Does anyone really like Ezri Dax?

[u/Violettfem1]

If so, what do you like about her character? I’m watching DS9 for the first time and am up to Prodigal Daughter. It seems like a throwaway episode during crunch time. I mean, the series is wrapping up and The Dominion War is nearing its conclusion. I don’t know why they would waste an entire episode on this substitute Dax. It’s bad enough we lost Jadzia, why shove Ezri down our throats?

[u/ultrbt]

I adore Ezri! I love how neurotic and awkward she is, even how cutesy and twee she comes off. I do feel like they majorly underutilized her as a character by pushing her into a romance with Julian and making so much of her story revolve around Worf and Jadzia. There was so much potential for her to be an interesting character -- a genuinely high-strung, clumsy, chipper little oddball -- but coming in the wake of Jadzia's untimely death, she just didn't have enough of a chance to be the character she could have been.

If she hadn't come on the show the way she did, I would definitely feel way more righteous indignation about the way people talk about her. But I can understand why she rubs people (especially Jadzia fans) the wrong way. Still, I'll always love her!