Star Trek: Deep Space Nine/Characters: Difference between revisions

== Main Cast ==

=== Commander/Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) ===

{{quote| ''"So you're the commander of Deep Space 9. And the Emissary of the Prophets. Decorated combat officer, widower, father, mentor and... oh, yes, the man who started the war with the Dominion. Somehow I thought you'd be taller..."''}}

=== Major/Colonel Kira Nerys ([[Nana Visitor]]) ===

{{quote| '''Kira:''' You break the rules, you pay. <br />

'''Odo:''' Wait a minute, I wanna be sure I heard that correctly. Because it doesn't sound like the Kira Nerys who has made a career out of breaking the rules. }}

=== Odo (Rene Auberjonois) ===

{{quote| '''Odo:''' What makes you think I'm going to follow him? <br />

'''Garak:''' I happen to know that you're too dogged an investigator to allow the only witness in this case to simply disappear. <br />

=== Doctor Julian Bashir (Siddig El Fadil a.k.a. Alexander Siddig) ===

{{quote| ''"You may be inside my head, but you don't know me half as well as you think you do. Take Dax. I do have feelings for her. But the important thing is, she's my friend. You know? Friend? Hm? And I wouldn't exchange that friendship for anything. As far as my career is concerned, I may have been a good tennis player, but I am a great doctor. Maybe I could have been first in my class; but it wouldn't have changed anything in my life. I still would have chosen this assignment. This is where I belong."''}}

=== Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton) ===

Benjamin Sisko's son. A rather inexplicable member of the main cast, but he was ''always'' in the starting credits, even when guys like Garak and Nog started featuring more than him, and he had a tendency to vanish for several episodes at a time. However, some of the most critically acclaimed writing and acting on the series were the Jake/Ben Sisko scenes. He blessedly avoided becoming another [[Creators Pet]], for the most part, via actually ''suffering'' sometimes, in his growth as a character; also showed the impressive insanity--sorry, ''[[Refuge in Audacity|testicular fortitude]]''--to remain behind and try to be a journalist covering [[A Nazi By Any Other Name|Dominion-occupied DS9]].

=== Chief Miles O'Brien (Colm Meaney) ===

{{quote| ''"How many times do I have to tell you to stop calling me "sir"? I'm not an officer."''}}

=== Quark (Armin Shimerman) ===

{{quote| ''"Isn't there anything you... desire?"''}}

=== Lt. Commander Worf (Michael Dorn) ===

{{quote| '''Ezri:''' Worf, you are the most honorable and decent man that I've ever met. And if ''you're'' willing to tolerate men like {{spoiler|Gowron}}, then what hope is there for the Empire?}}

=== Lieutenant Ezri Dax (Nicole de Boer) ===

{{quote| ''"She's a Dax. Sometimes they don't think, they just do."''}}

The new Trill host for the Dax symbiont, owing that only to chance. Ezri was serving on the ship taking Dax back to Trill when the symbiont became extremely ill and the only way to save its life was immediate implantation in a new host. As the only Trill onboard, Ezri reluctantly volunteered, and her unease at being a "joined" Trill, which was something prospective hosts are supposed to train for years to deal with, became a centerpiece of her character. She also had to deal with Dax influencing her feelings about Worf and Bashir, her own attraction to Bashir, and the fact that an officer of her general inexperience -- specifically, a Lieutenant Junior Grade '''Assistant Counselor''' -- was suddenly part of the Federation's front-line wartime command crew.

=== Elim Garak (Andrew Robinson) ===

{{quote| ''"Lately, I've noticed that everyone seems to trust me. It's quite unnerving. I'm still trying to get used to it."''}}

=== Gul Dukat (Marc Alaimo) ===

{{quote| ''"There is no problem that cannot be solved by a disciplined Cardassian mind."''}}