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Thrill-seeking newcomer who believes he's God's gift to medicine; life on the station would [[BreakTheHaughty shatter that notion]] pretty quickly. Started off alternatively being droolingly infatuated with Dax, painfully green, and an all-round CasanovaWannabe, as well as coming off as a bit of an UpperClassTwit (prattling eagerly about frontier medicine gets up the locals' noses). Later his behavior gives way to some [[HiddenDepths dark personal secrets]]. The showrunners weren't sure what to do with Bashir in the beginning, having rather off-handedly written a Doctor into the show. Negative viewer response to the character [[ShillingTheWesley only emboldened the writers]] to make Bashir a fan favorite; in this rare case, it worked. Notable as the first time that a US TV show recognized that [[ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion not all English people are white]].
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Thrill-seeking newcomer who believes he's God's gift to medicine; life on the station would [[BreakTheHaughty shatter that notion]] pretty quickly. Started off alternatively being droolingly infatuated with Dax, painfully green, and an all-round CasanovaWannabe, as well as coming off as a bit of an UpperClassTwit (prattling eagerly about frontier medicine gets up the locals' noses). Later his behavior gives way to some [[HiddenDepths dark personal secrets]]. The showrunners weren't sure what to do with Bashir in the beginning, having rather off-handedly written a Doctor into the show. Negative viewer response to the character [[ShillingTheWesley [[CreatorsPet only emboldened the writers]] to make Bashir a fan favorite; in this rare case, it worked. Notable as the first time that a US TV show recognized that [[ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion not all English people are white]].
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* TheWorfEffect: [[AvertedTrope Starting to wane]] by this point, thank goodness.
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* TheWorfEffect: [[AvertedTrope Starting to wane]] by this point, thank goodness. In fact, this was one of the reasons Dorn joined the show.
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* ImmigrantPatriotism: When baby Jake groaned over having to move to Bajor, Ben pitched it as a vacation. Privately, though, Sisko wasn't happy about the assignment or the effect it was having on his son, and considered transferring back to civilian service. Through his interactions with the Bajoran people -- most notably Major Kira -- Sisko slowly grows to love Bajor. By Season Five, wild horses couldn't drag him away from that station.
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->'''Kira''': ''You break the rules, you pay.''\\
'''Odo''': ''Wait a minute, I wanna be sure I heard that correctly. Because it doesn't sound like the Kira Nerys who has made a career out of breaking the rules!''\\
'''Kira''': ''Well, I guess I broke one too many.''\\
'''Odo''': ''Major, you've been breaking one too many for fourteen and a half years! Cardassian rules, Bajoran rules, Federation rules -- they're all meaningless to you, because you have a personal code that's always mattered more. And I'm sorry to say, you're in slim company.''
-->-- "The Adversary"
'''Odo''': ''Wait a minute, I wanna be sure I heard that correctly. Because it doesn't sound like the Kira Nerys who has made a career out of breaking the rules!''\\
'''Kira''': ''Well, I guess I broke one too many.''\\
'''Odo''': ''Major, you've been breaking one too many for fourteen and a half years! Cardassian rules, Bajoran rules, Federation rules -- they're all meaningless to you, because you have a personal code that's always mattered more. And I'm sorry to say, you're in slim company.''
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'''Odo''':''Major, Major, you've been breaking one too many for fourteen and a half years! Cardassian rules, Bajoran rules, Federation rules -- they're all meaningless to you, because you have a personal code that's always mattered more. And I'm sorry to say, you're in slim company.''
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'''Odo''': Wait a minute, I wanna be sure I heard that correctly. Because it doesn't sound like the Kira Nerys who has made a career out of breaking the rules!\\
'''Kira''': Well, I guess I broke one too many.\\
'''Odo''': Major, you've been breaking one too many for fourteen and a half years! Cardassian rules, Bajoran rules, Federation rules -- they're all meaningless to you, because you have a personal code that's always mattered more. And I'm sorry to say, you're in slim company.
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'''Kira''': Well, I guess I broke one too many.\\
'''Odo''': Major, you've been breaking one too many for fourteen and a half years! Cardassian rules, Bajoran rules, Federation rules -- they're all meaningless to you, because you have a personal code that's always mattered more. And I'm sorry to say, you're in slim company.
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'''Odo''':Major, ''Major, you've been breaking one too many for fourteen and a half years! Cardassian rules, Bajoran rules, Federation rules -- they're all meaningless to you, because you have a personal code that's always mattered more. And I'm sorry to say, you're in slim company. ''
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'''Odo''': Wait a minute, I wanna be sure I heard that correctly. Because it doesn't sound like the Kira Nerys who has made a career out of breaking the rules!
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'''Odo''': [incensed] Major, you've been breaking one too many for fourteen and a half years! Cardassian rules, Bajoran rules, Federation rules; they're all meaningless to you, because you have a personal code that's always mattered more. And I'm sorry to say, you're in slim company.
'''Kira''': Well, I guess I broke one too many.
'''Odo''': [incensed] Major, you've been breaking one too many for fourteen and a half years! Cardassian rules, Bajoran rules, Federation rules; they're all meaningless to you, because you have a personal code that's always mattered more. And I'm sorry to say, you're in slim company.
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'''Odo''':[incensed] Major, you've been breaking one too many for fourteen and a half years! Cardassian rules, Bajoran rules, Federation rules; rules -- they're all meaningless to you, because you have a personal code that's always mattered more. And I'm sorry to say, you're in slim company.
'''Kira''': Well, I guess I broke one too
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->'''Kira''': Well, now that you have another pip on your collar, does that mean I can't disagree with you anymore?\\
'''Sisko''': No. It just means I'm never wrong.\\
'''Kira''': Ah. We'll see about that.
'''Sisko''': No. It just means I'm never wrong.\\
'''Kira''': Ah. We'll see about that.
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'''Sisko''': No. It just means I'm never wrong.pay.\\
'''Odo''': Wait a minute, I wanna be sure I heard that correctly. Because it doesn't sound like the Kira Nerys who has made a career out of breaking the rules!
'''Kira''':Ah. We'll see about that.Well, I guess I broke one too many.
'''Odo''': [incensed] Major, you've been breaking one too many for fourteen and a half years! Cardassian rules, Bajoran rules, Federation rules; they're all meaningless to you, because you have a personal code that's always mattered more. And I'm sorry to say, you're in slim company.
'''Sisko''': No. It just means I'm never wrong.
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'''Kira''':
'''Odo''': [incensed] Major, you've been breaking one too many for fourteen and a half years! Cardassian rules, Bajoran rules, Federation rules; they're all meaningless to you, because you have a personal code that's always mattered more. And I'm sorry to say, you're in slim company.
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The most visible Bajoran and, at least initially, TheLancer. She resented Starfleet's presence, thinking of Bajor as having swapped one set of occupiers for another. Grew up as a Bajoran [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters freedom fighter]] and is thus skilled in guerrilla warfare, as well as capable enough to take on a Klingon in [[ActionGirl hand-to-hand combat]]. Begins her story arc angry and broken, but slowly [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosts]] over the course of the series. Kira is her family name and Nerys is her given name, said last as part of Bajoran naming custom (like Japanese names).
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The most visible Bajoran and, at least initially, TheLancer.TheLancer, Major Kira of the Bajoran Militia was Sisko's second-in-command and the [[NumberOne first officer]] of Deep Space Nine. She resented Starfleet's presence, thinking of Bajor as having swapped one set of occupiers for another. Grew up as a Bajoran [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters freedom fighter]] and is thus skilled in guerrilla warfare, as well as capable enough to take on a Klingon in [[ActionGirl hand-to-hand combat]]. Begins her story arc angry and broken, but slowly [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosts]] over the course of the series. Kira is her family name and Nerys is her given name, said last as part of Bajoran naming custom (like Japanese names).
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* BerserkButton: The Cardassian Occupation, unsurprisingly. Her bigotry toward Cardassians is lessened due to her relationships with them, particularly the kindhearted Tekeny Ghemor, though she's still a tireless, sci-fi equivilent of a Nazi hunter.
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* BerserkButton: The Cardassian Occupation, unsurprisingly. Her bigotry toward Cardassians is lessened due to her relationships with them, particularly the kindhearted Tekeny Ghemor, though she's still a tireless, sci-fi equivilent equivalent of a Nazi hunter.
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* BodyHorror: When an illness causes his physical appearance to deteriorate, such as the Section 31 virus and the infection inflicted on him by the Founders to force him back to the Great Link. Also when Garak tortures him using a device that prevents him from regenerating, his appearance becomes horrific.
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* BodyHorror: When an illness causes his physical appearance to deteriorate, such as the Section 31 virus and the infection inflicted on him by the Founders to force him back to the Great Link. Also when Garak tortures him using a device that prevents him from regenerating, his appearance becomes horrific.he looks like a fresh rotting corpse.
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* CasanovaWannabe: His attempts to be suave always fail horribly.
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* ItsPersonal: '''Eddington'''.
--> "He played me, alright - and what is my excuse? Is he a changeling? NO! Is he a being with seven lifetimes of experience? NO! Is he a wormhole alien? No! He's just a man, like me, and he BEAT me!"
--> "He played me, alright - and what is my excuse? Is he a changeling? NO! Is he a being with seven lifetimes of experience? NO! Is he a wormhole alien? No! He's just a man, like me, and he BEAT me!"
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->''"At the request of Commander Sisko, I will hereafter be [[CaptainsLog recording a daily log of law enforcement affairs]]. The reason for this exercise is beyond my comprehension, except perhaps that Humans have a compulsion to keep records and lists and files. So many in fact, that they have to invent new ways to store them microscopically. Otherwise their records would overrun all known civilization. My own very adequate memory not being good enough for Starfleet, I am pleased to put my voice to this official record of this day: Everything's under control. End log."''
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->''"At the request of Commander Sisko, I will hereafter be [[CaptainsLog recording a daily log log]] of law enforcement affairs]].affairs. The reason for this exercise is beyond my comprehension, except perhaps that Humans have a compulsion to keep records and lists and files. So many in fact, that they have to invent new ways to store them microscopically. Otherwise their records would overrun all known civilization. My own very adequate memory not being good enough for Starfleet, I am pleased to put my voice to this official record of this day: [[{{Anticlimax}} Everything's under control.control]]. End log."''
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Functions as TheSpock initially, later becoming TheJudge. Served as Chief of security (affectionately referred to as "[[RedBaron Constable]]") of Deep Space Nine, having occupied that position even during the Cardassian Occupation. A [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] (or "Changeling", a clever double-meaning). Originally a bit angsty over not knowing his origins; eventually he discovers that his own people are the leaders of the Dominion and thus the enemy, which doesn't really help with the angst one bit. During the series, it's revealed that Odo's name is a shortened form of a Cardassian term, ''odo'ital'' ("nothing", a mistranslation of the Bajoran "unknown sample"), that the Cardassian overseers gave him during the Occupation.
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The ornery Chief of Station Security (or "Constable", Kira's snark term [[AppropriatedAppellation which he adopted]]). His obsessive qualities make him something of a maverick; however, he runs the station so smoothly that everyone, from Dukat's regime to the new management -- ends up ascending to his territorial nature. Functions as TheSpock initially, later becoming TheJudge. Served as Chief of security (affectionately referred to as "[[RedBaron Constable]]") of Deep Space Nine, having occupied that position even during the Cardassian Occupation.TheJudge. A [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] (or "Changeling", a clever double-meaning). Originally a bit angsty over not knowing his origins; eventually he discovers that his own people are the leaders of the Dominion and thus the enemy, which doesn't really help with the angst one bit. During the series, it's revealed that Odo's name is a shortened form of a Cardassian term, ''odo'ital'' ("nothing", a mistranslation of the Bajoran "unknown sample"), that the Cardassian overseers gave him during the Occupation.
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* AppropriatedAppellation: During the series, it's revealed that Odo's name is a shortened form of a Cardassian term, ''odo'ital'' ("nothing", a mistranslation of the Bajoran "unknown sample"), that the Cardassian overseers gave him during the Occupation.
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* ControlFreak: Odo gets pissed off when his furniture is moved by ''centimeters''.
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[[Characters/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Main Character Characters Page]] | '''Starfleet Crew''' | DeepSpaceNine/FederationAndBajor | [[DeepSpaceNine/QuarksBar Quark's Bar, Family, and Other Ferengi]] | DeepSpaceNine/CardassianUnion | DeepSpaceNine/KlingonEmpire | DeepSpaceNine/TheDominion | DeepSpaceNine/MirrorUniverse
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!!Commander/Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks)
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->''"So ''you're ''the commander of Deep Space 9. And the Emissary of the Prophets. Decorated combat officer, widower, father, mentor and... oh, yes, the man who started the war with the Dominion. [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller Somehow I thought you'd be taller.]]."''
-->-- '''Senator Vreenak''', "In the Pale Moonlight"
TheCaptain (though actually only ranked Commander until late Season 3), with a touch of the WarriorPoet due to his motivations for helming the titular space station. Prior to the series, Sisko became a widower following the infamous Wolf 359 incident ([[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]) and was left adrift with a young son, Jake. He briefly considered resigning from Starfleet, but was instead saddled with the task of admitting Bajor into the Federation. Following a chance encounter with entities living inside the Bajoran Wormhole, Sisko is ([[ReluctantHero reluctantly]]) anointed as the Emissary, their corporeal agent and a [[CrystalDragonJesus religious icon]] to the Bajorans.
* [[DeepSpaceNine/QuarksBar Quark's Bar, Family, and Other Ferengi]]
* [[DeepSpaceNine/CardassianUnion Cardassian Union]]
* [[DeepSpaceNine/KlingonEmpire Klingon Empire]]
* [[DeepSpaceNine/TheDominion The Dominion]]
* [[DeepSpaceNine/MirrorUniverse Mirror Universe]]
!!Commander/Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks)
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->''"So ''you're ''the commander of Deep Space 9. And the Emissary of the Prophets. Decorated combat officer, widower, father, mentor and... oh, yes, the man who started the war with the Dominion. [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller Somehow I thought you'd be taller.]]."''
-->-- '''Senator Vreenak''', "In the Pale Moonlight"
TheCaptain (though actually only ranked Commander until late Season 3), with a touch of the WarriorPoet due to his motivations for helming the titular space station. Prior to the series, Sisko became a widower following the infamous Wolf 359 incident ([[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]) and was left adrift with a young son, Jake. He briefly considered resigning from Starfleet, but was instead saddled with the task of admitting Bajor into the Federation. Following a chance encounter with entities living inside the Bajoran Wormhole, Sisko is ([[ReluctantHero reluctantly]]) anointed as the Emissary, their corporeal agent and a [[CrystalDragonJesus religious icon]] to the Bajorans.
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!!Commander/Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks)
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->''"So ''you're ''the commander of Deep Space 9. And the Emissary of the Prophets. Decorated combat officer, widower, father, mentor and... oh, yes, the man who started the war with the Dominion. [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller Somehow I thought you'd be taller.]]."''
-->-- '''Senator Vreenak''', "In the Pale Moonlight"
TheCaptain (though actually only ranked Commander until late Season 3), with a touch of the WarriorPoet due to his motivations for helming the titular space station. Prior to the series, Sisko became a widower following the infamous Wolf 359 incident ([[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]) and was left adrift with a young son, Jake. He briefly considered resigning from Starfleet, but was instead saddled with the task of admitting Bajor into the Federation. Following a chance encounter with entities living inside the Bajoran Wormhole, Sisko is ([[ReluctantHero reluctantly]]) anointed as the Emissary, their corporeal agent and a [[CrystalDragonJesus religious icon]] to the Bajorans.
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->''"So ''you're ''the commander of Deep Space 9. And the Emissary of the Prophets. Decorated combat officer, widower, father, mentor and... oh, yes, the man who started the war with the Dominion. [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller Somehow I thought you'd be taller.]]."''
-->-- '''Senator Vreenak''', "In the Pale Moonlight"
TheCaptain (though actually only ranked Commander until late Season 3), with a touch of the WarriorPoet due to his motivations for helming the titular space station. Prior to the series, Sisko became a widower following the infamous Wolf 359 incident ([[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]) and was left adrift with a young son, Jake. He briefly considered resigning from Starfleet, but was instead saddled with the task of admitting Bajor into the Federation. Following a chance encounter with entities living inside the Bajoran Wormhole, Sisko is ([[ReluctantHero reluctantly]]) anointed as the Emissary, their corporeal agent and a [[CrystalDragonJesus religious icon]] to the Bajorans.
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* BadassBeard: Though clean-shaven in earlier seasons - to distance Brooks from his iconic role on ''SpenceForHire'' ''Spencer For Hire'' - he eventually grew back the goatee.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Takes on several Jem'Hadar on the ground, and also leads several of the fleet battles.
* BadassBeard: Though clean-shaven in earlier seasons, he eventually grew a goatee.
* BadassCreed: In "Pale Moonlight", he related to how his father used to boom, "Worry and doubt are the greatest enemies of a great chef!"
* BadassBeard: Though clean-shaven in earlier seasons, he eventually grew a goatee.
* BadassCreed: In "Pale Moonlight", he related to how his father used to boom, "Worry and doubt are the greatest enemies of a great chef!"
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Takes on several Jem'Hadar on the ground, and also leads several of the fleet battles.
battles. Among military buffs, Sisko is regarded as the most believable military officer the series has seen.
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* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Sisko is a pretty irritable guy fierce in own right, but he's more likely to treat you to a DeathGlare and then storm out because he has more important things to do. That's when his Doberman (Kira) comes into the picture.
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* ChefOfIron: Had he not joined Starfleet, he would probably be tending the kitchen as Sisko's. His father Joseph ran his restaurant in a similar to Picard's vineyard: He doesn't like replicators and belivies in preparing your own meal.
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* ChefOfIron: Had he not joined Starfleet, he Ben would probably still be tending the kitchen as at Sisko's. His father Joseph ran his restaurant in a way similar to Picard's vineyard: He doesn't like replicators and belivies in preparing your own believes they lack the flavor of a quality meal.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Not if its pushed, anyway. It's scary how quickly that tight-libbed smile can turn into a glower.
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* CargoShip:[[invoked]] Dax insinuated that Worf's first love is the ''Defiant''. In a sense, he considers it ''his'' ship, not Sisko's. Makes sense really, it's a Federation designed Warship, the perfect fit for Worf.
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** Subverted in regards to how other Changelings see him. He's only been active for about 30 years, which is considered young and immature by Changeling standards.
*** Then again, compared to other Changelings, he's physically immature as well. He's the least talented shape-shifter among the handful encountered and still has to revert to his liquid form periodically (a weakness more experienced Changelings are implied to have overcome).
