I HEARD KIRA HAD A BABY! WHOS THE FATHER?
Kira’s pregnancy was introduced in the fourth season episode “Body Parts” in order to account for the real-life pregnancy of actress Nana Visitor (the father, interestingly enough, is DS9 castmate Alexander Siddig, who plays Dr. Julian Bashir). Rather fancifully, the producers decided to make Kira a surrogate mother by having Keiko O’Brien, the expectant wife of the station’s Chief of Operations Miles O’Brien, injured on an away mission with Kira and Dr. Bashir. With the fetus in danger, Bashir saw the only way to save it was by transferring the unborn child into Kira’s womb. Now forced to carry the baby to term, Kira temporarily moved in with the O’Briens so as to allow them to be near their child. This led to some rather awkward developments in season five’s “Looking For Par’mach In All the Wrong Places”. Chief O’Brien had thrown himself into the task of looking after Kira’s well- being for the baby’s sake, helping her out of the bathtub, giving her massages, etc. However, this close
