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Station Log, Stardate 46910.1.

Chief O'Brien has escorted his wife

back to Earth to celebrate her mother's 100th birthday.

In the meantime, the rest of us are trying

to keep the station up and running.

It's almost as if the refiltration processors

were waiting for Chief O'Brien to leave

before breaking down.

This technology looks like something the Cardassians

must have taken from the Romulans.

Is that an RCL type-1 matrix field?

Perhaps we should call in a Romulan repair service.

Or an RCL type-2?

Another raktajino?

It'll keep me up all night.

I can think of better ways of keeping you up

and they're more fun than drinking Klingon coffee.

Definitely type-1.

Dax.

I really should be getting to bed.

May I escort you to your quarters?

That's not necessary, Julian.

Oh.

Well, good night, then.

"Not necessary, Julian."

But not forbidden, either.

Dax.

Yes.

You are Dax?

What do you want?

Dax!

Yes, Major?

I'm just not sure, Commander.

What does it look like to you?

It looks like a residual charge in the graviton generator.

If that's what it is, it will bleed off.

Let's run a quick level-3 diagnostic, just to be sure.

Bashir to Ops.

Ops.

Three people...

I think they just took Jadzia.

She tried to struggle with them, and I tried to help, but...

Full station security alert.

Secure all turbolifts.

Seal off airlocks on levels four through 12.

Computer, locate Lieutenant Dax.

Lieutenant Dax is on level six, corridor one.

No, that's where I am.

They just left her combadge.

How long ago, Doctor?

Oh, I'm not sure, really.

What are you doing?

We turn right at the next corridor.

They're managing to avoid the security tracking grid.

They seem to know a lot about the station.

Then they may know the speed of our runabouts.

If they do, they probably have

a faster ship to make their escape.

Major, survey all ships in dock with a high warp capability.

Damn!

What?

That's why we've got a residual charge

in the graviton generator.

They've disabled the tractor beam.

We've got eight ships in dock capable of warp five or more.

Three on docking pylons, five smaller ones in the ports.

Seal off all docking ring airlocks.

Security, all duty squads to the docking ring.

Commence immediate inward sweep, levels 16 through 21.

I've got them... Airlock 5.

I'm on my way.

Security, report to airlock, corridor five.

We have a hostage situation.

Isolating with cadderon force fields.

Will you just tell me what you want?

Move.

Force field is down.

They know the security override codes.

They're boarding a ship.

I'm trying to speed up the bleed-off process

in the graviton generator.

We lost them.

It's working.

I'm increasing the flow to the EPS wave guides.

The excess charge is neutralizing.

Engage tractor beam.

Gotcha.

Bring it in to Docking Port 6, Major.

Slowly!

Extremities where I can see them.

You're the Chief of Security?

Are you all right?

My name is Ilon Tandro

special envoy from Klaestron IV

in charge of this extradition procedure.

Extradition? I call this kidnapping and assault.

You'll find that to be a valid warrant for her arrest.

The relevant treaty

between Klaestron IV and your Federation

allows for unilateral extradition.

And the charge?

The fugitive Dax is charged with treason...

and the murder of my father.

The warrant says Dax was responsible

for the death of General Ardelon Tandro

30 years ago.

30 years ago?

That would have been Curzon Dax.

Mmm, when he was on Klaestron IV

as a Federation mediator during their civil war.

He never mentioned he'd even been to Klaestron IV.

Strange.

Not so strange, considering these charges.

Odo, let me tell you something.

Curzon Dax tended to be a little cavalier about life

even about his personal responsibilities

from time to time.

I think that was part of the reason

I liked him so much.

He had more faults

than the usual socially acceptable Trill.

He was not a murderer.

How about a traitor?

It says Dax betrayed the Klaestron government

to the rebels.

It's all nonsense, Constable.

I'm telling you I knew the man.

But did you know the symbiont inside the man?

Come in.

