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Like manyStar Trek : Deep Space Ninecharacters , Major Kira Nerys ( Nana Visitor)underwent a complex character phylogeny throughoutDS9 ’s seven seasons . Star Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s First Officer was originally supposed to beStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s Ensign Ro Laren ( Michelle Forbes ) , butwhen Forbes declined to return as Ensign Ro , DS9created Major Kira instead . Unlike Ro Laren ’s Starfleet - adjacent stop of view inTNG , Kira ’s backstory in the Bajoran Resistance placed her closer to the front lines of the fight between the Bajorans and their Cardassian oppressors .
turn out in 2343 in Bajor ’s Dahkur Province , Kira Nerys grow up in a refugee refugee camp with her parents , Kira Taban and Meru ; and her comrade , Reon and Pohl . When Nerys was three years old , her mother was taken to be a puff char for the camp ’s Cardassian superintendent , and Meru became Gul Dukat ’s ( Marc Alaimo ) mistress . Dukat check that Kira ’s house was safe , but the Gul ’s measures barely tempered the abrasive conditions of theCardassian Occupation of Bajor . Nerys ' opinion that Cardassians had killed her female parent was a reasonable assumption , given the violence that was a fact of liveliness in the camps .
Kira Nerys’s Life In The Bajoran Resistance Before Star Trek: DS9 (2356–2369)
Kira Joined The Resistance When She Was 12 Years Old
After look numerous injustices during her refugee refugee camp childhood , Kira Nerys joined the Bajoran Resistance in 2356 , when she was just 12 years old . The loss leader of the Shakaar Resistance Cell , Shakaar Edon ( Duncan Regehr ) , was hesitant to admit a child so young , but others vouched for Kira ’s ability . Early on , Nerys only ran errand and clean weapons ; as a teen , Kira proved herself and was welcomed as a full extremity of Shakaar ’s mobile phone . The Resistance took charge of Kira ’s father , Taban ( Thomas Kopache ) , as he died , but Nerys fear losing him and intentionally avoided Taban ’s death .
InStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 6 , instalment 17 , " Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night " , the Bajoran Orb of Time takes Nerys back to observe her menage ’s plight in the Singha Refugee Camp on Bajor , providing perceptiveness about the experimental condition that radicalize Kira as a kid .
As a Resistance fighter , Kira ’s paths cross with otherStar Trekcharacters . Star Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 2 , instalment 8 , " Necessary Evil " dart back to Kira coming together Constable Odo ( Rene Auberjonois ) , Quark ( Armin Shimerman ) , and Gul Dukat on a 2365 mission to Deep Space Nine , when it was the Cardassian minelaying station Terok Nor . Kira raided the Haru Outpost alongsideStar Trek : Lower Decks ' Lt . Shaxs(Fred Tatasciore ) . Afterthe Bajoran Resistance successfully ousted the Cardassians to terminate the Occupation , Kira joined the Bajoran reserves , with her Resistance experience translate to the rank and file of Major .
Major Kira Became Star Trek: DS9’s First Officer (2369–2375)
Kira’s Character Arc Focused On Breaking Down Barriers
Major Kira Nerys becameStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s First Officer in 2369 , whenCommander Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks)specifically request a Bajoran militia officer as his 2d - in - dictation . ab initio , Major Kira had difficulty working within the system of rules or else of against it and objected to the Federation ’s participation in helping to reconstruct Bajor . Kira soon adapted to her young persona as DS9 ’s official liaison to Bajor , hop to represent her hoi polloi ’s best interests . Kira Nerys ' legion accomplishments helped to usher in Bajoran independenceamidst infighting , misinterpreted vaticination , Federation tampering , and Bajor ’s part in a 2nd major warfare .
A breakthrough Bajoran hero , Major Kira Nerys ' discharge in Star Trek : Deep Space Nine was one of the most nuanced in all of Star Trek .
A major element ofKira Nerys’Star Trek : Deep Space Ninecharacter arc was about deconstruct long - held feeling and confront one ’s own prejudices . Dealing with the ego - servingKai Winn Adami ( Louise Fletcher)and the Bajoran terrorist ring , The Circle , tested Kira ’s faith in Bajoran institutions . One - on - one conversation with Cardassian sympathizers like Aamin Marritza ( Harris Yulin ) and Tekeny Ghemor ( Lawrence Pressman ) helped recrudesce down Kira ’s deeply - rooted hatred of all Cardassians . Kira befriend Tora Ziyal ( Melanie Smith ) , Dukat ’s half - Bajoran daughter , while still declare Dukat in the high scorn .
