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* TheUnfavourite: In a religious sense. Despite her Kai title and obstination, the prophets will never give her an audience, even if she's using orbs, that were created so Bajorans could have access at any time to their Gods. It's particularly noticeable because everyone else who try will get one. Hell, even ''Quark'' had it on his first try. To be fair, this doesn't mean that Quark is any more favored. They found him so annoying that they nearly de-evolved him. The only thing that kept them from doing it was the prospect of more Ferengi using the Orbs. Though when she finally meets one, even kneeling before it to show her devotion, it proceeds to ignore her spectacularly. It plays a good part in her [[spoilerg: FaceHeelTurn against them]]. Of course, her powermongering and HolierThanThou attitude probably has a good deal to do with their rejection of her.
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* TheUnfavourite: In a religious sense. Despite her Kai title and obstination, the prophets will never give her an audience, even if she's using orbs, that were created so Bajorans could have access at any time to their Gods. It's particularly noticeable because everyone else who try will get one. Hell, even ''Quark'' had it on his first try. To be fair, this doesn't mean that Quark is any more favored. They found him so annoying that they nearly de-evolved him. The only thing that kept them from doing it was the prospect of more Ferengi using the Orbs. Though when she finally meets one, even kneeling before it to show her devotion, it proceeds to ignore her spectacularly. It plays a good part in her [[spoilerg: [[spoiler: FaceHeelTurn against them]]. Of course, her powermongering and HolierThanThou attitude probably has a good deal to do with their rejection of her.
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* TheUnfavourite: In a religious sense. Despite her Kai title and obstination, the prophets will never give her an audience, even if she's using orbs, that were created so Bajorans could have access at any time to their Gods. It's particularly noticeable because everyone else who try will get one. Hell, even ''Quark'' had it on his first try. Even worse, To be fair, this doesn't mean that Quark is any more favored. They found him so annoying that they nearly de-evolved him. The only thing that kept them from doing it was the prospect of more Ferengi using the Orbs. Though when she finally meets one, even kneeling before it to show her devotion, it proceeds to ignore her spectacularly. It plays a good part in her [[spoiler: [[spoilerg: FaceHeelTurn against them]]. them]]. Of course, her powermongering and HolierThanThou attitude probably has a good deal to do with their rejection of her.
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** Ross also says that while he dislikes the idea of genocide, [[TheChainsOfCommanding he dislikes the idea of sending thousands of his officers and crews to their deaths even more]]. It's clear that Ross sympathizes merely with Section 31's ends, not their means.
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* ThrowItIn: A joking reference by Odo to Ross as "Bill" in the first episode of season 7 was taken literally by the writing staff, resulting in his canonical first name[[note]]as well as confusion for sharp-eyed viewers, as his office nameplate had previously established his fist name to be Clifford[[/note]].
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lampshaded by Sisko. Eddington's renewed offensive against the Cardassians is what helped drive them into the arms of the Dominion.
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** To be fair, this doesn't mean that Quark is any more favored. They found him so annoying that they nearly de-evolved him. The only thing that kept them from doing it was the prospect of more Ferengi using the Orbs.
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* {{Casanova}}: Described by Gul Dukat as such to Major Kira. Whether or not this is true is suspect, given Dukat's likely ulterior motives.
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* YouLookFamiliar: Peters had played Admiral Cartwright in two of the ''Trek'' films, set a century earlier.
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* BatmanGambit: This is how he manipulates Julian in "Inter Arma Silent Legis." When Julain tries to protect the "[[ExactWords patriotic]]" Senator, Sloan engineers a situation [[spoiler:that will get Julian to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero bring about her arrest]]. Sloan notes that a patriot would put Romulan interests above Federation interests, but Julian equates "patriotic" with "good." ]]
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* ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive: Quite fond of the trope.
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* FailedASpotCheck: During the Dominion Occupation of [=DS9=], Jake is honestly ''surprised'' when Weyoun refuses to send his articles to the Federation New Service, because they portrayed the Dominion in an unflattering light (ie. an as evil Empire). After he ''still'' doesn't get it, Jake asks about the right of the press? This naturally causes Weyoun to ''laugh!''
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* BreakTheCutie: "Nor The Battle For The Strong" Up until this episode, Jake's always had his father around when things have gotten tough, but he's suddenly thrust into the middle of a violent and bloody war and ends up on his own. Needless to say, he doesn't take it too well.
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* TheMole: He works with the Maquis and eventually abandons the "mole" part by running off with a bunch of replicators.
* YouWatchTooMuchX: Eddington's a big fan of ''Literature/LesMiserables'' and sees himself as Valjean, with Sisko as Javert. Sisko and Dax use this against him when they figure it out.
* TheMole: He works with the Maquis and eventually abandons the "mole" part by running off with a bunch of replicators.
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* AdultFear: She does worry about Sisko's many dangerous missions. [[spoiler:When she gets pregnant, she's afraid that the Prophets' warning is about the baby.]]
* HappilyMarried: To Sisko in the last season, although the Prophets give them a little trouble in getting there.
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* SecondLove: For Sisko.
* RecurringCharacter: Due to the nature of her job, she's often away from the station. She becomes a steady member of the cast when she moves in with Sisko in Season 7.
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->''"You are opening the children's minds-- to blasphemy. And I cannot permit it to continue."''
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The chief authority of the Terok Nor station, whom Kira encounters in "Crossover." Intendant Kira is one of the series' longest-running villains.
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** AnythingThatMoves
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She genuinely loved Mirror Sisko.
** Her comments after Mirror!Odo's death suggest that she cared about him, or at least respected him as a colleague.
* KarmaHoudini
* MoodSwinger
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* ScrewYourself: She wants to screw regular Kira at least, but it doesn't actually happen.
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** One can draw parallels between Intendant Kira and standard universe Gul Dukat, whom standard universe Kira despises. For instance, both take lovers from the groups they oppress (Bajoran "comfort women" for Dukat; Mirror!Sisko for Intendant Kira). Also, both condescendingly see themselves as kinder to those they oppress than their colleagues.
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The chief authority of the Terok Nor station, whom Kira encounters in "Crossover." Intendant Kira is one of the series' longest-running villains.
* DepravedBisexual
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** Her comments after Mirror!Odo's death suggest that she cared about him, or at least respected him as a colleague.
* KarmaHoudini
* MoodSwinger
* {{Narcissist}}: What else do you call someone who literally falls in love with herself?
* ScrewYourself: She wants to screw regular Kira at least, but it doesn't actually happen.
* ShadowArchetype: Intendant Kira is who Kira Nerys might have become had she lived as an oppressor and not one of the oppressed.
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The chief authority of the Terok Nor station, whom Kira encounters in "Crossover." Intendant Kira is one of the series' longest-running villains.
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** Her comments after Mirror!Odo's death suggest that she cared about him, or at least respected him as a colleague.
* KarmaHoudini
* MoodSwinger
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* ScrewYourself: She wants to screw regular Kira at least, but it doesn't actually happen.
* ShadowArchetype: Intendant Kira is who Kira Nerys might have become had she lived as an oppressor and not one of the oppressed.
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->'''Quark:''' [[WhyAreYouNotMySon Why can't you take after your friend here?]] ''He'' knows enough to stay out of Starfleet. Even a Hew-man can see there's a lot more profitable opportunities out there for a young man with ambition.\\
'''Nog''': Uncle, he wants to be a ''writer''! There's no profit in that!
-->-- "Facets"
Benjamin Sisko's son. A rather inexplicable member of the main cast, but he was ''always'' in the starting credits, even when guys like Garak and Nog started featuring more than him, and he had a tendency to vanish for several episodes at a time. However, some of the most critically acclaimed writing and acting on the series were the Jake/Ben Sisko scenes. He blessedly avoided becoming another CreatorsPet, for the most part, via actually ''suffering'' sometimes, in his growth as a character; also showed the impressive insanity--sorry, ''[[RefugeInAudacity testicular fortitude]]''--to remain behind and try to be a journalist covering [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Dominion-occupied [=DS9=]]].
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* AbsenteeActor: In the first six seasons, he would often vanish for multiple episodes at a time; more inexplicably he's missing from the majority of the last season. Hell, Morn appeared in more episodes than Jake!
* ActionSurvivor: "Nor the Battle to the Strong."
* {{Adorkable}}: Especially when he's trying to pick up women.
* TheArtifact: After [[TheScrappy how badly]] [[CreatorsPet Wesley]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Crusher]] was received, Jake was conceived as the anti-Wesley (a perfectly normal child), and it was his friend, recurring character Nog, who would join Starfleet. But it meant that in the later seasons, as he grew up and the Dominion War was underway, Jake had very little to do while Nog, among other recurring characters, got more to do.
* BlackAndNerdy
* ADayInTheLimelight: In the Season 5 episodes "Nor The Battle For The Strong" and "In The Cards".
