None of them wear their earrings but on every other starship and space station, they do were the writers just stupid (they were) or did they not get that memo?
Sito Jaxa did not wear earrings. Ro Laren had to bargain with Picard for the right to wear them. Bajorans in Starfleet, especially those who joined before the end of the Occupation, probably feel less connected with their homeworld because they were unable to return to it until 2369. Most Bajorans in Starfleet during the occupation are probably accustomed to conforming to Starfleet, possibly because they need to convince a command level officer to write a letter of recommendation to get into the Academy (Not being a member world) and are afraid stirring the pot will force them to return back to occupied Bajor. I'm not sure what other Bajoran Starfleet officers we've seen besides Ro, Sito, and the few on Voyager. All the Bajoran in DS9 are in Bajoran military.
Gerron in "Learning Curve" started off wearing his but then removed it to comply with uniform regulations, same as Chell did with his medallion and Henley did with her hairband.
I have no idea what they were all about, having not been an avid DS9 viewer. However there were sexy.
^symbol of their faith. Probably has something to do with their pagh too. Sometimes clergy persons such as a Kai or a Vedek would feel the ear of someone, to ascertain their pagh. Wonder if a Ferengi would have enjoyed that ("your pagh, is, eurm, well, huge, Grand Nagus"). On a slightly more serious note, I wonder whether if DS9 were (re)made now, they would have omitted that little ritual, to avoid any possible connotation with clergy becoming physical with believers, given the scandals of the last 20 years.
I never got why they even agreed to comply with uniform regulations in the first place. Neelix and Kes didn't wear uniforms and still served on the ship so why should the former Maquis wear them? They weren't starfleet either. If Tuvok had told me I couldn't wear my earring with the starfleet uniform I would have shown up the next day in one of Neelix's clown suits. That's really the biggest problem I had with this episode, you can't make a big stink about uniform regulations when you slap communicators on two people's civilain outfits and have them attend senior officer meetings at the same time.
I didn't think it was odd for the Marquis to wear uniform as many were ex-Starfleet anyway. They wore different rank pips, however to integrate into the command structure of Voyager they took on the uniform. Kes, Neelix, and Seven were not in the command structure but they were incorporated into the crew. Of course they were entitled to communicators, especially when they went on away missions.
They agreed to wear Starfleet uniforms because Chakotay was level headed enough to know that they needed Voyager to survive and his crew's only path from outlaws to equals was conforming.
Really I think it was more simplistic than that even. For the Marquis to be part of the command structure, for Chakotay to be second in command, B'Ellana to be a lieutenant who would give orders and expect to take them they had to integrate as Starfleet, uniformed crew.
Okay Though those three were never, ever Starfleet or part of the later command structure. I like the episode with Seven in uniform "Parallax" and I think (I must check) that Neelix wore one in "Living Witness"?
He wore something part uniform (had swirls) and then the mustard one. Of course they wanted him comfy to do two jobs - cook and security and bridge stuff. That's three jobs. Then they fried him.
That was his combo outfit. Part Tuvok uniform, part Neelix pajamas. (Why didn't the clothes merge with Tuvok and Neelix? Tuvix should have been part Tuvok, part Neelix, part clothes.) And then they make him wear a uniform up until they murder him.
Tuvok was putting them through "Bootcamp." He's lucky he didn't have to shave his head. I'm sure he wore his earring again afterwards.