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Dax

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SISKO: Station Log, Stardate 46910.1.

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Chief O'Brien has escorted his wife

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back to Earth to celebrate her mother's 100th birthday.

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In the meantime, the rest of us are trying to keep the station up and running.

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It's almost as if the refiltration processors were waiting for Chief O'Brien to leave before breaking down.

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This technology looks like something the Cardassians must have taken from the Romulans.

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Is that an RCL type-1 matrix field?

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Perhaps we should call in a Romulan repair service.

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Or an RCL type-2?

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Another raktajino?

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It'll keep me up all night.

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I can think of better ways of keeping you up and they're more fun than drinking Klingon coffee.

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Definitely type-1.

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Dax.

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I really should be getting to bed.

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May I escort you to your quarters?

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That's not necessary, Julian.

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Oh.

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Well, good night, then.

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"Not necessary, Julian."

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But not forbidden, either.

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Dax.

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Yes.

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You are Dax?

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What do you want?

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( muffled cry )

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Dax!

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Yes, Major?

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I'm just not sure, Commander.

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{\an8}What does it look like to you?

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{\an8}It looks like a residual charge in the graviton generator.

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{\an8}If that's what it is, it will bleed off.

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{\an8}Let's run a quick level-3 diagnostic, just to be sure.

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{\an8}-Bashir to Ops. -Ops.

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{\an8}Three people... I think they just took Jadzia.

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{\an8}She tried to struggle with them, and I tried to help, but...

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{\an8}Full station security alert.

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{\an8}Secure all turbolifts.

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{\an8}Seal off airlocks on levels four through 12.

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{\an8}Computer, locate Lieutenant Dax.

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{\an8}Lieutenant Dax is on level six, corridor one.

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{\an8}BASHIR: No, that's where I am.

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-They just left her comm badge. -How long ago, Doctor?

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Oh, I'm not sure, really.

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DAX: What are you doing?

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We turn right at the next corridor.

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They're managing to avoid the security tracking grid.

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{\an8}They seem to know a lot about the station.

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{\an8}Then they may know the speed of our runabouts.

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If they do, they probably have a faster ship to make their escape.

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Major, survey all ships in dock with a high warp capability.

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-Damn! -What?

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That's why we've got a residual charge in the graviton generator.

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They've disabled the tractor beam.

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We've got eight ships in dock capable of warp five or more.

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Three on docking pylons, five smaller ones in the ports.

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Seal off all docking ring airlocks.

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Security, all duty squads to the docking ring.

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Commence immediate inward sweep, levels 16 through 21.

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( beeping )

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I've got them-- Airlock 5.

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ODO: I'm on my way.

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Security, report to airlock, corridor five.

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We have a hostage situation.

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Isolating with cadderon force fields.

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Will you just tell me what you want?

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Move.

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( console beeping )

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Force field is down.

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They know the security override codes.

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They're boarding a ship.

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I'm trying to speed up the bleed-off process

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-in the graviton generator. -( beeping )

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We lost them.

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It's working.

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I'm increasing the flow to the EPS wave guides.

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The excess charge is neutralizing.

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Engage tractor beam.

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Gotcha.

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Bring it in to Docking Port 6, Major.

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Slowly!

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Extremities where I can see them.

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You're the Chief of Security?

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Are you all right?

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My name is Ilon Tandro, special envoy from Klaestron IV, in charge of this extradition procedure.

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Extradition? I call this kidnapping and assault.

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You'll find that to be a valid warrant for her arrest.

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The relevant treaty between Klaestron IV and your Federation allows for unilateral extradition.

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And the charge?

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The fugitive Dax is charged with treason... and the murder of my father.

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The warrant says Dax was responsible for the death of General Ardelon Tandro

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30 years ago.

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Thirty years ago?

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That would have been Curzon Dax.

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Mmm, when he was on Klaestron IV as a Federation mediator during their civil war.

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He never mentioned he'd even been to Klaestron IV.