* DirtyCoward: "Nor the Battle to the Strong" [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructs]] this idea. At first, Jake is contemptuous of a soldier who shoots himself in the foot, but then he realizes just how powerful fear can be when he's caught in battle and abandons Bashir.
* FailedASpotCheck: During the Dominion Occupation of [=DS9=], Jake is honestly ''surprised'' when Weyoun refuses to send his articles to the Federation New Service, because they portrayed the Dominion in an unflattering light (ie. an as evil Empire). After he ''still'' doesn't get it, Jake asks about the right of the press? This naturally causes Weyoun to ''laugh!''
* IntrepidReporter: Particularly during the re-occupation arc. He banks on the fact that the Dominion won't want to upset the Bajorans by hurting the Emissary's son, although he knows it's a pretty risky bet.
* TheMatchmaker: He sets up his dad with Kasidy.
* MilitaryBrat
* MostWritersAreWriters: The crew was not particularly happy with "The Muse", especially when they realized they had strayed well into this trope.
* OnlySaneMan: In "Valiant," being the only one who thinks that Cadet Watters and the rest of Red Squad should not be commanding a warship on a clandestine mission. He is one hundred percent correct.
* SatelliteCharacter: To his father.
* TagalongKid: This became unintentionally hilarious in the later seasons, as Lofton ended up being one of the tallest actors. For example, the episode "Valiant" has a crew full of cadets who barely reach his neck trying to order him around. They have to look up to point a phaser to his chin!
* ThoseTwoGuys: Himself and Nog, who considered him to be a pest initially. The pair were roughly the same age, and grew up together.
-->'''Jake''': You always used to chase me away.\\
'''Odo''': I never chased you away, I chased Nog. You just happened to be with him.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Subverted, as he ''doesn't'' want to follow his father into Starfleet and worries that his father will be disappointed with his desire to be a writer.
[[folder: Federation & Bajor]]
!!Kai Opaka (Camille Saviola)
* FanNickname: She was referred to as "Deep Space Nun" in Season 1.
* PutOnABus: She was trapped on a prison planet in Season 1.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She isn't dead, but she was quite permanently removed after dying on the planet that allowed resurrection which was ''only'' maintained on the planet.
!!Keiko O'Brien (née Ishikawa) (Rosalind Chao)
Federation civilian and wife of Miles O'Brien.
* TheChick
* ADayInTheLimelight: In the Season 5 episode "The Assignment".
** GrandTheftMe: She experiences this in "The Assignment".
* DemotedToExtra: While she was a fairly prominent secondary character in the first two seasons, as the series progressed , her role was largely diminished. She was even [[PutOnABus Put On A Shuttlecraft]] early in season 3. [[TheBusCameBack The Shuttlecraft Came Back]] the following season.
* HappilyMarried: To Miles.
* HotScientist: A botanist by training. She's unhappy that the station offers little opportunity to pursue her work, until she's able to find a place in a research team on Bajor.
* {{Housewife}}
* OvershadowedByAwesome: While she isn't a bad character, unfortunately but inevitably she gets shoved to the side because of her unadventurousness.
* {{Schoolmarm}}: She establishes a small school on the station that's basically a one-room schoolhouse [[InSPACE in SPACE]].
* SilkHidingSteel: Has demonstrated this in many instances throughout the course of the series. A prime example is the Season 1 finale "In The Hands Of The Prophets" when she absolutely refuses to bow to pressures from Winn that she teach Bajoran spiritual beliefs in her classroom.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Certainly a Japanese proper lady anyway. Slightly westernized though.
* WideEyedIdealist: Which makes Miles rather uncomfortable in ''Looking for Par'mach in all the Wrong Places.'' She has absolutely no idea that he and Kira are starting to fall for each other (against their wills).
!!Vedek/Kai Winn Adami (Louise Fletcher)
Traditionalist Bajoran religious leader who is introduced as generically TheFundamentalist, but develops into a far more complex antagonist for the heroes. Ends up in SinisterMinister territory, but has a much less cartoonish motivation than the usual: she's genuinely religious but becomes steadily more and more bitter that her gods keep, as she sees it, favouring foreigners and dilettantes over her, despite her lifelong service to them.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She schemes, plots assassinations, undermines Sisko at every turn, [[spoiler:but when she finds out that the Bajoran 'spiritual guide' she slept with is Gul Dukat, she looks like she's going to throw up]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time you meet her, she ''blows up a school.''
