Tobin Dax was a joined Trill and the second host of the Dax symbiont. (DS9: "The Siege", "Invasive Procedures")
He had an unknown number of children, one of whom was named Raifi, who caused him a number of difficulties over the years. However, Tobin could not bring himself to discipline any of his offspring, no matter what they did. (DS9: "Explorers", "Nor the Battle to the Strong", "Afterimage")
He was a vegetarian and was known to bite his nails. (DS9: "Afterimage", "Facets")
Years later, Jadzia Dax felt that Tobin had a minimal sex life and was unimaginative, but he was a skilled engineer who was known for his intimate knowledge of phase coil inverters. Tobin once tried to learn some botany, but he didn't have much luck at it – he was the only Dax host to try it. (DS9: "The Siege", "The Wire", "The Siege of AR-558")
He also once tried his hand at learning magic tricks. Like most of the other hosts, however, he had no musical talent. (DS9: "Equilibrium", "Rejoined")
One of his hobbies was developing an alternative proof to Fermat's last theorem. (DS9: "Facets")
Tobin once met the famous Cardassian poet Iloja of Prim while the latter was exiled on Vulcan. (DS9: "Destiny")
During Jadzia Dax's zhian'tara in 2371, Miles O'Brien embodied Tobin's memories and personality. When Curzon Dax undertook the ritual, he got Tobin drunk – for the first time in his existence. (DS9: "Facets")
| The hosts of Dax |
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| Lela • Tobin • Emony • Audrid • Torias • Joran • Curzon • Jadzia • Ezri Verad • Yedrin |
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Background information[]
Tobin Dax was played by Colm Meaney during Jadzia Dax's zhian'tara in the episode "Facets".
According to the script for "Afterimage", his name was pronounced as "TOE-bin". [1]
In the first draft script of "Afterimage", Tobin was referred to as being allergic to nolaberry.
Apocrypha[]
In Star Trek literature, Tobin Dax lives around the time of the events of Star Trek: Enterprise. Dax appears in the short story "Dead Man's Hand" in The Lives of Dax, in which he and Skon encounter Romulans during the Earth-Romulan War. Tobin has also appeared in Pocket ENT novels including Beneath the Raptor's Wing, where he is shown to be working on a countermeasure to the Romulans' telepresence technology. Tobin also appears in To Brave the Storm and A Choice of Futures, the latter novel seeing him working with now-Captain Malcolm Reed. In the Star Trek: Destiny novel, Gods of Night it is mentioned that Tobin saw the launch of Columbia NX-02.
In the novel Uncertain Logic, Tobin's pre-joining name is given as Tobin Fendus.
Jeffrey Lang saw Tobin as a "nebishy" guy and based his characterization on Woody Allen. Marco Palmieri commented, "That hooked me. Not because I'm a big Woody Allen fan, but because it vividly conveyed a personality type that I wasn't expecting." (Voyages of Imagination, p. 609)
External link[]
- Tobin Dax at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works