8 Star Trek Scenes That Actors Hated Shooting

When Star Trek: Deep Space Nine neared the end of its sixth season and the show was coming to a close, Terry Ferrell, who played Jadzia Dax on nearly every episode thus far, requested to have her appearances made less frequent on the show so she would have time to pursue other roles.

Unsurprisingly, the producers denied this request and gave Ferrell only two options: either Jadzia would remain as one of the lead characters or be killed on the show. Ferrell chose the latter, which resulted in a very out-of-nowhere death scene where Jadzia is killed by the Pah-wraith-possessed Gul Dukat, in the episode, Tears Of The Prophets. Admittedly, this was a shocking surprise, and led to many interesting stories with Dax's new host, Ezri, but Terry Ferrell was disappointed that her character had to die so abruptly.

It's likely that the writers had already thought about having the Dax symbiont move to a new host, as throughout the whole series we've been learning about her past lives, and we always knew that one day she would transfer her symbiont to someone else.