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]: About five seconds before the end.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest Nurse Ratched]] is now a spiritual leader??
* HolierThanThou: If she's onscreen with Sisko, expect her to make a dig at him for being foreign. If she's onscreen with Kira, expect "gentle" reminders about just who is the Kai.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Although she's a believer, she spends most of her time as Kai trying to wrestle influence away from Sisko. [[spoiler:This is probably why the Prophets give her the cold shoulder.]]
* JerkAss: She is the high queen of being passive-aggressive. And bombing schools.
* LargeHam: It is very, ''very'' easy to see Louise Fletcher positively ''luxuriating'' in the sheer hamminess of this character.
* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath]]: [[spoiler:Gives Sisko key information immediately before Dukat kills her.]]
* SinisterMinister: She kicks off her first major role plotting the assassination of a rival who was favored to become Kai. Shortly after that, she involves herself in a coup that intends to expel the Federation.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Her appearance frequently throws Starfleet for a loop. [[spoiler:And she deliberately disrupts the Reckoning, a battle between the Prophets and Pah-Wraiths that has been prophesied for thousands of years]].
* TheUnfavourite: In a religious sense. Despite her Kai title and obstination, the prophets will never give her an audience, even if she's using orbs, that were created so Bajorans could have access at any time to their Gods. It's particularly noticeable because everyone else who try will get one. Hell, even ''Quark'' had it on his first try. Even worse, when she finally meets one, even kneeling before it to show her devotion, it proceeds to ignore her spectacularly. It plays a good part in her [[spoiler: FaceHeelTurn against them]].
** Of course, her powermongering and HolierThanThou attitude probably has a good deal to do with their rejection of her.
** To be fair, this doesn't mean that Quark is any more favored. They found him so annoying that they nearly de-evolved him. The only thing that kept them from doing it was the prospect of more Ferengi using the Orbs.
!!Vedek Bareil Antos (Philip Anglim)
A serene but quite savvy cleric who aids the Federation, and a leading candidate for Kai. He and Kira fall in love and have a happy relationship [[spoiler:until his death]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He has to abandon his candidacy for Kai for leaking the location of a resistance cell to the Cardasssians during the occupation. [[spoiler:Or so it's claimed.]]
* [[spoiler:EmptyShell: Bashir saves his life after a shuttle accident, but it leaves him as a shadow of his former self.]]
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: Dies while in the final stages of a treaty between Bajor and Cardassia. He survives long enough as an EmptyShell to help Kai Winn finish]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's supportive of the Federation's efforts and advocates against religious extremism, as well as assisting the Federation politically during the Circle's coup. (WordOfGod said this was why they couldn't allow him to become Kai--he wouldn't generate any good conflict to write about in that position.)
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:The source of the above leak was Kai Opaka, who made the SadisticChoice to betray her son's small resistance cell rather than allow a much larger number of Bajorans to be massacred.]]
!!Lt. Commander Michael Eddington (Kenneth Marshall)
->''"People don't enter Starfleet to become commanders, or admirals for that matter, it's the captain's chair that everyone has their eye on. That's what I wanted when I joined up. You don't get to be a captain wearing a gold uniform."''
Initially assigned to Deep Space 9 as Chief of Starfleet Security after first contact with the Dominion. This was done in part due to a lack of trust Starfleet Command had for Odo. Ironically, Eddington would eventually betray his uniform and join the Maquis.
* DefectorFromDecadence: How he justifies joining the Maquis.
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]
* ItsPersonal: Eddington accuses Sisko of behaving this way in "For the Uniform."
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* TheMole
!!Kasidy Yates (Penny Johnson)
A freighter captain who is introduced to Ben by Jake in order to set them up on a date. They hit it off quite nicely. Although the
* TheCaptain: Of a Bajoran freighter vessel. She takes that job as seriously as Sisko takes his job.
* GameOfNerds: She is one of the small number of baseball enthusiasts in the 24th century.
* StayInTheKitchen: Sisko pulls strings to get her taken off the active list when she says she intends to continue doing her job despite the war. She is ''very'' unhappy about it and has him undo it.
!!Shakaar Edon (Duncan Regehr)
Leader of the eponymous Shakaar resistance cell during the Cardassian Occupation, and former comrade-in-arms of Major Kira. He became a farmer after the Occupation ended, and was eventually elected as First Minister of Bajor.
