Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Kira Nerys
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- She may advise you to walk with the Prophets, but that doesn't mean she isn't ready with a phaser.
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Kira was always an amazing character, she was very strong and held tight to her beliefs but could be funny and gentle. Her Mirror Universe version was always a fun character to see as well. DS9 really had some of the best characters in the entire franchise.
I still loved Nana Visitor’s quote in a Star Trek magazine about her mirror universe episodes and she was said the following, “I love this episode, I kissed every guy on that episode.”
(And if the episode called for it, she probably would had been okay with kissing the mirror universe Jennifer)
Nana Visitor was one of the reasons DS9 was the favorite Trek series of my youth. She played "the rebel that no longer had a rebellion" to perfection.
Kira reminded me of my Mother. She raised me as a single woman in the 80s keeping a work, family, and spiritual balance that I've always imagined was difficult for her
Ya. The character development in DS9 for ALL the characters, including reoccurring guests are unparalleled. That's one of the MANY reasons why many of us Trek fans still consider it the best series. 🖖😁🤘🇨🇦❤️🍻
Yup
And why they've never tried a DS9 formula again is beyond me!
I love how incredibly nuanced she was written and portrayed. She kicked ass. She laughed. She loved. She wept. She was bad at art. She was religious and personally conservative (much to the frustration and teasing of her best friend Jadzia Dax). She was *REAL* in a way that very few characters outside of DS9 are. DS9 is truly the best Trek writing. EVERY character had so much depth and it feels like we don’t get that from most shows much less most Star Trek shows
Kira's run-ins with Kai Winn are must watch. Both actresses were wonderful in portraying their side of the arguments and trying to one up the other. It's ironic that their final conversation set Winn on the final path to evil.
I wasn’t sure about the character, because so many times women with trauma and violence in their pasts are portrayed as one-dimensional “angry, defensive, man-hating bitch” tropes. I loved how Kira was written and performed. She was a beacon on TV, especially in sci fi for me and her arc was amazingly satisfying.
One of the things I've always admired about Nana Visitor is her commitment to maintaining the integrity of the character of Kira, and not turning her into a self insert. For example, when asked in an early interview if we'd ever see Kira dancing, as Nana is herself a dancer, she said that while she'd love to, she felt Kira had two left feet, so no, Kira wasn't going to be involved in any dance numbers.
Kira will always remain one of my favorite characters of all time. It was great to see her again in Lower Decks, I just hope we get to see her again Kira and Bajor's story aren't done.
The best acting performance in the entire Star Trek pantheon. Nana seriously deserved an Emmy.
One of my favourite characters in any ST series. A very talented actress and a very well written character. Thanks for this!
Excellent, only disappointment was not showing the episode with Harris Yulin, which was a masterclass in acting from both of them.
What I love about Kira is I can always tell that this is a woman who underwent so much trauma but tries oh so hard to be a good, caring, and supportive person. Like I just wanna hug her and help heal that inner child of hers.
No offense to Michelle Forbes, loved her as Ro Laren… but so glad she turned down the offer to be on DS9.
Nana Visitor, gave a truly nuanced and equisite performance as Kira Nerys , who is definitely a part of my list of favorite Star Trek characters/women ❤❤❤
I hope Strange New Worlds, has the opening of the Cardashian Invasion of Bejor... Just to see the Federations attempt to comprehend it
Nana Visitor was so great that they even made an episode after her. "The Visitor " 😄
…darn you, you awesome human being. Darn you to heck! That was bad but so brilliant!
@@KhakiBlueSocks 😄
No doubt we love her
Kira is one of the most complex characters. It's hard for me to put where all my favorite characters are on a list for DS9, they all are just written so well in different ways. She is, by far, one of the best.
I hated the Kira character for the first season of DS9 because she was so abrasive, but as the writers fleshed her out she became one of my favorite characters on the show. I love the character now. Definitely one of my favorite Star Trek characters of all time.
She has always been my favorite characters in all of Star Trek. She played Kira to be beautifully flawed and powerful. She feels real to me.
I love that in ST Online she has become Kai. It just feels so right for someone as dedicated to her faith as Kira was.
