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To wrap up my “Progress” screencaps, here’s several showcasing the kiln which was the most critical prop of the episode as seen by its construction and destruction.  “If Wishes Were Horses” is up next.

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Praise be to the Prophets: The best Bajorans in Star Trek

By Ames

Prepare to have an orb experience – you’re about to see what the Orb of Prophecy has to say about who A Star to Steer Her By chooses as our favorite Bajorans of Star Trek! Whether they’re the favored people of the almighty prophets or they’re just some bystanders who happen to be near some weird-ass wormhole aliens, the Bajora prove to be a culturally rich people full of thought-provoking stories and the occasional need to shout at a magical cloud for totally normal reasons.

So whip up some hasperat, put on your dangly earrings, and suit up for an exciting game of springball! You’re sure to see lots of familiar faces with crinkly noses, often over and over again, in our different favorite lists. Follow along below to see our picks or listen to our chatter in this week’s podcast episode (discussion starts at 58:33). Walk with the prophets, my child.

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Caitlin – Join the resistance

Kira Nerys

Winn Adami

Tora Ziyal

On Caitlin’s list we see three characters with backstories so rich that it opened up possibilities for Deep Space Nine to have the rich, serial, heart-wrenching plots that it was known for. These three women built and built over the seasons, from Kira’s place within the Bajoran resistance to her promotion to colonel in the militia, from Winn’s overly ambitious ascension to Kai to her downfall in the fire caves, and from Ziyal’s tragic upbringing in a Breen prison camp to her reunion with her father and finally to her sacrifice in the fight against the Dominion.

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Jake – The d’jarra of badasses

Kira Nerys

Ro Laren

Sito Jaxa

Jake so frequently picks out the most badass characters for his lists, and this time is no different. Kira Nerys was so hardcore that she even taught her former enemies how to be better rebel fighters. Ensign Ro put up with shit from neither  Cardassians nor Starfleet and went so far as to join the Maquis because she stood for what was right. And the young cadet Sito Jaxa made up for mistakes made in the Academy by learning from the experience, standing up for herself, and ultimately martyring herself for Starfleet’s cause.

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Ames – Building more than just a kiln

Ro Laren

Shaxs

Mullibok

My three Bajoran characters bring out the best in their respective series. TNG was not only severely lacking in female characters before Ensign Ro came along, but also got some excellent story fodder by introducing her Bajoran race. Lower Decks excels at creating characters with contradictory traits for some of their better jokes and drama, and the big angry teddy bear Shaxs may be the best example. And DS9 starts off the clusterfuck that is Bajor with the moon tenant Mullibok who tests Kira’s mettle with his matching stubbornness.

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Chris – Welcome to the Gratitude Festival

Ro Laren

Winn Adami

Kira Nerys

Be grateful for Chris’s picks because, without them, the Bajorans wouldn’t be the race we know today. We’ve seen all three of these women in the other lists, and that just serves as a testament for how excellent they are and what they do to help Star Trek depict their race. From their stories, we understand how the Bajora survived a brutal occupation, how they built themselves up on both the strength of their faith and the strength of their rebellion, and how (regardless of how often we joke that they’re a mess) they sum up to the best of sci-fi.

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That’s all we’ve been able to interpret from that orb experience. There’s just one more alien race for us to shine the spotlight on for this blog series, so make sure you’re following along with us here. You can also continue on our voyage through Voyager on SoundCloud, hail us on Facebook and Twitter, and stay out of the fire caves!

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Avery Brooks (Commander Benjamin Sisko) and Nana Visitor (Kira Nerys) 1993 in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Progress“

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Becoming an old person means understanding and agreeing with the crotchety old man in DS9 season 1 ep 14 "Progress"

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The number of times DS9 writers give Odo lines about the Cardassian occupation of Bajor that amount to "say what you will about Mussolini, he made the trains run on time" but specifically about LAW ENFORCEMENT, which is STILL MILITARIZED and functions as a surveillance + civilian control apparatus on the station with nearly complete carte blanche short of "arresting a guy minding his business because you don't like the cut of his proverbial jib" sjshdhfjfjfjfjwoejdf. They throw anybody in jail without pretense! They are always enforcing curfew and confining people to quarters "for their own safety" because of some shit like "graffiti on the Promenade"! I am fascinated by Kira's relationship with Odo and the compromises she makes with herself to fit into the command structure/post-occupation world order, how she rationalizes in the name of Bajoran interests, I think from Mullibok's eviction onward. The ways her narrative and her character confront (or don't confront) Cardassian collaboration. Obviously I am thinking through this with reference to the Cold War, post-'48 and post-'51 especially

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rebecca watches ds9: progress

jake and nog again!!