I've sent a subspace message to Klaestron IV

requesting confirmation of the warrant.

That's the only stall I could think of.

Now, what the hell's going on, Dax?

Dax.

If I'm going to help you, you've got to help me.

I don't expect any help, Benjamin.

Thank you, though.

Are you crazy?!

Treason and murder...

on Klaestron IV

either of those gets you the death penalty.

What's the matter with you?

Talk to me, before I have to let these people take you.

No. I'm sorry, Benjamin, but no.

We've got 18, 20 years of friendship behind us.

I'm Jadzia Dax now.

That was Curzon Dax you knew for 20 years.

So when the Dax part of you survived

from one host to the next

it really didn't take our friendship along.

Benjamin, you know

you're still my very dear friend.

I'm sorry.

You've received your confirmation, Commander.

Now we'd like to be on our way with the prisoner.

You know, Mr. Tandro, I kept wondering

why you tried to kidnap Lieutenant Dax

rather than just present your warrant to me

in the proper way.

I couldn't figure that out at first.

I trust you have figured out, Commander

that our extradition treaty with your Federation

is current and valid.

This station is technically Bajoran.

What does that mean to us?

You don't have an extradition treaty with Bajor.

I think that's why you tried to abduct

Lieutenant Dax.

You were afraid the Bajorans would refuse extradition.

That's absurd.

No Bajoran interests are even involved here.

How did you know your way around this station so well?

My conversation is with the Commander.

No, your conversation

is with my First Officer now.

You Klaestrons are allies of the Cardassians.

Your knowledge of this station confirms that.

They must have given you the layout

which not only compromises Bajoran security

but also... annoys us.

I'm afraid Bajoran interests are involved

and Bajor is adamant that...

at least, I believe it's adamant.

Oh. Oh, yes.

You see, there will have to be an extradition hearing

before I can lawfully release Lieutenant Dax.

For how long?

As long as it takes.

That could be for days.

Well, there's nowhere else on the station that's suitable.

That's too bad.

I'm not shutting down for any Bajoran hearing.

I'm sure Lieutenant Dax would appreciate it.

Business is business.

Ah.

You know, that wall's going to have to come in

about five meters.

What are you talking about?

Of course, after you move the wall, that'll mean

your second-level holosuites will have to come down.

Come down? Why?

New restrictions.

Restrictions?

Building codes.

Since the provisional government took over

they've got their hands into everything

and, of course, I'm the one who's expected

to enforce their rules here.

Ha.

You know, I think this bar

is just a little too near the exit.

This is blackmail.

No, it's just business.

And business is business.

I was just coming to see you.

We still haven't found a place for the hearing.

Holding it on Bajor would involve

Dax leaving the station

and I don't want to risk that.

Well, now that's a coincidence.

Our good friend Quark just donated the use

of his facility for the hearing.

Nice gesture.

I thought so.

You know, I haven't been able

to get a word out of Dax about any of this.

So I thought someone might go do some investigating

on Klaestron IV itself.

What do you think?

This case has 30 years of dust covering it.

The extradition hearing will take about 30 minutes.

I was hoping to make it a little longer than that.

Good luck.

This will be an informal hearing

so I'm going to start with some informal advice.

I am 100 years old.

I do not have time

to squander listening to superfluous language.

In short, I intend being here until supper

not senility.

Understood?

Understood, Madam Arbiter.

You seek the extradition.

Make your case.

The accused Trill, whatever its present appearance may be

was and is a Federation officer

who committed capital crimes on our planet.

Since there is no time limit

on the prosecution of such crimes...

Thank you, I have already read the warrant and the charges.

The crimes described are 30 years old.

What took you so long?

The evidence was contained in military files

which were officially sealed until recently.

Fine. Sit.

Commander, the warrant is in order.

On what grounds do you ask that I deny extradition?

You say the warrant's in order

but the name on the warrant is Dax.

Certainly that doesn't refer to Jadzia Dax, a female

but to the now deceased Curzon Dax, a male.

