**Includes updates, addenda through SD 50500 (2373)

 Rank: Lieutenant Commander
 Current assignment: Science officer, Deep Space Nine; helm officer, U.S.S. Defiant
 Full Name: Jadzia Dax
 Year of birth: 2341
 Place of birth: Trill
 Education: (host) Starfleet Academy, 2359-63
 Marital status: Married to Worf, 51247.5
 Children: None (current host)
 Quarters: Deep Space Nine, Level 6 near Corridor 1 U.S.S. Defiant, Deck 3

 Starfleet Career Summary

 2369 -- As lieutenant, posted to DS9 as science officer

 2372 -- Won promotion to lieutenant commander

 Psychological Profile: Report of Starfleet Counselor Telnorri, Bajoran Sector

 The eighth eventual Trill host of the symbiont Dax is the discover of the Bajoran
 wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant, which catapulted the area into the galactic
 hotseat. The perspective of seven previous lifetimes has left her with an extremely
 broad view of life which surprisingly skews to the unpredictable and even mischievous
 rather than the staid and conservative, while symbiosis itself at times has proved to
 be problematic in her off-world career.

 Jadzia has two parents and one sister, all still alive by 2372. Although she was not
 above breaking windows at night as a crack shot with rocks when younger, the quiet,
 shy and naive young woman had worked hard since childhood to qualify for the Trill
 hosting program and received academic degrees in exobiology, zoology, astrophysics
 and exo-archaeology at Starfleet Academy, although at the time of her DS9 posting at
 age 28 as a lieutenant she has never served on a starship.

 In 2367 at age 26, Jadzia made history as the only rejected Trill initiate to return
 successfully and pass the program. She had spent three years in all as an initiate
 and hardly ever left its complex; she didn't receive basic flight experience certification
 of Level 3 until her last year of training.

 Ironically, after acceptance she chose the Dax symbiont previously hosted by
 Curzon, her harsh field docent who'd rejected her in the first place after only two
 weeks of field training as unmotivated and unfocused - an act which dogged Jadzia for
 years, despite her success; she had studied his infamous record and was already
 nauseated with the pressure, crying herself to sleep each night until she was
 dropped. It was only later, after she redoubled her efforts and passed the training with
 his approval, that she learned he had really rejected her only out of misplaced guilt
 due to his sexual attraction to the attractive young woman. The Joining was
 completed as Curzon neared the end of a slow, lingering death in mid-year.

 Such a turbulent relationship with the previous host of the symbiont she now carries
 has haunted Jadzia, who has found herself in a love-hate relationship with his legacy
 that at times has bordered on sheer competitor. In addition, due to her off-world
 posting Dax has probably endured more conflict due to symbiosis than the typical
 Joined Trill.

 Accused of Curzon's alleged murder of Klaestron IV's General Tandro by his zealous
 son, she had rather faced a death sentence than expose Tandro's role as a rebel
 collaborator and Curzon's affair with his wife, both eventually revealed. In 2370 she
 supervised her own first initiate trainee, Arjin, only three years younger than she, and
 came to grips with some suppressed bitterness about Curzon's treatment of her.
 Curzon figured again weeks later when she swore to uphold a blood oath of his on an
 unauthorized quest with Kingdoms Kor, Kang and Koloth that could have cost her life,
 much less her Starfleet career.

 Dax has also been forced to reintegrate memories from two unexpected hosts; one, in
 2370, was the once-rejected host candidate Verad who hijacked the symbiont from
 Jadzia, and again a year later, when a failing memory block revealed in series of
 nightmares the onetime murderer Joran Belar and the yet-unrevealed Symbiosis
 Commission cover-up of the error 85 years earlier.

 After years of procrastination due to her uneasiness at confronting Curzon again, she
 underwent first Trill zhian'tara Rite of Closure to meet all previous hosts, when the
 uniquely melded Odo/Curzon reincarnation almost decided to stay in that form
 permanently. The eventual return of Curzon's memories to Jadzia allowed her the
 additional experience of a changeling's perspective.

 Dax's personal as well as professional reunion with Curzon's old protege Ben Sisko at
 DS9 is unique in some ways in light of the Trill taboo against reassociation. Even
 more so, in 2372 she had considered remating with former host Torias' widow's
 symbiont Kahn in its current host, Lenara -until Lenara succumbed to the social
 pressure and broke it off. Earlier, her only romantic encounter since ca. 2270 had
 been a bittersweet encounter with a resident of planet Meridian, a dimension-shifting
 world destined to appear in solid form in this universe once every 60 years.

