... DAX Definitely type one... Bashir frowns... 5 ANOTHER ANGLE - ACROSS PROMENADE A male Trill, SELIN PEERS, stands unobtrusively watching Dax and Bashir. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - TEASER 2. 5 CONTINUED: Now, as we're watching Peers, he's approached by three other humanoids: A male we'll later come to know as TANDRO (mid-30's), and a First and Second Klaestron Officer (First Officer is a strong male; Second Officer a strong female -- whose garb may tend to make her gender less evident than it ordinarily might be). 6 CLOSER - GROUP The three new arrivals will follow the direction of Peers's identifying nod, as: DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - TEASER 3. 6 CONTINUED: PEERS (indicating) Dax. 7 RESUME - DAX & BASHIR IN REPLIMAT DAX (starts Rising) I really should be getting to bed. BASHIR (rises quickly) May I escort you to your quarters... DAX (smiles nicely) That's not necessary, Julian. BASHIR Oh, goodnight then... She Nods graciously to him, and EXITS. 8 ANGLE FAVORING GROUP Tandro, and the First & Second Officer -- with Peers staying put -- move casually (remaining as unobtrusive as possible) -- to follow Dax. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - TEASER 4. 9 ON BASHIR BASHIR (to himself) ... "Not necessary, Julian"... (sudden, happy decision) ... But not forbidden, either. And now it's Bashir who Moves off after the departed Dax. 10 INT. CORRIDOR ONE Dax Moves along the deserted corridor. Tandro and the two officers move quickly up behind her. (NOTE: First Officer wears a bulging pouch -- approx. 6" x 9" in size -- on his belt.) TANDRO Dax. She stops and turns, inquiringly. Not anticipating any trouble, her demeanor and stance are open and pleasantly casual, as: DAX Yes... ? Tandro Nods to the First & Second Officer, who brace Dax; one on either side. TANDRO You are Dax... DAX (far less casual) What do you want? Tandro Nods again to the First Officer, who quickly places one hand across Dax's mouth, and twists her other hand behind her to render her helpless. She is nonetheless beginning to struggle, as: 11 BASHIR ... rounds the corner into the corridor... sees Dax struggling in the First Officer's grasp. Without hesitation, he hurls himself forward into the scuffle. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - TEASER 5. 12 WIDER ANGLE Bashir cannonballs first into Tandro, knocking him into the corridor wall, against which his head BUMPS sufficiently hard to stun him briefly. Dax uses the micro-momentary distraction of the First Officer to twist aside, and ram her elbow into the latter's ribs. He GASPS, but is equally quick, and far stronger than Dax. Yanking her back toward him, he first reaches toward her combadge... 13 INSERT - DAX'S COMBADGE First Officer's Hand ENTERS FRAME to Rip away Dax's combadge. 14 RESUME - WIDER ANGLE The First Officer delivers a short, sharp chop which knocks Dax unconscious. 15 BASHIR & SECOND OFFICER Bashir has wheeled around to deal with the Second Officer. As he cocks his fist to deliver a punch, he sees, for the first time -- 15A CLOSE - SECOND OFFICER'S FACE She's obviously a woman. 15B CLOSE REACTION - BASHIR Realizing her gender, Bashir Freezes in place... 16 RESUME - WIDER ANGLE ... which was a big mistake. The woman clips Bashir with a single right cross which knocks him cold. As Bashir sinks, the First Officer has hoisted the unconscious Dax over his shoulder, and now -- carrying her -- accompanies Tandro and the Second Officer, as they hurriedly EXIT. MOVE IN SLOWLY on Bashir's cold-cocked body lying crumpled on the deck. HOLD, before we... FADE OUT. END OF TEASER DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT ONE 6. ACT ONE FADE IN: (NOTE: Episode credits fall over opening scenes) 17 OMITTED 18 INT. OPS Kira is on duty, working a console (Supernumeraries as needed) -- as Sisko approaches her from his (O.S.) office. He's apparently been meeting with ODO, since, the latter has come out with him, and will remain watching relaxedly from the steps, during: SISKO Yes, Major. KIRA (off console) I'm just not sure, Commander. What's it look like to you? She perplexedly indicates a monitor reading (which we needn't see)... And as Sisko looks at it: SISKO (equally uncertain) It looks like a residual charge in the graviton generator. If that's what it is, it'll bleed off. Let's run a quick level three diagnostic, just to be sure. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT ONE 7. 19 INT. CORRIDOR ONE Bashir GROANS and stirs... rolls over... makes it to his hands and knees, shaking his head to clear it. Then: BASHIR (taps combadge) Bashir... to Ops... Even as he's speaking, Bashir notices Dax's combadge on the deck nearby. He starts reaching for it, as we go to: 20 INT. OPS Everybody as we just saw them. KIRA (casual Response) Ops. 21 INT. CORRIDOR ONE - INTERCUT WITH OPS (AS DESIRED) Bashir now holds, and stares down at, Dax's Combadge. BASHIR (still groggy) ... Three people... I think they just took Jadzia. She was struggling with them, and I tried to help, but... I don't know, I'm... Odo moves instantly forward toward a separate console, during: SISKO Full station security alert; secure all Turbolifts; seal off airlocks to levels four through twelve... Computer, locate Lieutenant Dax. COMPUTER Lieutenant Dax is on Level Six, Corridor One. BASHIR No, that's where I am... They only left her combadge here... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT ONE 8. 21 CONTINUED: ODO How long ago, Doctor? BASHIR Not long, uh... I'm... not quite sure, really. ODO Computer: Display all passages, levels four through twelve; in sequence. 22 INT. CORRIDOR TWO Tandro, the First and Second Officers hauling Dax along... Dax, hanging loosely in the dual grasp, is just regaining consciousness. As Tandro is again consulting his PADD: DAX (groggy) What... what are you doing? No reply. Tandro gestures ahead... TANDRO We turn right at the next corridor... The First & Second Officers both use their free hands to pull small weapons from their pockets... and they all proceed PAST CAMERA... 23 INT. OPS - INCLUDING ODO'S MONITOR (OPTICAL) We'll see a series of CORRIDOR, PROMENADE & AIRLOCK-ENTRANCE SHOTS FLASH ONTO THE SCREEN in sequence: CORRIDOR ONE contains Bashir... One or two PROMENADE ANGLES may include a Few casually walking Pedestrians... the Two or Three AIRLOCK- ENTRANCE ANGLES will show no one. Throughout the above: ODO They're managing to avoid the security tracking grid. They seem to know a lot about the station. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT ONE 8A-9. 23 CONTINUED: KIRA Then they may know the speed of our Runabouts... if they do, they probably have a faster ship to make their escape... SISKO Major, survey all ships in dock that have a high warp capability. (Beat; sudden realization) Damn! ODO What. 24 ANOTHER ANGLE We can no longer see what's on Odo's monitor, as he continues to work his console. SISKO That's why we've got a residual charge in the graviton generator. They've disabled the tractor beam. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT ONE 10. 24 CONTINUED: KIRA (off monitor) We've got eight ships in dock that're capable of warp five or more: Three on docking pylons; five smaller ones in the ports. SISKO Seal off all docking ring airlocks. ODO Security. All duty squads to the docking ring; commence immediate inward sweep, levels sixteen through twenty-one. 25 thru OMITTED 26 27 INT. AIRLOCK CORRIDOR Dax, Tandro, First & Second Officers ENTER... 28 INT. OPS (OPTICAL) On Kira's monitor, we see Dax et al in Airlock Five's corridor. KIRA I've got them! Airlock five... Oddly, Sisko will turn away from the goings-on... will move to Dax's science station, where he'll begin studiously working a console. Odo, on the move -- ODO I'm on my way. Odo to Security. Report to airlock corridor five. We have a hostage situation. He EXITS to the Turbolift... KIRA Isolating with cadderon force fields. (what's Sisko up to?) ... Commander? SISKO (preoccupied at console) You're doing fine, Major. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/19/92 - ACT ONE 11. 29 INT. AIRLOCK CORRIDOR (OPTICAL) A FORCE FIELD suddenly BLINKS INTO POSITION across the corridor in front of Dax and her abductors. They're momentarily stopped... Until the First Officer withdraws a small PADD from his belt pouch. Move to a companel... the back of the PADD attached magnetically to the surface of the companel... on the face of the PADD there is an alien keyboard and the First Officer taps in a seven digit sequence... DAX Will you just tell me what you... Her speech is Interrupted by the Loud ZAP of the suddenly Disengaged force field. They've "hot-wired" it -- and the path before them is again clear. TANDRO (tugging Dax) Move. And they resume their progress along the corridor. 30 thru OMITTED 31 32 INT. OPS Everyone is as we last saw them. KIRA The force field is down... They know the security override codes... They're boarding a ship... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT ONE 12. 32 CONTINUED: SISKO (off console) I'm trying to speed up the bleed-off process in the graviton generator. KIRA (shakes her head) We've lost them... 33 EXT. SPACE - DS9 (OPTICAL) A mid-sized ship pulls away from the dock... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/19/92 - ACT ONE 13. 34 thru OMITTED 37 38 INT. OPS SISKO (working console) It's working. I'm increasing the flow to the EPS wave guides. KIRA The excess charge is neutralizing... SISKO Engage tractor beam! 39 EXT. SPACE - DS9 & KLAESTRON SHIP (OPTICAL) Just as the ship begins to pick up speed... the tractor beam SHOOTS OUT and captures it... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT ONE 14. 40 INT. OPS KIRA (smiles) Gotcha. And now it's Sisko EXITING toward the Turbolift, during: SISKO Bring it in to docking port six, Major. 41 OMITTED 42 INT. AIRLOCK CORRIDOR Sisko, Odo and two weapons-ready N.D. Bajoran Deputies and a Starfleet Security Guard stand facing the closed airlock. Beat... the hatch opens... Tandro is the first to step out. ODO Slowly! Extremities where I can see them. TANDRO (unphased) You're the Chief of security? Dax appears behind Tandro... ODO (to Dax) Are you all right? DAX nods, as: TANDRO My name is Ilon Tandro... 43 CLOSE REACTION - DAX Stunned -- as she obviously recognizes both the name, and: TANDRO (O.S.) (Cont'd) ... Special envoy from Klaestron Four... I'm in charge of this extradition procedure... From this point, and after digesting her initial shock, Dax's expression and demeanor literally "shut down." DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT ONE 15. 43 CONTINUED: An implacable, impenetrable mask; unreadable and unfathomable. 44 RESUME - SHOT SISKO Extradition! I call this kidnapping and assault. Odo gestures his Deputies and Security Guard to take the four culprits in tow. (We'll assume that Peers went straight to the ship after identifying Dax.) Tandro reaches into his tunic... draws out a micro-disk... hands it to Sisko, during: TANDRO (re: micro-disk) You'll find this to be a valid warrant for her arrest. The relevant treaty between Klaestron Four and your Federation allows for unilateral extradition. SISKO (dubious) And the charge? DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT ONE 16. 44 CONTINUED: TANDRO The fugitive Dax is charged with treason... and the murder of my father. In surprised perplexion, Sisko looks to Dax for a response. None comes. Her face remains a tight and closed, utterly uncommunicative stone wall. MOVE IN and HOLD on that face, as we... FADE OUT. END OF ACT ONE DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT TWO 17. ACT TWO FADE IN: 45 EXT. SPACE - DS9 (OPTICAL) Re-Establishing. The Klaestron ship still at the docking ring. 46 INT. SECURITY OFFICE With Sisko standing by, Odo works at his console and monitor (the screen of which we needn't see). ODO (off monitor) According to the charge statement, Dax was responsible for the death of General Ardelon Tandro thirty years ago... SISKO Thirty years ago? That would've been Curzon Dax. ODO (nods, off console) ... when he was on Klaestron Four as a Federation mediator during their civil war... SISKO He never mentioned he'd even been to "Klaestron Four"... Strange. ODO Not so strange considering these charges. SISKO Odo, let me tell you something: Curzon Dax tended to be a little cavalier about life... and even about his personal responsibilities from time to time... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT TWO 17A. 46 CONTINUED: SISKO (Cont'd) (smiles; recalling) ... I think part of the reason I liked him so much was that he had more faults than the usual, socially acceptable Trill. (back to reality) He was not a murderer. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT TWO 18. 46 CONTINUED: (2) ODO How about a "traitor"? (off monitor) This says Dax betrayed the Klaestron government to the rebels. SISKO (dismissive) It's all nonsense. I'm telling you, Constable, I knew the man. ODO (beat) But did you know the symbiont inside the man? And they just look at each other... Each from his own perspective. 