Kira Nerys

**Kira Nerys** was a Bajoran woman in the 24th century. Kira lived on Bajor during the Cardassian occupation and was a member of the Bajoran Resistance. When the Cardassians withdrew she joined the Bajoran Militia as a major. She was assigned as the first officer and bajoran liason officer and eventually took command of the station following the disappearance of Captain Benjamin Sisko.

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## Childhood

Kira Nerys was born in Dahkur Province on Bajor in November 2343, and lived a large part of her life in the Bajoran Singha refugee camp. In 2346, her mother, Kira Meru, was taken to Terok Nor to serve as a comfort woman for the Cardassians. At three years old, she was too young to understand this, and Kira Taban, her father, told his children that Meru had died. Nerys would not learn the truth until 2374, at which time she travelled back in time to 2346 using the Orb of Time. The three-year-old Nerys briefly met her future self but, as she was using the pseudonym "Luma Rahl", the young Nerys remained ignorant as to her identity. After her mother was taken, Nerys and her brothers began receiving better food. Though many Bajorans, including Nerys, as she became older, viewed comfort women as collaborators, her father felt Meru was making a great sacrifice for her family, and often told his daughter that he mother was the bravest woman he'd ever known.

Growing up, Nerys learned about the Bajoran Prophets from close family friend Prylar Istani Reyla. This was beginning of Kira's life-long faith in the Prophets and their love for the Bajoran people.

She confided to Vedek Bariel in 2369 that she had "absolutely no artistic skills" and that she "was the worst finger painter at the 4-year-old level."

Kira often got into trouble as a child because of her interest in annoying the adults. However, the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor had affected every aspect of Kira's life and led her to join the battle for liberation. In 2369, Nerys told Kai Opaka that she had known nothing but violence since she was a child. She began her association with the Bajoran Resistance at age twelve, when she ingratiated herself in the base camp of Shakaar resistance cell leader Shakaar Edon.

## Bajoran Resistance

By the end of the year 2356, Kira was running errands, cleaning weapons, and doing various other tasks for the Shakaar resistance cell. When they planned an ambush and required more infantry, Kira immediately saw her opportunity and volunteered for the mission. Although everyone thought she was far too young, Lupaza stood up for her and told her she had the heart of a sinoraptor and that they had no other choice but to accept her help. When Furel made a joke about Kira, Lupaza hit him for it. Eventually, Shakaar himself approved the teenager and she joined the ambush.

The ambush was her first mission, one she would never forget. She was scared, cold and kept biting her fingers to keep the blood flowing while the group waited on a mountain ridge. She was most afraid that one of the other Shakaar members would notice her doing so. After three or four hours, the skimmer they were waiting for appeared. When the hatch opened and the first Cardassian emerged, she opened fire and kept shooting until the power cell was empty. When it was all over, she was giddy, grinning and relieved that she had not let anyone down. Later, Lupaza crafted a Bajoran earring out of some of the metal of the destroyed skimmer, which she gave to the younger Bajoran. Kira would wear the adornment throughout the rest of her life.

Having proven herself, Kira Nerys was then regarded as a member of the Bajoran resistance. In 2361, she was with the resistance that winter in the Dahkur Hills hiding from Cardassian sensor sweeps. They hid in caves without power and little food.

In another mission, Kira planted a bomb outside the house of Gul Pirak, the resulting explosion vaporized the east wing and killed twelve Cardassians, including Pirak's entire family. Twenty-three others were crippled, including Silaran Prin.

Kira also participated in the raids against the Haru outposts, along with Shaxs, who saved her life during them. Years later, she still had nightmares about her actions during those missions. She and Shaxs would fight together on many other missions, developing an ongoing 'tab' of sorts on which of them owed the other more for having their life saved, with the winner being the last one that owed their life to the other.

Kira was then sent to Terok Nor for two weeks to retrieve a list of Bajoran collaborators who were selling the underground out from a chemist named Vaatrik, the collaborators' direct link to Dukat. Shortly after her arrival she met Vaatrik, and Kira got to be friends with him. One night, Kira broke into his chemist's shop looking for the list when Vaatrik returned unexpectedly. Not having any other choice, Kira killed him. She paid Quark to cover her.

Vaatrik's death alerted Dukat, who unofficially appointed Odo as an investigator. Kira was suspected by Vaatrik's wife, Pallra who thought she was having an affair with him, which Kira denied to Odo and posed an alibi. Odo found out that Quark was paid to cover her, and then Kira had to "confess" that she was a member of the underground, and when Vaatrik was killed, she was in part of the resistance's bombing of the ore processing. Kira was able to convince Odo to dismiss her as a suspect.

