Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Melora (1993)

Terry Farrell: Lt. Jadzia Dax

Quotes 

• [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?

• [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.

• [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.