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I love de Boer and can't fault her at all. She was great with what she had to work with, though I wasn't crazy about the little girl lost unconfident Dax.
But personally I would have fired Farrell very early on. She couldn't speak technobabble and sound like she had the slightest clue what she was talking about. Trying to find something to do with her and pairing her up with Worf was just fucking painful. Her Klingon shit was the crap she strugged with the most.
Her character was obviously designed to be killed off if necessary, and it was gutless of them not to do it when it was obvious it wasn't working - especially when the Klingon shit would have given them plenty of opportunity. Bitch couldn't take a bat'leth to her Curzon-influenced overconfident arse while fighting a Klingon twice her size?
I had no problem with the concept or the way she looked. The Curzon history with Sisko and the 'old man' shit was a good idea, but they should have passed the torch at most by the end of season 2. Would have given Sisko more to do and more to do with their friendship.
de Boer could have done way more with it if given it earlier, and even then it would have been fun if they killed Dax a couple of times over the series, so the audience was familiar with her past incarnations and could see their influence, and her struggling with them.
Ideally you'd have some other Trillfags kicking around the station so you got to see them in their pre-joined character for at least a season before getting their switch flipped to the Daxified version - and what actor wouldn't love that shit?
Total missed opportunity, and for what? To give Terry fucking Farrell job stability? Bitch was just as stilted and shit in that fucking sitcom she did after, but she'd be fine doing modelling or whatever the fuck she was doing before.