The Cardassians never saw Kira as much of a threat and her security file described her as "a minor operative whose activities are limited to running errands for the terrorist leaders."

## Deep Space 9

### 2369

After the Cardassian withdrawal in 2369, Kira joined the Bajoran Militia with the rank of major and was appointed the position of Bajoran liaison officer on Deep Space 9. She was torn between her loyalty to Bajor and to the fact that she knew that the Federation's presence was needed to secure her homeworld's safety. When she first met Commander Benjamin Sisko, she told him outright that she did not feel the Federation had any business on Bajor. However, when the wormhole was discovered, she immediately realized the implications for Bajor's future if they could stake a claim, and that the Federation would be able to give that claim weight. While Kira and Sisko disagreed on a number of issues, she eventually became his trusted right arm as second in command of the station.

The major was deceived by Tahna Los, a former Bajoran resistance fighter, who was rescued when his ship was attacked by Cardassians, who claimed he was a terrorist. Kira convinced Commander Sisko to grant Tahna asylum, despite his own misgivings. However, it was soon revealed that Tahna was indeed planning to collapse the entrance to the wormhole in order to drive both the Federation and the Cardassians out of Bajoran territory. Kira was able to thwart the terrorist's plan.

When the station was infected with a virus, inducing aphasia in the crew, it was discovered that this was a booby trap left behind by the Bajoran Resistance. Kira was able to track down Surmak Ren, who helped plant the virus, and an antidote was found.

In addition to her duties on Deep Space 9, she was called upon to act for Bajor on a number of issues. She evacuated an elderly man named Mullibok from his home to make way for Bajoran development.

Kira would suffer a great loss when Kai Opaka arrived on the station. She along with Sisko and Bashir would take Opaka on a trip through the wormhole. They became stranded on a planet where eternal war took place. People died, only to revive and fight again. During the crash Opaka would die, but later would regenerate. When the force field on the planet was broken, Opaka would decide to stay and help try to end the fighting.

Kira and Sisko came into conflict when she led a mutiny against him while under the control of an energy matrix which contained an archive of a power struggle within an ancient species. It had infected the crew of a Klingon ship in the Gamma Quadrant. It was brought on to the station by the sole survivor of that ship, who, although safely aboard the station, killed himself. It was then affecting the station crew, with Kira in the role of the murderous leader of the opposition. After Odo managed to trap the affected personnel in a single cargo bay, he used a program written by himself and Dr. Bashir which drove the matrix out of the affected personnel and placed it into suspended animation in the atmosphere of the cargo bay, at which point the bay was vented into space and the affected crew returned to normal.

At the end of the year, Kira was confronted by a Cardassian who commanded the notorious Gallitep labor camp. The Cardassian had the ailment Kalla-Nohra Syndrome, which was caused by a mining accident at the camp. Kira charged him with being a war criminal. He stated that his name was Aamin Marritza, and that he was a file clerk at the camp. After examining pictures of the camp, it was believed that he was in reality Gul Darhe'el, the commander of the camp.

He confessed to the Major and proceeded to horrify her by bragging about the camp and deaths he caused. He accused her of being a war criminal, since her terrorist activities killed innocent Cardassians. Odo investigated, and revealed that "Darhe'el" really was Marritza, and that he had cosmetic surgery performed to look like Darhe'el, who had died of natural causes six years prior. He wished to be caught and stand trial so that the crimes would be exposed. He hoped that Cardassians would be shocked and admit their guilt so that a new government could be put in place. Humbled by his guilt and grief over his past, Kira released him, reflecting that it was better for him to live to encourage changes to be made on Cardassia, but he was immediately killed by a Bajoran on the station, Kira admitting as she knelt beside Marritza's dead body that she could no longer judge someone as guilty merely for being a Cardassian.

### 2370-2371

Kira rescued Li Nalas in hopes that he would unite the different factions on Bajor. She fought on the Federation's side against the Circle, a radical Bajoran group who attempted to overthrow the Bajoran government and drive the Federation from Deep Space 9. She was captured by them and tortured but refused to divulge any security secrets about the station to them. After learning that the group was being financed by Cardassians in order to cause turmoil, so Cardassia could re-occupy Bajor, she traveled to Bajor and presented the evidence to the Council of Ministers, helping to end the threat.

She became an opponent of Vedek Winn Adami. She believed that Winn was responsible for the assassination attempt on Vedek Bareil, whom the major supported in his bid to be elected Kai. Bareil suddenly withdrew in order to keep a secret concerning Opaka's conduct during the Occupation. Winn won the position then proceeded to attempt a takeover of Bajor's secular Bajoran Provisional Government. Kira continued to have a deep-seated mistrust of the Kai.