 Despite this rarity of outward sexual intimacy, Dax's long life as both genders has if
 anything broadened her perspective on romance, sex, and multiculturalism, not
 diminished it. She generally enjoys the attention shown her by men overall and is
 tolerantly amused by the crushes of Bashir and Quark, actually enjoying the Ferengi
 oddities that turn Kira off. She's been studying up on the Rules of Acquisition and had
 always wanted to see a Ferengi in Starfleet but like Sisko was skeptical of Nog's
 Academy application. Dax even thinks Morn is cute, but once turned down his dinner
 invitation; she later accepted one from the clear-skulled Gallamite Capt. Boday. Still,
 her longevity has fostered a cavalier attitude about others' privacy and secrets: she's
 somewhat jealous that Sisko won't share his personal side as much as he did with
 Curzon.

 Actually, her relationship with Bashir has matured from his puppy love to a deep
 friendship. She submitted Bashir's Carrington nomination through an old friend of
 Curzon's and throws him a surprise birthday party each year; he, in turn, has risked
 his life and career on more than one occasion to save hers, usually due to a quirk of
 her symbiotic state. Thanks to Lwaxana Troi's Zanthi fever - which only acts in case
 of latent relationships already perceived - Bareil pursued her and she Sisko during the
 2381 Gratitude Festival.

 Dax remains in superior physical condition, enjoying Galeo-Manada style wrestling as
 well as the more well known Klingon marital arts, which she began studying after her
 Joining thanks to Curzon's previous extensive contact with the culture. A near match
 in combat expertise for Worf, she became his unexpected confidant when the Klingon
 signed aboard the station in early 2372, searching with he and Kor for the Sword of
 Kahless and intercepting his brother Kurn's Mauk-to'Vor ritual suicide.

 Personally, Dax is a self-professed a "night owl" and hates to be "appropriate" - thus
 explaining her interest in forgotten composers like the Romulan Frenchotte, Yridian
 symphonies and Klingon opera as well as interstellar gourmet and Klingon food. She
 is better at poker and Tongo than Curzon ever was, but she and Sisko are an even
 match at traditional 2-D chess. She also inherited a love of steamed azna from prior
 hosts, along with the Altonian brain teaser puzzle some 140 years before her Joining -
 when either Emony or Audrid were Dax's host. A Black Hole is one favorite drink,
 although on duty she usually prefers an iced raktajino with extra cream. Her quarters
 are heavily decorated with small sculptures, knick-knacks, and scientific antique
 tools; circa SD 48212 she briefly coifed her hair in a more matronly style before
 returning to her former look.

 Performance Review: Report of Starfleet Science Division

 In her Starfleet career she was decorated on her first mission, aided Kira and Sisko in
 the put-down of Jaro's would-be Bajoran coup, but was at odds with the late Capt.
 Keogh over "mutual arrogance" in a well-known and unresolved spat. Despite their
 dissimilar services, she is second in command to Major Kira on DS9 and has had
 command in Ops on the night shift, while on the U.S.S. Defiant she usually crews the
 helm and has served admirably in its combat and exploratory missions, per Captain
 Sisko's reports.

 Actions by Dax also figured prominently in restoring the damaged time-line regarding
 Earth history's Bell Riots, caused by the accidental temporal displacement of the
 Defiant. In securing a public access for the aggrieved residents at the heart of the
 riots, she had explained that her name was Dutch while her Trill markings were
 tattoos applied in Japan.

 Psycho-Medical File Update:
 SD 50500, CMO J. Bashir reporting

 I have assumed responsibility for this task for the first time since my posting at this
 station.

 The past year has been one of relatively quiet jeopardy for Jadzia Dax, which may
 explain why she now seeks her bumps and bruises as Lt. Cmdr. Worf's Par'machkai.
 I have watched as their mutual affection grew into full-blown romance, thanks to
 Worf's one-time attraction to Grilka, and consider it a new twist and a challenge on all
 the more mundane romances Dax has seen in its prior six lifetimes as Telnorri has
 noted above. While her abandon seems to run counter to his renowned Klingon
 conservatism, the formula seems to be a perfect yin-yang match of opposites, with
 Worf showing only occasional bouts of jealousy over past lovers, such as Risa's
 facilitator Arnadis (with Curzon) and Capt. Boday, the Gallamite. One wonders,
 though, how long her Trill superstructure can withstand the ongoing punishment of
 Klingon passion.

 Officially, so far the relationship has not affected their job review -- aside from a small
 amount of duty time missed for recuperation. Dax returned safely from both the
 mission to retrieve the downed Jem'Hadar ship and her experiences in the past
 aboard Kirk's 23rd century Enterprise.

 Although Jadzia speaks rarely of her family and homeworld, I understand she
 regularly writes to her mother back on Trill; she still is a night owl and often runs
 anomaly scans in Ops at night to relax. With her longevity, saving and acquiring do
 not register with her, so it is not surprising she has no more than two bars of
 gold-pressed latinum when three-time Tongo champion Capt. Ramirez beats her in a
 no-limit game at Starbase 63.