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Bajoran
freedom fighter who was assigned as first officer and Bajoran liaison to
station Deep Space 9 after the Cardassian withdrawal from Bajor in 2369. Kira was
born in 2343 in the Dahkur province and spent the first 26 years of her
life under Cardassian rule. Stubborn and independent, she joined
the Shakaar resistance cell of the Bajoran underground in 2355 when she
was 12 years old. Kira was interned at the Singha refugee camp during the
Cardassian occupation. Although conditions there
were brutal, she was able to play springball with her brothers. Her mother,
an icon painter from Dahkur Province died of malnutrition in the Singha
Refugee Camp in 2343. Kira spent much of her childhood as a freedom fighter
for the Bajoran movement, although Cardassian intelligence reported her as a minor operative
whose activities are limited to running errands for the terrorist leaders.
In 2365, Kira was assigned to obtain a list of Bajoran collaborators from
a chemist shop on station Terok Nor. The chemist, Vaatrik, discovered Kira during
her search, and she was forced to kill him. Although she was a suspect in
the killing, an investigation by station security chief Odo found her innocent. It was not until 2370 that Odo learned that Kira had deceived him. As a member of the Bajoran
Shakaar resistance cell in 2357, Kira helped liberate the notorious Gallitep
labor camp at which thousands of Bajorans had died under Cardassian bondage. Kira knew the terrorist Tahna
Los when she fought in the Bajoran underground. In 2369, Kira opposed the
Bajoran provisional government's decision to enlist Federation assistance in maintaining Deep Space 9. Kira had a deep, abiding faith in the Bajoran
religion, and was personally struck by the tragedy of Kai Opaka's death
in 2369. Her beliefs held that Benjamin Sisko was the Emissary of Bajoran prophesy, but she
sometimes found it difficult to reconcile the fact that her commanding officer
was a religious icon. In 2370, she became romantically involved with Vedek
Bareil. At Vedek Bareil's invitation, Kira was given the privilege of encountering
an Orb. This encounter would have a profound effect on her life. Kira's
involvement tragically ended in 2371 when Bareil died during Cardassian peace negotiations. In 2371 Kira was kidnapped
and taken to Cardassia where she was surgically altered to look like Iliana,
a Cardassian operative from the Obsidian Order. She
later discovered that her transformation was part of a plot to expose Legate
Ghemor as a member of the Cardassian dissident movement. Kira dislikes indulging
in holosuite programs.
