Bajor Bajor was the inhabited eleventh planet of the Bajoran system . This system was located in the Bajor sector , a region of space in the Alpha Quadrant . This was the largest planet in the system and had five moon s , including Derna and Jeraddo . The planet was the homeworld of the Bajoran s , a warp - capable humanoid species . After decades of Cardassian rule , the planet regained its independence and became affiliated with the United Federation of Planets in 2369 . Location . In 2372 , the location of Bajor was labeled on a tactical cartography map that was displayed in the wardroom of Deep Space 9 . The planet was located near the Badlands and the Demilitarized Zone . ( , " okudagram " ) In 2375 , the location of Bajor was labeled on another tactical cartography map that was displayed in Deep Space 9 ' s wardroom . Bajor was located approximately five light year s from Cardassia Prime , twenty - five light years from Starbase 375 , and sixty light years from Ferenginar . ( , " okudagram " ) It is the largest planet in the Bajoran system . ( ) History . Early history . Bajor was the homeworld of the Bajorans , one of the oldest civilizations in the Alpha Quadrant which began to flourish about half a million years ago and undertook its first interstellar flights around the 16th century . ( ; ) Cardassian occupation and recovery . From about 2319 to 2369 ( ) , Bajor was occupied by the Cardassian Union . During this time , the Cardassian s not only decimated the Bajoran population and destroyed large parts of its infrastructure , but also poisoned several areas of the planet in order to compromise the food supply after their withdrawal . Affected regions included the Dahkur and Rakantha Province s as well as the Northwest peninsula . Following the occupation , the Provisional Government took steps to revitalize the planet ' s agricultural sector , such as using special grain processing center s and irrigating the Trilar Peninsula . In 2371 , the Bajoran Agricultural Ministry developed soil reclamator s that could detoxify the soil , but their number was limited , causing quarrels about their usage . ( ) The Federation also assisted in reclaiming the planet ' s full natural potential , e . g . in 2369 , when the assisted in the reconstruction of the Bajoran aqueduct system . ( ) Later measures included conducting an agrobiology expedition to the Janitza Mountains in 2371 , during which it was discovered that the ecosystem was much more diverse than the orbital scans had indicated . ( ) Signs of progress in healing Bajor ' s wounds included the opening of a new nature reserve in Hedrikspool Province in 2370 and the fruitful katterpod season of 2373 . ( ) Political structure . During the occupation , the Cardassians installed a puppet regime called the Bajoran Occupational Government . Following their withdrawal from Bajor in 2369 , a Provisional Government was established which consisted of Minister s who were organized in the Bajoran Council , the Board of Ministers , the Chamber of Ministers and the Council of Ministers . ( , , ) Some Bajoran organizations like the Kohn - Ma or the Alliance for Global Unity also criticized or even openly opposed the Provisional Government . ( ) The planet was also further divided into different Provinces . Additionally , nation - like factions , like the Paqu and the Navot , continued to exist on Bajor after the occupation and maintained clearly defined borders between each other . ( et al . ) Although Bajor maintained a secular government , religious leadership personified by the Kai as the head of the Vedek Assembly was also an important aspect of social cohesion on Bajor and , thus , also held great political influence . ( et al . ) Environment . Hydrological . The oceans of Bajor have a greenish tint when seen from space . ( ) Parallel universes . In another quantum reality , Bajor defeated the Cardassian Union . Following their success , the Bajorans became more aggressive towards the Federation . In 2370 , they destroyed a subspace telescope , believing that it was being used to spy on them . ( ) In the mirror universe , Bajor was occupied by the Terran Empire before being liberated by the Klingon - Cardassian Alliance . Following the end of the occupation , Bajor petitioned the Alliance for membership , was accepted , and ultimately became an influential member world . The space station Terok Nor orbited Bajor . In 2370 , the Intendant of Bajor was Kira Nerys . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Name . In a personnel file displayed for Ensign Ro Laren in , her place of birth was listed as " Bajora " . This term was also used to refer to the Bajorans as a race in and some early episodes of . For the remastered " Conundrum " , for Ro ' s personnel file , the name of the planet was changed from Bajora to Bajor . " BAY - jor " was the pronunciation for this planet ' s name from the pronunciation guide for . Depictions . The planet Bajor was originally invented by Rick Berman and Michael Piller . They conceived the planet while writing . ( ) In the pre - production stages of , Rick Berman and Michael Piller , who created the series together , worked on the idea of a starbase on the surface of Bajor , before deciding to set the series aboard a space station . " " We wanted to center the show around Bajor , " " recalled Berman , " " which was part of the Cardassian Empire . " " The creative duo even considered building a live - set Bajoran refuge camp on location , though the cost of leaving the Paramount studio lot was ultimately decided to be prohibitively high . ( " Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before " , paperback ed . , pp . 