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Updated 24 May 1998 21:54:30 GMT Daylight Time

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In one of the latest episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to air in the US Constable Oelo finally succeeds in winning the affections of Major Kira.
In His Way, which was broadcast on 20 ~pril, Odo enters a holographic simulation of the Las Vegas of the sixties to seek the advice of a performer in order to woo the woman he loves. His teacher obviously succeeds in training the courting shapeshifter, as during the course of the episode the two become more intimate and they are soon caught up in a pas sionate embrace.

Odo has harboured feelings for Major Kira for some years now. We first discovered his affection for her in the third season episode Fascination, in which Lwaxana Troi guesses that her friend is in love with the major. The depth of his feelings are revealed in Heart of Stone, in which, driven to believe he is about to lose her, Odo finally admits his love for Kira. However, it turns out that the woman he believes to be Kira is in fact the Female Changeling, and Odo's secret is, for the time being, safe.

It is a future version of Odo, in the fifth season episode Chrildren of Time, who tells Kira how much he (and the real Odo) loves her. Although this knowledge puts a dis tance between the two friends for a short time, they soon find solace in each other's company again at the beginning of season six as they unite against the Cardassian/ Dominion alliance governing the station.

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Quotes from DS9 Executive Producer Ira Steven Behr’s chat at TrekWeb.Com.

• Ira talks about Season Seven (Terry Farrell; A new Dax; A season long Arc? Maybe; Wrapping up plot threads)
  
  
• Ira talks about the following episodes - "Valiant", "Profit and Lace", "The Reckoning" and the sixth season finale, "Tears of the Prophets".
  
  
• DS9 at the movies : "Obviously the thought of the Dominon war being transferred to the big screen in 2:35 Panavision is enough to make me want to pray at the urn of Gene Roddenberry himself.....Shapeshifting, Founders, wormhole experiences up the kazoo... these are a few of my favorite things. But is this going to actually happen in a reality beyond the parameters of my own imagination? I don't think so. But one can dream."
  
  
• The future involvement of the Romulan Star Empire in the Dominion War : "At this point, I don't see them having a huge role. But, inspiration may change that...there's a Romulan presence in the final episode. But right now, I just see them being an extra spice to the mix. I don't see them, necessarily, being a main ingredient."
  
  
• Any more multi-episode arcs on the way? "I look at seasons six and seven as one lone, multi-arc episode. If I were being honest, I had to say that I see the entire series as one long, multi-arc episode. When you think that the Dominion was first mentioned in a second season Ferengi episode, you gotta start figuring that the whole thing is one of those novel-for-television sort of deals."
  
  
• Ira’s thoughts about DS9 being “anti-Trek” : “I think Trek is about a lot of things. A lot of different types of explorations. One of these happens to be war. At least at this moment in time on DS9. I don't think we're saying that war is fun or a good thing...once again, I think we're just exploring the concept and letting the audience decide. But this whole idea of being anti-Trek amuses me. Certainly, TNG was very different from TOS. And I think DS9 has the right to be different from TNG. But we don't set out to be anti-Trek or anti-Roddenberry....all we want to do is shake the tree and see what falls out. Sometimes the coconut lands on our heads, sometimes it doesn't.”
  
  
• The Great Link said that “Cardassia is dead” - when will that happen? “Hasn't it been fulfilled already?:)”
  
  

• "In the Pale Moonlight" - DS9's best ever!
  According to the most popular Trek ratings sites on the Internet, DS9’s “In the Pale Moonlight” is the best episode of the series ever! Earlier today, the S.O.S. site had a 9.5 rating for “Moonlight”, while over at GEOS, the episode had a 9.57 rating. At both sites, “Moonlight” was rated the best episode in the entire run of the series to date.
  
  Also, “His Way”, the Odo-Kira Holodeck episode which some fans have already written off, had a rating of 9.15 at GEOS earlier today - that rating meant that “His Way” was the fourth best DS9 episode to date.
  
  Ratings at SOS and GEOS change as fans see the episodes and vote on them, so this information may be incorrect by the time you read this. Check out both sites for the latest ratings and placings.

• "The Sound of Her Voice" - Since this is the season finale which you said was going to be BIG, will this plot(whatever it is) be resolved in this episode or will it continue as a two parter that opens up the 7th season? Or will it have repercussions throughout the 7th season? "... Voice" is episode 25. The finale is episode 26, and has not been officially named yet. It will not be a two-parter, but will have a huge impact on the 7th season."
  
  
• Do you see more emphasis on the war and its impact during DS9's 7th season? "Yes."
  
  
• Will the events in "A Time to Stand" (destruction of ketracel white supply) ever be addressed and the Dominion's solution for it? "I think we'll address this next year in more detail, but we have said that the Dominion is manufacting new Jem'Hadar soldiers and making new Alpha Quadrant- based supplies of White."
  
  
• I was wondering, will the Garak/Dukat thread ever be addressed before the series ends? By that, I mean the fact that Dukat hates Garak for tourturing his father....will our newly-vengful Gul possible go after our favorite local tailor? "We definitely want to deal with this next year."
  
  
• I was wondering, in an episode a few season back Dukat was reunited with his daughter Ziyal (?). Ziyal was a bajorean/Cardassian mix, and so I am currious if Kira and Ziyal could have been half-sisters? "We toyed with this idea during the development of "Wrongs..." but decided not to go this way."
  
  

• Corona have rumours (yes - I did underline the word rumours) about Star Trek X : The Dominion War, featuring the TNG and DS9 cast. Even Corona say that this is rumoured , and the page with the info on was updated on April 1st - but we can all dream about seeing Sisko on the big screen, right?
  
  

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