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It's all contrived so Kira's on the Defiant and not in command of the station, so Dax can be, so Dax dies. The reason it doesn't make sense is because it's all half assed setup for that.

That seems like something Geordi would say, which is probably why Worf never brings up her death at the next Enterprise reunion.

…. when he wasn't trying to kill everyone!

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Yeah. These people can see the Future, and saved everyone's ass less than a year ago, and yet Starfleet pays them no mind at all.

Yeah, I don't hate the actress, I hate the writing.

Also too much: Silence of the Trills.

Of course, that Sisko plotline sounds much more like a Picard plotline, so shut up Voyager board.

Yeah, but too often afterwards they kept reaching for that high point in increasingly bad ways, like:

It's also telling that all these character deaths (Spock, Yar, Dax) came from actors wanting out, not for creative reasons. The idea of killing someone off for plot or character reasons never came up in Trek, perhaps because that was just where episodic television was at the time, and Trek is an ensemble written show…

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Well, she did that like a season and a half later. Because continuity!

Also, having her die from some random Jem Hadar combat would solve the "Why aren't you going after her husband's murderer at all, Worf?" problem of early Season 7.

A dastardly assassin sneaks aboard the ship and brutally murders Worf’s beloved. With fierce determination, he yells a battle cry, finds a sharp pointy object and immediately sets out to wreak vengeance upon her killer. Oh, wait, that was in “Reunion.” Here he broods for three months about Jadzia not getting into…

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The strongest part of Tears of the Prophets is Brooks completely selling his grief and inner turmoil without Jadzia at the end, both there and in his monologue. Dax was his Spock, and he completely sells how much that relationship mattered to him at the end, and how adrift he is without it.

My problem with "Tears of the Prophets" and it's one that Zack gets too is that it's very much an episode that feels like they had something they had to do (kill Dax) but didn’t know how to do it. It’s all just very awkwardly setup. Why is Dax stuck commanding the station while Kira is on a Federation Warship in a…

One thing I do really like about DS9 is their ability to let the 3 months of the summer hiatus elapse in real time, showing us where everyone is now after shaking everything up at the end of a season. It's so much better than the standard TNG/Voyager cliffhanger, of "Oh no, this alien's about to hit Janeway! fade to…

The universe of DS9 though. Saying that Tasha died on season 1 of a different show keeps the stakes high 13 seasons later on a different one doesn't really hold up.