XOXO Kira and Odo
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I think it was left undecided for a long time during the show's run. Bareil's actor didn't 'quit' the show; he'd only been in a few episodes, anyway. They just decided to go for something dramatic with him, as far as I remember.
As for Shakaar, the writers felt like they wrote that relationship into a corner early on by doing some 'irreparable' things to him in his second episode. I've never agreed with that analysis but whatever.
Spoilers for the finale...
It was decided by season six that Kira and Odo would indeed get together so that Odo would have something incredibly poignant he'd have to leave behind in the finale.
As for Shakaar, the writers felt like they wrote that relationship into a corner early on by doing some 'irreparable' things to him in his second episode. I've never agreed with that analysis but whatever.
Spoilers for the finale...
It was decided by season six that Kira and Odo would indeed get together so that Odo would have something incredibly poignant he'd have to leave behind in the finale.
I liked the Odo/Kira relationship in season seven, and agree that it contributed towards a very bittersweet ending for Odo's arc by having him leave her to finally be with his people.
That aside though, I preferred the unrequited love that Odo had for Kira for the majority of the series. When the two first got together in His Way I was worried that they'd end up as another duff Star Trek relationship.
If they hadn't gone Odo/Kira on us, I would have been happy with Kira ending up with either Shakaar or Bareil, I liked both of them.
That aside though, I preferred the unrequited love that Odo had for Kira for the majority of the series. When the two first got together in His Way I was worried that they'd end up as another duff Star Trek relationship.
If they hadn't gone Odo/Kira on us, I would have been happy with Kira ending up with either Shakaar or Bareil, I liked both of them.
In my rewatch, I'd looked forward to the two of them getting together the whole time because I remembered really liking their relationship as a kid. And although I enjoyed "His Way" a fair bit, I sort of felt like the whole thing wasn't as good as I'd recalled... until "Chimera".
All of a sudden I was reminded of what I enjoyed so much about it. From thereon out it never let up and Odo's choice in the finale really had me going.
I'm not the sort to cry often while watching something but I was tearing up pretty badly during the last half hour of DS9.
All of a sudden I was reminded of what I enjoyed so much about it. From thereon out it never let up and Odo's choice in the finale really had me going.
I'm not the sort to cry often while watching something but I was tearing up pretty badly during the last half hour of DS9.
I suspect they probably put them together without planning it at the start. But that's a moot point because it looks like it was planned from the start.
The slowly-developed Odo/Kira relationship is easily one of the best-developed, if not the best-developed romantic relationships ever on TV.
Worthless, standard "love interest of the week" nonsense, with which DS9 and all other Trek shows are bogged down by wasting episodes on, can in no way stand up to years-long development as is done with Odo/Kira.''
Hopefully in the future "love interest of the week" nonsense content will go extinct, like it should.
The slowly-developed Odo/Kira relationship is easily one of the best-developed, if not the best-developed romantic relationships ever on TV.
Worthless, standard "love interest of the week" nonsense, with which DS9 and all other Trek shows are bogged down by wasting episodes on, can in no way stand up to years-long development as is done with Odo/Kira.''
Hopefully in the future "love interest of the week" nonsense content will go extinct, like it should.
I was pleasantly surprised by how infrequently that happened in DS9 compared to TNG and VOY.
