Terry Farrell Theresa Lee Farrell Grussendorf , known professionally as Terry Farrell , is the actress who played Jadzia Dax on the first six seasons of . She also played the mirror universe version of in and , as well as Honey Bare in and Darlene Kursky in the acclaimed episode . She also provided the voice of Jadzia Dax in the video games " " and " " . Her favorite episodes are , , , , , and . In 2001 , she had an asteroid named after her by a DS9 fan . Farrell was good friends with Marina Sirtis and Michael Dorn and several other cast members of before " Deep Space Nine " began . She was speaking to Sirtis when she got the call to go to Rick Berman ' s office , where she was told that she had gotten the role of Jadzia Dax . In 1984 , she starred in the short - lived television series with her future DS9 guest stars Richard Beymer and Geoffrey Blake . ( Blake is her second favorite DS9 guest star ; her favorite guest star is John Glover , who starred in . ) The series also featured Jonathan Frakes , and several episodes were helmed by TOS directors Leo Penn and Ralph Senensky . In 1992 , she played Cat in the second pilot of the American version of . Despite playing the title role in the 1992 episode " A Leap for Lisa " alongside " Enterprise " captain Scott Bakula and " Enterprise " guest star Dean Stockwell , she made only a brief appearance . Among her film credits is 1986 ' s " Back to School " ( which also featured Sally Kellerman , Adrienne Barbeau , and Robert Picardo ) . Farrell has very sensitive skin . At the beginning of season 5 , the original script for was to have Farrell as the fourth member of the infiltration team , as this made the most sense given her experience with Klingon culture . However , this had to be changed to having Colm Meaney play a somewhat clueless fifth wheel instead , due to Farrel ' s inability to tolerate the Klingon makeup . Ironically , Meaney hated the makeup so much that he was never asked to wear any again . After six seasons on DS9 , Farrell was presented with the chance to join the Paramount sitcom . Instead of renewing her original contract for DS9 for one more season , she left and joined the cast of " Becker " in 1998 where she stayed for four years playing the character of Reggie Costas . There were many rumors as to why Farrell left DS9 ; some believed she wanted more money , there were differences with producers , or she had arguments with fellow cast members . In " " , Farrell revealed she had had enough of Berman , whom she described as a misogynist who regularly criticized her appearance . When her contract ended , she wanted to do less episodes , but he refused : " " Basically he was trying to bully me into saying yes [ to another ] . He was convinced that my cards were going to fold and I was going to sign up . He had [ another ] producer come up to me and say , ' If you weren ' t here , you know you ’ d be working at Kmart . ' I was , like , ' What the hell are you talking about ? I had a career before this . Why the hell would I be working at Kmart ? Who are you ? ' Just to be jerky , he ' d call me in my trailer : ' Have you been thinking about it yet ? Are you going to sign ? ' Like , right before I had a scene . It was that kind of thing . Rick Berman said I was hardballing him , and I was , like , ' I ' m not . I just want to have a conversation . You ' re giving me a take - it - or - leave - it offer and I ’ m not okay with that . ' So I finally did have a conversation with him and asked to cut down my number of episodes or just let me out . " " David Stipes , Visual Effects Supervisor for the episode in which Farrell made her last appearance , was present at the shoot and had this to say , " " Terry Farrell ' s contract was up on DS - 9 and she was leaving the show . The story going around was that she did not wish to leave but the producers would not grant her contract requests . As the visual effects supervisor , I was on the DS - 9 set to oversee the effects needed for her last scenes on the series . Terry was not very happy and was giving tearful goodbye hugs to her production crewmates . I have seen actors who were really obnoxious and uncooperative when they didn ' t get what they wanted so I was watching Terry with interest as the day unfolded . For every shot when called , she dried her tears , went on set , became her character , Dax , and delivered the best performances she could . She did not give an attitude , whine or make excuses . She did her job . " " Stipes was able to help Farrell out in the scene where her character was killed off . Continuing , he remembered : " To give Terry an exit from the series , the DS - 9 writers had bad boy Gul Dukat kill Jadzia Dax in the episode called ' Tears of the Prophets ' . Dukat , possessed by the Pah - wraiths , uses an energy force to lift Dax off the ground then kill her . To accomplish this , Terry would have to wear a special flying harness which wrapped around her hips . Unfortunately the rig , made of thick leather and straps , was very uncomfortable and did nothing to flatter Terry ' s figure . In fact … she was horrified at how she looked . Terry came up to me with a look of desperation on her face ; the harness around her hips made her look huge ! Was there anything I could do to make her look better in her last shots ? I was so impressed with her qualities of character and professionalism that I assured her that I would do what I could to help her look good in the final shots . With that she appeared relieved and we went on to do the final death scene . When we got the footage into the digital compositing bay we began looking at techniques and options to see what we could do to help Terry regain her figure . Since we were on a budget for a limited effect for the death scene , we had to squeak this in somehow . We decided to cover Terry ' s torso and hips with effects elements rather then try to rotoscope or otherwise distort her filmed image frame by frame which would have cost a lot in man - hours and bay time . Luckily , we had some resources . Over the years of production , we had amassed a collection of visual effects footage elements like fire , smoke and liquid nitrogen . We began experimenting with the elements over Terry ' s footage to see what worked . We decided to use licks of liquid nitrogen vapor fluttering out from the edge of the body and hiding her rig - thickened profile . While not a perfect fix , we did it within the budget we had . Months later at the DS - 9 wrap party , Terry came over and gave me a warm thank you for making her look good . I told her how impressed I was with the way she handled herself in that situation so it was a pleasure to help her . " Her stand - in and photo double from DS9 , Cathy DeBuono , also worked in the same capacity for Farrell on " Becker " . After leaving " Deep Space Nine " , Farrell stated that , if asked , she would love to return to " Star Trek " to play Jadzia as a clone , Jadzia from another universe or a hologram . She also stated she grew greatly from playing Dax and that she wouldn ' t change a second of her time with " Star Trek " . Farrell ' s character , Jadzia , was not seen as a part of the flashback sequences toward the end of . This was because Farrell did not give the producers her permission to use pictures of her in those scenes . Although a scene was written for Jadzia in the final episode , budget costs meant they couldn ' t afford Farrell and the scene was never filmed . At the " Star Trek " convention in 2007 , Farrell said she wished she had not been so quick to leave " Deep Space Nine " , because " " Jadzia Dax was the coolest character " " ; even Reggie can ' t compare : " " It ' s hard to go from [ playing ] a hero to a neurotic , bad cook , " " she explained . At the " Trek " Las Vegas convention in the same year , she expressed her gratitude to the fans and their loyalty . At a Las Vegas convention in 2014 , Farrell wore her Dax make - up and her costume from . Before that , she wore a shirt reading " Dax - 539 " to commemorate the 539th time Michael Westmore would apply her Trill spots . Farrell is engaged to Adam Nimoy , which she confirmed in a tweet on August 18 , 2017 . After a long hiatus , in 2017 she appeared in the web - series " Renegades " , based on the fan film " Star Trek : Renegades " , playing the character Jada . This production features many " Star Trek " alumni , including Walter Koenig , Nichelle Nichols , Robert Beltran , Tim Russ , Gary Graham , Aron Eisenberg , Manu Intiraymi , Cirroc Lofton , and Hana Hatae . She also appeared in the anthology film " The Circuit " , again with many " Trek " alumni , including Intiraymi , Koenig , Doug Jones , Robert Picardo , Olivia d ' Abo , Armin Shimerman , Robert Beltran , Tim Russ ( who also wrote and directed ) , Ethan Phillips , J . G . Hertzler , and Hana Hatae .