* AbsenteeActor: Shakaar is seen in only three episodes, though mentioned many other times. Planned appearances were removed from several scripts due to budgetary reasons or because the script was already too crowded.
* Casanova: Described by Gul Dukat as such to Major Kira. Whether or not this is true is suspect, given Dukat's likely ulterior motives.
* DeterminedHomesteader: His first appearance is a conflict over Kai Winn over some land reclamation devices, which he and his neighbors don't want to give up until they're actually done making the land arable again.
* RomanticFalseLead: For Odo and Major Kira. Probably his most defining characteristic.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: From farmer to First Minister in about a month or so.
!!Joseph Sisko (Brock Peters)
* CoolOldGuy
* GrumpyOldMan: He has his moments.
* SupremeChef: You have to be one if you want customers to go to your restaurant in a century where everyone can efforlessly order everything they want with a replicator.
* WhatTheHellHero: He gives a good one to his son when he's starting to think his own father is a Changeling.
** MoralityChain: Sisko then drops his paranoïa, cools off his head and start investigating on the whole ordeal instead on enforcing martial law and blood checks.
!!Vice Admiral William Ross (Barry Jenner)
A senior Starfleet military commander and Captain Sisko's direct superior during the Dominion War.
* FourStarBadass: Very good at his job, even if he's less-than-thrilled about getting his hand cut open for Klingon ceremonies.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: If he is not the most reasonable Starfleet admiral in the entirety of Trek, then he is certainly the second most. He's not without his foibles, though.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: While on the scent of a Section 31 plot to install its man in the Romulan Council, Bashir is horrified to learn that Ross is the one pulling the strings. When confronted about this, Ross merely quotes, "[[AltumVidetur Inter arma enim silent leges]]." (In time of war, the law falls silent.)
* ThrowItIn: A joking reference by Odo to Ross as "Bill" in the first episode of season 7 was taken literally by the writing staff, resulting in his canonical first name.
!!Luther Sloan (William Sadler)
->''"The Federation needs men like you, doctor. Men of conscience. Men of principle. Men who can sleep at night... You're also the reason Section Thirty-One exists -- someone has to protect men like you from a universe that doesn't share your sense of right and wrong."''
An operative of Section 31, a clandestine black ops organization within the Federation and independent of Starfleet. Sloan and the others of his agency have dedicated their lives to eliminating threats to the Federation's survival by any means necessary, even if it means violating the very freedoms and principles that Federation citizens are supposed to hold dear.
* BatmanGambit: This is how he manipulates Julian in "Inter Arma Silent Legis." When Julain tries to protect the "[[ExactWords patriotic]]" Senator, Sloan engineers a situation [[spoiler:that will get Julian to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero bring about her arrest]]. Sloan notes that a patriot would put Romulan interests above Federation interests, but Julian equates "patriotic" with "good." ]]
* ManipulativeBastard: He will get Julian to be a Section 31 agent not only whether he likes it or not, but whether he ''knows'' it or not.
* MasterActor: Puts on a convincing show as a paranoid Federation agent recklessly out for revenge.
* MultipleChoicePast: The validity of just about every biographical detail we are given about him is questionable.
* UnreliableNarrator: Inside his own head. When Bashir and O'Brien take a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind, they realize that they can't trust anything they encounter because Sloan is trying to distract and hinder their efforts.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: His character quote just about sums it up.
* [[spoiler:TakingYouWithMe: He tries to do this to Miles and Julian by keeping their consciousnesses inside his brain as he dies. Miles drags them out before they can find out if this actually would have worked]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:It's unclear if he ordered the genocidal Changeling disease, but he's certainly unwilling to let anyone find a cure]].
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->'''Quark:''' [[WhyAreYouNotMySon Why can't you take after your friend here?]] ''He'' knows enough to stay out of Starfleet. Even a Hew-man can see there's a lot more profitable opportunities out there for a young man with ambition.\\
'''Nog''': Uncle, he wants to be a ''writer''! There's no profit in that!
-->-- "Facets"
Benjamin Sisko's son. A rather inexplicable member of the main cast, but he was ''always'' in the starting credits, even when guys like Garak and Nog started featuring more than him, and he had a tendency to vanish for several episodes at a time. However, some of the most critically acclaimed writing and acting on the series were the Jake/Ben Sisko scenes. He blessedly avoided becoming another CreatorsPet, for the most part, via actually ''suffering'' sometimes, in his growth as a character; also showed the impressive insanity--sorry, ''[[RefugeInAudacity testicular fortitude]]''--to remain behind and try to be a journalist covering [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Dominion-occupied [=DS9=]]].