nog has Plans

jadzia’s tastes are pretty widespread! guess 300 years of life will make you more open-minded

so wait, is the moon still gonna be habitable after this? like is this a temporary evacuation or just “fuck you, find new homes”

hello weapon-wielding bajorans

hello other bajoran

excuse you sir kira is more than HALFWAY pretty

wtf are self-sealing stem bolts

what are stem bolts and why do they need to seal themselves

obviously you accept the trade and then sell the stem bolts to someone else for latinum

quark’s bar heist?

time for a bajoran dinner i guess!

bajoran guy stop commenting on kira’s looks challenge

so the moon’s gonna be permanently uninhabitable? that’s kinda fucked up isn’t it?

quark leave nog ALONE

i love how every episode jake and nog are in is just them causing chaos of some kind

one weakened bajoran guy overpowered half a dozen cardassians? i’m calling bs, unless cardassians are exceptionally weak (which i’ve seen no evidence of)

sir. sir you can’t defeat air like you can defeat cardassians

so that’s a self-sealing stem bolt! what the fuck is it for!

apparently no one knows!

awww dax was worried about kira!

oh shit things are getting violent

MULLIBOK NO

you can probably sell land for latinum

oh mullibok is alive!

and exceptionally ungrateful for it

KIRA ARMS

kira’s telling an anecdote of her own!

i’m guessing there is no tree

wonder what mullibok was dreaming of

nog, land is better than self-sealing stem bolts because people actually know what land does

what’d i tell you nog!

at this moment quark is an EXTREMELY proud uncle

“as long as that cottage is standing, i stay here” yeah destroying the cottage seems like a reasonable next step. can’t really fault kira for that one

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Galactic Gazetteer: Jeraddo

AKA: Lunar V

Class: M (until 2369)

Type: terrestrial moon

Location: orbit of Bajor

Quadrant: Alpha

Inhabitants: Bajorans (2329-69)

Animal life: paluku spiders

Appearance: DS9 "Progress" (1993)

Fun fact: Mullibok was the first person to settle the moon, and the last to leave

Another fun fact: also site of the Bajoran rebel militia's Lunar V base.

Fun fact 3: rendered uninhabitable in 2369 when Bajor and the UFP began mining the molten core. No asked what the spiders thought.

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okay basically. to me ds9 the space station the kiln in s1 progress and kiras two dads cemetery are the same place and i cant elaborate. except i can its about the rebuilding a place through love and survival and necessity. its the way in his last moment all kiras dad could talk about was that his garden was destroyed and so kira made that garden for him and its about how mullibok was talking about how nice it would be to have a kiln so he can cast his pottery and make them nice so kira built it brick by brick even when he wasnt there and its basically also about how kira used the fire from her destruction of the kiln to set mulliboks cottage on fire and its about how kira used that garden to bury another person she cared about and its about how ds9 the space station, even after the squad found community and love and a home in it, still tried to kill them with failsafes built into it since its inception. what do you do when a thing you rebuilt with that much love tries to hurt you

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Nope, nope, burning down Mulliboks house like that was a horrible thing to do even if it saved his life. A person has the right to their own death and he had chosen his way. Highly disagree with this ending of episode 14

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Obviously, I ended up with a few “Progress” screencaps featuring Mullibok.

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Character Spotlight: Kira Nerys

By Ames

We’re moving on in our character spotlight series from our favorite war criminal captain to one of the most well developed characters from the onset, Colonel Kira Nerys. From the moment we meet her in “Emissary,” we know exactly who Kira is, and the show wisely sends her on a complex journey within that grey area between terrorist and resistance fighter. Get you a Bajoran who can do both.

Ensign Ro may have set the mold for the Bajorans, but Kira grew outside of it and we’re so glad to get her perspective. So pick up your Bajoran phaser and get ready to take aim at some fascists as we celebrate A Star to Steer Her By’s favorite crinkly-nosed, red jumpsuit-clad militia officer in our Best and Worst Moments list below and on this week’s podcast (jump to 56:47). Walk with the Prophets, my child.

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Best moments

What other show gives you a zombie space pope? There’s more going on for Kira in season one than for other characters because she really rocks it from the start. And Nana Visitor has the chops to give that special nuance to a character like this, especially in emotional scenes like her breakdown when she accidentally gets Kai Opaka killed in “Battle Lines,” and the moment she has with her reanimated corpse is nothing short of stunning.

If I leave here, I’ll die Speaking of great moments from season one, Kira makes the hard decision in “Progress” to save Mullibok’s life by ruining said life. Over the episode, she bonds with the obstinate Jeraddo farmer by helping him build his kiln only to destroy it in the end and set fire to his house to force him to relocate, and it’s clear it tears her up inside. Bajorans really never win.

