by Veronica Beaudry

Created on: April 22, 2008   Last Updated: April 23, 2008

In the 40 years of Star Trek there have been five TV series with that name. Star Trek Deep Space Nine was the third. The story was set on a space station near a planet called Bajor and the only stable wormhole in the Star Trek Universe.

There were less than ten regular characters as well as more than ninety recurring characters. The recurring characters appeared in anywhere from three episodes to 91 episodes, depending on the character. Some were major characters that had an impact on the show's story and some were minor characters, usually in the form of relatives of the regular characters.

The recurring character that holds the record for most appearances was the alien named Morn. He was in 91 episodes, including the first and last episodes of the series. Unlike all of the other recurring characters, Morn just sat in Quark's bar and never uttered a word.

The Humans

Keiko O'Brien was the wife of Chief O'Brien. She was a Starfleet botanist who was working on the USS Enterprise when she met and married Miles O'Brien. When the O'Briens began living on DS9, Keiko was concerned about her daughter's education so she started a one-room school with herself as the teacher. When the threat of a Dominion attack forced her to close her school she took a job with an agro biology expedition of Bajor. Keiko and Miles had two children together, Molly and Kirayoshi. Keiko appeared in nineteen episodes and Molly appeared in eleven.

Kasidy Yates was a civilian freighter captain who began dating the station commander, Capt. Ben Sisko. As their relationship progressed, Kasidy took a job with the Bajoran Ministry of Commerce and began living on the station. As the series came to an end, Kasidy and Ben were married and expecting their first child together. Kasidy was in fifteen episodes.

Vic Fontaine was a character in one of Dr. Bashir's holographic programs. He was a Las Vegas lounge singer from the 1960s and knew he was a hologram. Vic played an important role in Nog's recovery after Nog lost his leg in battle. (see below)

The Ferengi

Rom is one of the Ferengi characters that lives on the station. He is Quark's brother and Nog's father. For the first few seasons of DS9, Rom worked for his brother at Quark's bar. In season four, Rom became an engineer in the Bajoran militia. He worked for Chief O'Brien and quickly proved that he was not the idiot that his brother thought he was. Rom proved to be a vital part of the crew when his self-replicating mines prevented Dominion reinforcements

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