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* AbsenteeActor: In the first six seasons, he would often vanish for multiple episodes at a time; more inexplicably he's missing from the majority of the last season. Hell, Morn appeared in more episodes than Jake!
* ActionSurvivor: "Nor the Battle to the Strong."
* {{Adorkable}}: Especially when he's trying to pick up women.
* TheArtifact: After [[TheScrappy how badly]] [[CreatorsPet Wesley]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Crusher]] was received, Jake was conceived as the anti-Wesley (a perfectly normal child), and it was his friend, recurring character Nog, who would join Starfleet. But it meant that in the later seasons, as he grew up and the Dominion War was underway, Jake had very little to do while Nog, among other recurring characters, got more to do.
* BlackAndNerdy
* ADayInTheLimelight: In the Season 5 episodes "Nor The Battle For The Strong" and "In The Cards".
* DirtyCoward: "Nor the Battle to the Strong" [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructs]] this idea. At first, Jake is contemptuous of a soldier who shoots himself in the foot, but then he realizes just how powerful fear can be when he's caught in battle and abandons Bashir.
* FailedASpotCheck: During the Dominion Occupation of [=DS9=], Jake is honestly ''surprised'' when Weyoun refuses to send his articles to the Federation New Service, because they portrayed the Dominion in an unflattering light (ie. an as evil Empire). After he ''still'' doesn't get it, Jake asks about the right of the press? This naturally causes Weyoun to ''laugh!''
* IntrepidReporter: Particularly during the re-occupation arc. He banks on the fact that the Dominion won't want to upset the Bajorans by hurting the Emissary's son, although he knows it's a pretty risky bet.
* TheMatchmaker: He sets up his dad with Kasidy.
* MilitaryBrat
* MostWritersAreWriters: The crew was not particularly happy with "The Muse", especially when they realized they had strayed well into this trope.
* OnlySaneMan: In "Valiant," being the only one who thinks that Cadet Watters and the rest of Red Squad should not be commanding a warship on a clandestine mission. He is one hundred percent correct.
* SatelliteCharacter: To his father.
* TagalongKid: This became unintentionally hilarious in the later seasons, as Lofton ended up being one of the tallest actors. For example, the episode "Valiant" has a crew full of cadets who barely reach his neck trying to order him around. They have to look up to point a phaser to his chin!
* ThoseTwoGuys: Himself and Nog, who considered him to be a pest initially. The pair were roughly the same age, and grew up together.
-->'''Jake''': You always used to chase me away.\\
'''Odo''': I never chased you away, I chased Nog. You just happened to be with him.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Subverted, as he ''doesn't'' want to follow his father into Starfleet and worries that his father will be disappointed with his desire to be a writer.
[[folder: Federation & Bajor]]
!!Kai Opaka (Camille Saviola)
* FanNickname: She was referred to as "Deep Space Nun" in Season 1.
* PutOnABus: She was trapped on a prison planet in Season 1.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She isn't dead, but she was quite permanently removed after dying on the planet that allowed resurrection which was ''only'' maintained on the planet.
!!Keiko O'Brien (née Ishikawa) (Rosalind Chao)
Federation civilian and wife of Miles O'Brien.
* TheChick
* ADayInTheLimelight: In the Season 5 episode "The Assignment".
** GrandTheftMe: She experiences this in "The Assignment".
* DemotedToExtra: While she was a fairly prominent secondary character in the first two seasons, as the series progressed , her role was largely diminished. She was even [[PutOnABus Put On A Shuttlecraft]] early in season 3. [[TheBusCameBack The Shuttlecraft Came Back]] the following season.
* HappilyMarried: To Miles.
* HotScientist: A botanist by training. She's unhappy that the station offers little opportunity to pursue her work, until she's able to find a place in a research team on Bajor.
* {{Housewife}}
* OvershadowedByAwesome: While she isn't a bad character, unfortunately but inevitably she gets shoved to the side because of her unadventurousness.
* {{Schoolmarm}}: She establishes a small school on the station that's basically a one-room schoolhouse [[InSPACE in SPACE]].
* SilkHidingSteel: Has demonstrated this in many instances throughout the course of the series. A prime example is the Season 1 finale "In The Hands Of The Prophets" when she absolutely refuses to bow to pressures from Winn that she teach Bajoran spiritual beliefs in her classroom.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Certainly a Japanese proper lady anyway. Slightly westernized though.
