History DeepSpaceNine / FederationAndBajor

** MoralityChain: Sisko then drops his paranoia, cools off his head and starts investigating the whole ordeal instead of enforcing martial law and blood checks.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When she shows up on [=DS9=] to ask for Sisko's advice about the non-aggression pact offered by the Dominion. Winn's not her usual sneaky, oily self but is instead genuinely interested in his advice.

* {{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.

* DontYouDarePityMe: When Odo falls ill, Kira doesn’t bring Odo flowers or try to keep him company; nope Kira knows him better than anybody and brings him this weeks criminal activity report! ("Broken Link")

* IHatePastMe: Creator/KurtwoodSmith plays Odo's Cardassian avatar "Thrax". ("Things Past") Fascinatingly, Thrax gets to interrogate himself while Odo pulls at all of the loose strings in Thrax’s (thus his) prosecution of a case. Clearly. the younger Odo was happy to work with circumstantial evidence and make snap judgements about peoples' character if it landed him convictions.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Quark, eventually.

* [[spoiler: YouCantGoHomeAgain: Subverted]] in the series finale.

* HeroicSacrifice: He dies in a last stand against the Dominion to let the remnants of the Maquis escape.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: {{Downplayed}}. She certainly likes to ''think'' that she has good intentions...but some of her most sinister actions, such as orchestrating a school bombing or trying to have her rival assassinated, speak far more to ruthless ambition than anything else. In the final season she privately admits to Dukat that she never had the genuine spirituality that other Bajorans had (for instance, she didn't feel the religious awe the rest of her people did when the womrhole originally opened) and she's been playing at being pious because she didn't know what else to do. In short, Winn ''aspires'' to be a WellIntentionedExtremist, but in reality she can't even manage that and ends up as just a fundamentally insecure {{Narcissist}} trying desperately to convince others- and likely herself- that she is anything else by pretending to be more religiously devout / fanatical than she actually is.

A [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] (or "Changeling", a clever double-meaning) who serves as the ornery Chief of Station Security. 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, winds up acceding to his territorial nature. Functions as TheSpock initially, later becoming TheJudge. Originally a bit angsty over not knowing his origins; eventually discovers that [[spoiler: his own people are the leaders of the Dominion and thus the enemy,]] which doesn't help with the angst one bit. While not particularly strong on manners or civil liberties, when it comes to impartiality, Odo's your man.

A [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] (or "Changeling", a clever double-meaning) who serves as the ornery Chief of Station Security. 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, winds up acceding to his territorial nature. Functions as TheSpock initially, later becoming TheJudge. Originally a bit angsty over not knowing his origins; eventually discovers that [[his own people are the leaders of the Dominion and thus the enemy,]] which doesn't help with the angst one bit. While not particularly strong on manners or civil liberties, when it comes to impartiality, Odo's your man.

A [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] (or "Changeling", a clever double-meaning) who serves as the ornery Chief of Station Security. 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, winds up acceding to his territorial nature. Functions as TheSpock initially, later becoming TheJudge. Originally a bit angsty over not knowing his origins; eventually discovers that his own people are the leaders of the Dominion and thus the enemy, which doesn't help with the angst one bit. While not particularly strong on manners or civil liberties, when it comes to impartiality, Odo's your man.

** However, the show often used her to deconstruct this trope. The Cardassian who she gave the above speech to shoves it right back in her face when he points out he wasn't guilty of anything. She didn't ''have'' to use indiscriminate weapons to fight the occupation, she just didn't ''care''.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When she shows up DS9 to ask for Sisko's advice about the non-aggression pact offered by the Dominion. Winn's not her usual sneaky, oily self but is instead genuinely interested in his advice.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: His actions in [[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E13ForTheUniform}} For the Uniform]] smacks of this. Originally content to steal from the Federation and attack Cardassian supply ships. He moves on to leaving a man on an asteroid to die of asphyxiation and bombing defensive Cardassian civilians with bio-weapons. Next he ends up attacking Federation ships and even cripples a fleeing civilian escape ship to use as a decoy.

* Didn'tSeeThatComing: He really didn't see Ben Sisko using his own tactics against him.

* [[FourStarBadass Three Pip Badass]]: Very good at his job, even if he's less-than-thrilled about getting his hand cut open for Klingon ceremonies.

* TheResenter: She can't stand the fact that Sisko is TheChosenOne instead of her. [[spoiler: Leads to a FaceHeelTurn.]]

** Justified as Sisko lost his last wife in a war and carried that pain for a long time.

* 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.
** 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).

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: In "Children of Time", his future self ''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.

* ColonelBadass: Promoted in the seventh season. (Nana Visitor joked that Kira should open a [[UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken fried chicken joint]] on the Promenade.)

* 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.

** It's also worth nothing she mellows out a lot towards Quark after he saves her skin in "Sacrifice of Angels". She goes from casually calling him a goblin and threatening him with physical violence to pulling a lot of strings inside the Federation bureaucracy to get him a high-profile prisoner for a trade. Keep in mind she's a Bajoran citizen and virtually have no power over such matters.

* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Bajoran/Changeling. Odo's species being shapeshifters, it's implied that he brings certain special skills to the bedroom.
** He outright transforms into a cloud of sparkling gas at one point to give Kira an idea of what the Great Link is like. It's safe to say this is not the first (or last) time his shapeshifting skills have been used for kinky purposes.

* 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.]]

* MosesInTheBullrushes: He was discovered in the Denorios Belt as an infant.