154 & 155 ) The planet model first used for Bajor was later used for Rakhar ( in ) , a Yaderan colony ( in ) , a Hur ' q planet ( in ) , and Risa ( in ) . On a dry / erase board in his office , Robert Hewitt Wolfe started to illustrate a map of Bajor , deciding to continually update it with the places mentioned in " Star Trek : Deep Space Nine " . He explained , " " After staring at the blank board for months , it occurred to me that unlike planets we ' d visited on previous " Star Trek " shows , Bajor was there and wasn ' t going to go away . So I felt like it might be fun to create a map . I drew some arbitrary continents , two large land masses and one small one , with an equator down the middle , " " Wolfe laughed . " " I thought that probably would do it [ . . . ] I tried to put a lot of interesting coastlines on there , but the decision - making process was pretty arbitrary . " " Hence , the shorelines in the map turned out to be quite random . For a long time after he began creating the map , Wolfe arranged everywhere that the series referenced as being on Bajor in the map ' s northern hemisphere . He then deliberately started trying to designate more places in the map ' s southern hemisphere . This time differential obviously impacted on where sites were located on the map . Wolfe also organized the illustration so that the places where Kira Nerys had a personal interest in or went during the Occupation were basically all clustered in roughly the same region as each other , with places less related to her positioned elsewhere . Observing that Faren Kag ' s village appeared to be extremely different , culturally , from the Paqu and Navot territories influenced Wolfe to place it at a very far distance from them , a range Wolfe called " as far away from them as possible . " He went on to say , " " The map reminded us of places that we ' d mentioned before so we could mention them again . It made Bajor more of a physical reality for me . It became a real place . " " The map wasn ' t discontinued following Wolfe ' s tenure on the show ; instead , Bradley Thompson adopted it and likewise kept updating the display . ( " " , p . 652 ) Bajor may have a twenty - six - hour day , according to various mentions throughout the series and at the startrek . com database for places . This was never fully confirmed in canon , although it does seem to be alluded to in DS9 episodes including , , , , and . Although Richard Arnold and Chris Childers accepted that the Bajorans had a twenty - six - hour day , they questioned whether that was " based on the length of time it takes Bajor to circle its sun " [ sic ] or if the duration was counted in Earth hours . They further commented about the notion of twenty - six - hour days , " " This was mentioned in one of the first DS9 episodes , and the writers have been fairly consistent about using it , but they haven ' t really explained it . " " ( ) Bajor was to have featured in a scene deleted from . ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 24 , Nos . 3 / 4 , p . 101 ) For , a Bajoran village was depicted on Paramount Stage 18 . A set for the ' s living quarters therein was in the same room as had been used as a meeting place for Commander Sisko and Kai Opaka on Bajor in " Emissary " . Director David Livingston described the Bajoran village as " a big set . " ( " " , p . 48 ) " " We had [ . . . ] wind , lighting , and it had a couple of major effects going on , " " Livingston reflected . " " They were really difficult working conditions [ . . . ] The actors had to have big wind machines blowing in their faces , and it was very debilitating , but we got through it . " " ( " Captains ' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages " , p . 51 ) Creating the lighting , which was done to resemble lightning , and wind effects was also extremely noisy . ( " " , p . 48 ) Ira Steven Behr liked how Bajor is depicted in " The Storyteller " . " " It [ . . . ] shows that Bajor is indeed a very strange place , " " he remarked . " " There are things happening in those little hamlets and villages that are certainly not your average Federation attitude towards life , religion and spirituality . " " ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 24 , Nos . 3 / 4 , p . 102 ) An establishing shot of the Bajoran village in " The Storyteller " had previously been used in , portraying a Romulan prison camp on Carraya IV . Bajor was repeatedly embellished with a statue which was designed by Ricardo Delgado . The statue appeared as part of the Monastery of the Kai in as well as in Kai Winn Adami ' s residence in series finale . ( " " , p . 