Kira Taban on Bajor in 2346.
Kira Taban, fatally wounded.
Kira Taban was a Bajoran citizen who lived during the Cardassian Occupation. He was the husband of Kira Meru and the father of Kira Nerys, Kira Pohl and Kira Reon. A kind and gentle man, Kira Taban was a farmer by trade, and was especially proud of his garden.
Taban was not a religious man, but after marrying Meru, he went to services everyday as faith was important to his wife. (DS9: "Strange Bedfellows")
Taban believed that using chlorobicrobes in spraying katterpods led to the crops growing larger. (DS9: "Progress")
In 2346, his wife Meru was one of several Bajoran women taken to the new Cardassian station Terok Nor to serve as comfort women. Taban and his children began to receive better care and food afterward. Though most Bajorans viewed comfort women as collaborators, Taban believed she was making a great sacrifice for her family. He often told his daughter Nerys that Meru was the bravest woman he'd ever known, though she did not learn her mother was a comfort woman until 2374. (DS9: "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night")
Taban was killed by members of the Cardassian Heavy Weapons Unit, Third Assault Group, Ninth Order while attempting to dissuade them from torching his home and village. Gravely wounded by a disruptor shot to his abdomen, he survived long enough for the Shakaar resistance cell to find him. However, after several days of extreme pain he finally succumbed to his injuries. Although Kira Nerys was present at his bedside for most of this time, she was not present when he died, having chosen to be part of an ambush against her father's attackers at the time - a decision she later bitterly regretted. Taban died calling out her name, a fact that still haunted Nerys years later. (DS9: "Second Skin", "Ties of Blood and Water")
- Kira Taban was played by Trek regular Thomas Kopache.