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	KEIKO O'BRIEN PLAYED BY: Rosalind Chao SPECIES: Human Female Schoolteacher onboard Deep Space Nine, married to Miles O'Brien. Keiko argued that it was her duty to expose students to knowledge, not to hide it from them, and refused to teach about the Prophets. The school was then destroyed by a bomb; fortunately, no one was in the school at the time. Commander Sisko held Vedek Winn responsible for the bombing.
	NEELA PLAYED BY: Robin Christopher SPECIES: Bajoran Female Neela was a Bajoran religious activist who worked as an engineer aboard Deep Space 9 in 2369. She was placed on Deep Space 9 as a cover for her assassination attempt of Vedek Bareil Antos, ostensibly to ensure the succession of Vedek Winn after the death of Kai Opaka.
	VEDEK BAREIL PLAYED BY: Philip Anglim SPECIES: Bajoran Male Bareil Antos was a prominent Bajoran spiritual leader during the years immediately after the Cardassian Occupation. He was the leading candidate to become the next kai after Opaka. Bareil spent the time before the election in seclusion, but was drawn to space station Deep Space 9 by his opponent, Winn Adami. He decided to visit the station after a school run by Keiko O'Brien was bombed by Bajoran fundamentalists who were against her teaching that the wormhole prophets were aliens.
	WINN ADAMI PLAYED BY: Louise Fletcher SPECIES: Bajoran Female Winn Adami was an ambitious Bajoran religious leader. By the time Bajor regained its independence in 2369, Winn was one of the more influential vedeks in the Vedek Assembly. Winn traveled to Deep Space 9 seven months after Starfleet assumed control of the station, apparently to protest the "blasphemous" teaching of scientific principles in the school newly opened by Keiko O'Brien.