Kai Kira just feels right in every way imaginable.
I hope we get to see that in one of the other shows at some point.
Fantastic list! Kira Nerys is easily my favourite character in all of Star Trek to date. They gave Nana SO much to chew on and they were lucky to have booked an actress who could actually handle it. Kira and Ben Sisko are the leadership we need.
Kira Nerys is my favourite character in Star Trek man! Change my mind!!
Thank you, Sean and TrekCulture, for doing this video! Kira is one of my favorite DS9 (and Trek in general) characters, and while I was already aware of most of these 10 things, I'm especially glad one of them talked about the Terok Nor novel trilogy, specifically Book 3 "Dawn of the Eagles". Though I know Trek novels aren't considered canon, the Terok Nor trilogy *feels* like canon to me, and I *highly* recommend those books to DS9 fans.🙂👍🏻💝
Im on s2 of my DS9 rewatch right now and Kira is still the best part of the series
My very first Trek convention was in ‘94 and Rene was the big name guest of honor. I remember him specifically talking about working with Nana and it was clear at that time that they were all becoming great friends.
Colonel Kira has always been a favorite of mine!
Visitor made this character the persona she became. Very well played. My second favorite character on the chow (Sisko was the number uno).
One of my all time favorite characters
I couldn’t agree more… something about Kira being Commander (even if only a field commission) felt right! It also firmly establishes her rank/position as first officer for the entire show rather than simply on the station (& Worf being de facto 1st officer on Defiant missions).
I would love to see a new series that dealt with the Cardassian border wars thru the Cardassian occupation of Bajor and the subsequent withdrawal of the Cardassians and the Federation taking over Terok Nor.That would be exciting.I'm sure a lot of DS9 fans would love to see a series like that.
If ever they make a Star Trek series better then DS9, Wow, that will be something.
I love Kira and DS9. BEST TREK
Hands down one of my favourite Trek characters ever. So much depth and growth like few characters benefitted from.
A legendary character perfectly portrayed by an amazing actor
While Kira and Odo as lovers wasn't something I'd have chosen, it did give us some interesting scenes in the episode Chimera. One in particular always stands out, Kira is teling Odo about some of her insecurities about their relationship, namely her being a solid. She says the line "I'm sorry I can't link with you" and it's such a beautiful yet sad moment that I remember it all these years later.
I think the romance between Odo and Kira was a bigger growth for Odo than Kira. It allowed Odo to understand the "solids" much better. Could Kira done better with another guy? Possibly so but not sure who she would have connected with since most of her Bajoran suitors didn't stick around for one reason or another.
@@jasonsumma1530. Honestly Kira’s character was never strengthened by any of her romantic relationships.
Seeing this video inspires me to watch the series again. I have only seen it through once
Nerys is one of the best characters in Trek. I had such a crush on in her as a kid.😂
Thanks, Sean. I was amazed that we got through the whole list without a thing about Kira's religion and her relationship to the Prophets and to Kai Wynn. Surely there's something we don't know about such a big part of her life. At least Nana Visitor's view?
She was the brightest star on the show!😍😍😍
"the first of many heartbreaks for her"
*Insert screaming Shax*
When it comes to Kiras faith she is a personal inspiration to this day!
With Sisko moved to the worm hole, Kira runs the show at DS9. I wonder if she got promoted to commander.
Watch the episode of lower decks when they visited ds9, although it's a cartoon it's considered cannon, I think it answers that question.
Colonel and commander are the same rank.
Anyone up for a return of Kira Nerys in some form? I am!
One of my favorite characters on my favorite Star Trek series!
Interstingly i seem to remember (could be a faulty memory), reading that a Dukat relationship was considered by the writers or the shows creators but Visitor flat out refused to cooperate which led instead to the episode "wrongs darker than death or night". I also read her refusal to go along and the fact she got her way was why she didnt fight against the Odo relationship too hard as she didnt want to push her luck.
Seeing / hearing her in _Lower Decks_ (and her bickering with Shaxs) was the highlight of that episode, if not the season. I hope we get a _DS9_ coda analogous to (but-please-better plotted than) _Picard_
And I hope they bring Django Siddig and Remy* / Tessa Auberjonos into the cast.