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Strange.

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Not so strange, considering these charges.

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Odo, let me tell you something.

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Curzon Dax tended to be a little cavalier about life, even about his personal responsibilities from time to time.

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I think that was part of the reason I liked him so much.

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He had more faults than the usual socially acceptable Trill.

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He was not a murderer.

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How about a traitor?

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It says Dax betrayed the Klaestron government to the rebels.

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It's all nonsense, Constable.

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I'm telling you I knew the man.

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But did you know the symbiont inside the man?

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( door chimes )

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Come in.

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I've sent a subspace message to Klaestron IV requesting confirmation of the warrant.

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That's the only stall I could think of.

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Now, what the hell's going on, Dax?

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Dax. If I'm going to help you, you've got to help me.

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I don't expect any help, Benjamin.

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Thank you, though.

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Are you crazy?

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Treason and murder-- on Klaestron IV.

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Either of those gets you the death penalty.

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What's the matter with you?

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Talk to me, before I have to let these people take you.

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No. I'm sorry, Benjamin, but no.

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We've got 18, 20 years of friendship behind us.

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I'm Jadzia Dax now.

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That was Curzon Dax you knew for 20 years.

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So when the Dax part of you survived from one host to the next, it really didn't take our friendship along.

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Benjamin, you know you're still my very dear friend.

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I'm sorry.

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You've received your confirmation, Commander.

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Now we'd like to be on our way with the prisoner.

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You know, Mr. Tandro,

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I kept wondering why you tried to kidnap Lieutenant Dax rather than just present your warrant to me in the proper way.

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I couldn't figure that out at first.

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I trust you have figured out, Commander, that our extradition treaty with your Federation is current and valid.

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This station is technically Bajoran.

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What does that mean to us?

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You don't have an extradition treaty with Bajor.

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I think that's why you tried to abduct Lieutenant Dax.

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You were afraid the Bajorans would refuse extradition.

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That's absurd.

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No Bajoran interests are even involved here.

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How did you know your way around this station so well?

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My conversation is with the Commander.

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No, your conversation is with my first officer now.

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You Klaestrons are allies of the Cardassians.

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Your knowledge of this station confirms that.

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They must have given you the layout, which not only compromises Bajoran security, but also... annoys us.

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I'm afraid Bajoran interests are involved, and Bajor is adamant that--

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At least, I believe it's adamant.

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Oh. Oh, yes.

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You see, there will have to be an extradition hearing before I can lawfully release Lieutenant Dax.

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For how long?

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As long as it takes.

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That could be for days.

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Well, there's nowhere else on the station that's suitable.

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That's too bad.

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I'm not shutting down for any Bajoran hearing.

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I'm sure Lieutenant Dax would appreciate it.

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Business is business.

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Ah.

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You know, that wall's going to have to come in about five meters.

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What are you talking about?

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Of course, after you move the wall, that'll mean your second-level holosuites will have to come down.

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Come down? Why?

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New restrictions.

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Restrictions?

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Building codes.

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Since the provisional government took over, they've got their hands into everything and, of course, I'm the one who's expected to enforce their rules here.

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Ha.

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You know, I think this bar is just a little too near the exit.

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-This is blackmail. -No, it's just business.

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And business is business.

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I was just coming to see you.

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We still haven't found a place for the hearing.

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Holding it on Bajor would involve Dax leaving the station, and I don't want to risk that.

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Well, now that's a coincidence.

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Our good friend Quark just donated the use of his facility for the hearing.

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-Nice gesture. -I thought so.

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You know, I haven't been able to get a word out of Dax about any of this.

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So I thought someone might go do some investigating on Klaestron IV itself.

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What do you think?

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This case has 30 years of dust covering it.

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The extradition hearing will take about 30 minutes.

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I was hoping to make it a little longer than that.

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Good luck.

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This will be an informal hearing so I'm going to start with some informal advice.

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I am 100 years old.

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I do not have time to squander listening to superfluous language.

