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Prodigal Daughter

Episode aired Jan 6, 1999
TV-PGTV-PG
46m

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Nicole de Boer and Leigh Taylor-Young in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

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Ezri travels to her family home in search of Chief O'Brien who has discovered a murdered woman connected with the family and the Orion Syndicate.Ezri travels to her family home in search of Chief O'Brien who has discovered a murdered woman connected with the family and the Orion Syndicate.Ezri travels to her family home in search of Chief O'Brien who has discovered a murdered woman connected with the family and the Orion Syndicate.

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Director
- Victor Lobl
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- Gene Roddenberry(based upon "Star Trek" created by)
- Rick Berman
- Michael Piller
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Colm Meaney, Nicole de Boer, Clayton Landey, Kevin Rahm, and Leigh Taylor-Young in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

Clayton Landey in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

John Paragon and Mikael Salazar in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

Leigh Taylor-Young in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

Alexander Siddig in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

Nicole de Boer and Kevin Rahm in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

Nicole de Boer in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

Kevin Rahm in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

Colm Meaney and Nicole de Boer in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

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Trivia
This episode reveals that Ezri's family name before joining with the Dax symbiont was Tigan. The change of name annoys Ezri's mother, even though it would be no different than a woman's change of her family name to that of her partner after marriage. In this case, in a manner of speaking, the Trill "joining" is a marriage of a host and a symbiont, so Ezri's mother shouldn't be annoyed.

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Ezri refers to O'Brien as "one of our officers". It has been established over and over that O'Brien is not an officer.

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[first lines]
Odo: By the way, your gagh has arrived.
Ezri Dax: My what...? Oh, no.
Colonel Kira Nerys: Oh, yes. And it's waiting for you in cargo bay 2.
Colonel Kira Nerys: [incredulous] Your *gagh*?
Ezri Dax: Jadzia ordered it. She was planning a party for Martok's birthday next week.
Colonel Kira Nerys: How much gagh did she order?
Odo: Fifty-one cases.
Ezri Dax: Each containing a different variety.
Colonel Kira Nerys: There are *varieties* of gagh?
Ezri Dax: Oh, yes. I can remember what each one tastes like. And the way they feel when you... swallow them. Torgud gagh wiggles. Filden gagh squirms. Meshta gagh jumps...
[She starts dry-heaving; the conversation continues as she composes herself]
Ezri Dax: ...Bithool gagh has *feet*.
[to Odo]
Ezri Dax: Flush it out the airlock. All of it.
Odo: [shaking his head] Environmental regulations.
Colonel Kira Nerys: Well, why don't you just give it to Martok?
Ezri Dax: He'd insist on sharing it with me, as a point of honor.
[sighs]
Ezri Dax: Wistan gagh is packed in Targ blood...
[she looks nauseated]
Ezri Dax: I have to go now.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Main Title
(uncredited)
Written by Dennis McCarthy
Performed by Dennis McCarthy

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Another Dysfunctional Family

Miles O'Brien has taken it up himself to find the widow of the syndicate guy he got killed in a previous episode. When he finally locates her, she is floating in a river. Sisko, who is furious that Miles is off on his own, sends Ezri Dax to get her mother to use her pull to find Miles. Finding him is not difficult, but we are let in on a sort of Dynasty family with a mother who has pretty much messed up her sons. Ezri escaped long ago, but the boys are stuck running her empire. The problem is the empire is under the thumb of the syndicate and the boys are trapped. One, played by Kevin Rahm, now of Madame Secretary, is an artist who has absolutely no self image. The mother uses her power with little regard for their humanity. Miles senses what is going on and the results are very harsh.

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