Kira Nerys’ Romances On Star Trek: DS9
Nerys Had Three Major Love Interests In DS9
Romance was seldom Kira Nerys ' top priority , but Nerys welcome romantic relationship while serving on Deep Space Nine . Kira was involved with Vedek Bareil Antos ( Philip Anglim ) , a reform-minded Bajoran religious drawing card , from 2369 until Bareil died in 2371.The fortuity that take Bareil out of the running game for Bajor ’s next Kai was likely direct by rival Vedek Winn . From 2372 to 2373 , Kira and her former resistance drawing card , Shakaar Edon , were in a romantic relationship that terminate amicably when Shakaar was elect Bajor ’s first minister .
Nana Visitor ’s real - liveliness pregnancy was comprise intoStar Trek : Deep Space Ninewhen Keiko O’Brien ( Rosalind Chao ) was injured in a 2372 shuttle fortuity , and Keiko ’s fetus was transplant into Kira Nerys . Kira affect in with the O’Briens during her surrogacy , sparkle versed feelings between Nerys and Miles , which they never acted on . The O’Briens named their boy Kirayoshi in her honor .
In 2373 , an alternate timeline version of Constable Odo told Major Kira that he had been in passion with her for old age . Unsure how to proceed with this , Kira hold start the divine revelation secret and keep her friendly relationship with Odo . Kira and Odo ’s intuitive feeling for each other build slowly as they worked together , culminate in Odo ’s confession that he loved Kira in 2374,which Nerys reciprocate . Kira and Odo remained together as a brace until Odo ’s 2375 departure to conduce the Founders from within the Great Link at theend ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine .
Nerys Becomes Colonel Kira To Win Star Trek: DS9’s Dominion War (2374–2375)
Colonel Kira Taught The Cardassion Rebellion How To Fight Oppressors
When Deep Space Nine fall into Dominion hands at the destruction ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 5 , Major Kira stay on DS9 as a congresswoman of Bajor , which had signed a non - aggression accord with the Dominion . For Kira , actually remaining neutral was impossible , and Nerys form a resistance against the Dominion occupancy , which helped Starfleet re - take DS9 in 2374 . Kira was promoted to Colonel in 2375 , and take bidding of DS9 during Captain Sisko ’s brief leave of absence .
Colonel Kira ’s experience with guerilla tactics in the Bajoran Resistance made her the perfect mortal to help the Cardassian Rebellion .
Colonel Kira ’s experience with guerilla maneuver in the Bajoran Resistance made her the perfect someone to help the Cardassian Rebellion against the Dominion . Kira accepted a temporary Starfleet field of operations commission from Captain Sisko to show Legate Damar ( Casey Biggs ) that Kira truly was acting in the in effect interests of winningDS9 ’s Dominion War , and harbored no ulterior need against the Cardassians , despite her past . In the concluding fight of theDominion War , Colonel Kira take the Dominion ’s Cardassian command eye , do in Weyoun ( Jeffrey Combs ) and the female Changeling ( Salome Jens ) .
What Happened To Kira After Star Trek: DS9
Colonel Kira Remained In Command Of Deep Space Nine
At the end ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , Sisko ’s ascension as Emissary of the Prophets meantColonel Kira stayed in command of Deep Space Nine . The Dominion War had put a temporary clutch on Bajor ’s efforts to join the United Federation of Planets , and the resulting peace allow for Bajor ready to continue the process . Colonel Kira seem inStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 3 , episode 6 , " find out All , Trust Nothing " , which take place in 2381 . At the fourth dimension , Bajor still had n’t joined the Federation , and DS9 ’s operations remain a cooperative effort between Starfleet and the Bajoran militia .
Bajor ’s entrance into the Federation was Sisko ’s original DS9 commission , but it ’s utterly right for the Bajoran people that his mission failed .
AlthoughStar Trekaudiences were introduced to Kira Nerys through her blistering , justified wrath , Nerys was never a one - note type . Kira was a complex case with a difficult past times who was allowed to express a full range of emotions and desires . As a Bajoran , Kira ’s faith — in the vaticinator as well as the Bajoran people — was integral to her ontogeny , and helped Kira stand firm in her values while interrogate her own motives and prejudices . Far from being just a replenishment , Kira Nerys practically definedStar Trek : Deep Space Ninefrom day one and proceed to play its hereafter .
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