47 INT. DAX'S QUARTERS She sits alone... in the dark. The door CHIMES. As she turns on a moderate light: DAX Come in. Sisko ENTERS. She knows what's coming... returns to her seat... to stare straight ahead -- at her own thoughts -- during: SISKO I've sent a subspace message to Klaestron Four requesting confirmation of the warrant. That's the only stall I could think of. Now what the hell's going on, Dax? As Dax doesn't reply: SISKO Dax, if I'm going to help you, you've got to help me. DAX I don't expect help, Benjamin. Thank you, though. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT TWO 19. 47 CONTINUED: His frustration growing, Sisko paces, with: SISKO Are you crazy? Treason and murder. On Klaestron Four, either of those gets you the death penalty. (faces her squarely) What's the matter with you! Talk to me before I have to let these people take you. DAX (quiet resignation) No. I'm sorry, Benjamin, but... no. Sisko will try another tack. He sits, and: SISKO (quietly) We've got eighteen or twenty years of friendship behind us. DAX I'm Jadzia Dax now. It was Curzon Dax you knew for twenty years. SISKO So when the Dax part of you survived from one host to the next, it really didn't take our friendship along. DAX Benjamin, you know you're still my very dear friend. I just... won't talk about this; I'm sorry. Sisko rises again... Not much more to be said here... Except: SISKO (gentle conviction) Well, whether you're Curzon Dax or Jadzia Dax, I'm not going to believe for one second that you've ever committed murder, or treason. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT TWO 20. 47 CONTINUED: (2) DAX (reflexively starts to explain) Benjamin... (stops herself; beat) ... If you don't mind... I'd prefer being alone right now. SISKO (exiting) There is one thing I'd charge you with... (stops; faces her for emphasis) ... Acute stubbornness. (finishes EXITING) Dax is left alone again. She reaches over... turns off the light... sits again in the darkness. SLOWLY MOVE IN on her FACE. HOLD for a beat, before: 48 INT. SISKO'S OFFICE Sisko, with Kira alongside, faces Tandro. TANDRO You've received your confirmation, Commander; now we'd like to be on our way with the prisoner. Throughout the following, Sisko's demeanor will -- despite his words -- remain most pleasant... most conversational. SISKO You know, Mister Tandro... I kept wondering why you tried to kidnap Lieutenant Dax, rather than just present your warrant to me in the proper way. I couldn't figure that out at first. TANDRO I trust you have figured out, Commander, that our extradition treaty with your Federation is current and valid. SISKO This station is technically Bajoran. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT TWO 21. 48 CONTINUED: TANDRO (already knows the answer) What does that mean to us? SISKO You don't have an extradition treaty with Bajor. I think that's why you tried to abduct Lieutenant Dax. You were afraid the Bajorans would refuse extradition. TANDRO That's absurd. No Bajoran interests are even involved here. KIRA How did you people know your way around this station so well? TANDRO (disdain) My conversation is with the Commander. SISKO No, I think your conversation is with my First Officer now. KIRA You Klaestrons are allies of the Cardassians. Your knowledge of this station confirms that. They must have given you the layout... Which not only compromises Bajoran security, but also... annoys us. It will be evident to us from their overly courteous deference to each other, that Sisko and Kira have already decided between them exactly what the following dialogue will confirm to Tandro. SISKO (almost apologetic) I'm afraid it means Bajoran interests are involved. And Bajor is adamant that... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT TWO 22. 48 CONTINUED: (2) SISKO (Cont'd) (courteous aside to Kira) ... At least I believe it's adamant... KIRA (with satisfaction) Oh, yes... SISKO You see... There will have to be an extradition hearing before I can lawfully release Lieutenant Dax. Off Tandro's reaction... 49 OMITTED 50 INT. QUARK'S QUARK (reacts aghast) For how long? ODO As long as it takes. QUARK That could be days! DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT TWO 23. 50 CONTINUED: ODO There's nowhere else on the station that's suitable. QUARK Too bad. I'm not shutting down for any Bajoran hearing... ODO I'm sure Lieutenant Dax would appreciate it... Quark pauses a beat at her name... but when it's profit versus sex--- QUARK (shakes his head) Business is business. Subject closed... he moves away, wipes the bar... Odo takes a beat, look around... ODO You know, that wall's going to have to come in about five meters... QUARK What are you talking about? ODO Of course, after you move the wall that'll mean your second level holosuites'll have to come down... QUARK Come down? Why? ODO New restrictions... QUARK Restrictions? ODO Building codes... Since the provisional government took over, they've got their hands into everything... and of course, I'm the one who's expected to enforce their rules here. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT TWO 23A-24. 50 CONTINUED: (2) ODO You know, I think the bar is a little too near the exit... QUARK This is blackmail... ODO No, it's just business... And business is business... On Quark's reaction... 51 INT. PROMENADE OUTSIDE QUARK'S Sisko is walking toward us along the Promenade -- as Odo emerges from Quark's. SISKO I was just coming to see you. We still haven't found any place for the hearing. Holding it on Bajor would involve Dax leaving the station, and I don't want to risk that. ODO Well, now that's a coincidence. Our good friend Quark just donated the use of his facility for the hearing. SISKO (reacts, surprised) Nice gesture. ODO I thought so. SISKO You know I haven't been able to get a word out of Dax about any of this. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT TWO 25. 51 CONTINUED: SISKO So I thought someone might go do some investigating on Klaestron Four itself. What do you think? ODO (dubious) This case has thirty years of dust covering it. The extradition hearing'll take about thirty minutes. SISKO I'm hoping to make it a little longer than that. ODO (fat chance) Good luck. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT TWO 26. 