69 ) Some concept art of the planet was created by Illustrator Jim Martin . " " When I took over from Ricardo Delgado at the beginning of season two , " " said Martin , " " I did some illustrations of the surface of Bajor , and what the architecture and the city might look like . " " The art was influenced by the fact that Martin was meanwhile going through an artistic phase of doing a lot of ink scratch illustration . One of the concept images he did of Bajor was an extremely early example . It portrayed a street in the planet ' s capital city and included lots of crosshatching . Regarding the image , Martin noted , " " I remember [ Production Designer ] Herman [ Zimmerman ] telling me to just calm down and [ keep in mind ] I ' m not drawing the Kasbah . " " ( " Jim Martin Sketchbook " , DS9 Season 4 DVD special features ) In , a matte painting of Bajor was used to depict the planet , including a large pool of water which appears to ripple and sparkle on - camera , and a set designed by Ron Wilkinson was used as a war room for the Bajoran Militia . The matte painting was created non - digitally , by Illusion Arts , Inc . ' s Robert Stromberg . Regarding the pool in the illustrated vista , Syd Dutton , also from Illusion Arts , explained , " " We did that through an old technique developed by Albert Whitlock [ . . . ] It ' s a gag created by backlighting two sheets of glass with holes scratched in them and filming them as they are rubbed against each other . " " The sparkles were double - exposed over the footage of the painted water , bringing light and movement to what otherwise would have been a static part of the painting . The image additionally incorporated a foreground miniature and a camera pan . ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 25 / 26 , No . 6 / 1 , pp . 97 , 71 & 73 ) In , another matte painting of the planet , done by Syd Dutton , was incorporated into an in - atmosphere battle over Bajor . ( " " , p . 84 ) In , yet another matte painting was involved in depicting Bajor . This illustration , showing a suburban home on the outskirts of the Bajoran capital city , was the second Bajor painting which Robert Stromberg created for DS9 . This time , moving elements included Cardassian pedestrians , played by Illusion Arts staff , and a waterfall . It was Stromberg who decided upon detailing the picture with a waterfall . He discovered the embellishment was required to make the illustration more interesting while painting the image . " " The waterfall was animated by Lynn Legerwood , who used a combination of salt and very fine baking soda of the type that ' s used in fire hydrants to create the right look for it , " " Stromberg remembered . " " We shot that element with a high - speed camera and then superimposed it over the painted waterfall to make it look real . " " ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 25 / 26 , No . 6 / 1 , p . 72 ) Originally , an area of Bajor ' s war - plundered terrain was intended to be rejuvenated by terraforming Genesis technology , in a story that developed into the DS9 episode . The planet was thereafter conceptually replaced with Epsilon 119 . ( " " , p . 103 ) At one point around season two , Paramount asked the DS9 writing staff to focus less on stories featuring the planet Bajor , as market research had suggested that fans of the show found those stories least interesting . ( " " , p . 244 ; " Captains ' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages " , p . 97 ) " " The studio doesn ' t like Bajor stories in general , " " commented René Echevarria . " " And Bajor ' s religion is one aspect of Bajor to which they " really " don ' t respond . " " ( " " , p . 319 ) The DS9 writers felt it was important for Bajor to reappear in DS9 Season 3 instalment . " " We [ . . . ] wanted to continue playing out some of the stuff going on on Bajor , " " recalled Robert Hewitt Wolfe . ( " Captains ' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages " , p . 97 ) At first , the narrative involved a new massive library or museum , a " great cultural relic , " in the words of Ronald D . Moore . ( " Captains ' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages " , p . 97 ; " " , p . 244 ) He added , " " It was going to be about a museum on Bajor that was being reopened for the first time since the occupation . " " Also , production on the episode , a script for which was written in the second season , was set back when , in compliance with the request from Paramount , the producers opted to concentrate on stories further away from Bajor . ( " " , p . 244 ) When they revived the narrative towards the end of season three , they focused on the notion of it being a kind of homecoming for Kira Nerys . ( " Captains ' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages " , p . 