DS9's Bajoran name

[Hando]

Although it seamed that the Federation moved in the same day as the Cardassians left, it makes me wonder if the Bajorans ever gave the former Terok Nor a new, Bajoran name, before the station was designated as DS9?

 

[Ithekro]

"Floating Pile of Orbiting Cardassian Filth.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

If the Bajorans ever had their own name for the station, we were never told what it was. It was rare enough that we even heard the native Bajoran language at all...

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Emissarytown?

 

[JirinPanthosa]

The Cardassia Sucks Ore Processing Station

 

[JD5000]

I think this is an interesting question. I did a little a searching, and found that Auschwitz was referred to by everyone as Auschwitz. Terok Nor is an analogy for the Holocaust-era concentration camp.

It wasn't referred to as Deep Space Nine until the Federation took over, and Kira refers to the station as Deep Space Nine. I would assume that the Bajorans called it 'Terok Nor' while it was run by the Cardassians.

It probably had other less-polite designations as well I would think 'Kosst'-something, but I have heard definitions of 'Kosst' as a noun, 'devil or demon', to a verb 'to be'.

Probably something that could be translated to 'Hell'.

 

[borgboy]

That's an interesting question, but it doesn't seem like there was ever time for the station to get a Bajoran name. It seems very likely they would've called it Terok Nor until it was renamed Deep Space 9. Names have a way of sticking.

 

[Hando]

Terok Nor it is then.

But on the other hand, what shall the station (or the one in it's place) be called in the future?
They can not keep calling it DEEP SPACE 9 once Bajor joins the Federation, will it be Starbase 5432?

 

[Timo]

Bajorans on the surface often just called the place "the space station" even after the Federation stepped in and named it. The designation sounded like an insult whenever voiced... It would seem Bajorans simply considered the place beneath naming.

No Bajoran onscreen called the place Terok Nor, AFAIK. Although those interacting with the Cardassian occupiers no doubt frequently had to, offscreen...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[doctorfoto]

Near Space One

 

[BuckBokai]

Near Space One

I was thinking 'Not So Deep Space Nine' but you pretty much took the words right out of my mouth haha

 

[Lynx]

Terok Nor it is then.

But on the other hand, what shall the station (or the one in it's place) be called in the future?
They can not keep calling it DEEP SPACE 9 once Bajor joins the Federation, will it be Starbase 5432?

I think it's possible that they keep the name Deep Space Nine.

It's an established name and a change will only complicate things since people will continue to call it Deep Space Nine anyway.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Bajorans on the surface often just called the place "the space station" even after the Federation stepped in and named it. The designation sounded like an insult whenever voiced... It would seem Bajorans simply considered the place beneath naming.

No Bajoran onscreen called the place Terok Nor, AFAIK. Although those interacting with the Cardassian occupiers no doubt frequently had to, offscreen...

Timo Saloniemi

Our current space station is the International Space Station. I don't think being generic reflects a lack of affection.

 

[kirkfan]

"The Gateway to the Temple"... in Bajoran of course.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Bajorans on the surface often just called the place "the space station" even after the Federation stepped in and named it. The designation sounded like an insult whenever voiced... It would seem Bajorans simply considered the place beneath naming.

No Bajoran onscreen called the place Terok Nor, AFAIK. Although those interacting with the Cardassian occupiers no doubt frequently had to, offscreen...

Timo Saloniemi

Our current space station is the International Space Station. I don't think being generic reflects a lack of affection.

Didn't they name it that became some countries involved objected to using the word 'Freedom'?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Bajoran Disneyland, the happiest place not on Earth.

 

[Timo]

Didn't they name it that became some countries involved objected to using the word 'Freedom'?

More like when the US contribution suddenly diminished, and the Europeans halved the size of theirs, it turned out all they could spell on the remaining modules was "Space Station Fred".

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/spanfred.htm

Seriously, the station went through so many design changes that reusing an older name, no matter how cool, would have been severely misleading.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[kirkfan]

I still think that "The Gateway to the Temple" has a ring to it. The habitat ring, got it?

 

[dub]

^...except wasn't it the wormhole itself (not the station) that was referred to as the "gate to the celestial temple?"

 

[Ithekro]

Also it wasn't officially discovered until after the Federation took over the station. Also before they moved it out of Bajor's orbit. The Bajorans would have their own things to call it long before that.