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In short, I intend being here until supper, not senility.

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Understood?

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Understood, Madam Arbiter.

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You seek the extradition. Make your case.

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The accused Trill, whatever its present appearance may be, was and is a Federation officer who committed capital crimes on our planet.

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Since there is no time limit on the prosecution of such crimes...

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Thank you, I have already read the warrant and the charges.

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The crimes described are 30 years old.

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What took you so long?

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The evidence was contained in military files which were officially sealed until recently.

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Fine. Sit.

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Commander, the warrant is in order.

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On what grounds do you ask that I deny extradition?

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You say the warrant's in order, but the name on the warrant is Dax.

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Certainly that doesn't refer to Jadzia Dax, a female, but to the now deceased Curzon Dax, a male.

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This young woman wasn't even born 30 years ago.

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You are arguing semantics.

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This creature is a Trill.

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The symbiont known as Dax has progressed from one host to the next.

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Exactly. From one host to the next.

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A different host, a different person.

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So I submit that the person he wants to extradite no longer exists, and I challenge him to prove otherwise.

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That's ridiculous.

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It would have been easier on me, Commander, had you not raised that particular point, but the penalty for these crimes on your planet is death, and that is rather permanent, so before I grant extradition, you will convince me, please, that the person named in your warrant is the person who is standing here now.

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She doesn't seem to care whether she gets out of this or not.

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I care.

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Doctor, we've given the opposition access to our computers and station library, so let's utilize them ourselves.

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I want you to find all the medical evidence you can to support the theory that Jadzia Dax and Curzon Dax are two entirely separate people.

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-Major... -Excuse me, sir.

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I don't know that there is any medical evidence on that.

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Assume there is, then find it.

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Major, I'm not asking you to be an attorney here, but if you could check the Federation computers for any precedents, legal decisions involving Trills.

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Is a Trill responsible for the conduct... for the acts... of its antecedent selves?

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Right, that kind of thing.

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What if I find the answer is "yes"?

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Then that answer is wrong.

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From this minute on, our answer is "no."

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But if you do find a wrong answer...

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I want to see it.

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I can't fight what I don't know about.

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( beep )

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CREWMAN: Commander Sisko, there's a subspace communication

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from Odo on Klaestron IV.

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We only have a few hours, people.

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What have you got for us, Constable?

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{\an8}Well, I know two things so far.

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{\an8}Whoever did murder that General Ardelon Tandro,

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{\an8}it got his troops so mad,

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{\an8}they went out and won their civil war.

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{\an8}They made the general a national hero.

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{\an8}There are statues of him all over the place.

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{\an8}The second... Everyone that's old enough to remember

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{\an8}says the General and Curzon Dax were the closest of friends...

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{\an8}comrades, inseparable.

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{\an8}Now that sounds like the Curzon Dax I knew.

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{\an8}But treason,

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{\an8}plus the murder of his own best friend?

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{\an8}Strange business.

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{\an8}If those charges are true,

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{\an8}I'd want to hang Curzon Dax up by his heels myself.

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{\an8}Thanks for the confidence.

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{\an8}Don't worry. I'll do my job.

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{\an8}The General left a widow.

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{\an8}If the two men were that close,

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{\an8}she has to remember something about Curzon Dax

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{\an8}that's not in the record.

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{\an8}You'll hear from me.

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Curzon Dax was not responsible for the death of my husband.

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-You're certain of that? -Without a doubt.

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But your own son...

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My son is obsessed with the death of a father he never knew.

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Oh, I tried to persuade him not to reopen the case.

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He won't listen to anyone, least of all to me.

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You have to understand,

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Curzon Dax was closer to the General than any other man on this planet.

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He was a dear friend to this family.

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Curzon would have died himself sooner than conspire against my husband.

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Is that a personal opinion, or are there any facts that would support this?

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The only facts I have are in my son's hands, and he intends to use them against Dax.

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It might help my people to know what they are.