A Bajoran named Vaatrik Pallra attempted to have Quark murdered after he retrieved a list of Bajoran collaborators. This reopened the five-year-old murder case of her husband, in which Major Kira was a suspect. Kira first met Odo at the time of the crime, and even though much of the evidence pointed to her, she told Odo that she did not kill him as she was in the underground and was sabotaging a different part of the station. Odo believed her and did not turn her in. After he solved Quark's attempted murder, he realized that Kira did kill Pallra's husband because he was a collaborator.

In 2370 Kira commanded the runabout USS *Amazon* on a mission to rescue a Horta, Ttan, who had been kidnapped by the Cardassians. Kira used her knowledge of Cardassian tactics to great effect on the mission, but also had to adapt her techniques to Starfleet team functions, working hard to be less impulsive.

Refugees called the Skrreea from the Gamma Quadrant arrived on the station believing that Bajor was their long-lost paradise. They wished to settle on the planet. They were refused because the Provisional Government feared that the still-devastated planet could not sustain such an increase of population and Kira supported that decision. As they left, Kira then realized that the Skrreeans were accomplished farmers who could have cultivated the land and help end the famine on Bajor.

In 2371, Kira helped her old resistance cell leader, Shakaar Edon, ascend to the office of First Minister following a brief civil uprising when kai Winn Adami threatened to plunge Bajor into a civil war in a dispute over soil reclamators.

She was with Odo in 2371 when he discovered that his people were the Founders, rulers of the Dominion. Later that year she was kidnapped by the Cardassians who surgically altered her to look like a Cardassian. They were nearly able to convince her that she was really a spy, named Iliana Ghemor, who had been planted in the Bajoran Resistance. She was rescued with the help of Elim Garak. Later that year she became involved in Thomas Riker's plot to attack Cardassia on behalf of the Maquis.

She was also one of the first of Deep Space 9's crew to visit the mirror universe, where she met her counterpart, the "Intendant", one of the most evil people in the Alliance.

### 2372-2373

Kira helped repel the Klingon invasion of Deep Space 9. The Klingons believed that the fall of the military government and rise of a civilian alternative on Cardassia was the result of Changeling infiltration. She helped Gul Dukat rescue his daughter from the Breen. She also taught Dukat how to fight as a resistance fighter against the Klingons. All of this was deeply distressing to the Major, as Dukat was her sworn enemy during the Occupation of Bajor.

After an accident aboard a runabout in 2372, the fetus of Kirayoshi O'Brien was transferred from the injured Keiko O'Brien's womb to Kira's to allow his survival. Soon afterward, Kira moved in with the O'Briens so that they could care for Kira while feeling close to their unborn child.

While pregnant, Kira investigated the killings of her former Resistance Cell cohorts and was captured by a Cardassian named Silaran Prin. He was disfigured in an attack by her group. After he revealed that he intended to kill her and raise Kirayoshi himself, she killed him in order to escape.

Kira gave birth in a traditional Bajoran birthing ceremony aboard Deep Space 9 in 2373. Miles, Keiko and Shakaar Edon were at her side.

Kira's bravery and creative tactics saved Bajor, DS9 and the Federation, Klingon and Romulan fleets from destruction when she took the *Defiant* to warp inside the Bajoran solar system – an incredibly risky thing to do – to quickly catch up with the runabout USS *Yukon*, which was being piloted by a Changeling into the sun to cause it to supernova. She pulled the *Yukon* off course with a tractor beam and it exploded in space.

After the Dominion captured Deep Space 9, Kira remained on the station to represent the Bajoran Government under the new Dominion administration, who placed Dukat back in his former position as station commander.

While at first, she cooperated with the Cardassians and the Dominion, that changed after the crisis of conscience when Vedek Yassim accused her of being a collaborator, the very type of Bajoran she spent her early years fighting. After Yassim committed suicide in protest against the Dominion occupation, she decided to start a new resistance against the Dominion.

Immediately, with the help of Odo and others, the Major began a campaign of fomenting conflict between the Cardassians and Jem'Hadar. Some time later, she and Rom were captured while attempting to thwart Dominion attempts to re-open the Bajoran wormhole.

She, along with Rom, were condemned to die, until Quark rescued them. Kira, along with Quark, Rom, Jake, and Odo, helped disable the station's weapons, which helped Starfleet retake the station.

