Bajoran

• Appearance: Mammalian; generally human-form, ridges along nasal bridge
• Homeworld: Bajor
  • Major offworld populations: Draygo system, Prophet's Landing, Sanelar system, Valo system
• 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")
• Cultural notes
  • Bajoran faith
  • Bajoran language
  • Foods
    • Hasperat
      • Assemblage of ingredients wrapped in a tortilla-analogue, sliced into individual servings and served warm (DS9)
      • Incredibly spicy (TNG: "Preemptive Strike"; DS9: "A Simple Investigation"; VOY: "Someone to Watch Over Me")
        • Ingredients are prepared in a special brine, imparting heat (TNG: "Preemptive Strike")
    • Jevi nut (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
      • Apparently similar to peanuts
    • Jumja (DS9: "A Man Alone", "In the Hands of the Prophets", "Ferengi Love Songs", "Image in the Sand"; DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
      • Extremely sweet confection eaten on a stick
      • Made from the sap of the jumja tree (DS9: "In the Hands of the Prophets")
      • High in vitamin C (DS9: "In the Hands of the Prophets")
      • Cubed for tea much as sugar (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
      • Can be reduced into syrup (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
    • Kava flakes (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
      • Akin to cereal
    • Kavameal (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
      • Traditional Bajoran breakfast staple (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
    • Mapa bread (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
    • Moba (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
      • Bajoran fruit, can be made into preserves
  • Drinks
    • Deka tea (DS9: "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night", "The Alternate"; DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
    • Kava juice (DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited", "Penumbra")
      • Ferments into springwine (DS9: "Penumbra")
    • Kava milk (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
      • Apparently milk from the kava plant
      • Kava is a fruiting grain? Does that even make sense?
    • Pooncheenee (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
      • Fruit juice
    • 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")