*** Then again, compared to other Changelings, he's physically immature as well. He's the least talented shape-shifter among the handful encountered and still has to revert to his liquid form periodically (a weakness more experienced Changelings are implied to have overcome).
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* BadassCreed: In "Pale Moonlight", he related to how his father used to boom,
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-->"Worry and doubt are the greatest enemies of a great chef! [[EndangeredSouffle The soufflé]] will either rise or it won't; there's not a damn thing ''you'' can do about it, so you might as well just sit back and wait and see what happens."
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* BadassCreed: In "Pale Moonlight", he related to how his father used to boom,
-->"Worryboom, "Worry and doubt are the greatest enemies of a great chef! [[EndangeredSouffle chef!"
-->"[[EndangeredSouffle The soufflé]] will either rise or it won't; there's not a damn thing ''you'' can do about it, so you might as well just sit back and wait and see what happens."
-->"Worry
-->"[[EndangeredSouffle The soufflé]] will either rise or it won't; there's not a damn thing ''you'' can do about it, so you might as well just sit back and wait and see what happens."
* ChefOfIron: Had he not joined Starfleet, he would probably be tending the kitchen as Sisko's. His father Joseph ran his restaurant in a similar to Picard's vineyard: He doesn't like replicators and belivies in preparing your own meal.
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* TimeyWimeyBall: [[spoiler:His entire existence.]] Since the Prophets exist outside of linear space-time, their first meeting with The Sisko took place relatively speaking ''before'' they'd sent their prophecies to the Ancient Bajorans about the Emissary. [[spoiler:To ensure that that meeting took place, they sent one of their number to engineer his very ''birth''. ]]Furthermore, it's very likely that the Prophets began influencing Bajoran society due to meeting Sisko, making him somewhat culpable for most of Bajoran history... and thus the reason he first arrived at Bajor to begin with! Yeah, it's ''kinda'' complicated.
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* TimeyWimeyBall: [[spoiler:His entire existence.]] Since the Prophets exist outside of linear space-time, their first meeting with The Sisko took place relatively speaking ''before'' they'd sent their prophecies to the Ancient Bajorans about the Emissary. [[spoiler:To ensure that that meeting took place, they sent one of their number to engineer his very ''birth''. ]]Furthermore, it's very likely that the Prophets began influencing Bajoran society due to meeting Sisko, making him somewhat culpable for most of Bajoran history... and thus the reason he first arrived at Bajor to begin with! Yeah, it's ''kinda'' complicated.with!
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* WarriorPoet: Can sometimes do this, notable in ''In The Pale Moonlight''.
* WouldntHitAGirl: He half-jokes about this whenever Dax manages to piss him off. He'll comment, "If you were still a man..." while knowing perfectly well that even if she's not really the "Old Man" anymore, Dax could still easily beat him.
* WouldntHitAGirl: He half-jokes about this whenever Dax manages to piss him off. He'll comment, "If you were still a man..." while knowing perfectly well that even if she's not really the "Old Man" anymore, Dax could still easily beat him.
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* WarriorPoet: Can sometimes do this, notable ruminate on this. See in ''In The Pale Moonlight''.
* WouldntHitAGirl: He half-jokes about this whenever Dax manages to piss him off. He'll comment, "If you were still a man..." while knowing perfectly well that even ifshe's not really the "Old Man" anymore, she isn't in her nineties, Dax could still easily beat wallop him.
* WouldntHitAGirl: He half-jokes about this whenever Dax manages to piss him off. He'll comment, "If you were still a man..." while knowing perfectly well that even if
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* {{Badass}}: Manages to fight while ''pregnant''.
* BerserkButton: The Cardassian Occupation, [[ShellShockedVeteran unsurprisingly]].
* BreakTheCutie: That's quite the achievement but Silarin Prin, from 'The Darkness and the Light' episode managed to do that, ''twice''. First, he [[spoiler: killed all the friends Kira made]] during her days at the Shakaar Resistance cell, except Shakaar himself. Second, he cracked her armor by trashing her actions and ideology, backing it with some good points. She managed to defend herself, but considering what she said to the rescue team after their fight, it's obvious Kira thought he was right to some extent, even talking in the same maneer he had.
* BrokenBird: The horrors she has seen - well, she can [[TearJerker break your heart]].
* ColonelBadass: Promoted in the seventh season.
** CommandingCoolness: At the end.
* BerserkButton: The Cardassian Occupation, [[ShellShockedVeteran unsurprisingly]].
* BreakTheCutie: That's quite the achievement but Silarin Prin, from 'The Darkness and the Light' episode managed to do that, ''twice''. First, he [[spoiler: killed all the friends Kira made]] during her days at the Shakaar Resistance cell, except Shakaar himself. Second, he cracked her armor by trashing her actions and ideology, backing it with some good points. She managed to defend herself, but considering what she said to the rescue team after their fight, it's obvious Kira thought he was right to some extent, even talking in the same maneer he had.
* BrokenBird: The horrors she has seen - well, she can [[TearJerker break your heart]].
* ColonelBadass: Promoted in the seventh season.
** CommandingCoolness: At the end.
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* ShowSomeLeg: This was Kira's primary role in the resistance movement: Sneaking into Cardassian settlements and pretending to be a [[WoundedGazelleGambit harmless girl]] or a comfort woman. Even an Occupation-era Odo fell for her act.
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** [[spoiler: Emphasis on "unspecified": the Prophets are non-linear beings outside time.]]
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* {{Badass}}: AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Takes on several Jem'Hadar on his own the ground, and also leads several of the fleet battles.
** * BadassBeard: Though he did have hair clean-shaven in earlier seasons, he eventually went bald with grew a goatee. goatee.
* BadassCreed: In "Pale Moonlight", he related to how his father used to boom,
-->"Worry and doubt are the greatest enemies of a great chef! [[EndangeredSouffle The soufflé]] will either rise or it won't; there's not a damn thing ''you'' can do about it, so you might as well just sit back and wait and see what happens."
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: Sisko felts these more keenly than most ''Trek'' Captains. Like Picard, he later warmed to his crew, particularly Kira whom he invited to watch a baseball game with him. On the other hand, he did lead his men in several suicide missions.
* CommandingCoolness: For three seasons.
* CommandingCoolness: For three seasons.
** Like all ''Trek'' Captains, Sisko was extremely fond of his ship and felt devastated when the Breen destroyed it.
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* GeniusBruiser: Brooks described his character as "a quick thinker, but also a deep thinker," which is mostly on-target. Following the debacle at Wolf 359, Sisko found an outlet for his rage at Utopia Planetia, where he oversaw the design and that's basically on target.construction for the U.S.S. Defiant.
* TheLostLenore: Jennifer Sisko, who bites the dust offscreen. However, Benjamin meets her again in the distant past via the Prophets' Orb of Time.
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* ScaryBlackMan: Apparently Worf is intimidated by him. Worf. Intimidated by a human. He plays this to the ''hilt'' in "For the Uniform", when he orders biogenic weapons to be launched at a Maquis settlement to get Eddington to surrender.
--> '''Sisko:''' Commander, launch torpedoes.
--> ''[Worf stares at him in shock; hesitates]''
--> '''Sisko:''' Commander, I said ''launch torpedoes!''
** In the third episode he has to deal with Kira interrupting an admiral's staff meeting to complain about Sisko's methods. The look on Kira's face is ''priceless.''
-->'''Sisko (smiling politely):''' Go over my head again and I'll have ''yours'' on a platter.
--> '''Sisko:''' Commander, launch torpedoes.
--> ''[Worf stares at him in shock; hesitates]''
--> '''Sisko:''' Commander, I said ''launch torpedoes!''
** In the third episode he has to deal with Kira interrupting an admiral's staff meeting to complain about Sisko's methods. The look on Kira's face is ''priceless.''
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* ScaryBlackMan: Apparently Worf is intimidated by him. Worf. Intimidated by a human.
** He plays this to the ''hilt'' in "For the Uniform", when he orders biogenic weapons to be launched at a Maquis settlement to get Eddington to surrender.
--> '''Sisko:''' -->'''Sisko:''' Commander, launch torpedoes.
-->torpedoes.\\
''[Worf stares at him inshock; hesitates]''
-->shock]''\\
'''Sisko:''' Commander, I said ''launch torpedoes!''
** In the third episode he has to deal with Kira interrupting an admiral's staff meeting to complain about Sisko's methods.The look on Kira's face is ''priceless.''
-->'''SiskoBig mistake.
--->'''Sisko''' (smilingpolitely):''' politely): Go over my head again again, and I'll have ''yours'' on a platter.
** He plays this to the ''hilt'' in "For the Uniform", when he orders biogenic weapons to be launched at a Maquis settlement to get Eddington to surrender.
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TheChick, ReallySevenHundredYearsOld (and the ActionGirl sometimes), with the slight twist of being an attractive young female - albeit one inhabited by a symbiont [[TheNthDoctor with several centuries of memories and experience from hosts of both genders]]. Some fans claim she mutated into a FauxActionGirl after she got together with Worf, although she first showed her proficiency with the ''bat'leth'' in Season 2. For Season 7, she is [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute replaced]] by ''Ezri'' Dax who is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} not at all similar]]. Luckily, her species had a built-in storyline reason that made this possible; [[TheNthDoctor symbionts need new hosts]] on occasion after all, and the joining adds the new personalities to the mix. For the hosts of the Dax symbiont beyond Jadzia and Ezri, see scroll to the "Others" folder.bottom of the page.
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* DrinkOrder: Coffee, Jamaican blend. Double sweet, double strong.
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* ButtMonkey: There was an "O'Brien must suffer" at least once a season, because the writers thought Colm Meaney was good in those plots.
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* ButtMonkey: There was an "O'Brien must suffer" episode at least once a season, because the writers thought Colm Meaney was good in those plots.
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* [[spoiler:{{Retirony}}]]: Sisko plans to build a house on Bajor once the war is settled with.
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* [[spoiler:{{Retirony}}]]: Sisko plans to build a house on Bajor once the war is settled with. [[spoiler: He survives, but on another plane with no way of knowing when exactly he'll be back.]]
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* [[DeepSpaceNine/MirrorUniverse Mirror Universe]]
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!!The Dax Symbiont:
!!!Lela Dax
The Dax Symbiont's first host. A famous politician.
* IronLady
!!!Tobin Dax:
The Dax Symbiont's second host. A nervous engineer.
* AdultChild
* NotGoodWithPeople
!!!Emony Dax:
The Dax Symbiont's third host. A skilled gymnast.
* TheMcCoy
!!!Audrid Dax
The Dax Symbiont's fourth host. A politician and a loving mother.
* TeamMom: although Dax's hosts have a total of nine children (as a mother three times and a father once), Jadzia usually attributes her maternal instincts to Audrid.
!!!Torias Dax
The Dax Symbiont's fifth host. A carefree pilot who died in a shuttle accident shortly after being joined.
* AcePilot
* BigEater
* InHarmsWay
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Torias died less than a year after being joined.
!!!Joran Dax (Jeff Magnus [=McBride=], Leigh J. [=McCloskey=])
The Dax Symbiont's sixth host. A foul-tempered musician who accidentally wound up with the Dax Symbiont after Torias' death. After Joran killed a few people, the Dax Symbiont was removed from him, resulting in his death. The Dax Symbiont's memories of Joran were subsequently suppressed.
* BlondGuysAreEvil
* CreepyMonotone
* GollumMadeMeDoIt: The black sheep of the Dax family, so to speak. Unfortunately, he's still floating around inside Dax's genetic makeup, somewhere.
* HannibalLecture
* MadArtist / WickedCultured: He could have been a great concert pianist, but had latent psychopathic tendencies.
* TheOtherDarrin
!!!Curzon Dax (Frank Owen Smith)
The Dax Symbiont's seventh host. An ambassador and ladies man, as well as an old friend of Sisko's.
* CoolOldGuy
* DirtyOldMan
* DrillSergeantNasty: Dax is infamous in the Trill Initiate Programme for having broken more initiates than any other Joined Trill. Initiates regard being assigned to Dax as a virtual death sentence that will kiss their chances of Joining goodbye forever. This caused Jadzia no end of problems when it came her turn to mentor, as '''she herself'' was bullied (and washed out of the Initiate Programme) by a Dax (Curzon).
* TheObiWan: To Sisko, whom he's been mentoring since Starfleet Academy if not earlier.
!!!Verad Dax (John Glover)
A trill who was passed over for receiving the Dax Symbiont, an event that ruined his life. He takes over Deep Space Nine during "Invasive Procedures" so he can take Dax from Jadzia.
* FriendlyEnemy
* GrandTheftMe
* NotSoHarmlessVillain
!!!Yedrin Dax (Gary Frank)
A host of the Dax Symbiont from the alternate timeline seen in "Children of Time".
* FutureMeScaresMe / IHatePastMe
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* WellIntentionedExtremist
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* [[DeepSpaceNine/FederationAndBajor Federation and Bajor]]
* [[DeepSpaceNine/QuarksBar Quark's Bar, Family, and Other Ferengi]]
* [[DeepSpaceNine/CardassianUnion Cardassian Union]]
* [[DeepSpaceNine/KlingonEmpire Klingon Empire]]
* [[DeepSpaceNine/TheDominion The Dominion]]
* [[DeepSpaceNine/QuarksBar Quark's Bar, Family, and Other Ferengi]]
* [[DeepSpaceNine/CardassianUnion Cardassian Union]]
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->''"So ''you're ''the commander of Deep Space 9. And the Emissary of the Prophets. Decorated combat officer, widower, father, mentor and... oh, yes, the man who started the war with the Dominion. [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller Somehow I thought you'd be taller.]]."''
-->-- '''Senator Vreenak''', "In the Pale Moonlight"
TheCaptain (though actually only ranked Commander until late Season 3), with a touch of the WarriorPoet due to his motivations for helming the titular space station. Prior to the series, Sisko became a widower following the infamous Wolf 359 incident ([[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]) and was left adrift with a young son, Jake. He briefly considered resigning from Starfleet, but was instead saddled with the task of admitting Bajor into the Federation. Following a chance encounter with entities living inside the Bajoran Wormhole, Sisko is ([[ReluctantHero reluctantly]]) anointed as the Emissary, their corporeal agent and a [[CrystalDragonJesus religious icon]] to the Bajorans.
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* AntiHero: Type III. He enters Type IV and even Type V territory in certain episodes (For the Uniform, In the Pale Moonlight).
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: At the end of the series Sisko is ascended into the celestial temple for an unspecified amount of time.]]
** [[spoiler: Emphasis on "unspecified": the Prophets are non-linear beings outside time.]]
--->'''Kasidy:''' When will you be back?\\
'''Sisko:''' It's hard to say - maybe a year, maybe... yesterday. But I ''will'' be back.
* {{Badass}}: Takes on several Jem'Hadar on his own and also leads several of the fleet battles.
** BadassBeard: Though he did have hair in earlier seasons, he eventually went bald with a goatee.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Current trope image holder. Sisko looks far more badass once he goes bald.
* TheBigEasy: He hails from New Orleans, and is the son of a creole chef. Joseph Sisko still operates a restaurant there.
* {{Blackmail}}: How he usually keeps Quark in-line or gets him to do something for the good of the station. Usually leads to BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord.
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Sisko is a pretty irritable guy in own right, but he's more likely to treat you to a DeathGlare and then storm out because he has more important things to do. That's when his Doberman (Kira) comes into the picture.
* TheCastShowoff: The moment in "Far Beyond the Stars" when Sisko briefly breaks into song seems designed to showcase that Avery Brooks' voice is sexy both speaking ''and'' singing. And then, in "Badda Bing Badda Bang," they do it again.
* CommandingCoolness: For three seasons.
* CompanionCube: His baseball.
* TheChosenOne: Being the Emissary. So much so that [[spoiler:the Prophets arranged for his birth!]] As the Emissary to the Prophets, "The Sisko" has a destiny to fulfill, many trials to face, and an important role in Bajoran theology and prophecy.
* CrystalDragonJesus: The Emissary is a messiah figure in the Bajoran religion.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: For the first episode at least. The Prophets help him get over it ([[TheChosenOne giving him his life back, as was prophesied]]) when he teaches them the nature of linear existence and they make him explain why he keeps living in his own "past" if the point is to move forward.
* DatingCatwoman: His relationship with [[spoiler: Kasidy Yates when she turns out to be running supplies (medicine and food according to her) to the Maquis.]]
** He also slept with ''both'' Intendant Kira and (an unjoined) Jadzia from the Mirror Universe.
* {{Determinator}}: In the episode "Paradise", Sisko and O'Brien are trapped on a planet by an EvilLuddite. She offers Sisko water if he will only take off his uniform. After a night in the punishment box, she offers it again, and Sisko's response is to put ''himself'' in the box.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The only being to knock Q flat on his ass ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome and get away with it]]''.
-->'''Q''': You ''hit'' me! ''Picard'' never hit me!
-->'''Sisko''': I'm ''not'' Picard.
* DivineParentage: In a complicated way. [[spoiler:His mother was human... but was possessed by a Prophet at the time. Once the possession wore off, she ran and left his father Joe heartbroken.]]
* DrinkOrder: Sisko picked up a love of Klingon coffee from Curzon. He certainly drinks the most elaborate concoctions of any Trek Captain.
-->"One raktajino with [[RealMenWearPink a jacarine peel!]]"
* AFatherToHisMen: Throughout the series, Sisko shows great concern for the people under his charge.
-->'''Adm. Ross:''' They're a good crew.\\
'''Sisko:''' ''(visibly moved)'' The best.
* GameOfNerds: He's such a fan that uses it as an allegory for linear time and existence -- in ''the first episode!''
* GeniusBruiser: Brooks described his character as "a quick thinker, but also a deep thinker," and that's basically on target.
* AGodIAmNot: Well, in his defense, [[spoiler:he's only half-god]].
* GoodIsNotNice: Not if its pushed, anyway.
* GuileHero: He has a reputation for fighting, but he's also ''very'' good at talking his way through difficult situations, even manipulating the Jem'hadar when they take over the ship and have guns pointed at his head, or successfully posing as Gabriel Bell and convincing an on-edge thug that they're on the same side in order to protect the hostages.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: He tackles Dukat off of a cliff into the aptly-named Fire Caves, although the Prophets grab him.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: He was this close to his mentor and best friend, Curzon Dax. Then Curzon died and Dax became Jadzia Dax, with whom he was still HeterosexualLifePartners, to the point of still calling her "Old Man". The Jadzia died and Dax became Ezri Dax, who was a neurotic mess after an unexpected Joining that she had never prepared for, and they were HeterosexualLifePartners ''again'', only this time he was Dax's mentor.