Shortly after the Dominion withdrawal Bareil's mirror universe counterpart arrived on the station rekindling feelings Kira had for the late Bareil of her universe. He claimed asylum and spent much time with the major, although he was actually the lover of Intendant Kira, with whom he planned to steal the Orb of Time from the station. However, he fell in love with Major Kira and released her from capture, although he found he could not remain in her universe living under the shadow of the revered Vedek he resembled. The Major thus again lost one of the great loves of her life.

Kira's body was taken over by a Prophet when a Pah-wraith possessed Jake Sisko, bringing about the prophesied "Day of Reckoning" that would determine if Bajor would enter into a golden age, or the evil ones would ravage the planet. The battle was terminated before a conclusion because of Kai Winn flooding the station with chroniton radiation that drove out the lifeforms.

In 2375, Kira was promoted to the rank of colonel and placed in command of Deep Space 9 after Captain Sisko took an extended leave of absence. She confronted the Romulans, who were allies against the Dominion, over the placing of weapons on a hospital planet in the Bajoran system.

Gul Dukat and his cult of Bajorans loyal to the Pah-Wraiths captured the colonel later that year and brought her to Empok Nor. One of her teachers, Vedek Fala, was a member of the cult. When Kira attempted to expose Dukat as a fraud, Dukat announced that the cult members, even himself, must give themselves to the Pah-Wraiths by committing suicide. Kira saved the cult by exposing Dukat's personal suicide pills as fakes. Disillusioned, Fala killed himself.

Kira was asked by Captain Sisko and Admiral Ross to help Legate Damar organize the nascent Cardassian uprising against the Dominion and teach them the finer art of guerrilla warfare because of her extensive experience in the Bajoran Resistance. Kira resented having to work with Damar as he had killed Tora Ziyal during Operation Return and the Cardassian retreat from the station. But she put her feelings aside, realizing that organizing the Cardassian resistance forces would be essential to the completion of the war. Sisko granted her the rank of Commander within Starfleet. This was done to help Kira gain the trust of those Cardassians who still believed she was an anti-Cardassian terrorist. Odo and Garak departed with the commander to join Damar at the Cardassian Liberation Front headquarters.

Although Damar welcomed her assistance, Gul Rusot was vocally distrustful of her. Kira injured the Gul when he confronted her. Their animosity almost led to Kira's death at Rusot's hand, but Damar killed him before he could carry out his attempt. Her force succeeded in commandeering a Jem'Hadar ship fitted with a Breen energy dissipater and bringing it to Deep Space 9, where the Federation could analyze it and develop countermeasures.

During the final battle of the Dominion War, Kira, Garak, Damar, and two other soldiers from the rebellion stormed the Dominion command center on Cardassia Prime. Damar and one of the soldiers were killed, but Garak and Kira managed to make it to the command center, kill Weyoun and capture the Female Changeling.

### Post-War

After the war, Captain Sisko ascended from linear existence and joined with the Prophets and command of *DS9* was again granted to Kira.

She was still in command of the station in 2381. At one point, she assisted Captain Carol Freeman of the USS Cerritos in trade negotiations with the Karemma. The event quickly turned into trouble when the Karemma discovered that Quark had stolen their technology to use in his replicators for his own profits. Kira and Freeman were able to work together to keep Quark out of their custody and open up trade deals with them moving forward.

In 2383, while Kira was traveling back from a conference in the Gamma Quadrant, her runabout was traveling through the wormhole when Captain Sisko brought her into the realm where the Prophets exist. Kira was initially overwhelmed when the prophets spoke with her. The prophets told Kira that her role in Bajoran life from now-on would be a role of action and deciveness. Kira asked them what was meant by this; however as typical by the Prophets, they didn't answer her.

Kira returned to her runabout and when she was hailed by the station. Kira learned that she'd been missing, and presumed dead for nearly 19 years. She traveled all the way to 2402. After she was cleared of any wrong-doing by a brief investigation by the Department of Temporal Affairs, Kira was made a captain in Starfleet as Bajor had joined the Federation in 2393.

### 25th century

The commanding officer of Deep Space 9 decided to request reassignment from their posting at Deep Space 9 and command was transferred back to Kira Nerys in 2402. It was a rather difficult adjustment for her, especially considering that she didn't know anyone aboard the station. She instead had to rely on subspace communications with Julian Bashir, who had stated a private practice on Trill in 2399, and Ezri Dax, who was now retired.

Kira spent a lot of time contemplating her conversation with the Prophets, and in late 2405 she asked the Vedek Assembly to consult the Orb of Wisdom.

While it was not her first orb experience, it was her most confusing. Although she believed that the Prophets would provide her with the answers she seeked, in the end she had more questions than when she began.

