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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Lives of Dax

Pocket Books, A Division of Simon & Shuster, Inc.

Edited by Marco Palmieri

Copyright 1999 by Paramount Pictures

In The Lives of Dax, this anthology of the Deep Space Nine character Dax tells the stories of all the hosts that the Trill symbiont Dax has lived in. With each host's story told by a different author, you get a sense of how different each host in Dax's life was - whether he was a man or a woman. Also, you get timeline of how Dax got involved with Starfleet. It is also curious to see how Dax, through his various hosts, was involved in some way with the other characters in the Star Trek universe and that the host was the dominant character in each incarnation instead of the symbiot Dax. With the framing story of Ezri Dax, you can see how insecure Ezri feels with being herself as compared to the achievement oriented previous hosts of Dax and how she deals with the memory of these hosts.

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