* HotDad: Yates thinks so.
* ImportantHaircut: Sisko grows a goatee and loses the buzz cut after he's promoted. It's around the same time the series started to get dark.
* TheKirk
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Sisko admitted to some fanboy glee at breathing the same air as James T. Kirk, but nonetheless ordered his squad to stay focused on their mission. The episode ended with Sisko [[HypocriticalHumor getting Kirk's autograph]] (Kirk thought he was signing a crew complement list).
* KungFuJesus: Word of God cites Moses as an inspiration for Sisko's story.
* MenDontCry: Averted in the very first episode. Reliving the memory of your beloved spouse dying would be enough to make anyone cry.
* TheMessiah
* ParentsAsPeople[=/=]GoodParents: He has a tough time raising Jake, but does a pretty good job of it anyway.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Jadzia Dax. He was also ''very'' close friends with Dax's previous male host Curzon. Less so with Ezri because she was so much younger than him and had so much trouble adjusting to the joining that they almost swapped roles with Sisko becoming ''Dax's'' mentor.
** Subverted when he traveled to the Parallel Universe. Where apparently he had sex with the alternate (Dax-less) Jadzia in order to maintain his cover as the alternate Sisko...
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: This [[BerserkButton irritates him]]; it's one of the reasons he doesn't initially care to try out the Rat Pack era casino simulation.
** It was [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] in that same episode when it was explained that equality regardless of race or gender wasn't the way things were, but it's the way it ''should have'' been.
* ResignedToTheCall: Sisko drags his heels all the way to his new assignment on [=DS9=]. It's a miserable job, and no one wants it. He quickly changes his tune after convening with the Prophets, who restore his hopes for the future.
** Being the Emissary in general also turns into this, what with all the religious ceremonies that he has to take part in and everything else that comes with the job. "Accession," however, changes that viewpoint.
* [[spoiler:{{Retirony}}]]: Sisko plans to build a house on Bajor once the war is settled with.
* ScaryBlackMan: Apparently Worf is intimidated by him. Worf. Intimidated by a human. He plays this to the ''hilt'' in "For the Uniform", when he orders biogenic weapons to be launched at a Maquis settlement to get Eddington to surrender.
--> '''Sisko:''' Commander, launch torpedoes.
--> ''[Worf stares at him in shock; hesitates]''
--> '''Sisko:''' Commander, I said ''launch torpedoes!''
** In the third episode he has to deal with Kira interrupting an admiral's staff meeting to complain about Sisko's methods. The look on Kira's face is ''priceless.''
-->'''Sisko (smiling politely):''' Go over my head again and I'll have ''yours'' on a platter.
* SecondLove: Kasidy is Sisko's, after Jennifer, who was killed in the pilot (at Wolf 359).
* SeriousBusiness: He gets a little emotional over coaching baseball. Usually an understated performer, Brooks' capacity for [[ChewingTheScenery ham]] is on full display in "Take Me Out to the Holosuite."
-->'''Sisko:''' You are finished! Gone! Off the team!\\
'''Rom:''' ....I can't play?\\
'''Sisko''': THAT'S THE SMARTEST THING YOU'VE SAID ALL WEEK!
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Several times throughout the series.
* StopWorshippingMe: Feels this way about being the Emissary initially, but mostly keeps it to himself. He stays rather humble about the position even after he accepts it as part of his identity.
* TeamChef: He claims his dad taught him everything he knows, and his dad is the owner and operator of a restaurant, so in a 24th century where cooking is mostly a hobby, he's a hobbyist (and a good one, we are told).
* TimeyWimeyBall: [[spoiler:His entire existence.]] Since the Prophets exist outside of linear space-time, their first meeting with The Sisko took place relatively speaking ''before'' they'd sent their prophecies to the Ancient Bajorans about the Emissary. [[spoiler:To ensure that that meeting took place, they sent one of their number to engineer his very ''birth''. ]]Furthermore, it's very likely that the Prophets began influencing Bajoran society due to meeting Sisko, making him somewhat culpable for most of Bajoran history... and thus the reason he first arrived at Bajor to begin with! Yeah, it's ''kinda'' complicated.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Both Sisko and Dax have admitted that they share a mutual attraction towards the other, despite never acting on it, it would be too weird given their previous relationship. As he puts it, "She may not be Curzon, but she's still DAX!"
** He does sleep with her mirror-universe counterpart while posing as their Ben Sisko though; an unjoined Jadzia was that Ben's mistress, and he had to maintain his cover when she threw herself at him after all…
* VillainByProxyFallacy: A rarity in how he views this of ''himself'' during "In The Pale Moonlight".
-->'''Sisko''': I am an accessory to murder(...) I think I can live with it.
* WarriorPoet: Can sometimes do this, notable in ''In The Pale Moonlight''.
* WouldntHitAGirl: He half-jokes about this whenever Dax manages to piss him off. He'll comment, "If you were still a man..." while knowing perfectly well that even if she's not really the "Old Man" anymore, Dax could still easily beat him.
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Sisko struggles to keep a tight lid on his temper, to the point where he comes across as incredibly mellow. Don't be fooled.
!!Major/Colonel Kira Nerys (NanaVisitor)
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->'''Kira''': Well, now that you have another pip on your collar, does that mean I can't disagree with you anymore?\\
'''Sisko''': No. It just means I'm never wrong.\\
'''Kira''': Ah. We'll see about that.
-->-- "The Adversary"
The most visible Bajoran and, at least initially, TheLancer. She resented Starfleet's presence, thinking of Bajor as having swapped one set of occupiers for another. Grew up as a Bajoran [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters freedom fighter]] and is thus skilled in guerrilla warfare, as well as capable enough to take on a Klingon in [[ActionGirl hand-to-hand combat]]. Begins her story arc angry and broken, but slowly [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosts]] over the course of the series. Kira is her family name and Nerys is her given name, said last as part of Bajoran naming custom (like Japanese names).
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* ActionGirl: Good lord, she beats the stuffing out of a ''serial killer'' while the equivalent of ''[[PregnantBadass nine months pregnant]].''
* AntiHero: Type IV/V. She is one of the most ruthless protagonists in ''Trek'' canon.
* {{Badass}}: Manages to fight while ''pregnant''.
* BerserkButton: The Cardassian Occupation, [[ShellShockedVeteran unsurprisingly]].
* BreakTheCutie: That's quite the achievement but Silarin Prin, from 'The Darkness and the Light' episode managed to do that, ''twice''. First, he [[spoiler: killed all the friends Kira made]] during her days at the Shakaar Resistance cell, except Shakaar himself. Second, he cracked her armor by trashing her actions and ideology, backing it with some good points. She managed to defend herself, but considering what she said to the rescue team after their fight, it's obvious Kira thought he was right to some extent, even talking in the same maneer he had.
* BrokenBird: The horrors she has seen - well, she can [[TearJerker break your heart]].
* ColonelBadass: Promoted in the seventh season.
** CommandingCoolness: At the end.
* CombatPragmatist: Fair tactics do not keep you alive in the Bajoran Resistance. Kira, therefore, doesn't use them.
* CustomUniformOfSexy: Later traded in her padded-shoulder uniform for a [[CombatStilettos high-heeled]] catsuit, in the grand ''Trek'' tradition. The other members of her militia are stuck wearing the garish red & pink number.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Cardassian Occupation. In other words, she is a [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Holocaust survivor]].
* DefrostingIceQueen: At the start of the series Kira is always all business and is suspicious of Starfleet. She calms down after Sisko saves her life and proves that he's willing to defend the Bajorans
** Largely moves away from this trope altogether as the series progresses. CharacterDevelopment comes into play as we learn that Kira, while always wearing "armor" to some degree, is more then capable of kindness, and genuine human emotion.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Initially. Demoted to Tritagonist after the arrival of Worf. Nana Visitor, to her credit, knew that her early prominence wouldn't last, and very much took it in stride. She still remains a critical character, although more of her adventures take place off-screen during the Dominion arc.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Punch that console like you mean it, girl!
** The first time we meet her, she's in the middle of a screaming match with the Bajoran provisional government, and when she sees Sisko the first words out of her mouth are a rather tart "I suppose you'll want the office." About the only thing we ''don't'' see in those first thirty seconds is her soft side - it takes us half a season to see ''that''.
* FantasticCasteSystem: According to the old Bajoran caste system, she was supposed to be an artist. The castes were abandoned during the occupation, but her parents were still apparently disappointed and embarrassed that she never showed any artistic talent. When she attempts to be artistic during ''Accession'' when Akorem Laan is temporarily the Emissary, she ends up sculpting one of the ''worst'' pieces of pottery that's ever existed; it doesn't look like '''anything'''. She ends up giving it to Sisko, sarcastically noting that it's "a Kira Nerys original."
* FantasticRacism: Against Cardassians, because she was on the other end of it from them during their brutal occupation of her planet. Growing past it is part of her character development, beginning with the episode "Duet" and culminating perhaps in "Ties of Blood and Water".
* FieryRedhead
* GeneralRipper: She's down a few pay grades, and more heroic (and principled) than most examples, but if you replace 'Enemy X' with 'the Cardassians', she fits perfectly. Getting out of this is, consequently, a major part of her CharacterDevelopment.
* HotBlooded: Kira is very... passionate about what she believes in, although she ''is'' capable of controlling her emotions when the chips are down.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: As mentioned, she's a former Resistance fighter, and not of [[LaResistance the prettier variety]] either.
-->'''Kira''': ''None of you'' belonged on Bajor. It wasn't your world. For ''fifty years'', you ''raped'' our planet! You lived on our land and you took the food out of our mouths, and I don't care whether you held a phaser in your hand or you ''ironed shirts'' for a living; you were ''all'' guilty and you were '''''all legitimate targets!'''''
-->- "The Darkness and the Light"
* InterspeciesRomance: Bajoran/Changeling.
* KickedUpstairs: Sisko requested a Bajoran national to accompany him as a token of goodwill. The Bajoran government seized the chance to get Kira out of their hair.
* TheLancer: At first.
* LastNameBasis: For the first few series, very rarely is she called by her given name, Nerys. Even into the later series, the only people who regularly call her this are Jadzia Dax, her closest friend, and Odo, her love interest. And even Odo only switches over once they actually get together.
* LoveEpiphany: Or as she calls it, a "moment of pure clarity." Good thing she doesn't waste time, because it took her the better part of a decade to figure it out.
* MajorlyAwesome: For most of the show's run.
* TheMcCoy: A darker version, as she is not afraid to PayEvilUntoEvil, a la her stint with the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Resistance]].
* MoeCouplet: With Odo.
* NumberTwo: Of Deep Space Nine and, initially, the ''Defiant'' despite not being a member of Starfleet; essentially shares the role with Worf from season 4 onward.
* NotSoDifferent: With Garak, interestingly, while as liaison to the Cardassian LaResistance. Most of the rebels were rather oafish soldiers and Garak and Kira were notable for having the most experience with [[CloakAndDagger sinister doings.]]
* OddFriendship: With O'Brien. With hints of awkward UnresolvedSexualTension in several later episodes.
** [[spoiler: Hint nothing, when she moves in with the O'Briens as the surrogate carrier of their child, the B-plot of an episode is dedicated to them realizing their mutual attraction and coming to terms with it.]]
* ObliviousToLove: Justified, as Odo admits that he'd been doing his best to conceal his feelings for her.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Less so now that she's gotten tangled up with Starfleet, but this is ''definitely'' part of her past.
* PowerHair
* ReligiousBruiser: Religious enough that the Prophets choose her as a vessel in the Reckoning.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Her backstory as a leader of the Bajoran Resistance.
* SecondLove: Odo is arguably this for her, after [[spoiler:Vedek Bareil]], who [[spoiler:was tragically killed]] early in the series.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The Occupation was ''not'' fun for her.
* SupportingLeader: Leads the ground assault on Cardassia Prime. As irony would have it, her troops are composed of rebelling Cardassians, whom she trains using the same guerrilla tactics that overthrew Bajor's occupation.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Her part was originally written to be ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' RecurringCharacter Ro Laren, but Michelle Forbes didn't want to commit to a TV series. By a couple episodes in, however, Kira had become a character in her own right and developed her own personality and history. {{Showrunner}}s later remarked that Kira - who was emphatically ''not'' a member of Starfleet and didn't trust the Federation one whit - provided much more opportunity for drama and conflict.
* [[TenMinutesInTheCloset Ten Hours In The Closet]]: Used to resolve a months-long disagreement between Odo and Kira (specifically, his falling under the influence of the [[spoiler:[[BigBad Female Changeling]]]]) in "You are Cordially Invited" - so we never ''actually'' hear the discussion, we just find out that they've been up all night talking. Incidentally, Visitor and Auberjonois pitched a fit about this and insisted that any other arguments between the two be resolved ''on''screen.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type 1, normally ''tsuntsun'' but liable to go ''deredere'' in certain romantic situations, usually around Odo.
* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy Hot Girlfriend]]: With Odo.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With O'Brien, during the time when she is the surrogate carrying Miles and Keiko's baby. Both Kira and O'Brien naturally freak out when they realise they're developing romantic feelings for the other, having gotten closer during this time.
* UptightLovesWild: She's the "wild" one, being considerably more fiery than the much more sedate Odo.
* WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid: Kira's not ''human'', but close enough.
* WhatTheHellHero: More than a few people are uncomfortable about her terrorist past. She is unrepentant due to the IDidWhatIHadToDo nature of fighting the Cardassian Occupation. Nevertheless, it does cause her a not-insignificant amount of {{angst}}.
* WhenSheSmiles: How Odo feels about her.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Almost a decade's worth with Odo before TheyDo.
* ZipMeUp: Odo. Interestingly, this is ''after'' they've gotten together - so he kisses her shoulder along the way.
!!Odo (Rene Auberjonois)
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->''"At the request of Commander Sisko, I will hereafter be [[CaptainsLog recording a daily log of law enforcement affairs]]. The reason for this exercise is beyond my comprehension, except perhaps that Humans have a compulsion to keep records and lists and files. So many in fact, that they have to invent new ways to store them microscopically. Otherwise their records would overrun all known civilization. My own very adequate memory not being good enough for Starfleet, I am pleased to put my voice to this official record of this day: Everything's under control. End log."''
-->-- "Neccessary Evil"
Functions as TheSpock initially, later becoming TheJudge. Served as Chief of security (affectionately referred to as "[[RedBaron Constable]]") of Deep Space Nine, having occupied that position even during the Cardassian Occupation. A [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] (or "Changeling", a clever double-meaning). Originally a bit angsty over not knowing his origins; eventually he discovers that his own people are the leaders of the Dominion and thus the enemy, which doesn't really help with the angst one bit. During the series, it's revealed that Odo's name is a shortened form of a Cardassian term, ''odo'ital'' ("nothing", a mistranslation of the Bajoran "unknown sample"), that the Cardassian overseers gave him during the Occupation.
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* AbusiveParents: Odo views Dr. Mora this way for a long time thanks to the unpleasant methods Mora used in researching him, even after learning that Odo was an organism rather than vaguely organic goop. There's also the name Odo itself: from the Cardassian word for "nothing.[[hottip:*:odo'ital, their term for "unknown sample"]]" Mora contends that he had Cardassians breathing down his neck for results and his methods motivated Odo to develop, and the two men eventually reconcile.
* AchillesHeel: He must revert to his [[ShapeshifterDefaultForm liquid form]] every sixteen hours to regenerate. If prevented from doing so, he experiences pain and physical deterioration. Garak takes advantage of this weakness when he tortures Odo using a device that prevents him from reverting to his liquid form.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: He ''rewrote history'' to save Kira. Kira, however, wasn't pleased, and it created a rift between them that took months to heal.
** Possibly why he subverts it later, when he tells the senior staff ''not'' to purge a Prophet from her body, as she is quite willing to risk her life in their battle.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: In a bucket. Beat ''that'', Worf.
** After [[spoiler: losing and then regaining his shapeshifting powers]], he tried to keep to sleeping in a bed (as he rather enjoyed it) but kept sliding off when he reverted to his gelatinous form.
* AndAnotherThing: A staple of his investigative/interview technique, in the great tradition of Series/{{Columbo}}.
* {{Badass}}: He's not much use in a phaser battle, since he doesn't like using them and, as "Crossover" so... messily revealed, he's quite vulnerable to them. But in a hand-to-hand fight, or with non-energy weapons, he's basically invincible.
* BerserkButton: In "The Alternate," Odo reacts ''very'' angrily when Mora suggests he return to Mora's science facility for medical treatment. Given his [[AbusiveParents experiences in Mora's lab]] as an infant, this is not surprising.
--> '''Odo:''' I... am not going back to the center with you.
--> '''Mora:''' Why? We'll work through this together. We'll solve it together like we used to.
--> '''Odo:''' ''NO!!''
* BodyHorror: When an illness causes his physical appearance to deteriorate, such as the Section 31 virus and the infection inflicted on him by the Founders to force him back to the Great Link. Also when Garak tortures him using a device that prevents him from regenerating, his appearance becomes horrific.
* ByTheBookCop: With a dash of [[CowboyCop cowboy]]. He follows the rules to the letter, but isn't above letting the small fish go free in pursuit of a bigger offender. Contrast with Worf, who doesn't share Odo's discretion and bungles a few cases.
* CelibateHero: At first. In the first season, he admits that he has never "coupled" and fails to see the appeal of it. Subverted later in the series when Arissa takes his virginity, when the Female Changeling enchants him, and when he and Kira fall in love.
* CharacterTics: The short, businesslike nod he gives to acknowledge orders from his superiors. It's basically series shorthand for 'this is now guaranteed to happen'.
** He also features a condescending grunt (''...Huh'') that almost qualifies as a CatchPhrase. Usually aimed at Quark - in fact, it's the last thing he "says" to him.
* TheComicallySerious: He actually invokes it sometimes.
* DatingCatwoman: A brief sexual relationship with the Female Changeling, under the guise of learning about solids and their personal habits. Really, she had hoped to brainwash him into letting go of Kira.
* DeadpanSnarker: When he's not being TheComicallySerious. Quark is his principal victim, naturally.
* [[{{DefrostingIceQueen}} Defrosting Ice King]]: Starts the series perplexed and often disdainful of humanoid habits, such as courtship rituals which involve "bad poetry and sacrificing plants."
* DirtyBusiness: Years after the fact, he still feels guilty for having worked for the Cardassian occupiers. He admired Arissa for escaping from a dishonorable life whereas he did not.
* DoesNotLikeGuns: Prefers to use shapeshifting whenever possible.
* EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity: He has the appearance and psychological makeup of a middle-aged man. However, he was adrift in space as an infant Changeling for an unknown amount of time, meaning that he is likely chronologically older than he appears.