52 OMITTED 53 INT. QUARK'S - E.C.U. ON RENORA'S FACE Though much older, Judge ELS RENORA appears to be in her 60's. Handsome and hard. But the glint in her eyes bespeaks as much a capacity for wry humor as for judicial crispity. RENORA This will be an informal hearing, so I'll start with some informal advice to all: I'm one hundred years old. I've no time to squander listening to superfluous language. In short, I intend being here until supper, not senility. Understood? 54 WIDER ANGLE Tables and chair have been arranged with Sisko and Dax on one side; Tandro on the other. All facing Renora (who may be on an improvised raised platform behind the bar, or, if desired, in a slightly raised seat anywhere else that's the center of everyone's focus). Others present, include Kira, Bashir and Selin Peers (the male who first pointed out Dax, then trailed behind the kidnappers). In addition, we'll see (in b.g.) Quark, the Dabo Girl, the Ferengi Waiter and Morn. Sisko and Tandro are on their feet, facing Renora, as: TANDRO Understood, Madame Arbiter. Renora BANGS her ball-gavel down once, before: RENORA (to Tandro) You seek the extradition... Make your case. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT TWO 27. 54 CONTINUED: TANDRO The accused Trill, whatever its present appearance may be, was and is a Federation officer who committed capital crimes on our planet. Since there is no time limit on the prosecution of such crimes... RENORA (overriding) Thank you, I've already read the warrant and charges. The crimes described are thirty years old. What took you so long? TANDRO The evidence was contained in military files which were officially sealed until recently. RENORA Fine. Sit. Commander, the warrant's in order. On what grounds do you ask me to deny extradition? SISKO You say the warrant's in order. But the name on the warrant is "Dax." Certainly that doesn't refer to Jadzia Dax, a female; but to the now deceased Curzon Dax, a male. (indicates Dax) ... This young woman wasn't even born thirty years ago. TANDRO You're arguing semantics. This creature is a Trill. The symboint known as Dax has progressed from one host to the next. SISKO Exactly. From one host to the next. A different host; a different person. So I submit that the person he wants to extradite no longer exists. And I challenge him to prove otherwise. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT TWO 28. 54 CONTINUED: (2) TANDRO That's ridiculous. Renora's ball-gavel BANGS down once more, before: RENORA It would've been easier on me had you not raised that point, Commander. (to Tandro) But the penalty for these crimes on your planet is death; and that's rather permanent. So before I grant extradition, you will convince me, please, that the person named in your warrant is the same person that's sitting here now. 55 REACTION - SISKO & DAX His face reflects his tremendous, pleased relief. But as he then looks, almost reflexively, at Dax for a sharing of that emotion, he notes that her blank, even detached, expression has either not changed -- or has become ever-so-slightly more sad. MOVE IN on SISKO'S PERPLEXED FACE, and HOLD, before we... FADE OUT. END OF ACT TWO DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT THREE 29. ACT THREE FADE IN: 56 EXT. SPACE - DS9 (OPTICAL) Re-Establishing. SISKO (V.O.) Station log, Stardate 46440.2. The extradition hearing will reconvene at oh-nine-hundred hours. Lieutenant Dax still remains silent regarding the charges against her. 57 INT. SISKO'S OFFICE Sisko, Kira and Bashir. KIRA She doesn't seem to care whether she gets out of this or not. SISKO I care. Doctor, we've given the opposition access to our computers and station library, such as it is... so let's utilize them ourselves. I want all the medical evidence you can find to support the theory that Jadzia Dax and Curzon Dax are two entirely separate people. Major... BASHIR Excuse me, Sir. I don't know that there is any medical evidence on that. SISKO Assume there is, then find it. Major... I'm not asking you to be an attorney here, but... If you'd check the Federation computers for any precedents... legal decisions involving Trills... KIRA (reciting; being sure she's got it right) Is a Trill responsible for the conduct... for the acts... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT THREE 30. 57 CONTINUED: KIRA of it's antecedent selves. What if I find the answer's "yes"? SISKO Then that answer's wrong. From this minute on, our answer is "no." (beat; quiet aside) ... But if you do find a... "wrong" answer, I want to see it. I can't fight what I don't know about. KIRA Commander, aren't we a little out of our depth here? SISKO We're fighting for her life, Major Kira. KIRA I understand that. I don't understand why she won't help us fight. N/D VOICE OVER Commander Sisko. There is a subspace communication from Odo on Klaestron Four. Sisko turns on his monitor, during: SISKO (to Kira and Bashir) We've only got a few hours, people. As Kira and Bashir exit: 58 INCLUDING SISKO'S MONITOR (OPTICAL) Odo appears on screen, standing in front of a neutral transmission station b.g. SISKO Constable... What've you got for us? ODO You mean it's not over? You stopped the extradition? DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT THREE 31. 58 CONTINUED: SISKO Just a delaying action; it's all I could do. I'm still hoping you'll find something there on the planet that'll negate the charges. ODO Well, I know two things so far: Whoever did murder this General Ardelon Tandro, it got his troops so mad they went out and won their civil war. They made the General a national martyr. There are statues of him all over the place. Second: everyone that's old enough to remember says the General and Curzon Dax were the closest of friends... Comrades; inseparable. SISKO Now that sounds like the Curzon Dax I knew. ODO Treason, plus the murder of his own best friend? Strange business. If those charges are true, I'd want to hang Curzon Dax up by the heels myself. SISKO (acerbic) Thanks for the confidence. ODO Don't worry, I'll do my job. General Tandro left a widow. If the two men were that close, she has to remember something about Curzon Dax that's not in the record. You'll hear from me. Sisko's screen blanks. He sits back in thought, before: DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT THREE 32. 58A EXT. URBAN AREA ON PLANET KLAESTRON (MATTE) Clean, alien-modern and (at least this section, anyway) probably high-middle to upper class. 