97 ) Updating developments for Bajor was also a concern during the development of DS9 Season 4 outing . Ron Moore recalled , " " We started feeling we had lost sight of Bajor and some of the issues that were going on there . " " ( " Captains ' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages " , p . 113 ) Midway through DS9 Season 4 , Kira actress Nana Visitor mused about how Bajor was being developed , " " Bajor is still coming out of having been under the Occupation [ . . . ] We ' re continually discovering things about Bajor . " " ( ) The status of Bajor was also on the writers ' minds during the writing of subsequent fourth season offering . " " It went through a lot of permutations of what is the impact , politically , on Bajor , " " said Ron Moore . ( " Captains ' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages " , p . 115 ) Concerning a prophecy that Bajor would be destroyed if it joined the Federation in DS9 Season 5 instalment , Robert Hewitt Wolfe considered , " " I think that the whole thing with Bajor will become pretty clear , and most people who watch the show carefully will get the special delight of saying , ' Ah hah ! That ' s what that prophecy meant . " " ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 29 , Nos . 6 / 7 , p . 47 ) At the end of DS9 Season 5 , Bajor seemed safer , at least to the show ' s writing staff , than when it had first been introduced . Robert Wolfe remarked , " " Bajor is pretty much stable now , which was not true [ at the start of the series ] . " " ( " Captains ' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages " , p . 102 ) In DS9 Season 7 installment , Bajor was shown with CGI supervised by David Stipes ; the planet appeared in visual effects footage primarily depicting the Bajoran moon Derna . ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 32 , Nos . 4 / 5 , p . 34 ) The writers opted not to have Bajor join the Federation at the end of the series , in feature - length series finalé . " " We talked about it a lot , because we didn ' t want to ignore that , " " Hans Beimler explained . " " It wasn ' t an oversight . The question was , does that really matter ? Ultimately it doesn ' t really mean that much . " " ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 32 , Nos . 4 / 5 , p . 86 ) Hans Beimler speculated that Bajor may still have joined the Federation after the events of " What You Leave Behind " ; he considered that a major proponent of the planet ' s admittance into the organization could have been Kira , as she is left in command of Deep Space 9 when the series ends . Regarding Bajor ' s possible admission , Beimler concluded , " " That very well might be part of what she is interested in doing . " " ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 32 , Nos . 4 / 5 , p . 86 ) In Bryan Singer ' s story pitch of " " , Bajor was " like a planet - sized Tibet " by the year 3000 . Trivia . Some viewers of " Star Trek : Deep Space Nine " were largely uninterested in Bajor . Nana Visitor clarified , " " There ' s a hard - core group of people out there who are interested in Bajor and then there ' s a lot that aren ' t . " " ( " " , p . 256 ) In the original version of , a Prophet who appeared to Sisko as a vision of his mother , Sarah , warned him not to build a house he planned to construct on Bajor . René Echevarria was of the belief that the house was too inconsequential to viewers , though , so the cautioning was changed to being a prohibition of Sisko marrying Kasidy Yates . ( " " , p . 686 ) Writer David Weddle once joked Bajor ' s " seventh hemisphere became more influential , " centuries after ancient Bajoran times . ( " " , p . 389 ) The classified Bajor as a class M planet . According to the reference book " " ( pp . 34 & 42 - 43 ) , Bajor ( B ' hava ' el VII ) was the seventh planet in the Bajoran system . The planet ' s government was named the " Third Republic of Bajor " . It was admitted into the Federation in 2374 , but the process was not ratified . Capitals of this world were Dahkur and Sahving . 3 . 8 billion Bajorans lived on Bajor in 2378 . The Bajorans were warp - capable since 2328 , and their first interstellar flight was in 1571 . Points of interest on the planet were the Calash Retreat , the Dakeen Monastery , Kendra Valley , and the Fire Caves . Cardassia occupied Bajor from 2328 - 2369 and 2374 - 75 . Bajor was listed as having five moons and , in a map of the system , the five moons are depicted in orbit about the planet . According to " " ( " Stellar Cartography " p . 42 ) , Bajor signed a non - aggression pact with the Dominion in December 2373 . Apocrypha . According to " Star Trek Online " , Bajor joined the Federation in 2393 . During a temporary occupation of Deep Space 9 by rogue Dominion forces in 2409 , the city of Hathon served as an organizational hub for the Federation and the Klingon Empire to retake the station . In 2410 , Starfleet , the Klingon Defense Forces and the military of the new Romulan Republic united to rout out disguised members of Species 8472 who had infiltrated Hathon . Even when not playing through the relevant missions , players can use Hathon as a social hub .