* EvilMentor: The Female Changeling.
* ExpressiveHair: Odo's hairstyle communicates his obsession with tidiness and order. Very rarely does Odo's hair fall past his face; when it does, it signals that he is figuratively and literally 'coming apart'.
* FantasticRacism: He's on the receiving end of this when he is a suspect in a Bajoran's murder. His office is vandalized and [[{{Fantastic Slurs}} "SHIFTER"]] is written on the wall. Later, an angry mob threatens to kill him.
** His fellow Changelings are baffled that Odo is not overtly racist toward "solids." The Female Changeling tries to pull Odo from his life among humanoids several times, and the Changeling infiltrator invites Odo to leave them. Even Laas is profoundly distrustful of them.
* [[spoiler: FinalSolution: Averted. He prevents a Changeling genocide when he agrees to return to the Great Link and cure the other changelings of a devastating disease engineered by Section 31.]]
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: He spends much of his time in humanoid form in order to interact smoothly with solids. And with good reason; in "Chimera", Quark observes that Odo's liquid form triggers primal fears in humanoids, thanks to evolution.
* GutturalGrowler: Harumph!
* HatesSmallTalk: Inevitably leading up to making small talk with Worf about how they hate small talk.
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: In the "Chimera" episode, he embraces Kira while in the form of shimmering light.
* HulkOut: An encounter with an alien gas disrupts Odo's body, turning him into a giant monster reminiscent of Yellow Devil from ''Megaman''. An emotional trigger is required for the change, and afterward Odo had no memories of his actions. ("The Alternate")
* [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe I Can't Believe A Girl Like You Would Notice Me!]]: This is never actually said aloud after Odo ''finally'' gets Kira. That doesn't stop it from being written all over his face every time he so much as looks at her.
** His surpise at Kira's love might spring from doubts that the Female Changeling instilled in him in "Heart of Stone".
--> '''Female Changeling:''' She's never going to love you. How could she? You are a changeling.
* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: After he reveals his feelings and Kira is no longer with Shakaar, Odo tells her that he ''would'' ask her out, but with the Dominion and all he wants to put it off until they have more time.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Arissa and later Kira. His relationship with Arissa ended when it was discovered that she was [[GoodAdulteryBadAdultery married]], [[spoiler: and the latter ended when Odo returned to the Great Link to cure his people of a morphogenic virus that threatened to wipe them out.]]
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler: In "The Alternate," when he unconsciously transforms into a monster several times.]]
* TheJudge: Later on in the show. It's explained that his impartial attitude allowed him to be the security chief on [=DS9=] even during the occupation.
** In "Take Me Out to the Holosuite," Sisko names him umpire for the baseball game because he will be this no matter what.
* LongingLook: Constantly at Kira.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: The Female Changeling has this effect on him for a while.
* MagicPants: {{Justified|Trope}} in that he creates clothing out of his own substance.
* MeaningfulName: His original name, Odo Ital, is derived from ''odo'ital'' ("nothing" in Cardassian, a mistranslation of the Bajoran "unknown sample"). As an infant, Odo was studied in a science facility on Cardassian-occupied Bajor.
* ModeLock / BroughtDownToNormal: In "Broken Link", where the Founders lock him into the form of a normal humanoid in retaliation for his being the first Changeling to kill another. In the Founders' eyes, this was {{a fate worse than death}}.
--> '''Female Changeling:''' Oh, poor Odo. Perhaps we should have killed you. It would have been far less cruel.
** He regains his shapeshifting ability after the events of "The Begotten".
* MoeCouplet: With Kira.
* MonsterRoommate: In "The Search, Part I", he briefly serves as this to Quark, literally and figuratively. Limited space on board the Defiant means that the two must share quarters, which becomes very uncomfortable for both men when Odo has to [[ShapeshifterDefaultForm liquefy]] in order to rest.
-->'''Odo:''' I have been holding this shape for sixteen hours. I have to revert back to my liquid state, but I don't want you to watch and gawk at me.
-->'''Quark:''' I understand, completely. This is a very private moment and I won't interfere. This won't be so bad, sharing--
-->'''Odo:''' I HAVE NO INTEREST IN SPEAKING TO YOU, OR IN LISTENING TO YOUR WITLESS PRATTLE. SO STAY OUT OF MY WAY, OR YOU'LL REGRET THE DAY YOU EVER MET ME.
* MoralityChain: Kira. In "Chimera", Laas insists that Kira is the only reason Odo hasn't left Deep Space Nine and joined the Dominion.
--> '''Odo:''' I won't have anything to do with the Founders and their war.
--> '''Laas:''' Odo, we linked. I know the truth. You stayed here because of Kira. If it weren't for her, you would be with our people. War or no war, you would be a Founder!
* MosesInTheBullrushes: He was discovered in the Denorios Belt as an infant.
* MundaneUtility: Shapeshifting is a wonderful talent for espionage. It also lets you give ''terrific'' massages.
* MyGreatestFailure: Allowing Dukat to execute three innocent Bajorans as retribution for a bomb attack. There was enough evidence to at the very least arrest, but had Odo dug deeper, he would have been able to find them innocent, instead of the amount needed to satisfy the Cardassian judicial system.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: The Founders protest ''far'' too much.
* NeatFreak: Is very upset after Dax shifts all the things in his room by ''centimeters.''
--> '''Odo:''' "You humanoids are all alike, you have no sense of ''order!'' And Dax is the most humanoid person I know."
** Unfortunately, without realizing it, by being ''this'' much of a neat freak, he's being a stereotypical Changeling.
---> '''Female Changeling:''' It is not justice you ''desire,'' Odo--but order, the same as we do.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: A {{starfish alien}} shapeshifter cop. InSpace
* NotSoDifferent: Odo has an inherent need to maintain order, displaying fascist tendencies when discussing how he'd ''prefer'' to be allowed to run the Promenade. One could infer that these same traits are likely what caused the Founders to create the Dominion in the first place.
** His Mirror Universe counterpart is a brutal slave overseer, hinting at what Odo could have become without a strong moral code to balance out his need for order.
* OlderAndWiser: His other self in "Children of Time."
* ParentalSubstitute: To the Infant Changeling in "The Begotten" and the Jem'Hadar boy in "The Abandoned."
* PatientZero: Of the [[spoiler:Section 31]] virus.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Mrs. Troi. Although it is non-romantic, she is the only person (aside from Kira) that he admits to loving. He even married her to protect her and her child.
* RaisedByNatives: He's a Changeling who was raised by a Bajoran scientist, surrounded by humanoids all his life.
* RageBreakingPoint: In "Crossfire," when he smashes up his quarters in a fit of romantic jealousy.
* RomanticFalseLead: Arissa, and later the Female Changeling.
* RulesLawyer: Allow Odo to get his hands on a baseball rulebook, and weep.
-->"No player shall at any time make contact with the umpire in ''any'' manner. The prescribed penalty for the violation is immediate ejection from the game. Rule Number 4.06, Sub-Section A, paragraph four. Look it up, but do it in the stands. You're '''''GONE!'''''"
** As part of his objectivity, he did it to both teams. Though he clearly enjoyed doing it to Solok.
* [[spoiler: SaveTheVillain: He cures the Female Changeling of a deadly disease afflicting the Changeling race.]]
* ShapeshifterBaggage: In the third episode, he transforms himself into a ''rat''. (Sorry, Cardassian vole) Incidentally, this is also his sole ability in the game adaptation.
** High-level shapeshifters, such as Las, have been able to morph into mist and even fire.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Although he normally appears as a humanoid adult male, his natural state is a gelatinous liquid. To rest, he must regularly return to his gelatinous form.
* ShapeShifterShowdown: With a Changeling infiltrator in "The Adversary."
* ShapeshiftingSquick: He and the Female Changeling have sexual relations in humanoid form during the occupation of Deep Space Nine. She tells him that it's nothing to the intimacy of the Great Link.
* TheSnarkKnight: Always manages to have something snarky to say about ''everything''.
* TheSpock: Most of the time. As the series progresses, we see more of the strong emotions beneath the surface, which occasionally cloud his judgment.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: He may seem cold and unfeeling on the outside, but those who know him admit that's he's just about the sweetest man alive. Mrs. Troi and Kira are very good at bringing this out of him.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler: His unconscious transformation into a monstrous form in "The Alternate", triggered by exposure to a psychotropic gas on L-S VI.]]
* {{Tearjerker}}: A poignant example is when he [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove confesses his love for Kira]] in "Heart of Stone." Another is when Kira comforts him as he deteriorates from the Section 31 virus in season 7. [[spoiler: When he and Kira are forced to part ways in the series finale, despite their love for each other, is perhaps the biggest tearjerker of all.]]
* TokenHeroicOrc / TokenEnemyMinority: Until Season 3, nobody has the slightest inkling that [[spoiler:[=DS9=]'s lowly security chief is a relative of the Dominion's {{Shadow Dictator}}s]].
* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy Hot Girlfriend]]: With Kira.
* UnusualEars: While in humanoid form, his ears are smooth and blunted, like [[UncannyValley his facial features]].
* UnwantedFalseFaith: To those Dominion devotees he encounters.
* UptightLovesWild: You really can't get more uptight than Odo.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Quark, eventually.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting
* WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid: Kira is not ''human'', but close enough.
* WhatTheHellHero: When he becomes involved with the Female Changeling and neglects his resistance responsibilities during the occupation of Deep Space Nine. Given the Founder's brutal tyranny and the Female Changeling's previous antics, this was [[LoveMakesYouDumb not his smartest move]]. Kira angrily calls him out on it.
* [[WillTheyOrWontThey Will They Or Won't They]]: Almost a decade's worth with Kira before TheyDo.
* [[spoiler: YouCantGoHomeAgain: Subverted]] in the series finale.
!!Doctor Julian Bashir (Siddig El Fadil a.k.a. Alexander Siddig)
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->''"I didn't want some cushy job or a research grant, I wanted ''this''! The farthest reaches of the galaxy; one of the most remote outposts available. ''This '' [[DareToBeBadass is where the adventure is! This is where heroes are made]]! Right here - in the wilderness."''
-->-- "Emissary"
Thrill-seeking newcomer who believes he's God's gift to medicine; life on the station would [[BreakTheHaughty shatter that notion]] pretty quickly. Started off alternatively being droolingly infatuated with Dax, painfully green, and an all-round CasanovaWannabe, as well as coming off as a bit of an UpperClassTwit (prattling eagerly about frontier medicine gets up the locals' noses). Later his behavior gives way to some [[HiddenDepths dark personal secrets]]. The showrunners weren't sure what to do with Bashir in the beginning, having rather off-handedly written a Doctor into the show. Negative viewer response to the character [[ShillingTheWesley only emboldened the writers]] to make Bashir a fan favorite; in this rare case, it worked. Notable as the first time that a US TV show recognized that [[ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion not all English people are white]].
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* {{Adorkable}}: How much of the cast feels about him later in the series.
* AlwaysSecondBest: On purpose.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Though the name is clearly Arabic, nobody ever mentions where Bashir hails from - a fact which Siddig was personally proud of.
* BioAugmentation: Not by choice, and kept secret for most of the series.
* BolivianArmyEnding: Some of his favorite holosuite programs are the [[TheHomeFront Battle of Britain]], [[RememberTheAlamo the Alamo]], and the [[GrecoPersianWars Battle of Thermopylae]]. Ezri teasingly speculates about these "annihilation fantasies."
* CasanovaWannabe: His attempts to be suave always fail horribly.
* CerebusRetcon: The revelation about his genetic enhancements casts a much darker light on his initial UpperClassTwit-ish behavior.
* CombatMedic: Holy cow, the medic just stabbed his captor in the neck! Justified, given the stakes, but somewhat unexpected.
** Gives a good showing of himself in "The Siege of AR-558" as well, and manages to come out of a brawl with a dozen TOS-era Klingons unscathed.
* CompanionCube: His teddy bear, Kukalaka.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Towards Dax. It doesn't work with Jadzia. Does with Ezri (who he is not dogged with, but she reveals that Jadzia would have reciprocated if Worf hadn't arrived when he did).
** Although by the time Worf arrived, he'd matured considerably.
* MrFanservice
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Garak was implied to be hitting on Bashir during their first meeting -- though the Paramount suits put the kibosh on that, right quick.
* FanOfThePast: Bashir is a huge geek about 1960s spy fiction and something of a war history buff.
* FantasticRacism: His genetic augmentation nearly got him kicked out of Starfleet when they found out, due to the Federation's strict, almost draconian, laws against it. Every other augment in the series gets stuffed into a clinic/prison, though this is partially because the poor quality of their augmentation has left them extremely smart but lacking in social skills or common sense. Bashir is one of the few that doesn't have extreme personality quirks or dangerous amounts of ambition. Sisko mentions that Bashir is the first case they've dealt with in decades, making this a very rare occurrence indeed. Sisko also pointed out that the law is somewhat dated simply because it is so rarely enforced, so it may just be a case of them not getting around to updating the books. It's also possible that this is a much more common occurrence than anyone wants to admit, [[FridgeBrilliance it's just that it's a lot harder to catch someone who several times more intelligent than the average human]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A throwaway moment occurs in the S4 episode ''Homefront'', when Odo chats with O'Brien and Bashir right before a trip to Earth. O'Brien cheerfully asks Odo to say hi to O'Brien's parents in Dublin. Odo turns and asks Bashir if he has any family he'd like Odo to visit; Bashir immediately clams up and changes the subject, a hint at his strained relationship with his parents almost a full season before it's explicitly established.
* GenreSavvy: At least in regards to James Bond novels.
* GoodCounterpart: To Khan Noonien Singh, who was also Indian.
* GoodWithNumbers: He's able to do very complex calculations in his head.
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster?: How some feel about his augmentations. Julian apparently took it to heart, as he's allowed his personal life and career to fall to shambles, too afraid to attract attention.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Julian claims that Miles likes him more than Miles ''loves'' Keiko. Although Miles would like to deny this, he does admit to sometimes wishing that Keiko was more like Julian.
* HospitalHottie
* InsufferableGenius: He tends to brag about beating a Vulcan in a racquetball match and his many medical miracles. Ironically, this is toned down after his augmentation is revealed.
** Siddig has revealed that he deliberately made Bashir jerkish because he knew the show would run for years and he wanted to show CharacterDevelopment. This turned out to fit well with the later idea that it's because of his genetically enhanced origins.
* TheIntern
* TheMedic: Even if it doesn't make any sense for a station doctor to be out in the field.
* MultipleChoicePast: His reasons for going into medicine change from person to person. This is one of the reasons people thought the writers planned the reveal of his augmentations from the beginning, instead of [[AuthorsSavingThrow a last-minute change]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Unsatisfied with the audiences' response to "bumbling" Bashir, the writers outed him as a genetically-enhanced über genius who has been operating under the radar.
* OddFriendship: With Garak.
* PropheticName: The meaning of the name Bashir is "well-educated; wise".
** Originally, the character was meant to be a LatinLover named "Dr. [[PunnyName Amaros]]", which is a bit on the nose.
* RomanticRunnerUp: Twice. The first time was to Rom and the second time was to Worf.
* SatelliteCharacter: Nope, not O'Brien. To ''Garak''. Without his spy intrigue, Bashir wouldn't be included in some of the more interesting arcs (including Section 31).
* SuperLoser: Genius-level intellect! Superhuman reflexes! ...But he's rubbish at pulling girls.
* StupidSexyFlanders
* ThatManIsDead: He refuses to go by his childhood nickname 'Jules', insisting that Jules died on the operating table, and is now Julian.
** A bit of clarification: Julian is his birth name, while Jules was an affectionate nickname. At fifteen, when he realized what had been done to him, he stopped going by it, to the point where, when he has a moment in private with his parents, he lashes out at them for using it.
* ThemeInitials: Bashir. [[TheNameIsBondJamesBond Julian Bashir]].
* {{Transhuman}}: A jarring 180 to the NoTranshumanismAllowed usually employed in ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
** TokenHeroicOrc: Julian is one of the few Augmented Humans in the franchise ''without'' any psychological or mental problems, a common side-effect amongst individuals who have undergone extensive genetic modification. It's a ''very'' sharp bell-curve. The augments in DS9 are not evil, but they are seriously maladjusted.
* UpperClassTwit: In earlier episodes, prior to CharacterDevelopment.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Even the actor is amazed at Bashir's amazingly bad luck with women. The two early objects of his affection end up with ''Rom'' and ''Worf'' respectively. Ouch.
** Which is potentially why he ends up with Ezri, in all her tiny, cute awesomeness. After all his bad luck, he deserved to get a break.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Alexander Siddig was originally considered for the role of ''Sisko'' because the producers had seen him in a movie where he was playing a much older man (with makeup to age him up). When they found out how young he actually was, he was cast in the Bashir role instead. Incidentally, "Julian Bashir" was initially named "Julian Ambrose," but the name was changed when Siddig was cast to reflect his Arab heritage.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: As a small child, Bashir had several severe learning disabilities, so his parents had him undergo an illegal and extremely dangerous genetic treatment. Since then, it is implied that they were [[StageMom Stage Parents]], pushing him towards a high-profile, high-status occupation, instead of letting him make up his own mind, as well as constantly monitoring his behavior so as not to end up in prison. This is the cause of Bashir's resentment and estrangement towards them.
* WideEyedIdealist: Frequently {{deconstructed}}; the fresh-faced, brilliant young officer out of the Academy ends up wrong or in trouble many times due to his naivete. He gets better, but it still bites him sometimes, such as the late-season episode "Inter Arma Silent Legis."
!!Lieutenant/Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell)
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->''"Don't mistake a new face for a new soul, Kang."''
-->-- "Blood Oath"
TheChick, ReallySevenHundredYearsOld (and the ActionGirl sometimes), with the slight twist of being an attractive young female - albeit one inhabited by a symbiont [[TheNthDoctor with several centuries of memories and experience from hosts of both genders]]. Some fans claim she mutated into a FauxActionGirl after she got together with Worf, although she first showed her proficiency with the ''bat'leth'' in Season 2. For Season 7, she is [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute replaced]] by ''Ezri'' Dax who is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} not at all similar]]. Luckily, her species had a built-in storyline reason that made this possible; [[TheNthDoctor symbionts need new hosts]] on occasion after all, and the joining adds the new personalities to the mix. For the hosts of the Dax symbiont beyond Jadzia and Ezri, see the "Others" folder.
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* ActionGirl
* BattleCouple: With Worf.
* BiTheWay: Ostensibly, the result of being a [[GenderBender gender-bending]] alien whose life keeps criss-crossing with past lovers who are ''also'' gender flipped.
