Kira Nerys
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| Species | Bajoran |
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| Affiliation |
Bajoran Militia Starfleet |
| Posting |
Deep Space Nine USS Defiant |
| Position | Commanding Officer (Season 7) Commanding Officer USS Defiant (Season7) First Officer (Seasons 1-7) Second Officer USS Defiant (Seasons 4-7) |
| Rank |
Colonel (Bajoran Militia) (Season 7) Commander (Starfleet) (Season 7) Major (Bajoran Militia) (Seasons 1-6) |
| Father | Kira Taban |
| Mother | Kira Meru |
| Partner | Bareil Antos, Shakaar Edon, Odo |
| Portrayed by | Nana Visitor |
| First appearance | "Emissary" (DS9) |
Kira Nerys /ˈkiːrə nᵻˈriːs/ is a fictional character in the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–99). She is played by the actress Nana Visitor.
Per Bajoran custom, her family name, Kira, precedes her given name, Nerys. She has two brothers (Kira Reon and Kira Pohl), and her parents' names are Kira Taban (played by Thomas Kopache throughout the series) and Kira Meru (played by Leslie Hope in "Wrongs Darker than Death or Night").
The backstory of the character states that Kira Nerys was born 2343, in Dakhur province, Bajor, during the 50-year Cardassian occupation of the planet. She was raised in a labor camp. Her family were members of the artisan caste, namely sculptors of clay, or potters. At age 12, Kira was recruited into the Shakaar resistance cell, part of an underground movement which carried out guerrilla attacks against Cardassian military and civilians with the ultimate goal of ending the occupation.
Kira is assigned as the senior Bajoran Militia officer aboard Deep Space Nine, acting as the station's executive officer under the Starfleet commander Benjamin Sisko who posted to command the facility. In the early episodes of the series after Cardassia withdrew from Bajor, the recently ranked Major Kira, now at age 26, became an influential figure in Bajor's reconstruction and the politics of the region, due to her assignment to Deep Space Nine, and her closeness to Benjamin Sisko, whom the Bajorans believed to be an emissary from the Bajoran Prophets.
Initially, Kira was opposed to the Federation presence on DS9, feeling that the Bajoran people should have nothing to do with the Federation as Bajor had just endured a 50-year occupation by the Cardassians. Over time, her sentiments changed and she became one of the strongest supporters of Bajor joining the Federation and an essential ally to Benjamin Sisko. This conversely contrasted to her increasingly nuanced religious faith that came from dealing with the Bajoran religious leader, Winn Adami, with whom Kira held increasing contempt for her shamelessly treacherous opportunism and arrogance.
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