This young woman wasn't even born 30 years ago.

You are arguing semantics.

This creature is a Trill.

The symbiont known as Dax

has progressed from one host to the next.

Exactly. From one host to the next.

A different host, a different person.

So I submit that the person he wants to extradite

no longer exists

and I challenge him to prove otherwise.

That's ridiculous.

It would have been easier

on me, Commander, had you not raised that particular point

but the penalty for these crimes on your planet is death

and that is rather permanent

so before I grant extradition

you will convince me, please

that the person named in your warrant

is the person who is standing here now.

She doesn't seem to care

whether she gets out of this or not.

I care.

Doctor, we've given the opposition

access to our computers and station library

so let's utilize them ourselves.

I want you to find all the medical evidence you can

to support the theory that Jadzia Dax

and Curzon Dax are two entirely separate people.

Major...

Excuse me, sir.

I don't know that there is any medical evidence on that.

Assume there is, then find it.

Major, I'm not asking you to be an attorney here

but if you could check the Federation computers

for any precedents...

legal decisions involving Trills.

Is a Trill responsible for the conduct...

for the acts... of its antecedent selves?

Right, that kind of thing.

What if I find the answer is "yes"?

Then that answer is wrong.

From this minute on, our answer is "no."

But if you do find a wrong answer...

I want to see it.

I can't fight what I don't know about.

Commander Sisko, there's a subspace communication

from Odo on Klaestron IV.

We only have a few hours, people.

What have you got for us, Constable?

Well, I know two things so far...

whoever did murder that General Ardelon Tandro

it got his troops so mad

they went out and won their civil war.

They made the general a national hero.

There are statues of him all over the place.

The second... everyone that's old enough to remember

says the General and Curzon Dax were the closest of friends.

Comrades, inseparable.

Now that sounds like the Curzon Dax I knew.

But treason...

plus the murder of his own best friend?

Strange business.

If those charges are true

I'd want to hang Curzon Dax up by his heels myself.

Thanks for the confidence.

Don't worry.

I'll do my job.

The General left a widow.

If the two men were that close

she has to remember something about Curzon Dax

that's not in the record.

You'll hear from me.

Curzon Dax was not responsible for the death of my husband.

You're certain of that?

Without a doubt.

But your own son?

My son is obsessed

with the death of a father he never knew.

Oh, I tried to persuade him not to reopen the case.

He won't listen to anyone, least of all to me.

You have to understand

Curzon Dax was closer to the General

than any other man on this planet.

He was a dear friend to this family.

Curzon would have died himself

sooner than conspire against my husband.

Is that a personal opinion

or are there any facts that would support this?

The only facts I have are in my son's hands

and he intends to use them against Dax.

It might help my people to know what they are.

There is proof of a secret transmission

that was made from our military headquarters

to the enemy camp.

It identifies exactly the route my husband was taking

on his way back from the capital to the front.

It was at that time that he was ambushed and kidnapped.

A short time later, he was killed.

Then your son must believe that Dax made the transmission.

There were only five people, including my husband

who knew that route.

My son has established the whereabouts of all of them

at the time of the transmission.

All of them except Curzon.

So Dax has no alibi.

That cannot possibly be enough to convict him.

Can it?

I don't know.

Thank you.

You've been helpful.

How is he?

Ma'am?

Curzon Dax.

He's gone.

The Dax your son is trying to extradite

is Jadzia Dax

a 28-year-old woman.

Curzon Dax died two years ago.

Jadzia is the new host.

Wha?

I'm sorry.

I didn't know.

Madam Arbiter, I call on the expert knowledge

of another Trill, Selin Peers.

Minister Peers

we're fortunate to have you with us.

Excuse me, it also seems rather convenient

to have you with us.

How do you come here?

Because another Trill is involved

the Trillian government

requested that I be present during the extradition.

And do you know the accused personally?

I do not.

We accept you as an expert on Trills.