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There is proof of a secret transmission that was made from our military headquarters to the enemy camp.

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It identifies exactly the route my husband was taking on his way back from the capital to the front.

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It was at that time that he was ambushed and kidnapped.

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A short time later, he was killed.

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Then your son must believe that Dax made the transmission.

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There were only five people, including my husband who knew that route.

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My son has established the whereabouts of all of them at the time of the transmission.

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All of them except Curzon.

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So Dax has no alibi.

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That cannot possibly be enough to convict him.

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Can it?

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I don't know.

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Thank you. You've been helpful.

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How is he?

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Ma'am?

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Curzon Dax.

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He's gone.

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The Dax your son is trying to extradite is Jadzia Dax, a 28-year-old woman.

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Curzon Dax died two years ago.

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Jadzia is the new host.

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I'm sorry.

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I didn't know.

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TANDRO: Madam Arbiter, I call on the expert knowledge of another Trill, Selin Peers.

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Minister Peers, we're fortunate to have you with us.

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Excuse me, it also seems rather convenient to have you with us.

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How do you come here?

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Because another Trill is involved, the Trillian government requested that I be present during the extradition.

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And do you know the accused personally?

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I do not.

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We accept you as an expert on Trills.

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Proceed.

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Minister, through how many hosts have you survived?

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The symbiont within me has survived through the adult lifetimes of seven hosts.

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Do you remember your very first host?

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Of course.

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It was a woman, as a matter of fact.

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Do you remember what you thought and felt when you were joined with your first host?

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Yes. The symbiont does carry memories of time shared with previous hosts.

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So, if a crime is committed by a Trill, then the symbiont's next host would remain aware of it, would recall that crime.

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Yes. Absolutely.

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Would recall the details of it.

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Yes, absolutely.

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And would still feel the guilt of it.

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Oh, yes.

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Madam Arbiter, this is not a trial, and Mr. Tandro is not the prosecutor.

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Mr. Tandro, you have made your point.

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I don't believe that I have, Madam Arbiter.

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The real point is that Commander Sisko would have you endorse his idea of a perfect Trill crime.

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To commit it, all one has to do is elude capture long enough to change hosts, and then he or she can go free.

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Minister Peers, you've said you were with your first host

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-throughout her adult life. -Yes.

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So, before a symbiont is joined with any host that host has lived a significant portion of his or her life from birth to what age, sir?

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-Early to mid-20s. -Why not younger?

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To give the prospective host a chance to develop, mature.

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They have to be old enough to make an informed judgment as to whether or not they really want to be joined.

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And once they are joined, this host's personality is completely suppressed by the symbiont.

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Oh, no. No, it's a joining.

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It's a total sharing, a blending of both symbiont and host.

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Neither is suppressed by the other.

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So with each new host, there does come, in fact, a new personality... a new combined person... a different person.

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From that standpoint, yes.

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Well, I, for one, don't know from what other standpoint we could be talking about.

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Thank you, Minister.

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Just to return us to what's important here, Madam Arbiter, the accused can remember any crime she committed as Curzon Dax, and nothing can be truthfully asserted in this hearing that can alter that fact.

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Yes. The memories were passed to an entirely new host, to an entirely different person.

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This is outrageous!

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You-- You can't let Dax get away with murder!

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Gentlemen, I said this would be an informal hearing, not riotous.

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We will take a two-hour recess.

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ARBITER: The answer seems simple enough to me... split her down the middle.

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Send the symbiont back to stand trial, and keep the host here.

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I'm afraid it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Oh, what a surprise.

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Please enlighten me.

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The symbiont and the host are biologically interdependent.

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93 hours after they've joined, neither can survive without the other.

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I see.

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Proceed, Commander.

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Doctor, you've heard the arguments.

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From a medical point of view, are Curzon Dax and Jadzia Dax the same person?

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Certainly not.

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Aside from the gender change, there's a marked difference in blood types, metabolism, nervous system, height, weight.

