Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Summary
Nana Visitor , who play Major Kira Nerys onStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , was n’t considered"beautiful"byStar Trek ’s producer in the nineties whenDS9was beam . Major Kira had spent her lifetime struggle in the Bajoran Resistance , and was understandably traumatized by the Cardassian job of Bajor , before come to work on Deep Space Nine as Commander Benjamin Sisko ’s ( Avery Brooks ) First Officer . Kira was tough , bouncy , and angry ; but also hopeful , religious , and full of a deep love for the Bajoran masses . sweetheart did n’t figure into the casting process for Kiraquite so much as other trait .
It sound incredible today when it ’s clear that there ’s beauty in Nana Visitor ’s passionate performances as Kira , but of the two cleaning lady in thecast ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , Terry Farrell as Lt . Commander Jadzia Dax was see to be"the beautiful one . “In the ' 90s there was a light ( but at last sham ) duality between women who were beautiful and women who were not . If Dax was the beautiful one , then Kira could n’t be . In a typical production , Kira would ply support to leading madam Dax , who might get more covert time due to proximity to the lead male person , but this was n’t a distinctive product . This wasStar Trek .
A breakthrough Bajoran hero , Major Kira Nerys ' electric arc in Star Trek : Deep Space Nine was one of the most nuanced in all of Star Trek .
Star Trek’s Producers Did Not Consider DS9’s Nana Visitor “A Beautiful Woman”
“Beautiful” was a stereotype that Visitor – and Kira – didn’t fit.
Nana Visitor expands on the narrow scope of function uncommitted for char in the nineties during a panel atVirtual Trek Con 5 , call herself a"character"actor or else of"beautiful " , hint that the two terms were mutually exclusive at the meter . However , Visitor also level out that this was ultimately a good thing . Read her quote and watch out theVirtual Trek Con 5panel below :
In the XC I was not considered a beautiful cleaning lady . I was basically considered more like a character woman . I remember [ in hair and make-up ] they aver , ' is n’t she beautiful ? ' and the producers say , ' no , she ’s not , but that ’s not what we hired her for . ' And that was simply the room it was . … That ’s why being an alien allow me to be the most human woman I had ever been allowed to be . Stick a nose on me , and it ’s ' okay , we ’ll give her a flip . ' She ’s yelling at the star of the show in the first few scenes ? That was n’t leave . Yelling at a man ? Unless I was evil . Then I could call .
Kira Nerys Was Ahead of Her Time
Nothing holds Kira back, especially not stereotypes.
Major Kira could have easy been muff as a character , but the true statement was that both Dax and Kira defy stereotypes inDS9as the show went on .
Typically , women on 90s television were labeled either beautiful or fresh , but that notion was challenged by pull in scientific discipline officer Jadzia Dax both of those things . Without a guiding stereotype , Major Kira could have easily been mishandled as a reference , but the accuracy was that bothDax and Kira withstand stereotype inDS9as the show went on . Kira in particular profit from the lack of pugilism - in from the origin . Because Kira Nerys did n’t have to be ' beautiful , ' she could reject conventional smasher standard – in other words , Kira could outcry and scream and react in very existent ways that the typically"beautiful"characters were n’t often allowed to do .
Of naturally , metre change . Later in theVirtual Trek Con 5interview , Nana Visitor recalls meeting a young teen fan who watchedStar Trek : Deep Space Nineafter it began streaming in the 2010s and profess to have a immense crunch on Major Kira , which Visitor says is"not what happened back in the day,“citing instances where male fans bump Kira ’s intensiveness to be"too much . “These days , however , woman characters are n’t so easily divide into stereotypic boxes . Like Kira Nerys , the adult female onStar Trek : DiscoveryandStar Trek : Strange New Worldscontain multitudes . They can shout and exclaim , enjoy and lose , and utter their humanity . And that ’s beautiful .
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