Proceed.

Minister

through how many hosts have you survived?

The symbiont within me has survived

through the adult lifetimes of seven hosts.

Do you remember your very first host?

Of course.

It was a woman, as a matter of fact.

Do you remember what you thought and felt

when you were joined with your first host?

Yes. The symbiont does carry memories

of time shared with previous hosts.

So, if a crime is committed by a Trill

then the symbiont's next host would remain aware of it...

would recall that crime.

Yes. Absolutely.

Would recall the details of it.

Yes, absolutely.

And would still feel the guilt of it.

Oh, yes.

Madam Arbiter, this is not a trial

and Mr. Tandro is not the prosecutor.

Mr. Tandro, you have made your point.

I don't believe that I have, Madam Arbiter.

The real point is that Commander Sisko

would have you endorse his idea of a perfect Trill crime.

To commit it, all one has to do

is elude capture long enough to change hosts

and then he or she can go free.

Minister Peers, you've said

you were with your first host throughout her adult life.

Yes.

So, before a symbiont is joined with any host

that host has lived

a significant portion of his or her life

from birth to what age, sir?

Early to mid-20s.

Why not younger?

To give the prospective host a chance to develop, mature.

They have to be old enough to make an informed judgment

as to whether or not they really want to be joined.

And once they are joined, this host's personality

is completely suppressed by the symbiont.

Oh, no.

No, it's a joining.

It's a total sharing...

a blending of both symbiont and host.

Neither is suppressed by the other.

So with each new host

there does come, in fact, a new personality...

a new combined person...

a different person.

From that standpoint, yes.

Well, I, for one, don't know from what other standpoint

we could be talking about.

Thank you, Minister.

Just to return us

to what's important here, Madam Arbiter

the accused can remember

any crimes he committed as Curzon Dax

and nothing can be truthfully asserted

in this hearing that can alter that fact.

Yes. The memories were passed to an entirely new host...

to an entirely different person.

This is outrageous!

You-You can't let Dax get away with murder!

Gentlemen, I said this would be an informal hearing

not riotous.

We will take a two-hour recess.

The answer seems simple enough to me...

split her down the middle.

Send the symbiont back to stand trial

and keep the host here.

I'm afraid it's a bit more complicated than that.

Oh, what a surprise.

Please enlighten me.

The symbiont and the host are biologically interdependent.

93 hours after they've joined

neither can survive without the other.

I see.

Proceed, Commander.

Doctor, you've heard the arguments.

From a medical point of view

are Curzon Dax and Jadzia Dax the same person?

Certainly not.

Aside from the gender change, there's a marked difference

in blood types, metabolism, nervous system

height, weight.

This is not at all relevant.

What is relevant, sir...

is my analysis of the brain waves

of Curzon and Jadzia Dax.

Madam Arbiter.

As you can see, they are distinctly different

which clearly illustrates that Curzon and Jadzia

are two unique individuals.

Thank you, Doctor.

Doctor...

I've looked through your research myself.

It's quite impressive for such a young man.

Thank you.

As a layman, there are obviously things

I don't fully understand.

I'd be happy to explain anything you wish.

Yes?

Well, exactly how does the Trill brain work?

It's quite complicated, actually.

First of all, there are two cerebral nuclei...

Two?

One in the symbiont and one in the host.

Two brains.

And these two brains talk to each other?

Like two computers linked together.

That's very clear, Doctor.

Thank you.

Now, in your investigations

were you able to analyze the... separate wave patterns

from each of these brains?

They don't function separately.

I didn't ask you how they function, Dr. Bashir.

I asked if you could analyze the two distinct patterns.

I don't see the relevance...

Could you?

Yes.

And have the brain wave patterns

of the symbiont changed

since it joined with its new host?

With the available evidence, there's no way of telling.

What's your best guess?

I wouldn't care to guess.

In fact, is there evidence of any change at all

in the symbiont since it joined with its new host?

