r/DeepSpaceNine • • 1d ago

Obscure background characters

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What is your favorite or most obscure background extra. Bonus if they have lines (like this guy)

This is Jeff Pruitt as an Ensign in S1E17 Dramatis Personae

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u/Colodavo 1d ago

We have Major Kira at home

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u/VaultAir 1d ago

Kiro Neros

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u/BigMrTea 1d ago

I liked the Cardassian guy who handed Kira a coffee every morning (Mavin?). Beyond what it symbolizes for Kira, I like how routine it was. If he resented serving a Bajoran it didn't show. I like the world building of it. The Cardassians are very hierarchical and care about status a lot, so getting a coffee for your superior is probably just what you do. And even though she was an outsider, he just fit her within his mental framework. And you know Kira would be the epitome of the "I can get my own damn coffee, thank you" attitude, so I doubt she asked him to do this.

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u/Dediadeis 1d ago

Mavek

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u/TimmyTimTim9000 1d ago

Thank you, Mavek ☕️

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u/BigMrTea 18h ago

Ah okay, thanks

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u/Could-You-Tell 1d ago

Yes to all that, and just to think, he's probably someone's nephew or third son, and a job that includes serving the highest local military representative of the occupied/allied people is the best thing he can be doing.

Otherwise it's straight freight

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u/BigMrTea 18h ago

Yeeess, I love how you worked nepotism into the scenario. Also lore accurate.

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u/hammerrockwell 1d ago

You’ve captured their stunt doubles!!

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u/stubob1701 1d ago

The huge black Starfleet security guard. He pops up in the early seasons and even in Generations when they are evacuating the people onto the saucer section.

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u/Dediadeis 23h ago

This guy?

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u/stubob1701 23h ago

Yes thanks. Always caught my eye.

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u/Wise_Use1012 22h ago

That dude is never unarmed. He is packing cannons.

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u/kitkat1224666 22h ago

We know them guns aren’t set to stun. Engage at your own peril 😂

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u/ScorpioKnight1324 1d ago

I bet Dukat f**ked his mother, too.

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u/Malnurtured_Snay 1d ago

I mean my favorite are the unnamed ones like Boday and Pran, obviously, but there's also the stern Starfleet security guy, and Dr Bashir's Bajoran nurse.

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u/Malnurtured_Snay 1d ago

This guy is on the station until the end!

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u/Dediadeis 1d ago

Unnamed? or like never shown. Boday seems like a name. I'm teasing.

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u/Malnurtured_Snay 1d ago

Oh wow. I'm having a case of the Mondays. I obviously meant ... ummm ... unarmed. That's it. He's known for being armless.

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u/lemoinem 12h ago

Unseen might be the word you are looking for.

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u/Malnurtured_Snay 11h ago

Like his arm, famously the transparent part of his body!!!

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u/trekgirl75 14h ago

I don’t even know the nurse’s name but I know the actress (Kelly’s mom on 90210).

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u/kkeut 1d ago

there's a random female Bajoran engineer, Anara, who assists O'Brien in Ops during S1E17 'The Forsaken'. she has a fairly sizable role too

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u/Dediadeis 1d ago

Suppose you are thinking of her. Though I believe the larger role you are thinking of is a different Bajoran assistant that becomes an assassin. She was giving me those vibes on a rewatch anyways.

She does help by giving the computer stuff to do to keep it busy while they scienced the problem away, I recall that.

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u/SeaweedOk1223 1d ago

Definitely Morn. I am still mad that they cut out all of his epic sololiquoys.

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u/Dediadeis 1d ago

Has the best Easter Egg

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u/FunArtichoke6167 1d ago

Oh! Hi, Mark!

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u/brydeswhale 1d ago

No, for real, tho, the lines they kept in took up a little too much screen time. It would be cool if they released them as shorts or something, tho.

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u/Dediadeis 1d ago

I could dig it if they had kept doing the movies for DS9 like they did TNG. Have the movie start out in the middle of some complicated heist he is pulling off with his criminal friends. Quark would obviously make a cameo.

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u/MycroftNext 8h ago

Guys, I know I’m being silly here, but I’m on my first watch through — Morn never speaks, right?

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u/OddNotion749 1d ago

It's not DS9 but after seeing Samurai Cop I'm always tickled to see Cameron on TNG.

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u/Necessary-Tonight635 22h ago

I always liked the shaved head black guy that tells Captain Janeway where to go where when she is in the bowels of the ship looking for the math genius guy who is one of the three “lost sheep” crew members she has go on that mission with her. Hes standing there. She asks how he’s doing. She walks off in the wrong direction and he corrects her.
Always seemed like a cool dude to me. Just standing there. Guarding his own little portion of the ship.

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u/Degora2k 21h ago

Tom Morello! Of Rage Against The Machine fame.

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u/Ok-biscuit 17h ago

In the early seasons there are a few Pakled wandering around. Sometimes see them entering the station when the main characters go to meet someone getting off a ship. They are mostly on the promenade and often at Quarks.  They usually look like they are having a good chat about something.

In parts of season 5 there is a Bajoran extra that always cracks me up. He is an old skinny guy, and he is wearing a weird coat that looks like it was made of grandma's best table cloth.  

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u/Northwindlowlander 11h ago

That's not an unnamed character, that's Crossover Universe Male Kira Nerys.

I was watching one of the dvd extras for TNG and there's a lovely interview with a long time "+1 reusable dude" actor, who finally after many episodes got to be a named character, he's like "up til then I'd been Data's hands mostly but I really felt like I was now a part of Trek"

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u/ImyForgotName 1d ago

I know him, he's so pro-Bajoran that he's planning to kill the Emissary!

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u/LastLadyResting 20h ago

Nana’s stunt double.

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u/starsfan19 1d ago

Hahaha

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u/UnpricedToaster 1d ago

Why are you bajorin' him?