Quick Facts:
- Was leading candidate to
replace Kai Opaka in 2370
- Spiritual and political opponent to
Winn Adami, who was elected kai in 2370
- Lover to
Major Kira Nerys
- Negotiated a vital peace
treaty with the Cardassians while on his death bed.
- Gardener at the Vedek
monastery
Complete Bios:
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Bajoran spiritual leader who
was a leading candidate to become the next kai after the
position was vacated by Kai Opaka in 2369. Bareil started his
spiritual service as a gardener at a monastery, and even after
he became an influential religious leader, he still enjoyed
tending the grounds.
During the Cardassian occupation of Bajor he was held at the
brutal Relegeth refugee camp. Bareil's main opposition in his
bid to become kai was political rival Vedek Winn, who attempted
to have Bareil assassinated by engineering an incident on Deep
Space 9 that would draw Bareil to the station. But the plot
failed and Vedek Bareil survived to continue his bid for kai and
continue supporting cooperative relations between Bajor and the
Federation. Bareil became romantically involved with Kira Nerys
in 2370.
Bareil was favored to become the new kai in 2370, but withdrew
from the election when he became tied to the infamous Kendra
Valley massacre. No one knew that Bareil's sudden withdrawal
from the election was because he had been covering up the role
of then-Kai Opaka in the massacre. Bareil knew that Opaka had
allowed the Cardassians to kill 42 Bajorans (including her own
son) to prevent them from killing over a thousand other Bajorans
in the Kendra Valley. Bareil kept the secret for years and
willingly sacrificed his political ambitions to protect Opaka's
memory when then-Vedek Winn re-opened the investigation in 2370.
Once Winn and Kira learned the truth, both appeared likely to
preserve the secret. Bareil refused to let his defeat stop him,
and in 2371 he accepted the opportunity to become a key advisor
to the newly-elected Kai Winn. As Winn's representative, Bareil
conducted five months of negotiations with Legate Turrel, laying
the groundwork for the historic peace treaty between the
Bajorans and the Cardassians. Just prior to the signing of the
treaty, Bareil was critically injured in an explosion aboard a
Bajoran transport ship. At station Deep Space 9, Bareil refused
extraordinary life-prolonging measures so that he could advise
Kai Winn during the critical final stages of the talks. Bareil
believed it was the will of the Prophets that he had been spared
death in the explosion so that he could ensure the success of
the peace talks. Bareil died shortly after the signing of the
historic peace treaty, leaving Kira devastated.
First
Seen: "In the Hands of the Prophets"
Current Status: Diseased ("Life Support")
Last Seen: "Resurrection"
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