Yes or no.

No.

Thank you, Dr. Bashir.

You've been very helpful.

Any more witnesses, Commander Sisko?

Yes, Madam Arbiter.

I'd like to call the one person in this courtroom

who knew Curzon Dax.

Me.

You know where the witness stand is.

With your permission

I'd like Major Kira to direct the questions.

Tell us a little about Curzon Dax, Commander.

He probably wasn't the ideal Trill.

He drank a little too much.

He could be more interested in women

than maybe he should have been.

I thought he was your friend.

I'm simply pointing out that he was not at all

like the young woman in this courtroom.

What was, exactly, your relationship

with Curzon Dax?

He took a raw, young ensign under his wing

and taught me to appreciate life

in ways I'd never thought about before.

He taught me about art and science and diplomacy.

Whatever sense of honor I might have today

he nurtured.

Treason, murder... he was not capable of those things.

As you've already said

Commander, this is not a trial.

I'm describing my friend, Curzon Dax...

a man I knew very well.

On the other hand, I can't tell you too much

about my new friend there.

We're really just getting to know each other.

Commander, Starfleet officers do have the reputation

of being honorable

and I judge you to be an honorable man.

As an honorable man, do you think this crime

should go unpunished?

I prefer no crime to go unpunished.

Then, if it were possible, even you would not argue

with punishing the symbiont part of Dax.

How can you be so sure that the symbiont

was the criminal influence?

What if it were the Curzon host that was responsible?

Then the surviving symbiont would be completely innocent.

No. They'd both be guilty.

You yourself have argued that the two personalities

once joined, function as one.

Your own Dr. Bashir confirmed it.

When you put salt in water

the two become indistinguishable and inseparable.

I think you've just made my point for me.

When the water boils off

the salt returns to its original state.

Pour that same salt into another liquid

and you have something completely different.

Jadzia Dax is an entirely new entity.

Following a one-hour recess

Lieutenant Dax will take the witness stand.

One hour.

If you won't defend yourself, you're not going to testify.

It's a hearing, not a trial.

She has no choice.

Sir.

Odo's on subspace.

It's urgent.

I've made some progress.

Good.

Not good.

Since the transmission to the enemy is the key evidence

I thought it might be a good idea

to go through all the communications logs

from headquarters during that period.

I even found Curzon Dax's records.

You can't tell me Curzon

would log in a communiqué to the enemy.

No, nothing like that

but the log does show a number of conversations

between Dax's office and General Tandro's home.

They were close friends.

A number of the conversations

took place while the General was away at the front.

- The wife. - The wife.

Curzon Dax and Enina Tandro.

Maybe it was innocent.

Maybe he was just providing a little emotional support

during tough times.

Or maybe they were taking advantage

of the General's absence to get a little closer.

If they were having an affair

that translates into a pretty solid motive for murder.

The conversations were just the beginning.

I've also found records of gifts

of holidays spent at an inn outside the capital.

Oh. What purpose does this serve?

It serves the truth.

Oh, the truth.

If there's more to this than meets the eye

I hope you'll explain, because as it stands

this will severely hurt Dax's defense.

My husband was not the hero in life

that he was in death, Mr. Odo.

In death, he became a legend

and I became a legend's wife.

There are people who did not even know my husband

who still contact me.

Decades after his death, they still mourn him.

But you don't.

No

because I knew the man before he became a legend.

But I also know my place in history.

My place is to carry on bravely, never to remarry...

to represent my husband at the banquets

given in his name.

But never, never to talk about who he really was.

Because nobody wants to hear that.

They may have to hear it now.

No matter what is said

they will still embrace his memory...

for he was and always will be

the hero who died for his people.

But perhaps it's time

for my place in history to change.

You've been protecting her reputation.

That's it, isn't it?

That's why you won't even defend yourself.

There are worse things than an illicit love affair.

Curzon didn't murder anybody.

He didn't commit treason.

