"The funeral service is due to begin in a few minutes, Jadzia, but I need to talk to you one last time. When I first met you, you told me that my relationship with Jadzia Dax wouldnāt be any different than the one I had with Curzon Dax. Things didnāt work out that way. I had a hell of a lot of fun with both of you. Curzon was my mentor. Youā¦you were my friend. And I am going to miss you. I shouldāve listened to the Prophets and not gone to Cardassia. Then maybe youād still be alive. Dammit! Why arenāt you still here, Jadzia? I need you to help me sort things out. Somethingās happened to the Prophets. Somethingā¦thatās made them turn their backs on Bajor, and Iām responsible. And I donāt know what to do about itā¦how to make it right again. Iāve failed as the Emissary, and for the first time in my life Iāve failed in my duty as a Starfleet officer. I need time to thinkā¦clear my head. But I canāt do it here, not on the station, not now. I need to get away, andā¦find a way to figure out how to make things right again. I have to make things right again, Jadzia. I have to."
āSisko, as he stands over the coffin of Jadzia Dax. From the DS9 episode,
Tears of the Prophets. (via
silentsennin)
15 DAYS OF DS9
DAY 08: Saddest Moment
There are many, many, many sad moments in DS9. This show rips your heart out in regular basis; it was hard to choose only one sad moment.
Jadzia’s death wasn’t even the moment I cried more in the show; I cried more in Ziyal’s death, and with Jake and Sisko in ‘The Visitor’, with Odo, in the show’s finale. But Jadzia’s death was… different. More shocking.
Sure, we had deaths of regular characters before; lots of people die in DS9, painfully. But Jadzia’s death was different because she was someone that we always saw; she was a main character, and somehow, even knowing about her death in early seasons, and even knowing that she died because Terry was leaving the show, somehow I felt that her status should have given her protection. That even the war couldn’t touch her like touched the others.
And sure, the fact that her death was so random and meaningless didn’t exactly help.
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I know this is small comfort, but I never intended you any harm.