** Dax played a dominant male role in her and Kahn's relationship, though they were still pretty solidly {{Lipstick Lesbian}}s. This led to ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' airing what was (incorrectly) touted to be the first lesbian kiss on network television, between Dax and "his" former wife. ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_kiss_episode It was actually the fifth.]])
* TheConsigliere: To Sisko. It helps that Dax has been knocking about for a long while, and knows the attitudes of Starfleet's various adversaries.
* CulturedBadass: She can speak Klingon, drink any Klingon under the table, handle a Bat-leth with ease, beat Ferengi at Tongo (their variation of poker), and imitate a Romulan with flawless disdain, just to name a few. Admittedly, she still hasn't solved an Altonian brain teaser after 160 years. Bashir tried it, and [[YourBrainWontBeMuchOfAMeal caused the game to crash immediately]].
* DrinkOrder: Has a taste for bloodwine, of course. But her preferred way to start the morning is by slamming a Black Hole, a strong Ferengi drink.
* EnemyWithin: Joran Dax, the most unstable of her past personalities.
* GenderBender: She has the gender of her host of the time. She has been both men and women in past lives.
* HappilyMarried: To Worf, [[spoiler:until her Jadzia host died]].
* HonestAdvisor: To Ben. She also dumps Quark's friendship after he becomes an arms dealer, although she is genuinely outraged in that instance.
* HotScientist
* ImmortalImmaturity: The Dax symbiont is particularly rowdy. This is proven by Jadzia's former personality before her joining: a bookish ShrinkingViolet.
--->'''Jem'Hadar''': Few Jem'Hadar live that long. If we reach twenty, we're considered honored elders. ''(leans in)'' How old are you?\\
'''Dax'''': I stopped counting at three hundred.\\
'''Jem'Hadar''': ''(dumbfounded)'' You don't look it.
* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: In-universe version. The Dax symbiont has fought alongside the likes of Kang, Kor, and Koloth; he negotiated the Khitomer Accords to usher in peace between the Federation and Klingons; and Dax even (gulp!)... dated Bones [=McCoy=] in college.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Worf.
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: While the Dax symbiont Passes on to Ezri, Jadzia is still quite dead.]]
* TheLadette: There were early attempts at making Dax reserved and wise, but it never stuck. After one season, Ira Behr realized the 'old soul' angle wasn't working out; the character was gradually retooled into a sort of androgynous commando, switching gender roles depending on the setting. She can be quite butch when the situation calls for it, but she's wickedly girlish in private.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome
* TheNthDoctor: The eighth host of Dax.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Sort of. Jadzia is actually exactly as old as she looks but through Dax she has the memories and some of the personality of a much older being. A century old Bajoran magistrate said (paraphrasing) "When I started this hearing I didn't know if you were as young as my great-granddaughter, or three times as old as I am. Now I'm starting to think you're both."
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: In series 1, she's only 28. It's confirmed that all of her vast amount of scientific knowledge and multiple degrees were gained prior to receiving the Dax symbiont at the age of 26. While Dax has been hosted by an engineer and a pilot, Jadzia is Dax's first scientist.
* [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Adopted Warrior Foreigner]]: A Trill who is more Klingon than most Klingon.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Terry Farrell decided not to return for the show's seventh season, so they wrote Jadzia out.
* ShesGotLegs: Those spots go ''all the way'' down, baby. Makeup veteran Michael Westmore actually got paid to spend an hour scribbling them on with magic marker.
* TheSpock: This is her initial characterization, but the writers decided to make her more emotional and fun-loving. Although she still fulfills rational Spock functions, she becomes something of a combination of him and TheKirk.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: A bit of a [[LeonardNimoy Nimoy]] fangirl, as evidenced when she laid eyes on him in a hallway. Sisko had to drag her away by the arm.
* TookALevelInBadass: Particularly after Curzon's Klingon-loving personality came to the forefront during her ''zhian'tara''.
* UptightLovesWild: With Worf. Three guesses on who is which.
* WorkHardPlayHard: When she works she is an ingenious and competent officer. When she plays she likes gambling, flirting, and making love [[DestructoNookie Klingon Fashion]].
!!Chief Miles O'Brien (Colm Meaney)
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->'''Sisko''': Relax, Chief, it's just a computer.\\
'''O'Brien''': This is no computer. [[WhatAPieceOfJunk This is my arch-enemy!]]
-->-- "The Forsaken"
MrFixit, as well as an AscendedExtra from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', with a bigger role this time who becomes HeterosexualLifePartners with Bashir. Subject of the annual "[[TheWoobie O'Brien Must Suffer]]" writers' in-joke. The only non-commissioned officer in the franchise to be a main character, he can easily be mistaken for the only one in the service. (The others were mostly [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Starfleet_enlisted_personnel very minor roles]], dutifully enumerated on other wikis.) In the {{novelization}} of the pilot episode, O'Brien is slightly altered -- he accepted a promotion to Ensign and was no longer a noncom when the story began.
A note for trivia buffs: both he and Worf were present in the series premiere (and series finale) of ''TNG'', and hold the records for "Appeared In The Most" (or "2nd Most" in O'Brien's case) "Episodes Of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' Ever." (Majel Barrett Roddenberry, whose voice "appears" as the Federation computer's for something like 250 episodes, holds a different record.)
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* AscendedExtra: From a nameless con in the ''TNG'' premiere to a major character on another series.
* AlmightyJanitor: The only reason ''anything'' on [=DS9=] works is because of him.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Devoted family man? Check. Dutiful officer? Check. Capable of taking on BrainwashedAndCrazy former Obsidian Order operative Garak on a booby-trapped station with minimal supplies and almost no backup, and winning? ''Check.''
* ButtMonkey: There was an "O'Brien must suffer" at least once a season, because the writers thought Colm Meaney was good in those plots.
* CloningBlues: By the end of the series its not exactly our O'Brien but an O'Brien who came back from a few hours in the future after seeing our O'Brien die. Basically the same guy and he does dwell on it, but not for long.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Several. Some prime examples include "Whispers", "Tribunal" and "Visionary".
* TheEveryman: Devoted family man, down-to-earth soldier, and enlisted man.
* FantasticRacism: Occasionally towards Cardassians, and has been known to utter the phrase "Cardy Bastards".
** To clarify, O'Brien fought in the Federation-Cardassian War and was present at the Setlik III massacre, an event that affected him deeply. This was also the first time he'd ever killed someone, ''vaporising'' a Cardassian when he fired a phaser not knowing that it'd be set to maximum. As O'Brien summed up in TNG, he doesn't hate Cardassians, he hates what he became because of them.
** He's not thrilled with Changelings either, Odo aside.
* GadgeteerGenius
* HappilyMarried: To Keiko.
* LimitedAdvancementOpportunities: Given his record of genius and heroism, you'd expect him to make Master Chief by the end of the series, but he stays an [=SCPO=] for the entire run (although it is possible that might be the top of the Starfleet NCO ranks, we haven't seen enough of them on screen to be sure). He does continually gain responsibilities and duties throughout the series, so there is a career progression of sorts going on.
* MrFixit: Well into Season 6, it is ''still'' strongly implied that the only reason all the mixed Federation and Cardassian technology on board [=DS9=] runs anything close to smoothly is because he has been working on it non-stop from day one.
* OddFriendship: With Kira. With hints of awkward UnresolvedSexualTension in several later episodes.
* TimeyWimeyBall: In the third-season episode "Visionary", O'Brien is sent to the future several times. [[spoiler:Ultimately, "our" O'Brien dies and the one that comes back to the present is an O'Brien from two-and-a-half hours into the future]].
* VeteranInstructor: Sort of slips into the old-hand mentor role in the final two seasons, and the GrandFinale sees him return to Earth to become an official instructor at the Academy.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: "Hard Time" involves this. [[spoiler:He kills a good man for a scrap of bread. Even if that man was an illusion, O'Brien is so horrified at himself that he attempts suicide]].
!!Lt. Commander Worf (Michael Dorn)
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->'''Worf''': I have a sense of humor. On the ''Enterprise'', I was considered to be quite amusing.\\
'''Dax''': That must've been one dull ship.
-->-- "Change of Heart"
Another reassignment from the ''Enterprise''-D, turning up with the show's ReTool at the start of season 4. Notably, Worf suffered less of TheWorfEffect on this show than ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]''. The conflicts of this series and heavy involvement with the Klingon Empire were more suited to his strengths and instincts. In addition, Michael Dorn was savvy enough to ensure that, should he be invited onto another series, he would be both unique among Klingons ''and'' would have a chance to be {{Badass}}. Hence his fondness of Prune Juice over Blood Wine. See also his section on the ''[[Characters/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' [[Characters/StarTrekTheNextGeneration character sheet]].
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* BattleCouple: With Jadzia.
* BattleCry: PlayedForLaughs in "Take Me Out To The Holosuite"
-->'''Sisko:''' Alright, I wanna hear some chatter!\\
'''Ezri:''' Heeeeyy batter batter batter!\\
'''Kira:''' Hey batter batter!\\
'''Worf:''' '''''DEATH TO THE OPPOSITION!'''''
* TheBigGuy
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Miles' baby can go to sleep in his arms... and initially, ''only'' his arms.
** And he's always dreamed of a traditional Klingon wedding, with all the trimmings. (Although "soft" might not be the best word given the ''Klingon'', but he's still quite a romantic.)
* CargoShip:[[invoked]] Dax insinuated that Worf's first love is the ''Defiant''. In a sense, he considers it ''his'' ship, not Sisko's.
* TheComicallySerious
-->'''Garak''': Mr. Worf, you're no fun at all.\\
'''Worf''': ... good.
* {{Determinator}}: Famously stood his ground against '''ten''' Jem 'Hadar warriors in a ForcedPrizeFight. When he finally does hit the mat, it's his ''opponent'' who calls it quits.
-->'''Ikat'ika:''' I yield. I cannot defeat this Klingon. I can only kill him, and [[WorthyOpponent that no longer holds my interest]]."
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Essentially becomes this when he joins the cast; the entire Klingon War arc was more or less built around bringing his character onto the show.
* DrinkOrder: Prune juice, chilled. To Quark's surprise.
* FireForgedFriends: With Martok.
* HappilyMarried: To Jadzia.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Worf is, quite simply, devastated [[spoiler: after Jadzia is killed]]. He didn't suffer that much even after K'Ehleyr was murdered by Duras and his performance of the Klingon Death Ritual over her body is one of the few times he actually ''[[ManlyTears weeps]].''
* ImmigrantPatriotism: Played with. He is loyal to the Federation to the point of fighting against the Klingon Empire when they go to war. At the same time, he is obsessed with Klingon tradition more then most Klingons are. (Again, see the ''TNG'' character sheet for an accurate analysis of his mentality.)
* [[MasterSwordsman Master Bat'leth Suvwl']] : Given that he can beat [[ActionGirl Jadzia]] in a friendly duel, Grilka's bodyguard in a real one(while [[NeuralImplanting piloting Quarks body]] instead of his own too), and actually kill [[spoiler:Gowron]] in a DuelToTheDeath, he must be one of the best fighters to ever handle a ''bat'leth''. Despite his prowess with the weapon, Worf seems to prefer using a ''mek'leth'' in combat, a machete-like weapon half the size (and therefore much easier to carry around).
* MyGreatestFailure: In "Let He Who is Without Sin...", we learn that Worf's uptight nature is the result of a childhood soccer match, when young Worf accidentally headbutted an opposing player. Klingon foreheads being what they are, the kid died. This tragedy convinced Worf to reign in his Klingon passion.
* NumberTwo: Is First Officer of the ''Defiant''. In practice, he and Kira share this role, which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in "Apocalypse Rising".
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: Right from Day One, Worf has trouble adjusting to the morally-grey atmosphere on the station. Following a string of disasters, he decides that the only way to adjust to life aboard the station is to live outside it, and makes the ''Defiant'' his crib.
* OfferedTheCrown: After his killing of [[spoiler: Gowron in "Tacking Into the Wind"]] he basically earned the right to rule the Klingon Empire. He chose wisely instead to hand it Martok. A [[{{RunningGag}} bit of running theme with Worf.]] When ever he got involved with leadership of the Klingon people someone ends up dead and someone ends up a new leader.
** A cut scene would have had Worf confiding in Ezri that his one regret was that his father wasn't there to see it.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy
* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic: See HeartbrokenBadass.
* WarriorPoet: Loves Klingon Opera, Klingon legends, and Klingon traditions.
* TheWorfEffect: [[AvertedTrope Starting to wane]] by this point, thank goodness.
* UptightLovesWild: With Jadzia. Three guesses who is which.
!!Lieutenant Ezri Dax (Nicole de Boer)
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--> ''"She's a Dax. Sometimes they don't think, they just do."''
The new Trill host for the Dax symbiont, owing that only to chance. Ezri Tigan was serving on the ship taking Dax back to Trill when the symbiont became extremely ill and the only way to save its life was immediate implantation in a new host. As the only Trill onboard, Ezri reluctantly volunteered, and her unease at being a "joined" Trill, which was something prospective hosts are supposed to train for years to deal with, became a centerpiece of her character. She also had to deal with Dax influencing her feelings about Worf and Bashir, her own attraction to Bashir, and the fact that an officer of her general inexperience -- specifically, a Lieutenant Junior Grade '''Assistant Counselor''' -- was suddenly part of the Federation's front-line wartime command crew. For the hosts of the Dax symbiont beyond Jadzia and Ezri, see the "Others" folder.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: With Worf, since he obviously hasn't gotten over [[spoiler:Jadzia's death]], and Jadzia's memories are confusing her emotions.
* CloudCuckooLander: As a result of having eight full lifetimes shoehorned into her head. She adjusts eventually.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Considering that she showed up in the final season, most of it was devoted to developing her character as much as they could (while still focusing on the rest of the storyline), but the episodes "Prodigal Daughter" and "Field Of Fire" are very specifically about only her.
* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Ezri was not planning to be a symbiont host and had no training. Her entire prep time was a 15-minute lecture from the ''Destiny'''s non-Trill Chief Medical Officer.
* NaiveNewcomer: Even without suddenly becoming Dax, she's a very young Starfleet officer.
* TheNthDoctor: The ninth host of Dax.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's got the same deal as Jadzia going on, plus she's a few years younger than Jadzia was at the beginning of the series.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Is on the receiving one of Garak's. Later, she delivers one to Worf about the Klingon Empire being plagued with corruption.
* SexWithTheEx: A variant, since of course Ezri is a different person than Jadzia. Luckily for their sanity, this clears up for both of them just ''what'' their relationship is (Worf realizes that it's time to stop thinking of Ezri as Jadzia, and Ezri realizes she's in love with Julian)
* SlapSlapKiss: Again with Worf. When he's missing and she goes on a one-woman rescue mission, they get into a huge argument after she saved him and they ended up sleeping together.
-->"Do you really think that I would disobey orders and risk my life so that I could seduce you? I hate to burst your bubble, Worf, but it wasn't ''that'' good."
* StepfordSnarker: She frequently makes sarcastic comments and uses SelfDeprecatingHumor to cover her real anxiety. The episode focusing on her family implies Ezri did this even before she was joined.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: She's tasked with Garak's ''very'' difficult case when she is in desperate need of therapy herself.
* TookALevelInBadass: A half-level at first after a particularly scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Garak. They squeeze in a little character development for her in the single season she's on the show, and she ends up hunting down a Vulcan serial killer.
** She goes a BIG step further in "Penumbra", when she singlehandedly braves the storms of The Badlands to save Worf. Oh, and she gives a few nice mini-[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "Reason You Suck Speeches"]] when Worf seems to forget his gratitude for it, in that episode and one two episodes later.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's basically impossible to say anything about Ezri without explaining that [[spoiler:Jadzia dies]]. If you're talking to someone who knows how Trill work, they're going to figure out the implications of her last name very fast.
* [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: Somewhat. When she realized she would never get this, she joined Starfleet and didn't look back. (Until O'Brien goes missing on her home planet and she ''has'' to.)
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->''"So ''you're ''the commander of Deep Space 9. And the Emissary of the Prophets. Decorated combat officer, widower, father, mentor and... oh, yes, the man who started the war with the Dominion. [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller Somehow I thought you'd be taller.]]."''
-->-- '''Senator Vreenak''', "In the Pale Moonlight"
TheCaptain (though actually only ranked Commander until late Season 3), with a touch of the WarriorPoet due to his motivations for helming the titular space station. Prior to the series, Sisko became a widower following the infamous Wolf 359 incident ([[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]) and was left adrift with a young son, Jake. He briefly considered resigning from Starfleet, but was instead saddled with the task of admitting Bajor into the Federation. Following a chance encounter with entities living inside the Bajoran Wormhole, Sisko is ([[ReluctantHero reluctantly]]) anointed as the Emissary, their corporeal agent and a [[CrystalDragonJesus religious icon]] to the Bajorans.
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* AntiHero: Type III. He enters Type IV and even Type V territory in certain episodes (For the Uniform, In the Pale Moonlight).
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: At the end of the series Sisko is ascended into the celestial temple for an unspecified amount of time.]]
** [[spoiler: Emphasis on "unspecified": the Prophets are non-linear beings outside time.]]
--->'''Kasidy:''' When will you be back?\\
'''Sisko:''' It's hard to say - maybe a year, maybe... yesterday. But I ''will'' be back.
* {{Badass}}: Takes on several Jem'Hadar on his own and also leads several of the fleet battles.
** BadassBeard: Though he did have hair in earlier seasons, he eventually went bald with a goatee.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Current trope image holder. Sisko looks far more badass once he goes bald.
* TheBigEasy: He hails from New Orleans, and is the son of a creole chef. Joseph Sisko still operates a restaurant there.
* {{Blackmail}}: How he usually keeps Quark in-line or gets him to do something for the good of the station. Usually leads to BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord.
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Sisko is a pretty irritable guy in own right, but he's more likely to treat you to a DeathGlare and then storm out because he has more important things to do. That's when his Doberman (Kira) comes into the picture.
* TheCastShowoff: The moment in "Far Beyond the Stars" when Sisko briefly breaks into song seems designed to showcase that Avery Brooks' voice is sexy both speaking ''and'' singing. And then, in "Badda Bing Badda Bang," they do it again.
* CommandingCoolness: For three seasons.
* CompanionCube: His baseball.
* TheChosenOne: Being the Emissary. So much so that [[spoiler:the Prophets arranged for his birth!]] As the Emissary to the Prophets, "The Sisko" has a destiny to fulfill, many trials to face, and an important role in Bajoran theology and prophecy.
