Sito Jaxa

Sito Jaxa is a Star Trek character, played by Shannon Fill, who is a Bajoran Starfleet officer in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. She appeared in two episodes of the show, "The First Duty" and "Lower Decks".

In "The First Duty," she was a cadet at Starfleet Academy and a teammate of Wesley Crusher in the Nova Squadron space aerobatics flight team. Sito was reprimanded and made to repeat an academic year after it was revealed that Nova Squadron covered up an accident that killed teammate Joshua Albert. In "Lower Decks," which portrayed the lives of four low-ranking crew members of the Enterprise, Captain Jean-Luc Picard revealed that he requested her to be assigned to the Enterprise-D following her graduation because he wanted to make sure she got a fair chance as a new Ensign. She was considered for a promotion from security to night-shift Ops, in competition with her friend, Ensign Sam Lavelle. Sito volunteered for a top secret mission into the Cardassian Union, willingly risking her life to save a Cardassian spy, even though she was a Bajoran. Ensign Sito apparently died while completing her mission.

The writers of Star Trek considered bringing back the character in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Hard Time", but this never occurred, as the DS9 writers did not want to rob "Lower Decks" of its "great ending." She appears in numerous non-canon Star Trek material including books and fan-fiction. The mirror universe version of Sito appears in the DS9 novel of the Mirror Universe series of novels.

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu