It was like finally by August they couldn't find anyone to play this character of Jadzia Dax
so then they brought me in, it was like okay now we're scraping the barrel let's bring Terry Farrell in,
and so I basically look... looked like a space slut. I had on haa seriously
it was still like the end of the Madonna or Madonna time when she had all the bustier things
and so bustier, and I definitely loaded it up so my boobs looked way bigger than they were, and
they said Rick Berman needs you back up at the top, and there and there's uh Rick and uhm
and they said you've got it, and I burst into tears.
I remember Rick Berman telling me to be more like Yoda, and then having me
come up another week and telling me I need to be more like Grace Kelly
We got a call from Whoopi Goldberg. Wouldn't it be great to have her
play this alien character, kind of a Yoda like eh character.
At the end of our fifth season we knew our contract our contracts were up at the end
of the sixth season, so uh when you sign on for the pilot you sign a contract that says you you
you are theirs for 6 years, for 6 seasons, and when that's over you have no obligation to stay uh
At the end of the fifth season uh they were negotiating for
the seventh season. The summer before the sixth season started
I knew what the offer was, and uh I was told this is the offer and if if you're not O.K. with it uh
then you can say no and that's it.
Been given an ultimatum, I wanted to have a conversation.
I felt like after six years of being on the show, and I thought that I had become a better actress.
I'd given everything I had. We we didn't have a rai... I mean we had uh you know uhm inflation bump every year,
which is just you know to meet with what's going on in the world, uhm but nothing that was a raise.
Becker was not a part of this process at all, and uhm so when I started the sixth season uhm
everybody had signed but me, and I said uh but I really think there should be a negotiable
thing not you know an all or nothing kind of... no it's all or nothing it's either you're coming
to stay, you're you're signing or it's over. I'm like that cold, so I'm sorry but I cannot.
That didn't seem fair to me, and there were a whole bunch of other things involved uhm I, I
Colm and this is nothing against Colm, but Colm would be able to leave and do films and do other projects.
Avery left and did different projects, he he did Paul Robeson for example, uh and the show
worked around it. uh I got a phone call because I was on the cover of uhm this was in the fifth
season I was on the cover of TV guide. Seinfeld called and wanted me to come in, now I had to
get an O.K. from now uh uh Seinfeld was a half hour show that's five days of work.
Our show is shot in ten days. I don't know I'm sure you've seen a lot of episodes of Deep Space Nine,
there are plenty where I'm hardly in them right, well I wanted to know could I get out for
those five days, you need to have that permission first before you go on the audition. No you're not
allowed to go, so this informed me to about how I felt about giving being given an ultimatum, so I'm
getting nothing. At any rate so uhm I, I went and had a meeting with the executive producer
and I said uhm I know this you're saying no to any money, how about I come. what if I'm
recurring? What if I do half the amount of episodes? just just you know what if it looks like that?
No it's, it's take it or leave it, so uh I left it, and while we were still filming in the sixth
season in January what's called pilot season I started reading for pilots, and I started testing
I started getting really close to getting a few different shows, and then I didn't get them uhm
which was fine, but Rick Berman knew this, the executive knew this.
Well you know actually we were all bummed out at the end of season six
when we lost Terry uh we didn't think it was going to happen
we didn't want it to happen and it happened, and then obviously you have to keep going
They were very welcoming wonderful. Some of them were tired from wearing that make-up
for so many year hahaha, but uh poor Armin I know, but actually Armin was uhm the one who
was really the nicest to me reaching out from day one uhm so yeah it was a great experience