Enough good people have already died. I won’t help kill another. But perhaps the best thing to come out of the season (and to some, the whole show overall) is her character arc in the stunning “Duet.” Kira spends so much of the show battling her Cardassian demons (figuratively and literally), that seeing her grow to accept that some individuals may be redeemable is captivating, heart-breaking, and truly impressive (and have we mentioned it’s only season one?).

A new meaning to being selfish We would be remiss if we didn’t include at least a mention of the excellent and mesmerizing performance Visitor gives as Intendant Kira in episodes like “Crossover.” Say what you will about the mirror universe (and we have), but Kira is a wonder to behold and the chemistry between her and herself is like lightning in a bottle. Zap!

Cardassians LOVE cosmetic surgery Speaking of mirrors, imagine waking up and the face looking back at you in the mirror is the thing you hate most. Kira’s relationship with Cardassians continues to evolve in the wondrous “Second Skin,” in which she bonds with her fake daddy Tekeny Ghemor, foils a Cardassian plot, and discovers a resistance cell within Central Command – her favorite!

I was playing a married woman This is one of those cute little Kira moments from the show that tickles us, but in “The Way of the Warrior,” it is just too hilarious that her response to being wooed by Lancelot (assumably while playing Guenivere) in the holodeck is to slug him. It’s so in character that we have to applaud it. Kira is always the first to choose violence, after all, though sometimes that can be a downside.

Major, tell me another story Kira spends the second half of “Starship Down” tending to a badly concussed Sisko, and working through character conflict. As I harped on in the Sisko post, Ben is double-fisting roles as both space station commander and Emissary to the Prophets, and that comes with deep significance to Bajorans like Kira, and this is her chance to talk to him about it. Love that for her!

The life you’re choosing isn’t for her There are a ton of great moments between Kira and Ziyal, from saving her life in “Indiscretion” to encouraging her painting in “Sons and Daughters,” but the one we’re highlighting comes from “Return to Grace.” Kira sees that Ziyal is on a dangerous path if she stays with her father, and the bond they’ve established makes her advocate she move to DS9. There’s truly no safe space for the girl, but Kira does all she can.

The baby just had a change of address Thank the Prophets the show didn’t introduce yet another baby when Nana Visitor got IRL pregnant. That’d be way too many babies, so it was rather ingenious to move the O’Brien baby over to Kira in “Body Parts.” And it also highlights just how like family this crew has become. Kira really takes one for the team by agreeing to incubate Kirayoshi for Keiko. Now if only their characters talked more…

I owed it to my father to get it right this time Yet another great character-development episode for Kira comes in “Ties of Blood and Water” when she learns that Tekeny Ghemor – her fake dad and one of our favorite Cardassians! – was up to some shady stuff in his past. And while this alters the relationship between the two of them, Kira again accepts how he’s changed since then to be with him as he dies.

Romulans gotta scheme! Come season seven, the Romulans have gotten added to the mix thanks to some nefarious doings by Sisko and Garak. And Kira is left to deal with their constant scheming. Typical Romulans! Throughout “Image in the Sand” and “Shadows and Symbols,” Kira stares down Senator Cretak in a huge game of galactic chicken, and Cretak blinks first.

Don’t drink the Kool-Aid Our final great Kira moment is also the last time she ever sees Dukat. In “Covenant,” he’s leading his own little pah-wraith cult, and when the going gets tough, the tough gets really Jonestown-y. Kira literally leaps in and stops the whole assembly from ritual suicide, revealing that Dukat had a placebo pill for himself and he’d had them all charmed. Stupid sexy Dukat.

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Worst moments

Maybe the ends justify the means? One of Kira’s strengths is also frequently one of her biggest faults, and that’s how very wide her ethical grey area is. She’s able to justify doing lots of pretty messed up things, like a certain captain I could name, and we see this pretty early on in “Babel” when she intentionally infects Surmak Ren with aphasia disease and holds him hostage to find a cure. That’s pretty brutal.

Bajor is not Kentanna For most of “Sanctuary,” it’s rather nice watching Kira befriending Haneek and the other Skrrean refugees. Until they express interest in immigrating to Bajor, and then Kira’s NIMBY side really comes out. It’s not a good look, Kira, especially for someone whose people were in a very similar plight until very recently. And frankly, Bajor could use the laborers.

It’s like stepping on ants, Odo Because of that wide ethical grey area, we’ve noticed that Kira is almost always the first person to advocate just killing whatever the danger of the week is, no matter the consequences. In “Playing God,” an episode about killing Cardassian voles, she’s quick to jump to the option of killing the tiny proto-universe, even when Dax expresses she’s found sentient life in it. Yikes.