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This is not at all relevant.

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What is relevant, sir... is my analysis of the brain waves of Curzon and Jadzia Dax.

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Madam Arbiter.

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BASHIR: As you can see, they are distinctly different, which clearly illustrates that Curzon and Jadzia are two unique individuals.

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Thank you, Doctor.

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Doctor...

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I've looked through your research myself.

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It's quite impressive for such a young man.

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Thank you.

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As a layman, there are obviously things I don't fully understand.

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I'd be happy to explain anything you wish.

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Yes?

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Well, exactly how does the Trill brain work?

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It's quite complicated, actually.

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First of all, there are two cerebral nuclei...

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Two?

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One in the symbiont and one in the host.

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Two brains.

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And these two brains talk to each other?

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Like two computers linked together.

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That's very clear, Doctor. Thank you.

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Now, in your investigations, were you able to analyze the... separate wave patterns from each of these brains?

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They don't function separately.

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I didn't ask you how they function, Dr. Bashir.

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I asked if you could analyze the two distinct patterns.

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-I don't see the relevance-- -Could you?

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Yes.

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And have the brain wave patterns of the symbiont changed since it joined with its new host?

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With the available evidence, there's no way of telling.

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What's your best guess?

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I wouldn't care to guess.

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In fact, is there evidence of any change at all in the symbiont since it joined with its new host?

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Yes or no.

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No.

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Thank you, Dr. Bashir.

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You've been very helpful.

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Any more witnesses, Commander Sisko?

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Yes, Madam Arbiter.

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I'd like to call the one person in this courtroom who knew Curzon Dax. Me.

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You know where the witness stand is.

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With your permission,

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I'd like Major Kira to direct the questions.

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Tell us a little about Curzon Dax, Commander.

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He probably wasn't the ideal Trill.

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He drank a little too much.

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He could be more interested in women than maybe he should have been.

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I thought he was your friend.

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I'm simply pointing out that he was not at all like the young woman in this courtroom.

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What was, exactly, your relationship with Curzon Dax?

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He took a raw, young ensign under his wing and taught me to appreciate life in ways I'd never thought about before.

00:30:35

He taught me about art, and science, and diplomacy.

00:30:40

Whatever sense of honor I might have today, he nurtured.

00:30:44

Treason, murder...

00:30:47

He was not capable of those things.

00:30:50

As you've already said Commander, this is not a trial.

00:30:53

I'm describing my friend, Curzon Dax...

00:30:56

A man I knew very well.

00:30:59

On the other hand, I can't tell you too much about my new friend there.

00:31:04

We're really just getting to know each other.

00:31:07

Commander, Starfleet officers do have the reputation of being honorable, and I judge you to be an honorable man.

00:31:19

As an honorable man, do you think this crime should go unpunished?

00:31:23

I prefer no crime to go unpunished.

00:31:26

Then, if it were possible, even you would not argue with punishing the symbiont part of Dax.

00:31:32

How can you be so sure that the symbiont was the criminal influence?

00:31:37

What if it were the Curzon host that was responsible?

00:31:41

Then the surviving symbiont would be completely innocent.

00:31:44

No. They'd both be guilty.

00:31:47

You yourself have argued that the two personalities once joined, function as one.

00:31:52

Your own Dr. Bashir confirmed it.

00:31:55

When you put salt in water, the two become indistinguishable and inseparable.

00:32:02

I think you've just made my point for me.

00:32:05

When the water boils off, the salt returns to its original state.

00:32:10

Pour that same salt into another liquid and you have something completely different.

00:32:15

Jadzia Dax is an entirely new entity.

00:32:18

( gavel bangs )

00:32:19

Following a one-hour recess,

00:32:22

Lieutenant Dax will take the witness stand.

00:32:26

One hour.

00:32:42

If you won't defend yourself, you're not going to testify.

00:32:46

It's a hearing, not a trial.

00:32:49

She has no choice.

00:33:00

Sir.

