Why do people hate the Bajorians?

[UnknownSample]

I hate everything about them! Their superstitions and their cries for sympathy, their treachery and their lies, their smug superiority and their stiff necked obstinacy, their earrings and their broken wrinkled noses.

You'd have killed them all, right? The climactic speech from my favorite episode.

 

[TommyR01D]

When she was helping Damar it was all military targets again (with the argument being whether to strike targets guarded by Cardassian instead of Jem Hadar forces).

In that instance there is little distinction, as the Dominion didn't really have any civilians.

 

[mlbach]

I loved Ensign Ro and I loved Kira. I don't think it would have been believable if Kira hadn't been irritated and --whatever other descriptors people have used. She'd been living under Cardassion occupation nearly her whole life, killed numerous people, including Bajorans. She probably had a major (ptp) case of PTSD, untreated, as far as I can tell, and the only person on the station she really trusts is Odo.

 

[JayTheTrekkie]

I liked the Bajorans.

Kira and Ro were my favorites.

Never new that some fans disliked the Bajorans. Not sure why they would.

 

[Nyotarules]

Oh yeah early season Kira a massive chip on her shoulder. It was incredibly grating.

yeah 40 years of slavery does that to you....

 

[Tenacity]

This thread needs a poll.

 

[mlbach]

How about Frederick Chopin?

 

[WARLOCK1965]

I never understood this dislike. The Bajorians were basically a methphor for the Jewish people after the Holocaust. How can people look at that concept and not find it intresting and something filled with al sorts of potential drama. Trek is famous for exploring issues and various things about the human condition not to mention our history and with the Bajorians you got a advenue to explore things you might not get to do in the more clean cut show like TNG.

It also helps that you got a great serious regular who is a Bajorian to put a eveyday face to that concept. You got the Cardisians as the Nazi's and it seems to me you got a intresting thing to work with.

Jason

I like the the bajorion the showed that one must fight for freedom something today people who want safe place don't get be want but they want stand up strong and fight for freedom

 

[WARLOCK1965]

Kira could often be a pill, especially in the earlier seasons. She was very touchy and people had to walk on eggshells around her, lest they offend her and set her off. Ro Laren had this same touchiness when she was introduced as well

you would be too if you had to fight every day too live and see family and friends die you get though and quick too react when something hit a nerve. and anything could be the trigger

 

[somebuddyX]

I hated them! I hated everything about them! Their superstitions and their cries for sympathy, their treachery and their lies, their smug superiority and their stiff necked obstinacy, their earrings and their broken wrinkled noses.

 

[mlbach]

OK, you're just quoting Dukat who was quoted earlier in this thread.

 

[Gordontrek]

I was less put off by the Bajorans themselves than I was by the second-rate actors who all too often portrayed them. Kira, Ro Laren, Sito et al. were fine, but in DS9 I found Bareil, Winn, and other non-regular Bajorans to be unbelievably dull. (Although Winn did have her moments.) Collectively I found them to be a fascinating people, but there were individuals I felt didn't do them justice.

 

[WARLOCK1965]

I hated them! I hated everything about them! Their superstitions and their cries for sympathy, their treachery and their lies, their smug superiority and their stiff necked obstinacy, their earrings and their broken wrinkled noses.

please remember that their planet is different from ours so it's only right for them to be different and if you been one of them and lived through an occupation and work to die or used in other ways with only your faith to give you strength. You be just like them too

 

[WARLOCK1965]

yeah 40 years of slavery does that to you....

I thought it was 60 years

 

[Nyotarules]

I thought it was 60 years

we are both in error it was 50 years

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Occupation_of_Bajor

 

[WARLOCK1965]

So

we are both in error it was 50 years

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Occupation_of_Bajor

Sorry for error I was thinking about the first time of them meeting with the diplomatic time added in so the Cardisians would know more about them and their military strength so they could take over. I was added that in too my account of time

 

[somebuddyX]

OK, you're just quoting Dukat who was quoted earlier in this thread.

Damn! Ah well!

 

[Six of Twelve]

I was less put off by the Bajorans themselves than I was by the second-rate actors who all too often portrayed them. Kira, Ro Laren, Sito et al. were fine, but in DS9 I found Bareil, Winn, and other non-regular Bajorans to be unbelievably dull. (Although Winn did have her moments.) Collectively I found them to be a fascinating people, but there were individuals I felt didn't do them justice.

You're calling Louise Fletcher, who played Kai Winn, a "second-rate actor"? Fletcher won an Oscar for her role as Nurse Ratched in the movie, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Hardly "second-rate".

 

[Gordontrek]

You're calling Louise Fletcher, who played Kai Winn, a "second-rate actor"?

Yes, I am. I found her to be one of the most annoying actors in the series. Maybe the role just didn't fit her, but anytime Winn appeared I couldn't wait for the scene to be over.

 

[mlbach]

You may be confusing the actor with the character. Winn was certainly one of the most annoying characters on ds9, but Fletcher did an excellent job portraying her