Creatures of the Bajoran countryside featured in Rainmongerers. (ao3 link). Descriptions under cut.
Despite its name and appearance, the Long Crane is actually closer to a mammal, as it gives live birth and breastfeeds its young. These animals, reaching in their adult sizes up to 1.20 meters are often described in Bajoran folklore as tricksters and friendly spirits -- unless wronged. A displeased long crane was told to be able to pull fowl and children underwater to drown them, set fire to wooden houses by stealing burning branches from settlements, and even claw people's eyes out. On the other hand, having a friendly long crane was said to bring prosperity and the Prophets' good will.
2. A juvenile long crane is fat, helpless and often left alone for hours. This would make them a perfect food source. However, cultural taboo forbids Bajorans from killing baby long cranes, even in times of hunger, as harming one of them was the sure way to make an adult long crane angry. Oddly enough, Cardassians stationed in areas populated by long cranes abstained from killing juveniles as well, perhaps because of their uncanny similarity to a juvenile Cardassian, both in appearance and tone of voice.
3. The desire to breed these fish for meat has led the Cardassians to flood almost the entire Litar region with water. The farming operation was quickly abandoned, but the fish have adapted very well, quickly destroying most of the native ecosystem.
4. The igj'ira grain is home to many small wasps and beetles, who nest inside of its heads. Instead of repelling them with pesticides, Bajorans harvest the heads of grain with the insects still inside them, and process them into flour. As a result, Bajoran "bread", vasu zhian, has a very high protein content and is not suitable for vegetarians.
5. One of the species of mosquito inhabiting the Litar region. Also commonly eaten.
6. A swamp frog. It has nothing to hide.
7. . One of the only native species of fish still surviving in the areas affected by Cardassian climate engineering. Named somehow inaccurately, as its one "eye", located in the same entrance as its mouth, is actually a multi-sensory organ, the exact workings of which are still not known.
I always make fun of Cardassians of putting that cobrussy emblem everywhere, but it's not like Bajorans are any better. Look at this profoundly stupid window in Mullibok's house. He probably build that house himself. Why did he think a custom window in the Bajoran religion beetle shape was the best use of his time
Creatures of the Bajoran countryside featured in Rainmongerers. (ao3 link). Descriptions under cut.
Despite its name and appearance, the Long Crane is actually closer to a mammal, as it gives live birth and breastfeeds its young. These animals, reaching in their adult sizes up to 1.20 meters are often described in Bajoran folklore as tricksters and friendly spirits -- unless wronged. A displeased long crane was told to be able to pull fowl and children underwater to drown them, set fire to wooden houses by stealing burning branches from settlements, and even claw people's eyes out. On the other hand, having a friendly long crane was said to bring prosperity and the Prophets' good will.
2. A juvenile long crane is fat, helpless and often left alone for hours. This would make them a perfect food source. However, cultural taboo forbids Bajorans from killing baby long cranes, even in times of hunger, as harming one of them was the sure way to make an adult long crane angry. Oddly enough, Cardassians stationed in areas populated by long cranes abstained from killing juveniles as well, perhaps because of their uncanny similarity to a juvenile Cardassian, both in appearance and tone of voice.
3. The desire to breed these fish for meat has led the Cardassians to flood almost the entire Litar region with water. The farming operation was quickly abandoned, but the fish have adapted very well, quickly destroying most of the native ecosystem.
4. The igj'ira grain is home to many small wasps and beetles, who nest inside of its heads. Instead of repelling them with pesticides, Bajorans harvest the heads of grain with the insects still inside them, and process them into flour. As a result, Bajoran "bread", vasu zhian, has a very high protein content and is not suitable for vegetarians.
5. One of the species of mosquito inhabiting the Litar region. Also commonly eaten.
6. A swamp frog. It has nothing to hide.
7. . One of the only native species of fish still surviving in the areas affected by Cardassian climate engineering. Named somehow inaccurately, as its one "eye", located in the same entrance as its mouth, is actually a multi-sensory organ, the exact workings of which are still not known.
1. are the great apes extint because of the eugenic and romulan wars and other mistakes or did we learn to talk to them? ape translator?
2. is it fairly normal to have a close relative like this on the planet, eg. cardassians have zoos full of some weird alligator chimpanzees that could rip your face off but display intelligence?
3. is it actually not normal at all to have them and everybody thinks that the ape situation on earth is really really weird? and nobody believes the humans when they claim the apes aren't concious and everyone is convinced federation just has its own menks/remans they don't want to admit having
4. are those conspiracy theories acrually right and does a society with better translators come and take our apes away to political asylum because we can't treat them right? because i feel like we aren't treating them right. imagine vulcans come and we lose custody of the orangutan
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Kira Nerys/Shakaar Edon, Elim Garak & Kira Nerys, Doctor Girani & Kira Nerys
Characters: Doctor Girani (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Trauma, Feudalism, Occupation of Bajor (Star Trek), Bajoran Resistance (Star Trek), Bajoran Culture (Star Trek), Age Difference, Murder, Bajoran Politics (Star Trek)
Summary:
After Odo leaves for the Dominion, Kira starts seeing Shakaar again. Their not-relationship enters even unsteadier ground when he gets accused of an Occupation-time massacre and suffers a stroke shortly after.
Kira, unable to get her answers from him, asks Doctor Girani to accompany her to an undercover investigation on Bajor.
i missed class again because of that WRETCHED thing my body does when it just. sleeps me for me. i was going to get 4 hours of sleep by getting up at 6 for the class and it just didnt happen. i woke up at 8 with no recollection of turning off my three alarms. i was going to give you a nap as soon as we got home, you bastard! we're going to have to write an essay for that absence!
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