The people have chosen Winn We know from “Battle Lines,” mentioned earlier, that Kira has a super soft spot for Kai Opaka, and also probably feels guilty for trapping her on zombie planet a little. But it’s just a bad idea to let Bareil take the fall for some shady doings in “The Collaborator” because it sets up Winn for the win (wow, I didn’t even try to do that) in the big kai election, lest she sully Opaka’s name.

The distant memory of a touch It would be an understatement to say Kira’s taste in men isn’t great (and that’s not even including the fascist she ends up with!). The first of her various men is Bareil, who’s fine but boring as hell. Certainly not worth forcing Julian to keep him alive against all his medical ethics in “Life Support.” But Kira’s into the vedek, so we’re forced to watch her push his existence to the edge of morality and cringe at what he’s becoming.

Do you like me? Check yes or no. Lucky for us, Bareil is a thing of the past by season four (for now), opening up the opportunity for Kira to make more bad dating decisions. While Odo weeps, she sets her sights on Shakaar in “Crossfire” and viewers at home roll our eyes at how high school the whole ordeal is. Why have these resistance cell leaders downgraded to petty relationship drama? It’s beneath them.

Kira’s edgy artist phase We’ve said it myriad times before, but Bajor is a cultural disaster. When Akorem shows up in “Accession” and declares he’s making Bajor great again by reinstating their rigid caste system, it’s clear that Kira is uncomfortable but still refuses to oppose it. This is a Sisko episode, after all. Even though she can’t sculpt worth a damn, she goes along with the d’jarras like a sheep.

A little lower While Kira is surrogating the O’Brien baby, she and Miles randomly develop feelings for each other only because of their constant proximity in “Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places.” That’s just gross and unnecessary. Nothing again Miles, but men and women are allowed to be friends without wanting to bone. Maybe it was the pregnancy hormones.

The phantom of Cardassia This one always bothered me. After several seasons of growth as a character, Kira seemed to have chilled out a little in her constant desire to murder Cardassians. So when “The Darkness and the Light” introduces a blast from the past whom Kira would otherwise have at least some empathy for, it strikes me as a character regression for her to fall back on thoughtlessly killing like she used to.

Same face, different universe Kira regesses again in “Resurrection” when a new Bareil is barking up her tree. Oh mirror universe, what have we done to deserve this? Sure, mirror Bareil is at least less bland than the original recipe, but who the hell is this Kira immediately falling for a boy in less than a day? That’s just not the character (that’s Jadzia, if anyone, whom we’ll discuss next week). Kira’d kick his ass.

That’s not what your mom said last night I may have given Sisko a little bit of guff for allowing this too, but I’ve got to give Kira even more. Whose first reaction when Dukat makes a yo mama joke in “Wrongs Darker than Death or Night” is to GO BACK IN TIME to check  on your mother’s sexual history??? What the hell, Kira??? Now the bigger debate is whether she should or shouldn’t have blown Dukat up. And fight.

Foul ball! Finally, I need to continue venting about “Take Me Out to the Holosuite.” Somehow, Ben held tryouts on a station full of beefy Bajorans, and still put Kira on his baseball team when she can’t even catch a ball. Kira plays springball in her spare time. She’s a resistance fighter. She was raised to have street smarts. How in the firecaves does she not know how to catch a freakin’ ball???

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Praise be to the Prophets, that’s all! Keep your subspace communicator focused here for more character spotlights. We have someone who’s multiple characters in one next week when we discuss Dax! You can also go to warp five with us in our watchthrough of Enterprise over on SoundCloud or wherever you podcast, grab some hasperat with us on Facebook and Twitter, and maybe take up sculpting if it’s something you’re actually into.

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The Rewatch 220: Progress

The Rewatch 220: Progress

Series: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9)Episode: 1:15 Progress (0215/1993)Rating: 4/5Redshirt Status: 0/2 Notable Guest Stars: Brian Keith (Mullibok) – Brian Keith is a classic film actor most known for being the father in The Parent Trap (1961) and Family Affair. He has a long list of credits and there is probably a film for all tastes. He died in 1997. Terrence Evans (Baltrim) – This is…

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Progress (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 15) Kira befriends a stubborn squatter

Progress (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 15) Kira befriends a stubborn squatter

Rewatching ST:DS9 Dax and Kira are chatting in a runabout (Dax says Morn is “kind of cute”) when they discover humanoid life on a moon that’s scheduled to be technobabbled into uninhabitability in the name of progress. On the moon, Kira meets Mullibok (the great character actor Brien Keith), who escaped to this moon decades ago, during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. With folksy stories and a…

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Nana Visitor as Kira Nerys 1993 in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Progress“

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