#bareil

[m00nnewt9]

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - JANUARY 5, 2026 - YOU TUBE: KIRA MUSIC VIDEO

From September 11, 2013.

Song is "Shake It Out," by Florence + The Machine.

[therealsubobscura]

sorry to anyone who likes prime bareil, but his delivery is so wooden I can barely watch it. mirror!bareil has so much more going for him

[lightningarmour]

who is your favorite DS9 character part 2

Nog

Jake Sisko

Morn

Rom

Cassidy Yates

Damar

General Martok

Sexy Evil Kira(Mirror Universe)

Leeta

Bareil

Voting ended onFeb 6, 2023

By popular request. Will the Prophets look favorably on your fave?

[insaneway]

“ you cant come drinking tonight”

why?

“ you rap about vedek bareil everytime. it’s embarrassing.”

i wont i promise

*one beer*

uh oh,,,, first son of bajor arm round the major

[fictionz]

Good for drama, bad for everything else.

[best-star-trek-character]

Vedek Bareil vs. Captain Benjamin Sisko!

Vedek Bareil

Captain Benjamin Sisko

Voting ended onApr 20, 2023

[writergeekrhw]

Do you have any insight into what the intention was when adding Bareil to the show? He's one of the few characters on DS9 that felt really half-formed and I've always wondered what you were going for with this guy. Thanks for taking the time to answer our questions and hope you had a good new year!

Well, since I created him, I can probably speak to that.

Bareil was added to show a positive, progressive side to the Bajoran faith in contrast with Winn. We planned the Bareil/Winnn struggle for control of Bajor to be big thread going forward in Season 2 and beyond, but after the opening three-parter of Season 2, Paramount wanted less Bajor and more Gamma Quadrant. The Dominion story began to assert itself, which meant less time for the Bajorans.

Initially, we even thought that Bareil might end up Kai, further dividing Kira's loyalties. But we realized that Winn was the more interesting and challenging character. So we made her Kai instead.

The romance with Kira was promising for a while, but ultimately it played its course, and we felt that a relationship with Odo had more promise. So... yeah. Cue tragedy.

[loudfederationscreeching]

possibly controversial take but neither of kiras so called boring love interests (bareil and shakaar) are boring imo

like obviously i get wanting her to be gay, kira deserves to be gay, and seeing her constantly paired up with guys can be grating

but bareil is a vedek who champions peace and cares about bajor and its future and stability so much that he literally works himself to death to establish a fair peace treaty with the cardassians

and shakaar is literally the leader of kiras former resistance cell. he becomes prime minister after standing up to kai winn alongside kira, using the tactics they used for all those years. theyve known each other a long time, later find they have feelings for each other, and then eventually split amicably, remaining friends. he doesnt have the MOST interesting personality, but hes steady and kind, and these episodes add a lot of great dimension to kira

if they sometimes come off as boring, i think its because they do their job narratively and dont eclipse kira in their episodes, and instead further her journey

and both of these men are also instrumental in the buildup as kai winn as a villain (winn lets bareil die and opposes shakaar), all the antipathy that we feel for her is rooted in these arcs. so on that basis alone i think theyre worth being remembered positively