She again contemplated the words the Prophets relayed to her, and it wasn't until mid-2406 that she found the answer. The Kai of Bajor, Kai Jaressa retired from public service following health complications. Although Kira had absolutely no formal experience in Bajoran religious life she felt the need to put her name up for consideration in the effort to become the next Kai.

Kira had spent decades around various religious and political figures, including Vedek Bareil, Shakaar Edon, and of course the Emissary of the Prophets himself. This is why Kira was able to attract a large amount of support. She was not affilated with a religious order, nor did she have any experience, but she did have ambition and determination to make Bajor better then it was.

#### Kai of Bajor

In late-2406 she was elected Kai by the Vedek Assembly, making her the first Kai, at least in modernity, to not have any prior experience as a religious leader.

As the Kai, Kira promoted policies of cooperation, understanding, and reconciliation with everyone, but especially with the Cardassian people. In one address, given in 2407, she said, "It is unwise to judge a species, any species, on that alone. Instead, judge them on their character, their values, and their actions."

While some Bajorans, specifically those who tended to be more orthodox and lived during the occupation, were inflamed by Kira's remarks, she was favored by the vast majority of Bajorans.

In 2410, Kira was one of several delegates who attended a the first alliance summit since the end of the Iconian War on New Romulus. Also present were Federation, Klingon, and Romulan delegations as well as single representives such as herself, Grand Nagus Rom of Ferenginar, Councilor Elim Garak of the Cardassian Union, and Ambassador Surah of Defera.

> See also: Delegate of the New Romulus Summit, 2410
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Later that year, Kira attended another alliance summit, this one held on DS9. During the summit, she discussed a potential mission to the Gamma Quadrant with [STO captain]. Many of the same factions who were present in the New Romulus summit were also present at the DS9 summit, with the notable addition of the Dominion, led by Odo and Weyoun, and the Lukari, led by Captain Kuumaarke.

While attending the summit, she obtained permission from Odo to go to the Olt system, where Kai Opaka lives, following a shuttle accident between the Ennis and the Nol-Ennis in 2368. However, Odo provided Kira with data that could lead to cure for the former Kai, and Kira wanted to explore it.

Following a battle with the Hur'q at DS9, Kira, along with [STO captain] and re-instated Doctor Julian Bashir, traveled to the Olt system a few weeks later. When they scanned the defense system, they discovered that the flaw that Miles O'Brien had used many years ago wasn't patched by the recent improvements. The ship they were traveling on managed to distract and confuse the system which allowed them to transport an away team to the surface.

When they arrived on the planet they fought off more Hur'q before arriving to the temple, where Kai Opaka revealed the Orb of Peace, which was used to stop the war between the Ennis and the Nol-Ennis.

Following Kira's return to Deep Space Nine, she decided to step down as Kai, leaving the position to Opaka. She was re-instated as a captain in Starfleet.

#### Return to Starfleet

Kira's first mission as a re-instated officer was as the commanding officer of the USS Defiant. Her ship, along with the CUV Tain, under the command of Elim Garak, and the [STO ship] found the Hur'q attacking a Dominion station. After they defeated the Hur'q, they scanned the station only to find it abandoned. However, before they moved on Kira picked up a Ferengi distress call from Karemma. She assumed it to be from Quark, and she, along with the other ships, moved to assist, despite concerns from Odo.

It is also during this time that she is assigned Commander Atalia as her executive officer. Kira found Atalia to be very resourceful and knowledgable, not to mention their chemistry was quite good.

When they arrive in the Karemma system they find a large Dominion fleet led by the Female Changeling. She is standoffish at first, however Odo successfully convinces her to let the Alliance through to investigate the planet. Garak and [STO captain] beam down to Karemma, while Kira remains aboard the Defiant.

Upon Garak's return, he requests that Kira beam aboard Odo's flagship. Once there, Garak confronts Odo with a device of Dominion origin that summons the Hur'q. When Garak reveals that he found a similar device on Bajor, Kira becomes defensive of Odo. That is, until he confesses that he lured the Hur'q to Bajor in order to draw the Alliance into supporting the Dominion.

Despite Odo's insistence that Bajor was never truly at risk, Kira feels angry and betrayed by him for endangering Bajor.

Later on, she admits to [STO captain] that she's unsure about Odo. Saying that the Odo she knew would not risk Bajor the way he did, he wasn't so reckless before.

Kira commands the USS Defiant during the mission to the Masan system when investigating an ancient Dominion station, as well as the subsequent mission to the Hur'q homeworld of Havas-Kul. She was also in command of the Defiant during the battle of Empersa, where Kira forgave Odo for luring the Hur'q to Bajor and admitted that she did had feelings for him.

