Terry Farrell credited as playing...
Lt. Jadzia Dax
- [Dr. Bashir has given Melora a treatment enabling her to walk around without motor controls]
- Melora: I don't understand myself. How can I possibly have second thoughts? This would mean real independence. It's everything I ever wished for. But then I start to think about home, and how I will never be able to go back. Well, maybe just for a short visit, but... never *really* go back.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: The Little Mermaid.
- Melora: Mermaid?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: It's an Earth fable by Hans Christian Andersen. She trades her magical life under the sea for a pair of legs, to walk on land.
- Melora: Didn't she live happily ever after?
- [Melora and Dax are discussing subspace relationships]
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Love across light years - it's just so...
- Melora: It lacks intimacy.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: You could say that.
- Melora: I finish my mission here, I move on to the next one...
- [sighs]
- Melora: What kind of future is that for a romance?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Look at the alternative.
- Melora: I guess.
- [being an Elaysian, Melora has to use a wheelchair to get around the station]
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Julian knows more of your capabilities than any of us.
- Melora: I don't need a medical opinion to tell me my own capabilities.
- Commander Sisko: Ensign.
- Melora: I simply object to being treated like someone who is ill.
- Commander Sisko: I don't see anybody doing that.
- Melora: Try sitting in the chair, Commander. No one can understand until they sit in the chair.