Are you really willing to commit suicide

over something done in another lifetime?

That is what you're doing, you know.

My God, Dax.

Young Tandro... that wouldn't be your son?

You have an overactive imagination, Benjamin.

Then what is it that's holding you back?

Help me.

Damn it, if you were still a man...

I see your temper hasn't improved.

Don't talk to me about my temper.

Curzon always warned you about it.

You're not going to get me off track here.

Do you remember that Argosian Lieutenant

who threw a drink in your face?

And you knocked me down with a right cross

before I could kill him.

I still have a little scar here from your ring finger.

I tried on that ring after Curzon died.

It just slipped off my finger.

If you don't help me, old man, they're going to take you

because I don't know any more arguments.

Then allow it to happen.

It is my obligation to protect the lives

of those in my command.

You ought to know that, you taught it to me.

That was Curzon.

I'll stop trying to protect you

the minute you tell me Curzon was guilty

of these charges.

I won't discuss it with you.

As for Enina Tandro

yes, I feel the shame of Curzon's indiscretion.

When one of my kind stumbles, Benjamin

it is a mistake that's there forever.

I can't tell you which part of Curzon Dax

couldn't stop himself from acting shamefully

with another man's wife.

I can tell you... that he did love her

for whatever that's worth.

Enough to kill her husband?

So you are questioning?

What else can I do?

Nothing, Benjamin.

Nothing at all.

Lieutenant Dax, you are either 200 years older than I am

or you're about the same age as my great-granddaughter.

At first, I wondered which of those you were.

Now, I am bothered by the likelihood

that you may be both.

Let's finish this, Commander.

At what age did the host, Jadzia

first want to be joined as a Trill?

I wanted it since I was a child.

I worked very hard for it.

The competition to become a Trill is very strong, then

among potential hosts?

Yes. It's considered a great honor.

How did the young Jadzia finally become a host candidate?

By winning scholarships

competing against other young people.

You're tested in countless ways.

Including psychological tests

to determine strength of character

of the prospective host, is that true?

Yes.

And the young Jadzia

excelled in those tests of academics and character...

of psychological stability.

Yes.

If you can remember other things, remember that as well.

What academic degrees do you hold, Lieutenant?

I hold Premier Distinctions in exobiology, zoology

astrophysics and exoarchaeology.

How many of those degrees did you earn

before being joined with the symbiont Dax?

All of them.

All of them. As Jadzia.

Alone.

This brilliant and independent young woman

has done nothing in her life but contribute to her society.

Madam Arbiter

how can anyone justify trying her for a crime

allegedly committed by another entity

before she was even born?

This will only take a minute.

Lieutenant...

as a Trill candidate

did Jadzia fully understand the responsibilities

to be assumed upon becoming a Trill

and did you willingly accept those responsibilities

and whatever consequences they might entail?

Yes.

And would that not obviously include the consequences

of criminal acts committed by Curzon Dax?

May I speak?

And you are?

I am Enina Tandro

widow of General Ardelon Tandro.

This hearing is unnecessary.

The accusations are erroneous.

Mother, what are you talking about?

Madam Arbiter, Curzon Dax is accused

of sending a transmission to the enemy

that betrayed my husband.

But I know where Curzon was

at the exact time that transmission was sent.

He was... in my bed.

Mr. Tandro

you will want to reexamine your extradition request.

Until then, this hearing is adjourned.

It was kind of you to try and protect me...

someone you'd never even met.

There's much of Curzon that's still a part of me...

that still remembers what you had together.

But it was Curzon Dax who swore himself to silence

to preserve the memory of General Tandro, not Jadzia.

I felt it was important to keep that promise.

The General's memory is cherished by your people.

And it will continue to be.

Oh, no one will ever know

that he was the one who tried to betray us

and that the rebels killed him for the favor.

As for you, there is one favor I would ask.

Of course.

Live, Jadzia Dax.

Live a long, fresh and wonderful life.