> *Although Star Trek: Online's Mission "Home" claims that Kira Nerys decided to remain on DS9, in my timeline she decides to be the commanding officer of a ship currently under construction, the USS Musashi.*
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### USS Musashi

Kira was given much more choices when it came to deciding her future than most Starfleet captains could. She ultimately decided to command a ship that was currently under construction at Utopia Planitia, the USS *Musashi*. She was also allowed to pick a large part of her senior staff, including Atalia, who Kira would retain as her first officer,

## Personal relationships

### Friendships

#### Benjamin Sisko

Kira first met Sisko when he came to take command of Deep Space 9. They got off to a rocky start and their relationship was further complicated when he was revealed to be the Emissary of the Prophets. When she sought Admiral Rollman's intervention on behalf of Tahna Los, Sisko was unamused, warning her, "Go over *my* head again, and I'll have *yours* on a platter."

An early test of their budding friendship came when Sisko wanted to put Odo in charge of investigating Aamin Marritza, believing her to be too emotionally invested. She made an emotional plea, asking him as a friend to let her conduct the investigation, and he relented.

Their relationship would change and evolve over the years to the point that Kira became Captain Sisko's trusted and able first officer and one of his closest advisers. At one point, Kira was infected by an energy imprint of a culture that destroyed itself and led a mutiny against Sisko. Odo was able to disperse the energy, and everyone returned to normal. However, the two did manage to form a good working relationship and they even became friends in later years.

Despite their working relationship, Kira always kept her relationship with Sisko more formal than did other members of the Deep Space 9 crew. She did not realize it but Sisko's status as the Emissary of the Prophets, a major figure in her religion, made her feel uncomfortable with the thought of a true friendship. This changed when she had to keep watch over him during a mission in which the *Defiant* was nearly destroyed. All but alone with him on the bridge, Kira tried to keep talking so Sisko would not lose consciousness, as he had a concussion and risked falling into a coma if he did so. This brought them closer together, and after the ordeal they even went to a baseball game in the holosuite together, where she was introduced to hot dogs.

It turns out Kira had picked up some baseball lingo from Benjamin. Having mentioned Starfleet always tended to "give curveballs" that no one expects.

#### Dax

Kira formed her closest friendship with Jadzia Dax. They confided in each other often about a variety of things. They also discussed problems and sought each other's advice, although Kira did not like Jadzia's choice of men and sometimes Jadzia would let slip some of the details of Kira's romances.

Jadzia also got Kira to loosen up a bit. Kira hated holosuites, but did participate in them with Jadzia.

Kira continued her friendship with Dax once Jadzia was killed and Dax had taken Ezri Tigan as its new host. Ezri considered Kira as one of her closest friends

#### Miles O'Brien

Kira developed a mutual conflicted attraction to Miles O'Brien during the period in which she carried his child after an accident forced Julian Bashir to transplant the fetus from Keiko's body to hers for it to survive. Soon after Kira moved in with the couple at their request. After a time, Miles' care, affection, and the close quarters led to a brief period of discomfort. Luckily, both Miles and Kira were able to separate their feelings and continue their friendship without taking it any further.

Sometime later, Kira gave birth to Miles' son Kirayoshi, with Kira remaining an unofficial aunt to both Kirayoshi and his older sister Molly. Kira once admitted to Tekeny Ghemor that Yoshi was the closest thing she had to a son.

#### Quark

Quark and Kira initially had a hostile acquaintance based on her considering him to have "collaborated" with the Cardassians during the occupation of Bajor. This antagonism was also influenced by the sexist attitude of Ferengi toward females. However, she was not beyond taking advantage of his connections and unique skills, and even asked him to hack into the Vedek Assembly database on one occasion.

It was Quark who alerted Kira and her resistance about how the Dominion would bring down the minefield, he decided to help Kira before Operation Return. She was astonished and gratified when Quark rescued her (as well as his brother Rom, Leeta, and Jake) out of Terok Nor's holding cells. It was his rescuing her that influenced her to recommend the Federation aid him by providing a Vorta POW to exchange for his mother when she was taken hostage by the Dominion later that year.

It was thanks to Quark that Kira would come to her senses and realize the true nature of Bareil Antos when he was planning to steal a Bajoran Orb. Specifically, Quark commented that he had noticed Bareil was spending a lot of time at the Bajoran shrine and that it looked to Quark as though Bareil were "casing" it as to find the best way to break into it.

