OKAY, SO WHY COULDNT KIRA FIGURE OUT ODO WAS IN LOVE WITH HER? IS SHE STUPID OR WHAT?
Again, this is tricky. Part of the reason probably has to do with the fact that Odo had publicly stated his distaste for “humanoid mating rituals” and all the compromises a relationship entails. Another factor is that Odo’s physical nature is very different from a humanoid’s, which may have led Kira to believe that Odo lacks the…desires…that humanoids feel. Odo himself is normally adept at hiding his feelings and was determined NOT to let Kira learn the truth. Kira, while not an unintelligent person, is rather provincial and lacks a certain amount of imagination, which may account for why it never seemed to occur to her that Odo could harbor feelings for her. When a Romulan intelligence task force suggested to her in the episode “Visionary” that her relationship with Odo was intimate, she reacted with an angry denial, apparently feeling the whole matter was impossible. However, it isn’t clear whether she thought it was impossible because of Odo’s feelings or her own. Still, it was
