Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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worker fromStar Trek : Deep Space NineandStar Trek : Voyagersay that they were n’t allowed to engage other acting line while working onStar Trek , although an exception was made for Colm Meaney , who bet Chief Miles O’Brien onDeep Space NineandStar Trek : The Next Generation . Meaney ’s namelessTNGhelmsman grew into Miles O’Brien easy , first becoming the transporter chief of the USS Enterprise and later gaining a family with wife Keiko O’Brien ( Rosalind Chao ) and daughter Molly O’Brien ( Hana Hatae ) . That established historymay have given Meaney more bargaining powercompared to the quietus of thecast ofDS9orVoyager .
OnThe DeltaFlyerspodcast , DS9 ’s Jadzia Dax actor Terry Farrell joinedStar Trek : Voyager ’s Robert Duncan McNeill and Garrett Wang to discussStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 1 , episode 8 " Dax " . McNeill charge out thatColm Meaney ’s Chief O’Briendidn’t appear in the episode , with the in - universe explanation that Miles was headed back to Earth with Keiko for a category celebration , then suggested thatO’Brien ’s absence was due to Meaney assume an extra acting job on a movie . Read their citation and listen toThe Delta Flyersbelow , starting at the 12:25 timestamp :
Terry Farrell : That was pretty cush . For [ Colm Meaney ] to be a steady on a TV series and flee and go do movies , and come back , that ’s awful .
Garrett Wang : I do feel he had that written into his contract beforehand , becauseany clip that Robbie and I tried to get time off to go do anything else , we got kiboshed , every time . It was like , no , bad , this is your primary job . Whatever other thing that you ’re looking at , you ca n’t do it . Sorry .
Robert Duncan McNeill : It had to be in his contract .
Terry Farrell : Yeah , it did . Because I could n’t get out to do something either . … It ’s not fairish . And I was n’t asking to go away for 6 weeks , I was demand for 5 days .
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Terry Farrell Left DS9 Season 7 To Pursue Other Projects
Farrell was “rewarded” with the death of Jadzia Dax.
Terry Farrell played Lt . Commander Jadzia Dax in the first 6 seasons ofStar Trek : Deep Space Ninebut did not return forDS9season 7 . Opportunities to prosecute other project were useable to Farrell asDS9approached time of year 7 , soFarrell essay to negotiate the role of Dax down to a fall back role , which would have allow Farrell to remain onDS9while also give her the prospect to further her acting calling . When a compromise withDS9producer Rick Berman could not be reached , Farrell opted not to regenerate her initial 6 - year contract for a 7th year , and she left the serial , but not amicably .
A new Dax character , Lt . Ezri Dax play by Nicole de Boer , substitute Terry Farrell ’s Jadzia inStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 7 . Farrell joined the cast of the sitcomBecker .
Rather than leave the doorway open for Terry Farrell to generate as a recurring or guest star inDS9season 7,Jadzia Dax was kill by Gul Dukat ( Marc Alaimo ) inDS9season 6 , episode 25 " The Tears of the Prophets " . Instead of a noble death as a Italian sandwich in the Dominion War , the fact that Jadzia rifle out as the victim of a nitwitted murder added insult to injury for both Farrell and rooter of Dax . Jadzia Dax ’s deathremains one ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s biggest misapprehension and it perhaps could have been avoided if Terry Farrell had been allow the same freedom as Colm Meaney .
Star Trek : Deep Space Nineis streaming on Paramount+ .
Source : The Delta Flyersseason 9 , sequence 7 " Dax "
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