* CrystalDragonJesus: The Emissary is a messiah figure in the Bajoran religion.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: For the first episode at least. The Prophets help him get over it ([[TheChosenOne giving him his life back, as was prophesied]]) when he teaches them the nature of linear existence and they make him explain why he keeps living in his own "past" if the point is to move forward.
* DatingCatwoman: His relationship with [[spoiler: Kasidy Yates when she turns out to be running supplies (medicine and food according to her) to the Maquis.]]
** He also slept with ''both'' Intendant Kira and (an unjoined) Jadzia from the Mirror Universe.
* {{Determinator}}: In the episode "Paradise", Sisko and O'Brien are trapped on a planet by an EvilLuddite. She offers Sisko water if he will only take off his uniform. After a night in the punishment box, she offers it again, and Sisko's response is to put ''himself'' in the box.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The only being to knock Q flat on his ass ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome and get away with it]]''.
-->'''Q''': You ''hit'' me! ''Picard'' never hit me!
-->'''Sisko''': I'm ''not'' Picard.
* DivineParentage: In a complicated way. [[spoiler:His mother was human... but was possessed by a Prophet at the time. Once the possession wore off, she ran and left his father Joe heartbroken.]]
* DrinkOrder: Sisko picked up a love of Klingon coffee from Curzon. He certainly drinks the most elaborate concoctions of any Trek Captain.
-->"One raktajino with [[RealMenWearPink a jacarine peel!]]"
* AFatherToHisMen: Throughout the series, Sisko shows great concern for the people under his charge.
-->'''Adm. Ross:''' They're a good crew.\\
'''Sisko:''' ''(visibly moved)'' The best.
* GameOfNerds: He's such a fan that uses it as an allegory for linear time and existence -- in ''the first episode!''
* GeniusBruiser: Brooks described his character as "a quick thinker, but also a deep thinker," and that's basically on target.
* AGodIAmNot: Well, in his defense, [[spoiler:he's only half-god]].
* GoodIsNotNice: Not if its pushed, anyway.
* GuileHero: He has a reputation for fighting, but he's also ''very'' good at talking his way through difficult situations, even manipulating the Jem'hadar when they take over the ship and have guns pointed at his head, or successfully posing as Gabriel Bell and convincing an on-edge thug that they're on the same side in order to protect the hostages.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: He tackles Dukat off of a cliff into the aptly-named Fire Caves, although the Prophets grab him.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: He was this close to his mentor and best friend, Curzon Dax. Then Curzon died and Dax became Jadzia Dax, with whom he was still HeterosexualLifePartners, to the point of still calling her "Old Man". The Jadzia died and Dax became Ezri Dax, who was a neurotic mess after an unexpected Joining that she had never prepared for, and they were HeterosexualLifePartners ''again'', only this time he was Dax's mentor.
* HotDad: Yates thinks so.
* ImportantHaircut: Sisko grows a goatee and loses the buzz cut after he's promoted. It's around the same time the series started to get dark.
* TheKirk
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Sisko admitted to some fanboy glee at breathing the same air as James T. Kirk, but nonetheless ordered his squad to stay focused on their mission. The episode ended with Sisko [[HypocriticalHumor getting Kirk's autograph]] (Kirk thought he was signing a crew complement list).
* KungFuJesus: Word of God cites Moses as an inspiration for Sisko's story.
* MenDontCry: Averted in the very first episode. Reliving the memory of your beloved spouse dying would be enough to make anyone cry.
* TheMessiah
* ParentsAsPeople[=/=]GoodParents: He has a tough time raising Jake, but does a pretty good job of it anyway.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Jadzia Dax. He was also ''very'' close friends with Dax's previous male host Curzon. Less so with Ezri because she was so much younger than him and had so much trouble adjusting to the joining that they almost swapped roles with Sisko becoming ''Dax's'' mentor.
** Subverted when he traveled to the Parallel Universe. Where apparently he had sex with the alternate (Dax-less) Jadzia in order to maintain his cover as the alternate Sisko...
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: This [[BerserkButton irritates him]]; it's one of the reasons he doesn't initially care to try out the Rat Pack era casino simulation.
** It was [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] in that same episode when it was explained that equality regardless of race or gender wasn't the way things were, but it's the way it ''should have'' been.
* ResignedToTheCall: Sisko drags his heels all the way to his new assignment on [=DS9=]. It's a miserable job, and no one wants it. He quickly changes his tune after convening with the Prophets, who restore his hopes for the future.
** Being the Emissary in general also turns into this, what with all the religious ceremonies that he has to take part in and everything else that comes with the job. "Accession," however, changes that viewpoint.
* [[spoiler:{{Retirony}}]]: Sisko plans to build a house on Bajor once the war is settled with.
* ScaryBlackMan: Apparently Worf is intimidated by him. Worf. Intimidated by a human. He plays this to the ''hilt'' in "For the Uniform", when he orders biogenic weapons to be launched at a Maquis settlement to get Eddington to surrender.
--> '''Sisko:''' Commander, launch torpedoes.
--> ''[Worf stares at him in shock; hesitates]''
--> '''Sisko:''' Commander, I said ''launch torpedoes!''
** In the third episode he has to deal with Kira interrupting an admiral's staff meeting to complain about Sisko's methods. The look on Kira's face is ''priceless.''
-->'''Sisko (smiling politely):''' Go over my head again and I'll have ''yours'' on a platter.
* SecondLove: Kasidy is Sisko's, after Jennifer, who was killed in the pilot (at Wolf 359).
* SeriousBusiness: He gets a little emotional over coaching baseball. Usually an understated performer, Brooks' capacity for [[ChewingTheScenery ham]] is on full display in "Take Me Out to the Holosuite."
-->'''Sisko:''' You are finished! Gone! Off the team!\\
'''Rom:''' ....I can't play?\\
'''Sisko''': THAT'S THE SMARTEST THING YOU'VE SAID ALL WEEK!
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Several times throughout the series.
* StopWorshippingMe: Feels this way about being the Emissary initially, but mostly keeps it to himself. He stays rather humble about the position even after he accepts it as part of his identity.
* TeamChef: He claims his dad taught him everything he knows, and his dad is the owner and operator of a restaurant, so in a 24th century where cooking is mostly a hobby, he's a hobbyist (and a good one, we are told).
* TimeyWimeyBall: [[spoiler:His entire existence.]] Since the Prophets exist outside of linear space-time, their first meeting with The Sisko took place relatively speaking ''before'' they'd sent their prophecies to the Ancient Bajorans about the Emissary. [[spoiler:To ensure that that meeting took place, they sent one of their number to engineer his very ''birth''. ]]Furthermore, it's very likely that the Prophets began influencing Bajoran society due to meeting Sisko, making him somewhat culpable for most of Bajoran history... and thus the reason he first arrived at Bajor to begin with! Yeah, it's ''kinda'' complicated.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Both Sisko and Dax have admitted that they share a mutual attraction towards the other, despite never acting on it, it would be too weird given their previous relationship. As he puts it, "She may not be Curzon, but she's still DAX!"
** He does sleep with her mirror-universe counterpart while posing as their Ben Sisko though; an unjoined Jadzia was that Ben's mistress, and he had to maintain his cover when she threw herself at him after all…
* VillainByProxyFallacy: A rarity in how he views this of ''himself'' during "In The Pale Moonlight".
-->'''Sisko''': I am an accessory to murder(...) I think I can live with it.
* WarriorPoet: Can sometimes do this, notable in ''In The Pale Moonlight''.
* WouldntHitAGirl: He half-jokes about this whenever Dax manages to piss him off. He'll comment, "If you were still a man..." while knowing perfectly well that even if she's not really the "Old Man" anymore, Dax could still easily beat him.
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Sisko struggles to keep a tight lid on his temper, to the point where he comes across as incredibly mellow. Don't be fooled.
!!Major/Colonel Kira Nerys (NanaVisitor)
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->'''Kira''': Well, now that you have another pip on your collar, does that mean I can't disagree with you anymore?\\
'''Sisko''': No. It just means I'm never wrong.\\
'''Kira''': Ah. We'll see about that.
-->-- "The Adversary"
The most visible Bajoran and, at least initially, TheLancer. She resented Starfleet's presence, thinking of Bajor as having swapped one set of occupiers for another. Grew up as a Bajoran [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters freedom fighter]] and is thus skilled in guerrilla warfare, as well as capable enough to take on a Klingon in [[ActionGirl hand-to-hand combat]]. Begins her story arc angry and broken, but slowly [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosts]] over the course of the series. Kira is her family name and Nerys is her given name, said last as part of Bajoran naming custom (like Japanese names).
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* ActionGirl: Good lord, she beats the stuffing out of a ''serial killer'' while the equivalent of ''[[PregnantBadass nine months pregnant]].''
* AntiHero: Type IV/V. She is one of the most ruthless protagonists in ''Trek'' canon.
* {{Badass}}: Manages to fight while ''pregnant''.
* BerserkButton: The Cardassian Occupation, [[ShellShockedVeteran unsurprisingly]].
* BreakTheCutie: That's quite the achievement but Silarin Prin, from 'The Darkness and the Light' episode managed to do that, ''twice''. First, he [[spoiler: killed all the friends Kira made]] during her days at the Shakaar Resistance cell, except Shakaar himself. Second, he cracked her armor by trashing her actions and ideology, backing it with some good points. She managed to defend herself, but considering what she said to the rescue team after their fight, it's obvious Kira thought he was right to some extent, even talking in the same maneer he had.
* BrokenBird: The horrors she has seen - well, she can [[TearJerker break your heart]].
* ColonelBadass: Promoted in the seventh season.
** CommandingCoolness: At the end.
* CombatPragmatist: Fair tactics do not keep you alive in the Bajoran Resistance. Kira, therefore, doesn't use them.
* CustomUniformOfSexy: Later traded in her padded-shoulder uniform for a [[CombatStilettos high-heeled]] catsuit, in the grand ''Trek'' tradition. The other members of her militia are stuck wearing the garish red & pink number.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Cardassian Occupation. In other words, she is a [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Holocaust survivor]].
* DefrostingIceQueen: At the start of the series Kira is always all business and is suspicious of Starfleet. She calms down after Sisko saves her life and proves that he's willing to defend the Bajorans
** Largely moves away from this trope altogether as the series progresses. CharacterDevelopment comes into play as we learn that Kira, while always wearing "armor" to some degree, is more then capable of kindness, and genuine human emotion.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Initially. Demoted to Tritagonist after the arrival of Worf. Nana Visitor, to her credit, knew that her early prominence wouldn't last, and very much took it in stride. She still remains a critical character, although more of her adventures take place off-screen during the Dominion arc.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Punch that console like you mean it, girl!
** The first time we meet her, she's in the middle of a screaming match with the Bajoran provisional government, and when she sees Sisko the first words out of her mouth are a rather tart "I suppose you'll want the office." About the only thing we ''don't'' see in those first thirty seconds is her soft side - it takes us half a season to see ''that''.
* FantasticCasteSystem: According to the old Bajoran caste system, she was supposed to be an artist. The castes were abandoned during the occupation, but her parents were still apparently disappointed and embarrassed that she never showed any artistic talent. When she attempts to be artistic during ''Accession'' when Akorem Laan is temporarily the Emissary, she ends up sculpting one of the ''worst'' pieces of pottery that's ever existed; it doesn't look like '''anything'''. She ends up giving it to Sisko, sarcastically noting that it's "a Kira Nerys original."
* FantasticRacism: Against Cardassians, because she was on the other end of it from them during their brutal occupation of her planet. Growing past it is part of her character development, beginning with the episode "Duet" and culminating perhaps in "Ties of Blood and Water".
* FieryRedhead
* GeneralRipper: She's down a few pay grades, and more heroic (and principled) than most examples, but if you replace 'Enemy X' with 'the Cardassians', she fits perfectly. Getting out of this is, consequently, a major part of her CharacterDevelopment.
* HotBlooded: Kira is very... passionate about what she believes in, although she ''is'' capable of controlling her emotions when the chips are down.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: As mentioned, she's a former Resistance fighter, and not of [[LaResistance the prettier variety]] either.
-->'''Kira''': ''None of you'' belonged on Bajor. It wasn't your world. For ''fifty years'', you ''raped'' our planet! You lived on our land and you took the food out of our mouths, and I don't care whether you held a phaser in your hand or you ''ironed shirts'' for a living; you were ''all'' guilty and you were '''''all legitimate targets!'''''
-->- "The Darkness and the Light"
* InterspeciesRomance: Bajoran/Changeling.
* KickedUpstairs: Sisko requested a Bajoran national to accompany him as a token of goodwill. The Bajoran government seized the chance to get Kira out of their hair.
* TheLancer: At first.
* LastNameBasis: For the first few series, very rarely is she called by her given name, Nerys. Even into the later series, the only people who regularly call her this are Jadzia Dax, her closest friend, and Odo, her love interest. And even Odo only switches over once they actually get together.
* LoveEpiphany: Or as she calls it, a "moment of pure clarity." Good thing she doesn't waste time, because it took her the better part of a decade to figure it out.
* MajorlyAwesome: For most of the show's run.
* TheMcCoy: A darker version, as she is not afraid to PayEvilUntoEvil, a la her stint with the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Resistance]].
* MoeCouplet: With Odo.
* NumberTwo: Of Deep Space Nine and, initially, the ''Defiant'' despite not being a member of Starfleet; essentially shares the role with Worf from season 4 onward.
* NotSoDifferent: With Garak, interestingly, while as liaison to the Cardassian LaResistance. Most of the rebels were rather oafish soldiers and Garak and Kira were notable for having the most experience with [[CloakAndDagger sinister doings.]]
* OddFriendship: With O'Brien. With hints of awkward UnresolvedSexualTension in several later episodes.
** [[spoiler: Hint nothing, when she moves in with the O'Briens as the surrogate carrier of their child, the B-plot of an episode is dedicated to them realizing their mutual attraction and coming to terms with it.]]
* ObliviousToLove: Justified, as Odo admits that he'd been doing his best to conceal his feelings for her.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Less so now that she's gotten tangled up with Starfleet, but this is ''definitely'' part of her past.
* PowerHair
* ReligiousBruiser: Religious enough that the Prophets choose her as a vessel in the Reckoning.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Her backstory as a leader of the Bajoran Resistance.
* SecondLove: Odo is arguably this for her, after [[spoiler:Vedek Bareil]], who [[spoiler:was tragically killed]] early in the series.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The Occupation was ''not'' fun for her.
* SupportingLeader: Leads the ground assault on Cardassia Prime. As irony would have it, her troops are composed of rebelling Cardassians, whom she trains using the same guerrilla tactics that overthrew Bajor's occupation.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Her part was originally written to be ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' RecurringCharacter Ro Laren, but Michelle Forbes didn't want to commit to a TV series. By a couple episodes in, however, Kira had become a character in her own right and developed her own personality and history. {{Showrunner}}s later remarked that Kira - who was emphatically ''not'' a member of Starfleet and didn't trust the Federation one whit - provided much more opportunity for drama and conflict.
* [[TenMinutesInTheCloset Ten Hours In The Closet]]: Used to resolve a months-long disagreement between Odo and Kira (specifically, his falling under the influence of the [[spoiler:[[BigBad Female Changeling]]]]) in "You are Cordially Invited" - so we never ''actually'' hear the discussion, we just find out that they've been up all night talking. Incidentally, Visitor and Auberjonois pitched a fit about this and insisted that any other arguments between the two be resolved ''on''screen.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type 1, normally ''tsuntsun'' but liable to go ''deredere'' in certain romantic situations, usually around Odo.
* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy Hot Girlfriend]]: With Odo.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With O'Brien, during the time when she is the surrogate carrying Miles and Keiko's baby. Both Kira and O'Brien naturally freak out when they realise they're developing romantic feelings for the other, having gotten closer during this time.
* UptightLovesWild: She's the "wild" one, being considerably more fiery than the much more sedate Odo.
* WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid: Kira's not ''human'', but close enough.
* WhatTheHellHero: More than a few people are uncomfortable about her terrorist past. She is unrepentant due to the IDidWhatIHadToDo nature of fighting the Cardassian Occupation. Nevertheless, it does cause her a not-insignificant amount of {{angst}}.
* WhenSheSmiles: How Odo feels about her.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Almost a decade's worth with Odo before TheyDo.
* ZipMeUp: Odo. Interestingly, this is ''after'' they've gotten together - so he kisses her shoulder along the way.
!!Odo (Rene Auberjonois)
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->''"At the request of Commander Sisko, I will hereafter be [[CaptainsLog recording a daily log of law enforcement affairs]]. The reason for this exercise is beyond my comprehension, except perhaps that Humans have a compulsion to keep records and lists and files. So many in fact, that they have to invent new ways to store them microscopically. Otherwise their records would overrun all known civilization. My own very adequate memory not being good enough for Starfleet, I am pleased to put my voice to this official record of this day: Everything's under control. End log."''
-->-- "Neccessary Evil"
Functions as TheSpock initially, later becoming TheJudge. Served as Chief of security (affectionately referred to as "[[RedBaron Constable]]") of Deep Space Nine, having occupied that position even during the Cardassian Occupation. A [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] (or "Changeling", a clever double-meaning). Originally a bit angsty over not knowing his origins; eventually he discovers that his own people are the leaders of the Dominion and thus the enemy, which doesn't really help with the angst one bit. During the series, it's revealed that Odo's name is a shortened form of a Cardassian term, ''odo'ital'' ("nothing", a mistranslation of the Bajoran "unknown sample"), that the Cardassian overseers gave him during the Occupation.
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* AbusiveParents: Odo views Dr. Mora this way for a long time thanks to the unpleasant methods Mora used in researching him, even after learning that Odo was an organism rather than vaguely organic goop. There's also the name Odo itself: from the Cardassian word for "nothing.[[hottip:*:odo'ital, their term for "unknown sample"]]" Mora contends that he had Cardassians breathing down his neck for results and his methods motivated Odo to develop, and the two men eventually reconcile.
* AchillesHeel: He must revert to his [[ShapeshifterDefaultForm liquid form]] every sixteen hours to regenerate. If prevented from doing so, he experiences pain and physical deterioration. Garak takes advantage of this weakness when he tortures Odo using a device that prevents him from reverting to his liquid form.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: He ''rewrote history'' to save Kira. Kira, however, wasn't pleased, and it created a rift between them that took months to heal.
** Possibly why he subverts it later, when he tells the senior staff ''not'' to purge a Prophet from her body, as she is quite willing to risk her life in their battle.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: In a bucket. Beat ''that'', Worf.
** After [[spoiler: losing and then regaining his shapeshifting powers]], he tried to keep to sleeping in a bed (as he rather enjoyed it) but kept sliding off when he reverted to his gelatinous form.
