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* Homeworld: [[Bajor]]
* Homeworld: [[Bajor]]
** Major offworld populations: [[Draygo]] system, [[Prophet's Landing]], [[Sanelar]] system, [[Valo]] system
** Major offworld populations: [[Draygo]] system, [[Prophet's Landing]], [[Sanelar]] system, [[Valo]] system
* Foods and drinks
* Named for the Bajora (DS9 Short Story: "Horn and Ivory")
** Deka tea (DS9: "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night", "The Alternate"; DS9 Novel: ''Gamma: Original Sin'')
** Early Bajoran ethnicity c.28,000 BCE who united the world and its people under worship of the [[Prophets]] (DS9 Short Story: "Horn and Ivory")
** Jevi nut (DS9 Novel: ''Gamma: Original Sin'')
* Biological notes
*** Apparently similar to peanuts
** Biochemically incredibly similar to [[Human]]s (DS9 Novel: ''Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit'')
** Jumja (DS9: "A Man Alone", "In the Hands of the Prophets", "Ferengi Love Songs", "Image in the Sand"; DS9 Novel: ''Gamma: Original Sin'')
*** Enough so that a Bajoran woman can carry a Human fetus transferred at six months as surrogate with no genetic preparation for surrogate or fetus (DS9: "Body Parts")
*** Extremely sweet confection eaten on a stick
* Cultural notes
*** Made from the sap of the jumja tree (DS9: "In the Hands of the Prophets")
** [[Bajoran faith]]
*** High in vitamin C (DS9: "In the Hands of the Prophets")
** [[Bajoran language]]
** Kava juice (DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited", "Penumbra")
** [[Food and drink#Bajoran|Bajoran food]]
*** Ferments into springwine (DS9: "Penumbra")
** In Bajoran names, surnames precede personal names
** Kava milk (DS9 Novel: ''Gamma: Original Sin'')
** Musical instruments
*** Apparently milk from the kava plant; likely the root, as the fruit produces kava juice as above
*** Belaklavion (TNG: "Preemptive Strike"; DS9 Novel: ''Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit'')
** Mapa bread (DS9 Novel: ''Gamma: Original Sin'')
**** Commonly known as a "klavion" (DS9 Novel: ''Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit'')
** Moba (DS9 Novel: ''Gamma: Original Sin'')
** Cultural items
*** Bajoran fruit, can be made into preserves
*** Muriniri doll (DS9 Novel: ''The 34th Rule'')
** Springwine (DS9: "Return to Grace", "Ferengi Love Songs", "Chrysalis", "Covenant", "Penumbra", "'Til Death Do Us Part",  "Strange Bedfellows")
*** Produced from fermentation of kava juice (DS9: "Penumbra")
*** Can be light red, white, or blue depending on the variety of kava used to produce it (DS9: "Return to Grace", "'Til Death Do Us Part", "Strange Bedfellows")


[[Category: Intelligent Species]]
[[Category:Intelligent Species]]
[[Category: Bajoran|#]]
[[Category:Bajoran|#]]

Latest revision as of 21:40, 12 July 2024

  • Appearance: Mammalian; generally human-form, ridges along nasal bridge
  • Homeworld: Bajor
  • Named for the Bajora (DS9 Short Story: "Horn and Ivory")
    • Early Bajoran ethnicity c.28,000 BCE who united the world and its people under worship of the Prophets (DS9 Short Story: "Horn and Ivory")
  • Biological notes
    • Biochemically incredibly similar to Humans (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
      • Enough so that a Bajoran woman can carry a Human fetus transferred at six months as surrogate with no genetic preparation for surrogate or fetus (DS9: "Body Parts")
  • Cultural notes
    • Bajoran faith
    • Bajoran language
    • Bajoran food
    • In Bajoran names, surnames precede personal names
    • Musical instruments
      • Belaklavion (TNG: "Preemptive Strike"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
        • Commonly known as a "klavion" (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
    • Cultural items
      • Muriniri doll (DS9 Novel: The 34th Rule)