The Dax Symbiont...

NO-NO-NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!... AKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!... Would YOU REALLY WANT an UGLY, PARASITIC worm put INSIDE YOU???!!!... >>> SOOOOOOOOO, ~ GROSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!... >>> Jadzia Dax is a joined Trill. Though she appears to be a young woman, Jadzia lives in symbiosis with a long-lived creature, known as a symbiont, named Dax; Jadzia is Dax's eighth host. The two share a single, conscious mind, and her personality is a blending of the characteristics of both the host and the symbiont. As such, Jadzia has access to all the skills and memories of the symbiont's seven previous hosts. Prior to the symbiotic joining, Jadzia earned academic degrees in exobiology, zoology, astrophysics, and exoarchaeology. Jadzia Dax is the chief science officer of the space station Deep Space Nine and is close friends with station commander Benjamin Sisko. Later in the series, she becomes involved with the Klingon character Worf, and they marry during the sixth season of the show. In the sixth-season finale Jadzia dies but the Dax symbiote survives, and in the seventh-season premiere returns with a new host Ezri Dax, played by Nicole de Boer.

>>> BUT, THEN, IF THEY HAVE TO REMOVE DAX, THAT KILLS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... Reminds me of the creature from the movie, "Alien". (ABOVE ^^^. HA!!!... Jones would have got that creepy lttle alien!!!) =^-^= SUCH A GOOOOOD KITTY!!!... ;)

>>> Yes, the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series bible described the Trill symbiont Dax as resembling "a short, fat snake". Although a Trill symbiont had appeared as early as TNG: "The Host", the producers wanted a new look for the Dax symbiont, the first such lifeform to be depicted on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. "So we streamlined it," said Michael Westmore, "and made it look more like a microbe, something you'd see under a high-powered microscope." Additionally, based on the idea that the symbionts were creatures that burrowed, Westmore's team of make-up artists made the Dax symbiont pointed at one end and added some small legs. In an attempt to give the symbiont even more realism in DS9: "Invasive Procedures", Westmore inserted a vibrating pen he had found at Toys "R" Us, so the Dax symbiont could be seen moving around. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 87) Precisely how to show the Dax symbiont (such as in "Invasive Procedures") was a concern for the production staff. "We didn't want it to look cheesy. It was always a problem showing it," explained David Livingston. "It's that whole idea of Alien; you don't really want to see too much because the audience is either going to be repulsed by it, (Yeah, No kidding!) or else say it's just too hokey." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 63) The British comedian Bill Bailey (who was once a team captain on the comedy panel show Space Cadets, which featured shows called "Vulcans vs. Klingons" and "Quarks vs. Roms") named his son Dax after the symbiont. He commented, "Yes, he's called Dax after a symbiont, a creature that absorbs the power of others. I may just have given him too much baggage. I'll tell him he's named after the German stock exchange." ~ From "Memory Alpha Fandom".