HOW DID KIRA FINALLY FIND OUT ODO WAS IN LOVE WITH HER?
This finally happened in Year Five’s “Children of Time”. While on patrol in the Gamma Quadrant, the Defiant crew discovered a planet called Gaia, inhabited by their own descendants. It seemed that in two days they were fated to encounter a temporal anomaly that would hurl them back in time 200 years, marooning them on this planet. As a consequence Kira, who had been exposed to a radiation surge and needed treatment she could only receive back on DS9, would die in a few weeks. While the crew pondered methods of resolving the temporal paradox, Kira encountered Odo’s future counterpart who had been living on the planet for two centuries (changelings having extremely long lifespans). THIS Odo immediately confessed, “I love you Nerys. I’ve always loved you.” At first stunned and disbelieving, Kira quickly came to accept the reality of Odo’s feelings, and did NOT display the fear or disgust Odo always feared she might. (The present Odo was absent at this time because the planet’s energy fiel