The Next Generation Movies Ignore Two Major DS9 Plot Points

In the book “The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams,” edited by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, Farrell discussed her difficulties with Berman, whom she said was “very misogynistic.” She said he would comment on things like “your bra size not being voluptuous” and tell her she should have a chest more like his busty secretary, which is just awful. When you stack that kind of treatment on top of the breakneck shooting schedules from the days when a television season consisted of 26 hour-long episodes, it’s really no wonder that she needed to take a small step back. Farrell allegedly wanted to just have less of a role on the show and never wanted Jadzia to die, and to add insult to injury, she was “replaced” when the symbiont Dax was put into a new host, Ezri (Nicole de Boer), for the show’s final season.

Despite Berman’s frustrating attempts to make Jadzia disappear from “Star Trek” entirely and the way “Deep Space Nine” was often seen as the unwanted black sheep of the franchise, Jadzia and the series’ legacy is still vital for a lot of fans. The character was incredibly important to me as a young queer person learning to love myself, and “Deep Space Nine” has become appreciated by more and more fans as the best “Star Trek” show of all. In the end, Berman’s decision was the wrong one, but it didn’t matter because “Deep Space Nine” stood on its own just fine without needing crossover in the “Next Gen” films.