At the beginning and end of Sisko's command of Deep Space 9, she has remained authoritative and strict to Quark, including threatening violence if he ever touched her again, or threatening to incarcerate him over placing bets on who the next Kai of Bajor will be, but by the time of the latter, her attitude toward the Ferengi softened to the point where she attempted to comfort him over Odo's lack of goodbye at his departure.

#### Tora Ziyal

Although Kira intensely disliked Ziyal's father Dukat, she developed a deep friendship with Tora Ziyal to the extent she even considered her part of her family.

Kira's friendship with Ziyal really began when Dukat went to fight the Klingons, Kira persuaded him to let her take Ziyal with her to DS9, because she didn't want Ziyal to go through what she did when she fought the Cardassians. Kira took on the role of guardian and nurturer to Ziyal when she relocated to DS9. Kira would later arrange for Ziyal to go to school at a university on Bajor and consequently leave Ziyal in the care of friends as war with the Klingons broke out. Ziyal's activities on the station during her stay are mostly unknown, though she attended a racquetball match in which Kira played.

Kira was very protective of Ziyal; when she found out that Elim Garak was meeting with her she threatened that if he hurt Ziyal he would regret it, but later she came to accept their relationship although she still didn't approve of it. Kira resorted to violence and assaulted Damar when he tried to force Ziyal to come with him and mend her relationship with her father.

#### Shaxs

Kira and Shaxs served together in the Bajoran Resistance and became good friends. During their time there, the two would save one another on multiple occasions from various prison transports and ambushes. When the two were reunited on Deep Space 9 in 2381, Kira recalled him saving her life during a raid on the Haru outposts and said that she still owed him for it. This sparked a friendly, albeit fierce argument between the two over who was indebted to who for saving one another. Later on, when the Karemma they were negotiating with ordered the "Alpha Contingency", Shaxs would save Kira from an attack, and when the situation was resolved, she playfully jabbed to him that she now actually did owe him one; a jab that annoyed him greatly.

### Family

Kira's mother and father were Kira Meru and Kira Taban, respectively. She had two siblings, Kira Reon, and Kira Pohl.

Kira Meru was selected as a comfort woman and willingly became the consort of Dukat in 2346. She did this so her family would receive special favors in the internment camp ensuring their survival. She remained his consort until her death seven years later. Kira's father told his children that their mother had died in the camp. Kira became aware of the truth when Dukat revealed this to her in 2374. Kira used the Orb of Time to travel back to 2346 to see if this was true. When Kira saw the truth, she participated in a plot to kill Dukat and her mother. In the end, she understood what her mother was doing and warned them before the bomb went off.

Kira and her father remained in the internment camp, until she joined the resistance. The Cardassians set fire to Taban's village, and he tried to reason with them. They responded by burning his garden and fatally wounding him. As her father was dying, unable to face seeing him die Kira left to complete a terrorist mission and missed being with her father when he died. She never forgave herself.

#### Tekeny Ghemor

Kira formed a strong friendship with Tekeny Ghemor, one of the leaders of the Cardassian Government. They first met when Kira was kidnapped by the Cardassians, surgically altered to convince her that she was Ghemor's daughter who was an agent for Cardassia. Ghemor, realizing the truth, helped her escape and became a leader in the Cardassian Underground who opposed the military government. At the time, he was the only Cardassian for whom Kira had any semblance of respect.

In 2373, he sought refuge on Deep Space 9 after the Dominion took over Cardassia. He was dying, and Kira took care of him until he passed away. During this time, he told Kira that he still viewed her as the closest thing he had to his daughter; Ghemor still had no information as to what had become of her. According to Cardassian tradition, Ghemor told Kira all of the "family secrets" on his deathbed. The reason behind this tradition was to ensure that surviving relatives had information to protect themselves, in the event that enemies of the family tried to twist matters to their advantage later on. During these conversations, he revealed to Kira that he had taken part in a massacre of Bajoran civilians during the Occupation. Dismayed, Kira still felt that no one should die alone, and stayed with him until the end. Ghemor also provided important information to the Federation concerning the Dominion and Cardassia. Kira had Ghemor buried on Bajor, beside her own father.

### Romance

#### Thomas Riker

She showed a brief attraction to Thomas Riker while he was under the guise of William T. Riker. When Kira was ordered to relax by Julian Bashir, she met Thomas in Quark's and they talked for three hours. However, this attraction was dissolved when he hijacked the USS *Defiant* and revealed himself as Thomas as well as a Maquis agent. He took the ship into the Orias system to gather intelligence on a fleet he heard about. His mission failed and was taken into Cardassian custody. She swore she would find a way to get him back and they kissed before he was transported to a Cardassian ship.