* WideEyedIdealist: Which makes Miles rather uncomfortable in ''Looking for Par'mach in all the Wrong Places.'' She has absolutely no idea that he and Kira are starting to fall for each other (against their wills).
!!Vedek/Kai Winn Adami (Louise Fletcher)
Traditionalist Bajoran religious leader who is introduced as generically TheFundamentalist, but develops into a far more complex antagonist for the heroes. Ends up in SinisterMinister territory, but has a much less cartoonish motivation than the usual: she's genuinely religious but becomes steadily more and more bitter that her gods keep, as she sees it, favouring foreigners and dilettantes over her, despite her lifelong service to them.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She schemes, plots assassinations, undermines Sisko at every turn, [[spoiler:but when she finds out that the Bajoran 'spiritual guide' she slept with is Gul Dukat, she looks like she's going to throw up]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time you meet her, she ''blows up a school.''
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]: About five seconds before the end.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest Nurse Ratched]] is now a spiritual leader??
* HolierThanThou: If she's onscreen with Sisko, expect her to make a dig at him for being foreign. If she's onscreen with Kira, expect "gentle" reminders about just who is the Kai.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Although she's a believer, she spends most of her time as Kai trying to wrestle influence away from Sisko. [[spoiler:This is probably why the Prophets give her the cold shoulder.]]
* JerkAss: She is the high queen of being passive-aggressive. And bombing schools.
* LargeHam: It is very, ''very'' easy to see Louise Fletcher positively ''luxuriating'' in the sheer hamminess of this character.
* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath]]: [[spoiler:Gives Sisko key information immediately before Dukat kills her.]]
* SinisterMinister: She kicks off her first major role plotting the assassination of a rival who was favored to become Kai. Shortly after that, she involves herself in a coup that intends to expel the Federation.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Her appearance frequently throws Starfleet for a loop. [[spoiler:And she deliberately disrupts the Reckoning, a battle between the Prophets and Pah-Wraiths that has been prophesied for thousands of years]].
* TheUnfavourite: In a religious sense. Despite her Kai title and obstination, the prophets will never give her an audience, even if she's using orbs, that were created so Bajorans could have access at any time to their Gods. It's particularly noticeable because everyone else who try will get one. Hell, even ''Quark'' had it on his first try. Even worse, when she finally meets one, even kneeling before it to show her devotion, it proceeds to ignore her spectacularly. It plays a good part in her [[spoiler: FaceHeelTurn against them]].
** Of course, her powermongering and HolierThanThou attitude probably has a good deal to do with their rejection of her.
** To be fair, this doesn't mean that Quark is any more favored. They found him so annoying that they nearly de-evolved him. The only thing that kept them from doing it was the prospect of more Ferengi using the Orbs.
!!Vedek Bareil Antos (Philip Anglim)
A serene but quite savvy cleric who aids the Federation, and a leading candidate for Kai. He and Kira fall in love and have a happy relationship [[spoiler:until his death]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He has to abandon his candidacy for Kai for leaking the location of a resistance cell to the Cardasssians during the occupation. [[spoiler:Or so it's claimed.]]
* [[spoiler:EmptyShell: Bashir saves his life after a shuttle accident, but it leaves him as a shadow of his former self.]]
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: Dies while in the final stages of a treaty between Bajor and Cardassia. He survives long enough as an EmptyShell to help Kai Winn finish]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's supportive of the Federation's efforts and advocates against religious extremism, as well as assisting the Federation politically during the Circle's coup. (WordOfGod said this was why they couldn't allow him to become Kai--he wouldn't generate any good conflict to write about in that position.)
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:The source of the above leak was Kai Opaka, who made the SadisticChoice to betray her son's small resistance cell rather than allow a much larger number of Bajorans to be massacred.]]
!!Lt. Commander Michael Eddington (Kenneth Marshall)
->''"People don't enter Starfleet to become commanders, or admirals for that matter, it's the captain's chair that everyone has their eye on. That's what I wanted when I joined up. You don't get to be a captain wearing a gold uniform."''
Initially assigned to Deep Space 9 as Chief of Starfleet Security after first contact with the Dominion. This was done in part due to a lack of trust Starfleet Command had for Odo. Ironically, Eddington would eventually betray his uniform and join the Maquis.
* DefectorFromDecadence: How he justifies joining the Maquis.
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]
* ItsPersonal: Eddington accuses Sisko of behaving this way in "For the Uniform."