00:33:03

Odo's on subspace.

00:33:05

It's urgent.

00:33:10

I've made some progress.

00:33:12

Good.

00:33:14

Not good.

00:33:15

Since the transmission to the enemy is the key evidence,

00:33:18

I thought it might be a good idea

00:33:20

to go through all the communications logs

00:33:22

from headquarters during that period.

00:33:24

I even found Curzon Dax's records.

00:33:27

You can't tell me Curzon would log in a communiqué to the enemy.

00:33:30

No, nothing like that,

00:33:32

but the log does show a number of conversations

00:33:35

between Dax's office and General Tandro's home.

00:33:38

They were close friends.

00:33:40

A number of the conversations took place while the General was away at the front.

00:33:47

-The wife. -The wife.

00:33:52

Curzon Dax and Enina Tandro.

00:33:56

Maybe it was innocent.

00:33:58

Maybe he was just providing a little emotional support

00:34:01

during tough times.

00:34:02

Or maybe they were taking advantage

00:34:05

of the General's absence to get a little closer.

00:34:08

If they were having an affair,

00:34:10

that translates into a pretty solid motive for murder.

00:34:25

The conversations were just the beginning.

00:34:27

I've also found records of gifts, of holidays spent at an inn outside the capital.

00:34:31

( sighs ) What purpose does this serve?

00:34:33

-It serves the truth. -Oh, the truth.

00:34:36

If there's more to this than meets the eye,

00:34:37

I hope you'll explain, because as it stands this will severely hurt Dax's defense.

00:34:46

My husband was not the hero in life that he was in death, Mr. Odo.

00:34:52

In death, he became a legend and I became a legend's wife.

00:34:57

There are people who did not even know my husband who still contact me.

00:35:01

Decades after his death, they still mourn him.

00:35:04

But you don't.

00:35:05

No, because I knew the man before he became a legend.

00:35:10

But I also know my place in history.

00:35:12

My place is to carry on bravely, never to remarry, to represent my husband at the banquets given in his name.

00:35:19

But never, never to talk about who he really was.

00:35:23

Because nobody wants to hear that.

00:35:27

They may have to hear it now.

00:35:31

No matter what is said, they will still embrace his memory...

00:35:38

For he was and always will be the hero who died for his people.

00:35:52

But perhaps it's time for my place in history to change.

00:36:04

You've been protecting her reputation.

00:36:06

That's it, isn't it?

00:36:09

That's why you won't even defend yourself.

00:36:17

There are worse things than an illicit love affair.

00:36:21

Curzon didn't murder anybody.

00:36:24

He didn't commit treason.

00:36:26

Are you really willing to commit suicide over something done in another lifetime?

00:36:31

That is what you're doing, you know.

00:36:37

My God, Dax.

00:36:39

Young Tandro... That wouldn't be your son?

00:36:41

You have an overactive imagination, Benjamin.

00:36:44

Then what is it that's holding you back? Help me.

00:36:49

( grunting )

00:36:50

Damn it, if you were still a man...

00:36:54

( bangs wall )

00:36:58

I see your temper hasn't improved.

00:37:01

Don't talk to me about my temper.

00:37:02

Curzon always warned you about it.

00:37:04

You're not going to get me off track here.

00:37:08

Do you remember that Argosian Lieutenant who threw a drink in your face?

00:37:14

( both laughing )

00:37:18

And you knocked me down with a right cross before I could kill him.

00:37:23

I still have a little scar here from your ring finger.

00:37:30

I tried on that ring after Curzon died.

00:37:36

It just slipped off my finger.

00:37:41

If you don't help me, old man, they're going to take you because I don't know any more arguments.

00:37:50

Then allow it to happen.

00:37:52

It is my obligation to protect the lives of those in my command.

00:37:56

You ought to know that, you taught it to me.

00:38:00

That was Curzon.

00:38:03

I'll stop trying to protect you the minute you tell me Curzon was guilty of these charges.