59 INT. ENINA TANDRO'S MAIN ROOM (KLAESTRON FOUR) ENINA TANDRO, slightly past middle age, but still regal in bearing, stands facing Odo with: ENINA Curzon Dax was not responsible for the death of my husband. ODO (reacts to the surprising new ally) You're certain of that? ENINA Without a doubt. ODO But your own son... ENINA My son is obsessed with the death of a father he never knew... I tried to persuade him not to reopen the case. He wouldn't listen to anyone... least of all to me. (closer, more intimate) You have to understand -- Curzon Dax was closer to the General than any man on this planet. He was a dear friend to this family. Curzon would have died himself before conspiring against my husband. ODO Is that a personal opinion... or are there any facts that might support... ENINA The only facts I know are in my son's hands... and he intends to use them against Dax. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT THREE 32A. 59 CONTINUED: ODO It might help my people to know what they are... ENINA There's proof of a secret transmission that was sent from military headquarters to the enemy camp. It identified the exact route my husband was taking from the capitol back to the front. That's when he was ambushed and kidnapped... a short time later, he was killed. ODO Then your son must believe that Dax made that transmission... ENINA (acknowledges) There were only five people including my husband who knew the route. My son's been able to establish the whereabouts of all of them at the time of the transmission... all of them except Curzon. ODO So, Dax has no alibi. ENINA That can't possibly be enough to convict him, can it? Odo takes a thoughtful beat... ODO I don't know. (rises) Thank you. You've been helpful. He starts to leave... as a casual afterthought... ENINA How is he? ODO Ma'am? ENINA Curzon Dax. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT THREE 32B-33. 59 CONTINUED: (2) ODO He's gone. (she reacts) The Dax your son is trying to extradite is "Jadzia Dax"; a twenty- eight year old woman. Curzon Dax died two years ago. Jadzia's the new host. ENINA (reacts but covers well) I'm sorry. I didn't... know. Odo nods and EXITS and we stay a beat on Enina... 59A EXT. SPACE - DS9 (OPTICAL) Re-Establishing. 60 INT. QUARK'S - ON QUARK, MORN & FERENGI WAITER Quark's been standing near the entrance -- away from the (o.s.) proceedings -- taking surreptitious bets from among the various Onlookers. He uses his small Ferengi PADD as a kind of calculator... as he now takes the bet of his Ferengi Waiter, with: QUARK Odds are four to one against her. (afterthought) And let me say that's very fair. As Morn arrives to drop several gold pieces into Quark's upturned palm: DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT THREE 34. 60 CONTINUED: QUARK Now that's a brave wager. TANDRO (O.S.) I call on the expert knowledge of another Trill... Selin Peers... 61 FULL SHOT We see that the room's set up as before -- with the addition of a witness chair before, and to the left of, Judge Renora. Tandro is standing, as Peers (again, this is the guy we saw pointing out Dax in the Teaser) moves to sit in the witness chair. As he's done so: TANDRO Minister Peers, we're fortunate to have you with us... RENORA Excuse me. It also seems rather convenient to have you with us. How do you come to be here? 62 FAVORING TANDRO & PEERS PEERS Because another Trill is involved, the Trillian government requested that I be present during the extradition. RENORA And do you know the accused personally? PEERS I do not. RENORA We'll accept you as an expert on Trills. Proceed. TANDRO Minister, through how many hosts have you survived? DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT THREE 34A. 62 CONTINUED: PEERS The symbiont within me has survived through the adult lifetimes of seven hosts. TANDRO Do you remember your very first host? DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT THREE 35. 62 CONTINUED: (2) PEERS Of course. It was a woman, as a matter of fact. TANDRO Do you remember what you thought and felt when you were joined with your first host? PEERS Yes; the symbiont does carry memories of times shared with previous hosts. Tandro moves toward Dax, eyes bore down on her... TANDRO So if a crime is committed by a Trill, then the symbiont's next host would remain aware of it... would recall that crime? PEERS Yes, absolutely. TANDRO Would recall the details of it. PEERS Yes, absolutely. TANDRO And would still feel the guilt of it. PEERS Oh yes. Sisko notes Dax stiffening under the pressure -- must do something to relieve it: SISKO Madame Arbiter, this is not a trial... and Mister Tandro is not the prosecutor... RENORA (to Tandro) You've made your point, Mister Tandro. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/20/92 - ACT THREE 36. 62 CONTINUED: (3) TANDRO I don't believe I have, Madame Arbiter. The real point is that Commander Sisko would have you endorse his idea of a perfect Trill crime... to commit it, all one has to do is elude capture long enough to change hosts, then he... or she can go free. Tandro politely sits... confident... and thus content to let Sisko take the floor. SISKO Minister Peers... You said you were with your first host throughout her "adult" life. PEERS Yes... SISKO So before a symbiont is joined with any host, that host has already lived a significant portion of his or her life. From birth to... what age, sir? PEERS Early-to-mid-twenties. SISKO Why not younger? PEERS To give the prospective host the chance to develop; mature... They have to be old enough to make an informed judgement as to whether or not they really want to be joined. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT THREE 37. 62 CONTINUED: (4) SISKO And once they are joined, the host's personality is completely suppressed by the symbiont? PEERS Oh, no. No, it's a joining. It's a total sharing, a blending, of both host and symbiont. Neither is suppressed by the other. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/20/92 - ACT THREE 38. 62 CONTINUED: (5) SISKO So with each new host there does come, in fact, a new personality. A new combined person. A different person. PEERS From that standpoint, yes. SISKO Well I for one don't know what other standpoint we could be talking about, thank you, Minister. Peers starts to rise from the witness chair as... TANDRO Just to return us to what's important here, Madame Arbiter... the accused can remember any crimes she committed as Curzon Dax and nothing can be truthfully asserted in this hearing that can alter that fact. SISKO Yes, the memories were passed to an entirely new host... to an entirely different person... TANDRO This is outrageous... you can't let Dax get away with murder. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT THREE 39. 