Star Trek Lower Decks
word of advice : SPOILERS for Star Trek : Lower Decks Season 5 , Episode 8 - " Upper Decks "
25 years later , Star Trek : Lower Decksfinally show the dreadful reality of one ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s biggest tragedies . WhenStar Trek : Deep Space Ninebegins , Bajor has eventually make headway its independency after the 50 - year - longCardassian Occupation of Bajorforced the formerly peaceful Bajorans to take up arms as ohmic resistance fighter . Starfleet institutionalise Commander Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) to oversee Bajor ’s bid to join the United Federation of Planets . Sisko ’s First Officer isMajor Kira Nerys(Nana Visitor ) , a far-famed appendage of the Shakaar Resistance cellular phone turned DS9 ’s affair to the Bajoran provisional government .
Star Trek : Lower Decksis connected to this glowering chapter of theStar Trektimelinevia the USS Cerritos ' Bajoran Chief of Security , Lieutenant Shaxs ( Fred Tatasciore ) , who was a Resistance hero before joining Starfleet . The Cerritos ' visit to DS9 inStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 3 , sequence 6 , " Hear All , Trust Nothing " , revealed thatShaxs is friends with Colonel Kira , and the two saved each other ’s lives on multiple occasions when they fight together in the Resistance . The Occupation left Shaxs scarred both literally and figuratively , since he sometimes experiences flashback to his former full - time task defend fascism .
Lt. Shaxs’ Nightmare On Star Trek: Lower Decks Shows The Tragedy Of DS9’s Occupation Of Bajor
Lower Decks Shows The Carnage Of A Bajoran-Cardassian Ground Battle
InStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 5 , instalment 8 , " Upper Decks " , Lieutenant Shaxs is plagued by nightmares about campaign Cardassians duringDS9 ’s tragical Bajoran Occupation . Shaxs ' visual sensation take place on a cratered battlefield , surrounded by the bodies of Bajoran fighters and Cardassian warrior — er , " occupiers"—alike . After beating back a manifestation of his own guilt , Shaxs face hordes of Cardassians as they rise from the dead in a authentic onslaught of PTSD.Lower Decks ' brilliant animation does n’t deplumate any punches , and effectively shows the weight that Shaxs bears as a veteran of the Bajoran Resistance .
Major Kira ’s replication in Star Trek : Lower pack of cards ' DS9 episode also facilitate Lt . Shax . Their shared history in the Resistance made Shax feel more Bajoran .
Shaxs ' vision are the first timeStar Trekhas actually shown what the Occupation ’s ground struggle between the Bajoran Resistance and the Cardassians were like . Star Trek : Deep Space Nineillustrates Cardassian brutality towards Bajorans through duologue , like Kira ’s stories about fighting with the Resistance , or Gul Dukat ’s ( Marc Alaimo ) nostalgia for rulingDS9 when it was call in Terok Nor . Occasional flashback to the Cardassian Occupation focus on the station ’s history , like Constable Odo ’s ( Rene Auberjonois ) perspective inDS9season 2 , episode 8 , " Necessary Evil " ; or Kira ’s Resistance memories inDS9season 5 , instalment 19 , " Ties of Blood and Water " .
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How Bajor Has Moved On From The Occupation
As Of Star Trek’s 2380s, Bajor Still Hasn’t Joined The Federation
Bajorans are resilient , butthey’ve had a difficult metre move on from the Cardassian Occupation . Cardassian regulation threatened to violate Bajorans ' spirits by stripping the land of natural resources and forcing them to become slave . Important Bajoran artifacts , like the Orbs of the Prophets , were lost or destroy . After Bajor ’s victory , the provisional government activity was subject to infighting and interference from the drawing card of the Bajoran organized religion , Kai Winn Adami ( Louise Fletcher ) . Bajor ’s law of proximity to the Gamma Quadrant wormhole made the major planet a basal front during the Dominion War , which interrupt Starfleet ’s exertion to help with Reconstruction Period after the Occupation .
Bajorans are still survivors , set to fend on their own despite their horrific past during the Cardassian Occupation .
As ofStar Trek : Lower Decks , Bajor still has n’t joined the United Federation of Planets . The Prophets intervene through Sisko as their Emissary to stay Bajor ’s admission to the Federation inStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 5 , episode 10 , " Rapture";since then , Bajor ’s Federation rank still has n’t been revisit . After Sisko ascended to fulfill his part as the Bajoran Emissary , command of the post fall to Colonel Kira Nerys . Kira andStar Trek : Lower Decks ' Lt . Shaxs both represent how Bajorans are still subsister , determined to stand on their own despite their dread past during the Cardassian Occupation .
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