one of my other favorite things that happens in ds9 is when they introduce Lenara and are talking about how the Kahn symbiont lived a nice normal life as a shuttle pilot’s wife, changed hosts once, and now lives a nice normal life as a classy physicist. and during that same period of time Dax burned through like 3 hosts (including one murderhost), became the victim/subject of a massive Trill conspiracy cover-up, became best buds with the Klingon Empire, burned a lot of shit down and/or fucked a lot of shit up (as Curzon), discovered a wormhole full of gods, and had sex with every humanoid species in the quadrant (as Jadzia)

(you just know that everyone on the Trill homeworld calls Dax ‘the party symbiont’ with varying shades of admiration and/or disgust and/or exhaustion)