62 CONTINUED: (6) RENORA (bangs ball-gavel) I said an "informal" hearing; not riotous. We'll have a two hour recess. 62A ON SISKO AND DAX Dax remains just sitting there; alone and aloof, as: SISKO Still nothing to say? DAX Just "thank you." I know you're trying very hard. SISKO I didn't mean that. DAX I know. SISKO Your silence makes you look guilty. At least deny something. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/17/92 - ACT THREE 40. 62A CONTINUED: DAX Benjamin... why don't you just stop this... 63 OMITTED 64 CLOSE - DAX She rises -- will literally walk away from him, as: DAX (gently; very wearily) ... Leave it alone. Leave me alone. FADE OUT. END OF ACT THREE DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/20/92 - ACT FOUR 41. ACT FOUR FADE IN: 65 EXT. SPACE - DS9 (OPTICAL) Re-Establishing. 66 INT. QUARK'S Starting on Renora's close-up... RENORA The answer seems simple enough to me -- split her down the middle. Send the symbiont back for trial and leave the host here. Moving to REVEAL Bashir in the witness chair... Sisko and Kira are at their table. BASHIR I'm afraid it's a bit more complicated than that. RENORA (wryly) Oh, what a surprise. Please enlighten me. BASHIR The symbiont and the host are biologically interdependent. Ninety- three hours after they've joined, neither can survive without the other. RENORA I see. Proceed, Commander. SISKO Doctor, you've heard the arguments. From a medical viewpoint, are Curzon Dax and Jadzia Dax the same person... BASHIR Obviously not. Aside from the gender change, there's a marked difference in blood types; metabolisms; nervous systems, height, weight... TANDRO This is not at all relevant... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FOUR 42. 66 CONTINUED: BASHIR (determined to get his testimony out) What is relevant, sir... is my analysis of the brain waves of Curzon and Jadzia Dax... Sisko hands Renora a PADD which she examines... SISKO Madame Arbiter... BASHIR As you can see, they are distinctly different... clearly illustrating that Curzon and Jadzia are two unique individuals. Done, satisfied... he takes a breath and smiles warmly toward Jadzia... 67 ON DAX Understanding his affection and anxiousness to help her, Dax returns his smile nicely -- if wanly -- during: SISKO Thank-you, Doctor. 68 RESUME Tandro moves forward... TANDRO Doctor, I've looked through your research myself... it's quite impressive work for such a young man... BASHIR (guarded) Thank you. TANDRO As a layman, there are obviously things I don't fully understand... BASHIR I'll be happy to explain anything you wish... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FOUR 43. 68 CONTINUED: TANDRO Yes... well, exactly how does the Trill brain work... BASHIR It's quite complex actually... First of all, there are two cerebral nuclei... TANDRO Two... ? BASHIR One in the symbiont and one in the host... TANDRO Two brains. And these two brains talk to each other... ? BASHIR (acknowledges, searching for a comparison) Like two computers linked together... TANDRO That's very clear, Doctor. Thank you. Now, in your investigation, were you able to analyze the separate wave patterns from each of these brains? BASHIR (the one question he didn't want to hear) They don't function separately. Tandro turns, knows an evasive answer when he hears one. TANDRO I didn't ask you how they function, Doctor Bashir. I asked if you could analyze the two distinct patterns. BASHIR I just don't see the relevance of... TANDRO Could you? DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/20/92 - ACT FOUR 44. 68 CONTINUED: (2) BASHIR Yes. TANDRO And have the brainwave patterns of the symbiont changed since it joined with the new host? BASHIR With the available evidence, there's no way to tell that. TANDRO What's your best guess? BASHIR I wouldn't care to guess. TANDRO In fact, is there evidence of any change at all in the symbiont since it joined with this new host? Yes or no. BASHIR (defeated) No. TANDRO Thank-you, Doctor Bashir. You've been very helpful. 69 thru OMITTED 71 72 ANOTHER ANGLE A mortified, thoroughly torpedoed Bashir leaves the chair. He looks -- pleadingly -- over at Dax. She favors him only with a slight, sympathetic nod -- in understanding of his sabotaged efforts and good intentions. During the above: RENORA Any more witnesses, Commander Sisko? SISKO Yes, Madame Arbiter... I'd like to call the one person in this courtroom who knew Curzon Dax. Me. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FOUR 45. 72 CONTINUED: RENORA You know where the witness chair is. SISKO With your permission, Major Kira will direct the questions. Sisko sits as Kira moves forward... KIRA Tell us a little about Curzon Dax, Commander. SISKO He probably wasn't the ideal Trill. He drank a little too much; he could be more interested in women than maybe he should've been... KIRA (feigned surprise) I thought he was your friend. SISKO My point is simply that he was not at all like the young woman in this courtroom. KIRA What exactly was your relationship with Curzon Dax? With an eye toward Dax... SISKO He took a raw, young Ensign under his wing and taught me to appreciate life in ways I'd never thought about before... he taught me about art and science and diplomacy... whatever sense of honor I may have today, he nurtured... treason, murder -- he wasn't capable of those things. TANDRO As you've already said, Commander, this is not a trial... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FOUR 46. 72 CONTINUED: (2) SISKO (to Tandro) I'm describing my friend, Curzon Dax -- a man I knew very well. On the other hand... (small smile: re Dax) I can't tell you too much about my new friend there... We're really just getting to know each other. Kira smiles and nods, very nice to Sisko as she looks to Tandro if he has any questions. 73 OMITTED 74 ON DAX This time... upon hearing Sisko's words... and warming tone... her smile is wistful... her face reflective now of her sadness. 74A TANDRO moves forward... TANDRO Commander, Starfleet officers do have the reputation of being honorable... and I judge you to be an honorable man... Sisko nods an acknowledgement... TANDRO (continuing) As an honorable man, do you think this crime should go unpunished? KIRA Madame Arbiter, that has nothing to do with the main issue here. TANDRO (to Renora) It will, Madame... RENORA Answer the question, Commander... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FOUR 46A. 74A CONTINUED: SISKO I would prefer that no crime go unpunished. TANDRO Then, if it were possible, even you would not argue with punishing the symbiont part of Dax. SISKO (beat, cagily) How can you be so sure that the symbiont was the criminal influence? What if it were the "Curzon" host that was responsible? Then, the surviving symbiont would be completely innocent. TANDRO (gotcha) No; they'd both be guilty. You yourself have argued that the two personalities, once joined, function as one. And your own Doctor Bashir confirmed it. When you put salt in water, the two become indistinguishable and inseparable. 75 thru OMITTED 77 78 FAVORING QUARK as he takes a wager from his Dabo Girl, with: DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FOUR 47. 78 CONTINUED: QUARK Sorry, but that Tandro's very good. Odds are now thirteen to one against her. 79 RESUME - SHOT SISKO (still to Tandro; pleased) I think you've just made my point for me. When the water boils off, the salt returns to its original state. Pour that same salt into another liquid, and you have something completely different. Jadzia Dax is an entirely new entity. 80 RESUME - QUARK QUARK (impressed) Oh. Well... six to one might be all right. RENORA (O.S.) Following a one hour recess... 81 RESUME - SHOT RENORA (continuing) Lieutenant Dax will take the witness chair. (bangs gavel) One hour. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FOUR 48. 82 ON SISKO, KIRA & DAX Sisko and Kira worried; Dax continuingly passive. A SUPERNUMERARY ENTERS with a PADD, hands it during the below to Kira... SISKO (to Dax) If you won't defend yourself, you're not going to testify. KIRA (to Sisko) It's a hearing, not a trial. She has no choice. Sisko and Kira both regard her -- but Dax remains silent; distant. KIRA (continuing, re: the PADD, to Sisko) Odo's on subspace... It's urgent. Off Sisko's reaction... 82A INT. SISKO'S OFFICE - INCLUDING MONITOR (OPTICAL) Again, Odo on the screen conferring with Sisko. ODO I've made some progress. SISKO Good. ODO Not good. (off Sisko's reaction) Since the transmission to the enemy is the key evidence, I thought it might be a good idea to go through all the communications logs from headquarters during that period... I even found Curzon Dax's records... SISKO You can't tell me Curzon would log in a communique to the enemy... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FOUR 48A. 82A CONTINUED: ODO No. Nothing like that. But the log shows a number of conversations between Dax's office and General Tandro's home. SISKO (so what?) They were close friends. ODO Many of the conversations took place when the General was away at the front. SISKO (beat, realizing) The wife. ODO The wife. SISKO Curzon Dax and Enina Tandro... ODO Maybe it was innocent. Maybe he was just providing a little emotional support during tough times. (beat) Or... maybe they were taking advantage of the General's absence to get a little closer. If they were having an affair, that translates into a pretty solid motive for murder. Off Sisko's reaction, we... FADE OUT. END OF ACT FOUR DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FIVE 49. ACT FIVE FADE IN: 83 OMITTED 83A EXT. URBAN AREA ON PLANET KLAESTRON (MATTE) Re-establishing (same Matte Shot seen earlier). 84 INT. ENINA TANDRO'S MAIN ROOM Enina has drawn herself up into her stiffest, most regal, bearing, as she's just heard Odo's report about the phone calls and he continues... ODO The conversations were just the beginning... I've also found records of gifts... of holidays spent at an Inn outside the capital... ENINA What purpose is this supposed to serve? ODO (simply) It serves the truth. ENINA (with irony) The truth. ODO If there's more to this than meets the eye, I hope you'll explain, because as it stands, this will severely hurt Dax's defense. She takes a beat to gather her thoughts. ENINA My husband wasn't nearly the hero in life that he was in death, Mister Odo. In death he became a legend. And I became a legend's wife. There are people who never knew my husband who still contact me. Decades after his death, they still mourn him. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FIVE 50. 84 CONTINUED: ODO But you don't. ENINA No. You see, I knew the man before he became the legend. (beat) But I also knew my place in history. I was to carry on bravely, never to remarry. I was to represent my husband at the banquets held in his name. And of course, never to speak of who he really was... because nobody wants to hear that. ODO They may have to hear it now. ENINA (shakes her head) No matter what's said, they'll still embrace his memory... for he was and will always be the hero who died for his people. (beat, thoughtful) But perhaps it is time for my place in history to change. Off Odo's curious reaction... 85 INT. DAX'S QUARTERS Dax and Sisko. SISKO You've been protecting her reputation. That's it, isn't it... that's why you won't even defend yourself... (off her silence) There are worse things than an illicit love affair. Curzon Dax didn't murder anybody. He didn't commit treason. Are you really willing to commit suicide over something done in another lifetime? That is what you're doing, you know. A beat as she remains stoically silent... a thought suddenly comes to Sisko... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FIVE 50A. 85 CONTINUED: SISKO My God, Dax... young Tandro... he wouldn't be your son... DAX (shakes her head, almost funny) Benjamin, you have an overactive imagination... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FIVE 51. 85 CONTINUED: (2) SISKO Then what is it that's holding you back? Help me. She goes silent again and Sisko loses it... raises a fist... SISKO Dammit, if you were still a man... DAX (calm, straight) I see your temper hasn't improved... SISKO Don't talk to me about my temper... DAX Curzon always warned you about it... SISKO You're not going to get me off track here... DAX Do you remember that Argosian lieutenant who threw a drink in your face... SISKO (beat, pauses, grins) ... And you knocked me down with a right cross before I could kill him... I still have a little scar here from your ring finger... He shows her his chin... as she touches it... DAX I tried that ring on after Curzon died... it slipped right off my finger... Their eyes connect... she turns back inward... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FIVE 52. 