Every time I watch season 2 I hope, somehow, that Vedic Bareil will get elected Kai. It was a last minute flip-flop in the writer’s room anyway:
Although the writing staff of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had spent almost the entirety of the show’s second season planning to make Bareil the new kai, electing Winn to that position was a last-minute decision. “We were all sitting in the room,” recalled Robert Hewitt Wolfe, “and it occurred to us, ‘God, we could […] make Winn the kai. That’s a scary idea!’”
– Memory AlphaI’m glad the did make her Kai. I hate her, but she was great
I do too, she was a great villain to the point that I can’t help but to root against her. And I love that the writers knew they wouldn’t want to live in the world they were creating.
That’s an awesome detail!
This is what I’m loving about DS9 … good people don’t always win, just like in real life. It’s the same logic from the famous Picard quote:
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”
Watching the stories in DS9 unfold knowing that good things won’t always happen makes the whole series so grounded and relatable.
I’m on season three now and thoroughly enjoying it all.
BREATHES IN
My child, that is the power of the prophets, not a headache.
The Kosst Amojan, child
If the Prophets wanted me to step down, surely they would’ve told me so.
sends the entire Bajoran army after you for trying to get her to step down…
God … she’s so good I felt like throwing my phone against the wall. Everyone should have a Kai Winn in their lives, to make you momentarily miserable and allow you to appreciate the rest of your life
I think we all do, that’s why we hate the character so much it taps into visceral hate we’ve developed in reality
She’s such a well-written and wonderfully acted holier-than-thou character and villain that you could believe Stephen King wrote every line of her dialogue.