*Remy could absolutely play Odo-seriously, spitting image of his father.
Finding out that Nana Visitor wasn’t impressed with the Kira/Odo relationship as lovers … somehow isn’t surprising. It always struck me that both Visitor and Auberjonois weren’t totally convinced by the idea
Interesting that they wanted to make her a lieutenant and settled for commander. On my recent rewatch I realized it was odd that she wasn't made a captain. That would be the equivalent starfleet rank to her militia rank of colonel.
I like the idea that was introduced in Lower Decks: Starfleet withdrew their officers from DS9 and left it to Bajoran Militia. Although they wear own uniforms, own ranks etc. they are integrated as branch of Starfleet.
This may sound like a superficial contradiction, but Kira was the perfect example of how a female character doesn't (and shouldn't) be perfect in order to be the perfect character. Aces & props both to the writing team that realized this and the actress the portrayed this.
Considering that Bajor did indeed wind up joining the Federation, it stands to reason that Kira got that captaincy the actor wanted for her, as the Bajoran Militia would have been absorbed into Starfleet and Colonel is the Army equivalent to a naval captain. I promise you, Nerys got that fourth pip.
She gets promoted to Captain, and official command of Deep Space Nine, in the post-finale DS9 novels...and Ro Laren is her Chief of Security!
Lower decks confirms this
I'm such a Kira/Nana Visitor fan, you could have done 50 things I didn't know and I'd want more! I liked Ro a lot, and would have enjoyed Michelle Forbes, DS9 would not have been what it is without Kira!
What if Ro was part of the Marquis that ended up on Voyager?? That would have been awesome!
No mention of the S1 episode Duet, reportedly Nana Visitor's favorite episode?
Great interesting video
Great list
07:52 Fever by Lola Crystal? "If that babe doesn't raise your temperature, look into the obituaries, you're certainly there!"
If you ask me, Ds9 has the MOST numerous memorable Characters of ANY Star Trek Series.
She has a great arc over all those years.
I agree with her that the Attendant was nacesistic and exploitative. But I disagree about Odo. It made them splitting up so much better. :)
Number Eleven, Things ya didn't know about Nerys. When she & Odo are cuddled up prior to departing for Cardassia, the whole crew forgot her nasal ridges ! 😯🇺🇦🤓
You should do a video about top Star Trek characters that aren’t Captains. I’d have her in my Top 5.
I LOVE THE CHARACTER- KIRA NERYS.
My favorite Trek character after Picard. She has taught me so much about myself and made me feel safe in my transition.
If you get a chance to meet Nana at a con, do it, she is the sweetest.
2:31 Which ties in with The storyline for the character Seska From Voyager You know the Bajoran turned out to be a Cardassian.
She had a nice hat, according to Worf... :P
I know Kira was never intended to be a queer character, but considering how DS9 had such thinly coded characters, it could have worked. Personally, I feel like Kira prime had more chemistry with Dax (both Jadzia and Ezri) than she did with any of the love interests she was given over the course of the series, although after the very public backlash of "Rejoined," I understand why they didn't. Still, this is why fanfiction exists
I hated Kira initially, but Nana Visitor played the part so well that around season 3, she was one of my favorite characters.
Kira and Shacks on Lower Decks was awesome!!! Lmfao 🤣
In the DS9 prime universe you have the wormhole, the prophets and the orbs, my question is are those in the mirror universe?
So Mirror Kira - Kira relationship is way ahead of the Loki - Sylvie relationship.
May the Force be with you :)
STO had/has her as a Star Fleet Captain (rank) commanding the Defiant. In First Contact is alludes the Worf is Captain.
Legend!
Needless to say DS9 is my favorite Trek next to the original.
The up-and-down relationship she had with Captain sisko during the first three seasons it seems like her and the captain should have been lovers😊
The Cardassian occupation of Bajor is clearly based on the German occupation of France with the Bajoran Resistance being it's French counterpart.
Also the Obsidian Order is clearly the German SS not the KGB.
I did read somewhere she eventually became Kai?
Kira grew up a lot in seven seasons.
