12 Darkest Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Moments
The darkest tales of the best Star Trek show ever made.
Star Trek is no stranger to dark storylines or moments, every single show has at least one that sticks with them for the rest of their lives. From Picard being tortured and assimilated into the Borg, to Kirk being forced to let the woman he loves die in order to protect history, to plenty of others I'm probably forgetting.
And then you have Deep Space Nine, which can best be described as a series of super dark moments interspersed with Quark shenanigans.
Due to the lack of Roddenberry looking over their shoulder every step of the way for the first time, Deep Space Nine was allowed to broach subjects never allowed before in Star Trek. Not only making it easily the best entry in the franchise so far, but also making it by far the darkest.
This show is unflinchingly willing to hurt and even outright break the characters it made you fall in love with, and we're going to be looking at the darkest, bleakest examples thereof. These are the moments that made Deep Space Nine so freaking hardcore.
12. Kira Learns About Dukat And Her Mother - Wrongs Darker Than Death Or Night
Oh look, it's time to make Kira Nerys miserable! Which is to say that it's a day ending in Y.
On the night of her mother's birthday, Gul Dukat, the man whose last f*ck long ago mysteriously "fell out of a window", calls up Kira and reveals a hot little tidbit about him and her mother. Namely that they slept together. A lot.
Kira obviously calls BS, but she can't be sure, so she uses the orb of time to find out the truth. Kira finally gets to have a real conversation with her long dead mother, and what she learns during that conversation is even worse than she imagined.
Kira's mother didn't just sleep with Dukat, she was his personal comfort woman. And the worst part? She admits to her daughter's face that while initially forced into the arrangement, she ended up enjoying every minute. She gets to live in luxury and never have to worry about where her next meal is, and all she has to do is get Dukat's rocks off? To her that was too good a deal to pass up.
This is one of the most Earth shattering moments for Kira, as every illusion she had about her mother is broken, shot, and left to bleed out on the side of the road.