"A year or so after her current time, Jadzia meets the man she's going to marry. They only have a couple years together before she is attacked by a pah'wraith, an energy based life form carried by a man named Dukat. I did everything I could but could only save Dax, the symbiont, and even that was touch and go." The hand is good and it just encourages Bashir to ...well, no, he would lean in, but first, he is going to have a very healthy drink from his glass. And maybe another, smaller sip before he resettles.

"And then, shortly after, because we were still in the middle of a war, Ezri Dax came to us. We worked together for a little over a year, we became close, and she left to go find new experiences for herself and Dax."