For me, out of TNG, DS9 and Voyager; DS9 was easily the best written series out of the three for pretty much all 7 seasons. TNG 's first two seasons, were....disappointing, but it really did improve in leaps and bounds. And yet, I seem to rewatch Voyager most of all.
Kira joining Starfleet was a means to an end.
Sisko knew that the Cardassians *might* turn the war around, *IF* help was given to them.
and it just happened that the one officer who knew more about the Cardassians was Bajoran, and that the Cardassians would never listen to a Bajoran, or have a Bajoran officer on their planet.
making her a Starfleet officer who just happened to be Bajoran was.... ÕO only logical.
Kira = Awesome, Odo=Awesome; making besties that really love each other have to be in a romantic relationship= eh.
DS9 is the best Star Trek. Most of us like the idea of an evolved humanity that has no more slavery and honors men and women. DS9 shows how to live in a world that is messy, and still have growth of character.
She's knows what a Breen looks like. well now because of L'ak, we know what one looks like now aswell.but she w as the first character in Star Trek to see a Breen's face.
I always hoped she WAS a Cardassian. From a story/character perspective that was akin to Bashir suddenly being revealed as a genetically modified human. It opens so many story telling doors. It's like when Felicity Smoak in "Arrow" becomes wheelchair bound, only for the writers to comic book her out of the chair... I was kind of disappointed. Not because I need a disabled person in a show, but because it robbed us of the story telling opportunity of seeing a character grapple with disability over their lifetime. A few episodes doesn't cut it. In our universe, once you're disabled there isn't some Tony Stark tech there to undo it. You have to evolve and grow with that disability apart of you. (Not equating Kira as a Cardassian as a disability, but just examining character arcs with potential tossed aside to get back to the norm)
Bonus plot for a later season: the surgical and genetic alterations that made her look Bajoran start to wear off, and she starts looking more and more Cardassian as the season goes on (much like Seska, over on Voyager). Oh, imagine how *that* could play out...
Startex out as the definitive karen but very quickly developed a far more relatable and understandable character with depth.
Do Bajorans Dream Of Undercover
Cardassians?
That would be a good title for a
Sci-fi novel.
Nearly everyone including the channel calling her ‘Kira’. Her name is ‘Nerys’. The Bajorans use the family name first, given name last convention, like the Chinese and Koreans.
It depends on the context - she is referred to as "Major (or Colonel) Kira" much of the time. The only time people call her Nerys is during personal conversations, as I recall.
Just like beople also say Bashir, O'Brien, Garak, Sisko, etc.
Her surname is still her name, and the vast majority of characters are referred to by '[rank] Surname' or just 'Surname'
Live long and prosper
I had the impression that Bajorans use the same name order convention as the Japanese - last name before name.
So, her name would be Nerys, family name Kira.
That is correct, family name, given name
It's a point that Ro makes to Picard (and, indirectly, Riker) when he initially addresses her as Ensign Laren.
The Japanese name order is given name, then family name.
It is the Chinese and Koreans who use the opposite order, family > given. That’s the order used by the Bajorans.
I would have seen her eventual fate to have become a Kai .
Didn't you already do this one?
You might be thinking of the Ro Laren video.
good catch, thanks
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@@justinspix8260 well there is an understable confusion there 😂
I bet the actress who played ro laren regrets not taking the role
How old was Kira when the Cardassians invaded Bajor?
What is this "Twitter" you are talking about?
I hear it's going to be the next myspace.
No more bluebird- it's now named after Mr. Roger's blue owl!
She was one of the pink ladies ??
The character, French in Grease 1978, was played by Didi Conn, though I can understand the confusion
She looked so young for so long
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Still pissed off that Picard stole DS9’s storyline, and completely shafted the entire cast well even voyagers people got cameos. There were so many things they could’ve corrected that they got wrong in the final DS9 season and they just completely blew the whole cast off absolute bullshit.
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Am I the only one who head cannons her as a lesbian.
considering the number of men she develops romantic relationships with in the series, probably.
What happened to the actress in the last two seasons/ She suddenly got VERY skinny. Looked like maybe health issues. Anyway, loved her character. I wish DS9 would have dealt with something other than the dominion.