* AndAnotherThing: A staple of his investigative/interview technique, in the great tradition of Series/{{Columbo}}.
* {{Badass}}: He's not much use in a phaser battle, since he doesn't like using them and, as "Crossover" so... messily revealed, he's quite vulnerable to them. But in a hand-to-hand fight, or with non-energy weapons, he's basically invincible.
* BerserkButton: In "The Alternate," Odo reacts ''very'' angrily when Mora suggests he return to Mora's science facility for medical treatment. Given his [[AbusiveParents experiences in Mora's lab]] as an infant, this is not surprising.
--> '''Odo:''' I... am not going back to the center with you.
--> '''Mora:''' Why? We'll work through this together. We'll solve it together like we used to.
--> '''Odo:''' ''NO!!''
* BodyHorror: When an illness causes his physical appearance to deteriorate, such as the Section 31 virus and the infection inflicted on him by the Founders to force him back to the Great Link. Also when Garak tortures him using a device that prevents him from regenerating, his appearance becomes horrific.
* ByTheBookCop: With a dash of [[CowboyCop cowboy]]. He follows the rules to the letter, but isn't above letting the small fish go free in pursuit of a bigger offender. Contrast with Worf, who doesn't share Odo's discretion and bungles a few cases.
* CelibateHero: At first. In the first season, he admits that he has never "coupled" and fails to see the appeal of it. Subverted later in the series when Arissa takes his virginity, when the Female Changeling enchants him, and when he and Kira fall in love.
* CharacterTics: The short, businesslike nod he gives to acknowledge orders from his superiors. It's basically series shorthand for 'this is now guaranteed to happen'.
** He also features a condescending grunt (''...Huh'') that almost qualifies as a CatchPhrase. Usually aimed at Quark - in fact, it's the last thing he "says" to him.
* TheComicallySerious: He actually invokes it sometimes.
* DatingCatwoman: A brief sexual relationship with the Female Changeling, under the guise of learning about solids and their personal habits. Really, she had hoped to brainwash him into letting go of Kira.
* DeadpanSnarker: When he's not being TheComicallySerious. Quark is his principal victim, naturally.
* [[{{DefrostingIceQueen}} Defrosting Ice King]]: Starts the series perplexed and often disdainful of humanoid habits, such as courtship rituals which involve "bad poetry and sacrificing plants."
* DirtyBusiness: Years after the fact, he still feels guilty for having worked for the Cardassian occupiers. He admired Arissa for escaping from a dishonorable life whereas he did not.
* DoesNotLikeGuns: Prefers to use shapeshifting whenever possible.
* EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity: He has the appearance and psychological makeup of a middle-aged man. However, he was adrift in space as an infant Changeling for an unknown amount of time, meaning that he is likely chronologically older than he appears.
* EvilMentor: The Female Changeling.
* ExpressiveHair: Odo's hairstyle communicates his obsession with tidiness and order. Very rarely does Odo's hair fall past his face; when it does, it signals that he is figuratively and literally 'coming apart'.
* FantasticRacism: He's on the receiving end of this when he is a suspect in a Bajoran's murder. His office is vandalized and [[{{Fantastic Slurs}} "SHIFTER"]] is written on the wall. Later, an angry mob threatens to kill him.
** His fellow Changelings are baffled that Odo is not overtly racist toward "solids." The Female Changeling tries to pull Odo from his life among humanoids several times, and the Changeling infiltrator invites Odo to leave them. Even Laas is profoundly distrustful of them.
* [[spoiler: FinalSolution: Averted. He prevents a Changeling genocide when he agrees to return to the Great Link and cure the other changelings of a devastating disease engineered by Section 31.]]
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: He spends much of his time in humanoid form in order to interact smoothly with solids. And with good reason; in "Chimera", Quark observes that Odo's liquid form triggers primal fears in humanoids, thanks to evolution.
* GutturalGrowler: Harumph!
* HatesSmallTalk: Inevitably leading up to making small talk with Worf about how they hate small talk.
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: In the "Chimera" episode, he embraces Kira while in the form of shimmering light.
* HulkOut: An encounter with an alien gas disrupts Odo's body, turning him into a giant monster reminiscent of Yellow Devil from ''Megaman''. An emotional trigger is required for the change, and afterward Odo had no memories of his actions. ("The Alternate")
* [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe I Can't Believe A Girl Like You Would Notice Me!]]: This is never actually said aloud after Odo ''finally'' gets Kira. That doesn't stop it from being written all over his face every time he so much as looks at her.
** His surpise at Kira's love might spring from doubts that the Female Changeling instilled in him in "Heart of Stone".
--> '''Female Changeling:''' She's never going to love you. How could she? You are a changeling.
* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: After he reveals his feelings and Kira is no longer with Shakaar, Odo tells her that he ''would'' ask her out, but with the Dominion and all he wants to put it off until they have more time.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Arissa and later Kira. His relationship with Arissa ended when it was discovered that she was [[GoodAdulteryBadAdultery married]], [[spoiler: and the latter ended when Odo returned to the Great Link to cure his people of a morphogenic virus that threatened to wipe them out.]]
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler: In "The Alternate," when he unconsciously transforms into a monster several times.]]
* TheJudge: Later on in the show. It's explained that his impartial attitude allowed him to be the security chief on [=DS9=] even during the occupation.
** In "Take Me Out to the Holosuite," Sisko names him umpire for the baseball game because he will be this no matter what.
* LongingLook: Constantly at Kira.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: The Female Changeling has this effect on him for a while.
* MagicPants: {{Justified|Trope}} in that he creates clothing out of his own substance.
* MeaningfulName: His original name, Odo Ital, is derived from ''odo'ital'' ("nothing" in Cardassian, a mistranslation of the Bajoran "unknown sample"). As an infant, Odo was studied in a science facility on Cardassian-occupied Bajor.
* ModeLock / BroughtDownToNormal: In "Broken Link", where the Founders lock him into the form of a normal humanoid in retaliation for his being the first Changeling to kill another. In the Founders' eyes, this was {{a fate worse than death}}.
--> '''Female Changeling:''' Oh, poor Odo. Perhaps we should have killed you. It would have been far less cruel.
** He regains his shapeshifting ability after the events of "The Begotten".
* MoeCouplet: With Kira.
* MonsterRoommate: In "The Search, Part I", he briefly serves as this to Quark, literally and figuratively. Limited space on board the Defiant means that the two must share quarters, which becomes very uncomfortable for both men when Odo has to [[ShapeshifterDefaultForm liquefy]] in order to rest.
-->'''Odo:''' I have been holding this shape for sixteen hours. I have to revert back to my liquid state, but I don't want you to watch and gawk at me.
-->'''Quark:''' I understand, completely. This is a very private moment and I won't interfere. This won't be so bad, sharing--
-->'''Odo:''' I HAVE NO INTEREST IN SPEAKING TO YOU, OR IN LISTENING TO YOUR WITLESS PRATTLE. SO STAY OUT OF MY WAY, OR YOU'LL REGRET THE DAY YOU EVER MET ME.
* MoralityChain: Kira. In "Chimera", Laas insists that Kira is the only reason Odo hasn't left Deep Space Nine and joined the Dominion.
--> '''Odo:''' I won't have anything to do with the Founders and their war.
--> '''Laas:''' Odo, we linked. I know the truth. You stayed here because of Kira. If it weren't for her, you would be with our people. War or no war, you would be a Founder!
* MosesInTheBullrushes: He was discovered in the Denorios Belt as an infant.
* MundaneUtility: Shapeshifting is a wonderful talent for espionage. It also lets you give ''terrific'' massages.
* MyGreatestFailure: Allowing Dukat to execute three innocent Bajorans as retribution for a bomb attack. There was enough evidence to at the very least arrest, but had Odo dug deeper, he would have been able to find them innocent, instead of the amount needed to satisfy the Cardassian judicial system.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: The Founders protest ''far'' too much.
* NeatFreak: Is very upset after Dax shifts all the things in his room by ''centimeters.''
--> '''Odo:''' "You humanoids are all alike, you have no sense of ''order!'' And Dax is the most humanoid person I know."
** Unfortunately, without realizing it, by being ''this'' much of a neat freak, he's being a stereotypical Changeling.
---> '''Female Changeling:''' It is not justice you ''desire,'' Odo--but order, the same as we do.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: A {{starfish alien}} shapeshifter cop. InSpace
* NotSoDifferent: Odo has an inherent need to maintain order, displaying fascist tendencies when discussing how he'd ''prefer'' to be allowed to run the Promenade. One could infer that these same traits are likely what caused the Founders to create the Dominion in the first place.
** His Mirror Universe counterpart is a brutal slave overseer, hinting at what Odo could have become without a strong moral code to balance out his need for order.
* OlderAndWiser: His other self in "Children of Time."
* ParentalSubstitute: To the Infant Changeling in "The Begotten" and the Jem'Hadar boy in "The Abandoned."
* PatientZero: Of the [[spoiler:Section 31]] virus.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Mrs. Troi. Although it is non-romantic, she is the only person (aside from Kira) that he admits to loving. He even married her to protect her and her child.
* RaisedByNatives: He's a Changeling who was raised by a Bajoran scientist, surrounded by humanoids all his life.
* RageBreakingPoint: In "Crossfire," when he smashes up his quarters in a fit of romantic jealousy.
* RomanticFalseLead: Arissa, and later the Female Changeling.
* RulesLawyer: Allow Odo to get his hands on a baseball rulebook, and weep.
-->"No player shall at any time make contact with the umpire in ''any'' manner. The prescribed penalty for the violation is immediate ejection from the game. Rule Number 4.06, Sub-Section A, paragraph four. Look it up, but do it in the stands. You're '''''GONE!'''''"
** As part of his objectivity, he did it to both teams. Though he clearly enjoyed doing it to Solok.
* [[spoiler: SaveTheVillain: He cures the Female Changeling of a deadly disease afflicting the Changeling race.]]
* ShapeshifterBaggage: In the third episode, he transforms himself into a ''rat''. (Sorry, Cardassian vole) Incidentally, this is also his sole ability in the game adaptation.
** High-level shapeshifters, such as Las, have been able to morph into mist and even fire.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Although he normally appears as a humanoid adult male, his natural state is a gelatinous liquid. To rest, he must regularly return to his gelatinous form.
* ShapeShifterShowdown: With a Changeling infiltrator in "The Adversary."
* ShapeshiftingSquick: He and the Female Changeling have sexual relations in humanoid form during the occupation of Deep Space Nine. She tells him that it's nothing to the intimacy of the Great Link.
* TheSnarkKnight: Always manages to have something snarky to say about ''everything''.
* TheSpock: Most of the time. As the series progresses, we see more of the strong emotions beneath the surface, which occasionally cloud his judgment.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: He may seem cold and unfeeling on the outside, but those who know him admit that's he's just about the sweetest man alive. Mrs. Troi and Kira are very good at bringing this out of him.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler: His unconscious transformation into a monstrous form in "The Alternate", triggered by exposure to a psychotropic gas on L-S VI.]]
* {{Tearjerker}}: A poignant example is when he [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove confesses his love for Kira]] in "Heart of Stone." Another is when Kira comforts him as he deteriorates from the Section 31 virus in season 7. [[spoiler: When he and Kira are forced to part ways in the series finale, despite their love for each other, is perhaps the biggest tearjerker of all.]]
* TokenHeroicOrc / TokenEnemyMinority: Until Season 3, nobody has the slightest inkling that [[spoiler:[=DS9=]'s lowly security chief is a relative of the Dominion's {{Shadow Dictator}}s]].
* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy Hot Girlfriend]]: With Kira.
* UnusualEars: While in humanoid form, his ears are smooth and blunted, like [[UncannyValley his facial features]].
* UnwantedFalseFaith: To those Dominion devotees he encounters.
* UptightLovesWild: You really can't get more uptight than Odo.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Quark, eventually.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting
* WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid: Kira is not ''human'', but close enough.
* WhatTheHellHero: When he becomes involved with the Female Changeling and neglects his resistance responsibilities during the occupation of Deep Space Nine. Given the Founder's brutal tyranny and the Female Changeling's previous antics, this was [[LoveMakesYouDumb not his smartest move]]. Kira angrily calls him out on it.
* [[WillTheyOrWontThey Will They Or Won't They]]: Almost a decade's worth with Kira before TheyDo.
* [[spoiler: YouCantGoHomeAgain: Subverted]] in the series finale.
!!Doctor Julian Bashir (Siddig El Fadil a.k.a. Alexander Siddig)
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->''"I didn't want some cushy job or a research grant, I wanted ''this''! The farthest reaches of the galaxy; one of the most remote outposts available. ''This '' [[DareToBeBadass is where the adventure is! This is where heroes are made]]! Right here - in the wilderness."''
-->-- "Emissary"
Thrill-seeking newcomer who believes he's God's gift to medicine; life on the station would [[BreakTheHaughty shatter that notion]] pretty quickly. Started off alternatively being droolingly infatuated with Dax, painfully green, and an all-round CasanovaWannabe, as well as coming off as a bit of an UpperClassTwit (prattling eagerly about frontier medicine gets up the locals' noses). Later his behavior gives way to some [[HiddenDepths dark personal secrets]]. The showrunners weren't sure what to do with Bashir in the beginning, having rather off-handedly written a Doctor into the show. Negative viewer response to the character [[ShillingTheWesley only emboldened the writers]] to make Bashir a fan favorite; in this rare case, it worked. Notable as the first time that a US TV show recognized that [[ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion not all English people are white]].
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* {{Adorkable}}: How much of the cast feels about him later in the series.
* AlwaysSecondBest: On purpose.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Though the name is clearly Arabic, nobody ever mentions where Bashir hails from - a fact which Siddig was personally proud of.
* BioAugmentation: Not by choice, and kept secret for most of the series.
* BolivianArmyEnding: Some of his favorite holosuite programs are the [[TheHomeFront Battle of Britain]], [[RememberTheAlamo the Alamo]], and the [[GrecoPersianWars Battle of Thermopylae]]. Ezri teasingly speculates about these "annihilation fantasies."
* CasanovaWannabe: His attempts to be suave always fail horribly.
* CerebusRetcon: The revelation about his genetic enhancements casts a much darker light on his initial UpperClassTwit-ish behavior.
* CombatMedic: Holy cow, the medic just stabbed his captor in the neck! Justified, given the stakes, but somewhat unexpected.
** Gives a good showing of himself in "The Siege of AR-558" as well, and manages to come out of a brawl with a dozen TOS-era Klingons unscathed.
* CompanionCube: His teddy bear, Kukalaka.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Towards Dax. It doesn't work with Jadzia. Does with Ezri (who he is not dogged with, but she reveals that Jadzia would have reciprocated if Worf hadn't arrived when he did).
** Although by the time Worf arrived, he'd matured considerably.
* MrFanservice
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Garak was implied to be hitting on Bashir during their first meeting -- though the Paramount suits put the kibosh on that, right quick.
* FanOfThePast: Bashir is a huge geek about 1960s spy fiction and something of a war history buff.
* FantasticRacism: His genetic augmentation nearly got him kicked out of Starfleet when they found out, due to the Federation's strict, almost draconian, laws against it. Every other augment in the series gets stuffed into a clinic/prison, though this is partially because the poor quality of their augmentation has left them extremely smart but lacking in social skills or common sense. Bashir is one of the few that doesn't have extreme personality quirks or dangerous amounts of ambition. Sisko mentions that Bashir is the first case they've dealt with in decades, making this a very rare occurrence indeed. Sisko also pointed out that the law is somewhat dated simply because it is so rarely enforced, so it may just be a case of them not getting around to updating the books. It's also possible that this is a much more common occurrence than anyone wants to admit, [[FridgeBrilliance it's just that it's a lot harder to catch someone who several times more intelligent than the average human]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A throwaway moment occurs in the S4 episode ''Homefront'', when Odo chats with O'Brien and Bashir right before a trip to Earth. O'Brien cheerfully asks Odo to say hi to O'Brien's parents in Dublin. Odo turns and asks Bashir if he has any family he'd like Odo to visit; Bashir immediately clams up and changes the subject, a hint at his strained relationship with his parents almost a full season before it's explicitly established.
* GenreSavvy: At least in regards to James Bond novels.
* GoodCounterpart: To Khan Noonien Singh, who was also Indian.
* GoodWithNumbers: He's able to do very complex calculations in his head.
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster?: How some feel about his augmentations. Julian apparently took it to heart, as he's allowed his personal life and career to fall to shambles, too afraid to attract attention.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Julian claims that Miles likes him more than Miles ''loves'' Keiko. Although Miles would like to deny this, he does admit to sometimes wishing that Keiko was more like Julian.
* HospitalHottie
* InsufferableGenius: He tends to brag about beating a Vulcan in a racquetball match and his many medical miracles. Ironically, this is toned down after his augmentation is revealed.
** Siddig has revealed that he deliberately made Bashir jerkish because he knew the show would run for years and he wanted to show CharacterDevelopment. This turned out to fit well with the later idea that it's because of his genetically enhanced origins.
* TheIntern
* TheMedic: Even if it doesn't make any sense for a station doctor to be out in the field.
* MultipleChoicePast: His reasons for going into medicine change from person to person. This is one of the reasons people thought the writers planned the reveal of his augmentations from the beginning, instead of [[AuthorsSavingThrow a last-minute change]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Unsatisfied with the audiences' response to "bumbling" Bashir, the writers outed him as a genetically-enhanced über genius who has been operating under the radar.
* OddFriendship: With Garak.
* PropheticName: The meaning of the name Bashir is "well-educated; wise".
** Originally, the character was meant to be a LatinLover named "Dr. [[PunnyName Amaros]]", which is a bit on the nose.
* RomanticRunnerUp: Twice. The first time was to Rom and the second time was to Worf.
* SatelliteCharacter: Nope, not O'Brien. To ''Garak''. Without his spy intrigue, Bashir wouldn't be included in some of the more interesting arcs (including Section 31).
* SuperLoser: Genius-level intellect! Superhuman reflexes! ...But he's rubbish at pulling girls.
* StupidSexyFlanders
* ThatManIsDead: He refuses to go by his childhood nickname 'Jules', insisting that Jules died on the operating table, and is now Julian.
** A bit of clarification: Julian is his birth name, while Jules was an affectionate nickname. At fifteen, when he realized what had been done to him, he stopped going by it, to the point where, when he has a moment in private with his parents, he lashes out at them for using it.
* ThemeInitials: Bashir. [[TheNameIsBondJamesBond Julian Bashir]].
