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Tobin Dax
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| Tobin Dax | |
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| Full Name: | Tobin Dax |
| Species: | Trill |
| Gender: | Male |
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| Children: | Raifi |
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| Assignment: | Engineer |
Tobin Dax was a joined Trill in the 22nd century. Tobin was the second host of the Dax symbiont. He was a skilled engineer, though shy and introverted.
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History
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Career
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Tobin was known to be an expert on sub-impulse thrusters and phase coil inverters. (DS9 episode: "The Siege")
In the mid-22nd century, Tobin Dax was recruited by the Cochrane Institute of Alpha Centauri to participate in the testing of a prototype transporter. (DS9 - The Lives of Dax short story: "Dead Man's Hand")
In 2154, Tobin was at the launch of the Columbia (NX-02) and had calibrated the warp coils. (ST - Destiny novel: Gods of Night)
In 2155, Tobin was part of Earth's Warp Seven Stardrive Program alongside Skon and Pell Underhill. (ENT - The Romulan War novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)
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In 2157, Dax, Underhill, and Skon were present at a failed test of countermeasures to the Romulan remote-hijack system. Dax and Underhill participated in a successful test later that day after Skon had been removed for being a security risk. (ENT - The Romulan War novel: To Brave the Storm)
Personal life
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Although shy, Tobin enjoyed magic tricks. During the Earth-Romulan War, he demonstrated his abilities to Skon. (DS9 - The Lives of Dax short story: "Dead Man's Hand")
Tobin's child Raifi was known to have put him "through hell". (DS9 episode: "Nor the Battle to the Strong")
During his life, Tobin worked on a proof of Pierre de Fermat's theorem. (DS9 episode: "Facets")
Tobin met Iloja of Prim while the Cardassian author was exiled on Vulcan. (DS9 episode: "Destiny")
Tobin was known to be the only host of Dax (up to and including Jadzia) to have attempted growing plants, although he was not always successful. (DS9 episode: "The Wire")
Tobin was a vegetarian. (DS9 episode: "Afterimage")
According to Curzon, Tobin was never drunk in his life and it was only during the zhian'tara ritual did he get intoxicated while embodying a friend of Curzon's. (DS9 episode: "Facets")
Miles O'Brien embodied Tobin during Jadzia's zhian'tara. He was pleased to learn Jadzia admired his work on Fermat's theorem. (DS9 episode: "Facets")
Connections
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- Tobin Dax article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
| Preceded by: Lela | Dax's Hosts Tobin | Succeeded by: Emony |