00:38:08

I won't discuss it with you.

00:38:10

As for Enina Tandro yes, I feel the shame of Curzon's indiscretion.

00:38:18

When one of my kind stumbles, Benjamin, it is a mistake that's there forever.

00:38:24

I can't tell you which part of Curzon Dax couldn't stop himself from acting shamefully with another man's wife.

00:38:32

I can tell you... that he did love her for whatever that's worth.

00:38:40

Enough to kill her husband?

00:38:44

So you are questioning?

00:38:47

What else can I do?

00:38:51

Nothing, Benjamin.

00:38:53

Nothing at all.

00:39:11

Lieutenant Dax, you are either 200 years older than I am, or you're about the same age as my great-granddaughter.

00:39:19

At first, I wondered which of those you were.

00:39:22

Now, I am bothered by the likelihood that you may be both.

00:39:30

Let's finish this, Commander.

00:39:34

At what age did the host, Jadzia first want to be joined as a Trill?

00:39:39

I wanted it since I was a child. I worked very hard for it.

00:39:42

The competition to become a Trill is very strong, then, among potential hosts?

00:39:47

Yes. It's considered a great honor.

00:39:49

How did the young Jadzia finally become a host candidate?

00:39:53

By winning scholarships, competing against other young people.

00:39:57

You're tested in countless ways.

00:39:58

Including psychological tests to determine strength of character of the prospective host.

00:40:02

Is that true?

00:40:04

Yes.

00:40:05

And the young Jadzia excelled in those tests of academics and character-- of psychological stability.

00:40:13

Yes.

00:40:15

If you can remember other things, remember that as well.

00:40:22

What academic degrees do you hold, Lieutenant?

00:40:26

I hold Premier Distinctions in exobiology, zoology, astrophysics, and exoarchaeology.

00:40:35

How many of those degrees did you earn before being joined with the symbiont Dax?

00:40:40

All of them.

00:40:42

All of them.

00:40:45

As Jadzia.

00:40:46

Alone.

00:40:50

This brilliant and independent young woman has done nothing in her life but contribute to her society.

00:40:57

Madam Arbiter, how can anyone justify trying her for a crime allegedly committed by another entity before she was even born?

00:41:08

This will only take a minute.

00:41:11

Lieutenant... as a Trill candidate, did Jadzia fully understand the responsibilities to be assumed upon becoming a Trill, and did you willingly accept those responsibilities and whatever consequences they might entail?

00:41:26

Yes.

00:41:27

And would that not obviously include the consequences of criminal acts committed by Curzon Dax?

00:41:33

( door opening )

00:41:44

May I speak?

00:41:46

And you are?

00:41:49

I am Enina Tandro, widow of General Ardelon Tandro.

00:41:54

This hearing is unnecessary.

00:41:56

The accusations are erroneous.

00:41:58

Mother, what are you talking about?

00:42:02

Madam Arbiter,

00:42:03

Curzon Dax is accused of sending a transmission to the enemy that betrayed my husband.

00:42:12

But I know where Curzon was at the exact time that transmission was sent.

00:42:22

He was... in my bed.

00:42:45

Mr. Tandro, you will want to reexamine your extradition request.

00:42:51

Until then, this hearing is adjourned.

00:43:08

It was kind of you to try and protect me... someone you'd never even met.

00:43:15

There's much of Curzon that's still a part of me, that still remembers what you had together.

00:43:22

But it was Curzon Dax who swore himself to silence to preserve the memory of General Tandro, not Jadzia.

00:43:30

I felt it was important to keep that promise.

00:43:34

The General's memory is cherished by your people.

00:43:38

And it will continue to be.

00:43:42

Oh, no one will ever know that he was the one who tried to betray us and that the rebels killed him for the favor.

00:43:53

As for you, there is one favor I would ask.

00:43:59

Of course.

00:44:02

Live, Jadzia Dax.

00:44:13

Live a long, fresh, and wonderful life.