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* TheMole
!!Kasidy Yates (Penny Johnson)
A freighter captain who is introduced to Ben by Jake in order to set them up on a date. They hit it off quite nicely. Although the
* TheCaptain: Of a Bajoran freighter vessel. She takes that job as seriously as Sisko takes his job.
* GameOfNerds: She is one of the small number of baseball enthusiasts in the 24th century.
* StayInTheKitchen: Sisko pulls strings to get her taken off the active list when she says she intends to continue doing her job despite the war. She is ''very'' unhappy about it and has him undo it.
!!Shakaar Edon (Duncan Regehr)
Leader of the eponymous Shakaar resistance cell during the Cardassian Occupation, and former comrade-in-arms of Major Kira. He became a farmer after the Occupation ended, and was eventually elected as First Minister of Bajor.
* AbsenteeActor: Shakaar is seen in only three episodes, though mentioned many other times. Planned appearances were removed from several scripts due to budgetary reasons or because the script was already too crowded.
* Casanova: Described by Gul Dukat as such to Major Kira. Whether or not this is true is suspect, given Dukat's likely ulterior motives.
* DeterminedHomesteader: His first appearance is a conflict over Kai Winn over some land reclamation devices, which he and his neighbors don't want to give up until they're actually done making the land arable again.
* RomanticFalseLead: For Odo and Major Kira. Probably his most defining characteristic.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: From farmer to First Minister in about a month or so.
!!Joseph Sisko (Brock Peters)
* CoolOldGuy
* GrumpyOldMan: He has his moments.
* SupremeChef: You have to be one if you want customers to go to your restaurant in a century where everyone can efforlessly order everything they want with a replicator.
* WhatTheHellHero: He gives a good one to his son when he's starting to think his own father is a Changeling.
** MoralityChain: Sisko then drops his paranoïa, cools off his head and start investigating on the whole ordeal instead on enforcing martial law and blood checks.
!!Vice Admiral William Ross (Barry Jenner)
A senior Starfleet military commander and Captain Sisko's direct superior during the Dominion War.
* FourStarBadass: Very good at his job, even if he's less-than-thrilled about getting his hand cut open for Klingon ceremonies.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: If he is not the most reasonable Starfleet admiral in the entirety of Trek, then he is certainly the second most. He's not without his foibles, though.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: While on the scent of a Section 31 plot to install its man in the Romulan Council, Bashir is horrified to learn that Ross is the one pulling the strings. When confronted about this, Ross merely quotes, "[[AltumVidetur Inter arma enim silent leges]]." (In time of war, the law falls silent.)
* ThrowItIn: A joking reference by Odo to Ross as "Bill" in the first episode of season 7 was taken literally by the writing staff, resulting in his canonical first name.
!!Luther Sloan (William Sadler)
->''"The Federation needs men like you, doctor. Men of conscience. Men of principle. Men who can sleep at night... You're also the reason Section Thirty-One exists -- someone has to protect men like you from a universe that doesn't share your sense of right and wrong."''
An operative of Section 31, a clandestine black ops organization within the Federation and independent of Starfleet. Sloan and the others of his agency have dedicated their lives to eliminating threats to the Federation's survival by any means necessary, even if it means violating the very freedoms and principles that Federation citizens are supposed to hold dear.
* BatmanGambit: This is how he manipulates Julian in "Inter Arma Silent Legis." When Julain tries to protect the "[[ExactWords patriotic]]" Senator, Sloan engineers a situation [[spoiler:that will get Julian to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero bring about her arrest]]. Sloan notes that a patriot would put Romulan interests above Federation interests, but Julian equates "patriotic" with "good." ]]
* ManipulativeBastard: He will get Julian to be a Section 31 agent not only whether he likes it or not, but whether he ''knows'' it or not.
* MasterActor: Puts on a convincing show as a paranoid Federation agent recklessly out for revenge.
* MultipleChoicePast: The validity of just about every biographical detail we are given about him is questionable.
* UnreliableNarrator: Inside his own head. When Bashir and O'Brien take a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind, they realize that they can't trust anything they encounter because Sloan is trying to distract and hinder their efforts.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: His character quote just about sums it up.
* [[spoiler:TakingYouWithMe: He tries to do this to Miles and Julian by keeping their consciousnesses inside his brain as he dies. Miles drags them out before they can find out if this actually would have worked]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:It's unclear if he ordered the genocidal Changeling disease, but he's certainly unwilling to let anyone find a cure]].
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