* {{Transhuman}}: A jarring 180 to the NoTranshumanismAllowed usually employed in ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
** TokenHeroicOrc: Julian is one of the few Augmented Humans in the franchise ''without'' any psychological or mental problems, a common side-effect amongst individuals who have undergone extensive genetic modification. It's a ''very'' sharp bell-curve. The augments in DS9 are not evil, but they are seriously maladjusted.
* UpperClassTwit: In earlier episodes, prior to CharacterDevelopment.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Even the actor is amazed at Bashir's amazingly bad luck with women. The two early objects of his affection end up with ''Rom'' and ''Worf'' respectively. Ouch.
** Which is potentially why he ends up with Ezri, in all her tiny, cute awesomeness. After all his bad luck, he deserved to get a break.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Alexander Siddig was originally considered for the role of ''Sisko'' because the producers had seen him in a movie where he was playing a much older man (with makeup to age him up). When they found out how young he actually was, he was cast in the Bashir role instead. Incidentally, "Julian Bashir" was initially named "Julian Ambrose," but the name was changed when Siddig was cast to reflect his Arab heritage.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: As a small child, Bashir had several severe learning disabilities, so his parents had him undergo an illegal and extremely dangerous genetic treatment. Since then, it is implied that they were [[StageMom Stage Parents]], pushing him towards a high-profile, high-status occupation, instead of letting him make up his own mind, as well as constantly monitoring his behavior so as not to end up in prison. This is the cause of Bashir's resentment and estrangement towards them.
* WideEyedIdealist: Frequently {{deconstructed}}; the fresh-faced, brilliant young officer out of the Academy ends up wrong or in trouble many times due to his naivete. He gets better, but it still bites him sometimes, such as the late-season episode "Inter Arma Silent Legis."
!!Lieutenant/Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell)
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->''"Don't mistake a new face for a new soul, Kang."''
-->-- "Blood Oath"
TheChick, ReallySevenHundredYearsOld (and the ActionGirl sometimes), with the slight twist of being an attractive young female - albeit one inhabited by a symbiont [[TheNthDoctor with several centuries of memories and experience from hosts of both genders]]. Some fans claim she mutated into a FauxActionGirl after she got together with Worf, although she first showed her proficiency with the ''bat'leth'' in Season 2. For Season 7, she is [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute replaced]] by ''Ezri'' Dax who is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} not at all similar]]. Luckily, her species had a built-in storyline reason that made this possible; [[TheNthDoctor symbionts need new hosts]] on occasion after all, and the joining adds the new personalities to the mix. For the hosts of the Dax symbiont beyond Jadzia and Ezri, see the "Others" folder.
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* ActionGirl
* BattleCouple: With Worf.
* BiTheWay: Ostensibly, the result of being a [[GenderBender gender-bending]] alien whose life keeps criss-crossing with past lovers who are ''also'' gender flipped.
** Dax played a dominant male role in her and Kahn's relationship, though they were still pretty solidly {{Lipstick Lesbian}}s. This led to ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' airing what was (incorrectly) touted to be the first lesbian kiss on network television, between Dax and "his" former wife. ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_kiss_episode It was actually the fifth.]])
* TheConsigliere: To Sisko. It helps that Dax has been knocking about for a long while, and knows the attitudes of Starfleet's various adversaries.
* CulturedBadass: She can speak Klingon, drink any Klingon under the table, handle a Bat-leth with ease, beat Ferengi at Tongo (their variation of poker), and imitate a Romulan with flawless disdain, just to name a few. Admittedly, she still hasn't solved an Altonian brain teaser after 160 years. Bashir tried it, and [[YourBrainWontBeMuchOfAMeal caused the game to crash immediately]].
* DrinkOrder: Has a taste for bloodwine, of course. But her preferred way to start the morning is by slamming a Black Hole, a strong Ferengi drink.
* EnemyWithin: Joran Dax, the most unstable of her past personalities.
* GenderBender: She has the gender of her host of the time. She has been both men and women in past lives.
* HappilyMarried: To Worf, [[spoiler:until her Jadzia host died]].
* HonestAdvisor: To Ben. She also dumps Quark's friendship after he becomes an arms dealer, although she is genuinely outraged in that instance.
* HotScientist
* ImmortalImmaturity: The Dax symbiont is particularly rowdy. This is proven by Jadzia's former personality before her joining: a bookish ShrinkingViolet.
--->'''Jem'Hadar''': Few Jem'Hadar live that long. If we reach twenty, we're considered honored elders. ''(leans in)'' How old are you?\\
'''Dax'''': I stopped counting at three hundred.\\
'''Jem'Hadar''': ''(dumbfounded)'' You don't look it.
* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: In-universe version. The Dax symbiont has fought alongside the likes of Kang, Kor, and Koloth; he negotiated the Khitomer Accords to usher in peace between the Federation and Klingons; and Dax even (gulp!)... dated Bones [=McCoy=] in college.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Worf.
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: While the Dax symbiont Passes on to Ezri, Jadzia is still quite dead.]]
* TheLadette: There were early attempts at making Dax reserved and wise, but it never stuck. After one season, Ira Behr realized the 'old soul' angle wasn't working out; the character was gradually retooled into a sort of androgynous commando, switching gender roles depending on the setting. She can be quite butch when the situation calls for it, but she's wickedly girlish in private.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome
* TheNthDoctor: The eighth host of Dax.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Sort of. Jadzia is actually exactly as old as she looks but through Dax she has the memories and some of the personality of a much older being. A century old Bajoran magistrate said (paraphrasing) "When I started this hearing I didn't know if you were as young as my great-granddaughter, or three times as old as I am. Now I'm starting to think you're both."
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: In series 1, she's only 28. It's confirmed that all of her vast amount of scientific knowledge and multiple degrees were gained prior to receiving the Dax symbiont at the age of 26. While Dax has been hosted by an engineer and a pilot, Jadzia is Dax's first scientist.
* [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Adopted Warrior Foreigner]]: A Trill who is more Klingon than most Klingon.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Terry Farrell decided not to return for the show's seventh season, so they wrote Jadzia out.
* ShesGotLegs: Those spots go ''all the way'' down, baby. Makeup veteran Michael Westmore actually got paid to spend an hour scribbling them on with magic marker.
* TheSpock: This is her initial characterization, but the writers decided to make her more emotional and fun-loving. Although she still fulfills rational Spock functions, she becomes something of a combination of him and TheKirk.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: A bit of a [[LeonardNimoy Nimoy]] fangirl, as evidenced when she laid eyes on him in a hallway. Sisko had to drag her away by the arm.
* TookALevelInBadass: Particularly after Curzon's Klingon-loving personality came to the forefront during her ''zhian'tara''.
* UptightLovesWild: With Worf. Three guesses on who is which.
* WorkHardPlayHard: When she works she is an ingenious and competent officer. When she plays she likes gambling, flirting, and making love [[DestructoNookie Klingon Fashion]].
!!Chief Miles O'Brien (Colm Meaney)
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->'''Sisko''': Relax, Chief, it's just a computer.\\
'''O'Brien''': This is no computer. [[WhatAPieceOfJunk This is my arch-enemy!]]
-->-- "The Forsaken"
MrFixit, as well as an AscendedExtra from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', with a bigger role this time who becomes HeterosexualLifePartners with Bashir. Subject of the annual "[[TheWoobie O'Brien Must Suffer]]" writers' in-joke. The only non-commissioned officer in the franchise to be a main character, he can easily be mistaken for the only one in the service. (The others were mostly [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Starfleet_enlisted_personnel very minor roles]], dutifully enumerated on other wikis.) In the {{novelization}} of the pilot episode, O'Brien is slightly altered -- he accepted a promotion to Ensign and was no longer a noncom when the story began.
A note for trivia buffs: both he and Worf were present in the series premiere (and series finale) of ''TNG'', and hold the records for "Appeared In The Most" (or "2nd Most" in O'Brien's case) "Episodes Of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' Ever." (Majel Barrett Roddenberry, whose voice "appears" as the Federation computer's for something like 250 episodes, holds a different record.)
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* AscendedExtra: From a nameless con in the ''TNG'' premiere to a major character on another series.
* AlmightyJanitor: The only reason ''anything'' on [=DS9=] works is because of him.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Devoted family man? Check. Dutiful officer? Check. Capable of taking on BrainwashedAndCrazy former Obsidian Order operative Garak on a booby-trapped station with minimal supplies and almost no backup, and winning? ''Check.''
* ButtMonkey: There was an "O'Brien must suffer" at least once a season, because the writers thought Colm Meaney was good in those plots.
* CloningBlues: By the end of the series its not exactly our O'Brien but an O'Brien who came back from a few hours in the future after seeing our O'Brien die. Basically the same guy and he does dwell on it, but not for long.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Several. Some prime examples include "Whispers", "Tribunal" and "Visionary".
* TheEveryman: Devoted family man, down-to-earth soldier, and enlisted man.
* FantasticRacism: Occasionally towards Cardassians, and has been known to utter the phrase "Cardy Bastards".
** To clarify, O'Brien fought in the Federation-Cardassian War and was present at the Setlik III massacre, an event that affected him deeply. This was also the first time he'd ever killed someone, ''vaporising'' a Cardassian when he fired a phaser not knowing that it'd be set to maximum. As O'Brien summed up in TNG, he doesn't hate Cardassians, he hates what he became because of them.
** He's not thrilled with Changelings either, Odo aside.
* GadgeteerGenius
* HappilyMarried: To Keiko.
* LimitedAdvancementOpportunities: Given his record of genius and heroism, you'd expect him to make Master Chief by the end of the series, but he stays an [=SCPO=] for the entire run (although it is possible that might be the top of the Starfleet NCO ranks, we haven't seen enough of them on screen to be sure). He does continually gain responsibilities and duties throughout the series, so there is a career progression of sorts going on.
* MrFixit: Well into Season 6, it is ''still'' strongly implied that the only reason all the mixed Federation and Cardassian technology on board [=DS9=] runs anything close to smoothly is because he has been working on it non-stop from day one.
* OddFriendship: With Kira. With hints of awkward UnresolvedSexualTension in several later episodes.
* TimeyWimeyBall: In the third-season episode "Visionary", O'Brien is sent to the future several times. [[spoiler:Ultimately, "our" O'Brien dies and the one that comes back to the present is an O'Brien from two-and-a-half hours into the future]].
* VeteranInstructor: Sort of slips into the old-hand mentor role in the final two seasons, and the GrandFinale sees him return to Earth to become an official instructor at the Academy.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: "Hard Time" involves this. [[spoiler:He kills a good man for a scrap of bread. Even if that man was an illusion, O'Brien is so horrified at himself that he attempts suicide]].
!!Lt. Commander Worf (Michael Dorn)
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->'''Worf''': I have a sense of humor. On the ''Enterprise'', I was considered to be quite amusing.\\
'''Dax''': That must've been one dull ship.
-->-- "Change of Heart"
Another reassignment from the ''Enterprise''-D, turning up with the show's ReTool at the start of season 4. Notably, Worf suffered less of TheWorfEffect on this show than ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]''. The conflicts of this series and heavy involvement with the Klingon Empire were more suited to his strengths and instincts. In addition, Michael Dorn was savvy enough to ensure that, should he be invited onto another series, he would be both unique among Klingons ''and'' would have a chance to be {{Badass}}. Hence his fondness of Prune Juice over Blood Wine. See also his section on the ''[[Characters/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' [[Characters/StarTrekTheNextGeneration character sheet]].
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* BattleCouple: With Jadzia.
* BattleCry: PlayedForLaughs in "Take Me Out To The Holosuite"
-->'''Sisko:''' Alright, I wanna hear some chatter!\\
'''Ezri:''' Heeeeyy batter batter batter!\\
'''Kira:''' Hey batter batter!\\
'''Worf:''' '''''DEATH TO THE OPPOSITION!'''''
* TheBigGuy
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Miles' baby can go to sleep in his arms... and initially, ''only'' his arms.
** And he's always dreamed of a traditional Klingon wedding, with all the trimmings. (Although "soft" might not be the best word given the ''Klingon'', but he's still quite a romantic.)
* CargoShip:[[invoked]] Dax insinuated that Worf's first love is the ''Defiant''. In a sense, he considers it ''his'' ship, not Sisko's.
* TheComicallySerious
-->'''Garak''': Mr. Worf, you're no fun at all.\\
'''Worf''': ... good.
* {{Determinator}}: Famously stood his ground against '''ten''' Jem 'Hadar warriors in a ForcedPrizeFight. When he finally does hit the mat, it's his ''opponent'' who calls it quits.
-->'''Ikat'ika:''' I yield. I cannot defeat this Klingon. I can only kill him, and [[WorthyOpponent that no longer holds my interest]]."
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Essentially becomes this when he joins the cast; the entire Klingon War arc was more or less built around bringing his character onto the show.
* DrinkOrder: Prune juice, chilled. To Quark's surprise.
* FireForgedFriends: With Martok.
* HappilyMarried: To Jadzia.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Worf is, quite simply, devastated [[spoiler: after Jadzia is killed]]. He didn't suffer that much even after K'Ehleyr was murdered by Duras and his performance of the Klingon Death Ritual over her body is one of the few times he actually ''[[ManlyTears weeps]].''
* ImmigrantPatriotism: Played with. He is loyal to the Federation to the point of fighting against the Klingon Empire when they go to war. At the same time, he is obsessed with Klingon tradition more then most Klingons are. (Again, see the ''TNG'' character sheet for an accurate analysis of his mentality.)
* [[MasterSwordsman Master Bat'leth Suvwl']] : Given that he can beat [[ActionGirl Jadzia]] in a friendly duel, Grilka's bodyguard in a real one(while [[NeuralImplanting piloting Quarks body]] instead of his own too), and actually kill [[spoiler:Gowron]] in a DuelToTheDeath, he must be one of the best fighters to ever handle a ''bat'leth''. Despite his prowess with the weapon, Worf seems to prefer using a ''mek'leth'' in combat, a machete-like weapon half the size (and therefore much easier to carry around).
* MyGreatestFailure: In "Let He Who is Without Sin...", we learn that Worf's uptight nature is the result of a childhood soccer match, when young Worf accidentally headbutted an opposing player. Klingon foreheads being what they are, the kid died. This tragedy convinced Worf to reign in his Klingon passion.
* NumberTwo: Is First Officer of the ''Defiant''. In practice, he and Kira share this role, which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in "Apocalypse Rising".
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: Right from Day One, Worf has trouble adjusting to the morally-grey atmosphere on the station. Following a string of disasters, he decides that the only way to adjust to life aboard the station is to live outside it, and makes the ''Defiant'' his crib.
* OfferedTheCrown: After his killing of [[spoiler: Gowron in "Tacking Into the Wind"]] he basically earned the right to rule the Klingon Empire. He chose wisely instead to hand it Martok. A [[{{RunningGag}} bit of running theme with Worf.]] When ever he got involved with leadership of the Klingon people someone ends up dead and someone ends up a new leader.
** A cut scene would have had Worf confiding in Ezri that his one regret was that his father wasn't there to see it.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy
* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic: See HeartbrokenBadass.
* WarriorPoet: Loves Klingon Opera, Klingon legends, and Klingon traditions.
* TheWorfEffect: [[AvertedTrope Starting to wane]] by this point, thank goodness.
* UptightLovesWild: With Jadzia. Three guesses who is which.
!!Lieutenant Ezri Dax (Nicole de Boer)
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--> ''"She's a Dax. Sometimes they don't think, they just do."''
The new Trill host for the Dax symbiont, owing that only to chance. Ezri Tigan was serving on the ship taking Dax back to Trill when the symbiont became extremely ill and the only way to save its life was immediate implantation in a new host. As the only Trill onboard, Ezri reluctantly volunteered, and her unease at being a "joined" Trill, which was something prospective hosts are supposed to train for years to deal with, became a centerpiece of her character. She also had to deal with Dax influencing her feelings about Worf and Bashir, her own attraction to Bashir, and the fact that an officer of her general inexperience -- specifically, a Lieutenant Junior Grade '''Assistant Counselor''' -- was suddenly part of the Federation's front-line wartime command crew. For the hosts of the Dax symbiont beyond Jadzia and Ezri, see the "Others" folder.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: With Worf, since he obviously hasn't gotten over [[spoiler:Jadzia's death]], and Jadzia's memories are confusing her emotions.
* CloudCuckooLander: As a result of having eight full lifetimes shoehorned into her head. She adjusts eventually.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Considering that she showed up in the final season, most of it was devoted to developing her character as much as they could (while still focusing on the rest of the storyline), but the episodes "Prodigal Daughter" and "Field Of Fire" are very specifically about only her.
* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Ezri was not planning to be a symbiont host and had no training. Her entire prep time was a 15-minute lecture from the ''Destiny'''s non-Trill Chief Medical Officer.
* NaiveNewcomer: Even without suddenly becoming Dax, she's a very young Starfleet officer.
* TheNthDoctor: The ninth host of Dax.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's got the same deal as Jadzia going on, plus she's a few years younger than Jadzia was at the beginning of the series.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Is on the receiving one of Garak's. Later, she delivers one to Worf about the Klingon Empire being plagued with corruption.
* SexWithTheEx: A variant, since of course Ezri is a different person than Jadzia. Luckily for their sanity, this clears up for both of them just ''what'' their relationship is (Worf realizes that it's time to stop thinking of Ezri as Jadzia, and Ezri realizes she's in love with Julian)
* SlapSlapKiss: Again with Worf. When he's missing and she goes on a one-woman rescue mission, they get into a huge argument after she saved him and they ended up sleeping together.
-->"Do you really think that I would disobey orders and risk my life so that I could seduce you? I hate to burst your bubble, Worf, but it wasn't ''that'' good."
* StepfordSnarker: She frequently makes sarcastic comments and uses SelfDeprecatingHumor to cover her real anxiety. The episode focusing on her family implies Ezri did this even before she was joined.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: She's tasked with Garak's ''very'' difficult case when she is in desperate need of therapy herself.
* TookALevelInBadass: A half-level at first after a particularly scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Garak. They squeeze in a little character development for her in the single season she's on the show, and she ends up hunting down a Vulcan serial killer.
** She goes a BIG step further in "Penumbra", when she singlehandedly braves the storms of The Badlands to save Worf. Oh, and she gives a few nice mini-[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "Reason You Suck Speeches"]] when Worf seems to forget his gratitude for it, in that episode and one two episodes later.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's basically impossible to say anything about Ezri without explaining that [[spoiler:Jadzia dies]]. If you're talking to someone who knows how Trill work, they're going to figure out the implications of her last name very fast.
* [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: Somewhat. When she realized she would never get this, she joined Starfleet and didn't look back. (Until O'Brien goes missing on her home planet and she ''has'' to.)
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