85 CONTINUED: (3) SISKO If you don't help me, old man, they're going to take you... because I don't know any more arguments. DAX Then allow it to happen. SISKO I have an obligation to protect the lives of those in my command. You ought to know that. You taught it to me. DAX That was Curzon. SISKO I'll stop trying to protect you the minute you tell me Curzon was guilty of these charges. A beat. She looks at him... DAX I won't discuss it with you and I won't discuss it in the witness chair. As for Enina Tandro, yes, I feel the shame for Curzon's indiscretions. When one of my kind stumbles, Benjamin... it's a mistake that's there forever. I can't tell you which part of Curzon Dax couldn't stop himself from acting shamefully with another man's wife. I can tell you he did love her, for whatever that's worth. SISKO Enough to kill her husband? DAX So you are starting to question. SISKO What else can I do? DAX Nothing, Benjamin. Nothing at all. Off her inscrutable look... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FIVE 52A. 86 INT. QUARK'S Everyone here before is here again. As Dax takes the witness chair: RENORA Lieutenant Dax... You're either two hundred years older than I am... or you're about the same age as my great granddaughter. At first I wondered which of those you were. Now I'm bothered by the likelihood that you're both. (bangs ball-gavel) Let's finish, please. Commander? Sisko rises -- moves forward. SISKO At what age did the host, Jadzia, first want to be joined as a Trill? DAX I wanted it since I was a child. I worked very hard for it. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/20/92 - ACT FIVE 53. 86 CONTINUED: SISKO The competition to become a Trill is very strong, then, among potential hosts. DAX Oh, yes. It's considered a great honor. SISKO And how did young Jadzia finally become a host candidate? DAX By winning scholarships... competing against other young people. You're tested in countless ways. SISKO Including psychological tests; to determine the strength of character of the prospective host. Is that true? DAX Yes. SISKO And the young Jadzia excelled in those tests of academics and character... of psychological stability. DAX (softly) Yes. 87 CLOSER - SISKO & DAX Despite the public forum here, this next moment is a strictly personal one between them: SISKO If you can remember other things... Remember that as well. Dax not only smiles her gratitude for that reminder... she also seems now to sit up just a bit straighter than before. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FIVE 54. 88 RESUME - SHOT SISKO What academic degrees do you hold, Lieutenant? DAX I have Premier Distinctions in exobiology, zoology, astrophysics and exoarchaeology. SISKO How many of those degrees did you earn before you were joined with the symbiont Dax? DAX All of them. SISKO (to Renora) All of them. As Jadzia; Alone. A brilliant and independent young woman who's done nothing in her life but contribute to her society. (turning to Renora) Madame Arbiter, how can anyone justify trying her for a crime allegedly committed by another entity before she was even born? As Sisko moves back to his own seat, there is total silence throughout the place -- until: TANDRO This will only take a minute. Lieutenant... As a Trill candidate, did Jadzia fully understand the responsibilities to be assumed upon becoming a Trill? DAX Yes. TANDRO Did you willingly accept those responsibilities, and whatever consequences they might entail? DAX Yes. DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FIVE 55. 88 CONTINUED: TANDRO And would that not obviously include the consequences of criminal acts committed by Curzon Dax? ENINA'S VOICE (O.S.) May I speak? 89 INCLUDING ODO & ENINA Enina is moving slowly in from the entrance -- Odo alongside, maybe a step behind, her. 90 ON TANDRO He rises in surprise. TANDRO Mother? 91 ON DAX Equally surprised -- and concerned -- she also, almost involuntarily, rises. 92 FULL SHOT RENORA And you are? ENINA I am Enina Tandro... Widow of General Ardelon Tandro. (beat) This hearing is unnecessary. The accusations are... erroneous. TANDRO What are you talking about? DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FIVE 56. ENINA (to Renora) Madame Arbiter, Curzon Dax is accused of having made a transmission to the enemy that betrayed my husband. But I know where Curzon was at the exact time that transmission was made. (beat) He was in my bed... with me. 93 ON DAX Anguished for Enina. 94 SISKO Much relieved. 95 TANDRO Thunderstruck. The strength leaving his legs, he slips slowly back into his seat. 96 RENORA RENORA Mister Tandro, I think you'll want to re-examine your extradition request. Until then... this hearing is adjourned. And she punctuates that with a bang of her ball-gavel. 97 FAVORING QUARK He shrugs -- the philosophical loser -- and punches out the bad news on his calculator PADD -- as the Ferengi Waiter, the Dabo Girl and Morn converge on him... obscuring him from our further view, during: QUARK Calm yourselves; all bets'll be paid... An orderly line, please... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FIVE 56A. 97A EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL) 98 INT. PROMENADE SECOND LEVEL - FAVORING DAX & ENINA ENINA You were kind to try and protect me... someone you never even met... DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/20/92 - ACT FIVE 57. DAX There's much of Curzon that's still a part of me. That still remembers what you had together. ENINA (shakes her head) But it was Curzon Dax who swore himself to silence to preserve the memory of General Tandro... Not Jadzia. DAX I felt it was important to keep that promise. The General's memory is cherished by your people... ENINA (sad reflection) And it will continue to be. No one will ever know he was the one who tried to betray us... and that the rebels killed him for the favor. (Beat) As for you, I ask only one further kindness... DAX Of course. ENINA Live, Jadzia Dax. Live a long, and fresh and wonderful life. Enina runs her palm gently down along Dax's cheek... Turns... walks away. Dax watches her depart a beat... touches her own hand to the cheek caressed by Enina... 98A INT. PROMENADE - LOWER LEVEL Bashir at the door of the Infirmary, looks over and sees Dax coming down the stairs... moves over to her... 99 CLOSE - DAX BASHIR Are you all right? DEEP SPACE: "Dax" - 11/18/92 - ACT FIVE 58. 99 CONTINUED: DAX (beat) Yes. As a matter of fact, I think I am. (brightly) Don't I recall your offering to escort me safely home? BASHIR That was four days ago. DAX Was there a time limit? BASHIR (great happy grin) Hardly. He offers his arm, and they start off together. MUSIC SWELLS from Quark's (O.S.) place. Business, and everything else, as usual. FADE OUT. END OF ACT FIVE THE END