#### Julian Bashir

During an outbreak of 'Love Fever' brought on by a case of Zanthi fever afflicting a visiting Lwaxana Troi, Kira, who was dating Bareil at the time, was strongly attracted to Julian Bashir. While the two made definite outward displays of intense affection – and Bashir's diagnosis noted that it could only work on people who already had an attraction to the other on some level – there was no direct mention of the attraction continuing afterward.

#### Bariel Antos

Kira first became involved with Vedek Bareil when he visited Deep Space 9 to help mediate a dispute between Vedek Winn and the Federation over the school Keiko O'Brien was running. Their relationship strengthened when, after Kira was replaced as Bajoran liaison to DS9, Bareil invited her to spend time at his monastery. He also helped her and Dax reveal The Circle's plan to take over Bajor by allowing them to dress in religious robes so they could safely make their way to Bajor's Council of Ministers.

The relationship ended on a sad note when, during a shuttle accident, Bareil was mortally wounded. He was kept alive by Dr. Julian Bashir and might have survived, but a crucial meeting had been scheduled with Legate Turrel, with whom Bareil had been negotiating in secret for months. Although Kai Winn took over the negotiations, no one knew Turrel the way Bareil did and she required his advice. As a result, Bashir was forced to subject Bareil to various dangerous and controversial medical procedures to keep him alive and able to communicate, pushing his body past the point where he would have been able to recover if given peace and rest. When the negotiations were over, Bareil asked that all artificial life support be stopped as the only alternatives to sustain him at this point would have only kept his body alive while compromising his consciousness. He died in Kira's arms.

#### Shakaar Edon

Kira and Shakaar, who became the head of the Bajoran Government, were lovers for a year. He was her resistance leader during the Occupation of Bajor. She met him again when she was sent by Kai Winn who had assumed the role of head of the government after the death of Kalem Apren, to reclaim soil reclamators from the farmers in his province. Government troops refused to attack their old leader, and Shakaar, following Kira's advice, returned to the capital and ran for the head of the government, a position he won. The relationship heated up during a visit to the station by Shakaar when he arrived to negotiate Bajor's admittance into the Federation. He was at Kira's bedside when she gave birth to the son of Miles O'Brien. They ended the relationship in 2373, but they remained friends.

Kira's transition from Vedek Bareil to Shakaar led Gul Dukat to remark in 2372 that she was attracted to powerful Bajoran men.

#### Odo

The relationship between Kira and Odo was long and tumultuous. They first met during the Occupation of Bajor, when Odo suspected her of murdering a collaborator, but concealed the truth as he sympathized with her motives. Over the years of working together, Kira and Odo became close friends and colleagues. Odo began to fall in love with her at some unknown point, but he initially concealed his feelings as he was certain she didn't feel the same way. The feelings they had for each other withstood the other romances Kira had. Odo's feelings for Kira were first revealed to her by a version of Odo who had been trapped with the descendants of the *Defiant* crew for two centuries, the current Odo incapacitated by the anomaly the ship had passed through, but this same alternate version put a strain on their relationship when he killed/erased eight thousand people to save her life, preventing the accident that would throw the ship back in time because Kira would have died in the past. With the help of Vic Fontaine, Odo was able to express his feelings and found out that Kira felt the same way, which culminated in a very passionate kiss in front of Quark's. They remained lovers until after the Dominion War, when Odo returned to the Great Link to save his people and lead them on the path of peace.

## Psychology profile

Kira Nerys has an ISFP personality type (Adventurer) with a "Confidante" enneagram. She is chaotic good. Her temperament is Choleric-Melancholic.

### Command style

Kira has a rather relaxed, or hands-off approach when it comes to command. She gives her senior staff a wide berth when she wants to get things done.

Although Kira had over 17 years as a commanding officer, and another seven as an executive officer, she very rarely gave her crew detailed instructions, instead preferring to give brief pointers or ideas on how things should get done. When Kira required additional details, she usually left it in the hands of her first officer, Commander Ziva.

### Religion

Religion plays a crucial role in shaping Kira's worldview and her beliefs. She belongs to the Bajoran religion, which believes in the Prophets. In addition to being a member of the religion she's considered an influential figure in it, as she was not only the first officer of the Emissary, but also because she was chosen by the Prophets to act as their vessel during the Day of Reckoning, and served as the Kai of Bajor from 2306-2410.

She expressed a wish to someday have children of her own after Odo commented on how good she was with Kirayoshi.

## Physical profile

Kira Nerys is a banana body type with 34-23-36 body measurements. She wears a bra size of 34B.