School (DS9)

The School was a learning institution for the children living on Deep Space Nine. The school was started by Keiko O'Brien shortly after the Federation took control of the station in 2269.

When O'Brien first arrived on the station, she was struck by the lack of organized activity for the children living on the station, and how easy it was for children to get in serious trouble. When she seen Jake Sisko and Nog were taken away by security after a pulling a prank on people eating on the promenade, O'Brien approached Commander Benjamin Sisko about the lack of structured activity for the children. Commander Sisko supported her, and gave her the space and equipment she needed to open a school. Initally, Jake and several other Bajoran children attended the school. (DS9 episode A Man Alone). Nog also attended the school from time to time, even though his father would object to a human run school at times. (DS9 episode The Nagus).

A short time later, Vedek Winn Adami began to protest against the school when learning that O'Brien was presenting the wormhole scientifically rather than as the Celestial Temple. This culminated in the bombing of the school, but as school was not in session no one was hurt. The bombing drew Vedek Bareil Antos to the station to deliver a message of healing, and giving Winn the opening she needed to have an associate assassinate Bareil. Fortunately the assassaination was averted by the crew of the station. Meanwhile the school was reopened in the cargo bay, and Commander Sisko made a point of having his son there on time in the morning. (DS9 episode In the Hands of the Prophets).

The school was rebuilt in its original location. When Talis Cedra - whose younger sister was believed to have been the Nekor promised by Opaka Sulan - was brought to the station in 2370, Cedra attended the school. While on the station Cedra sabotaged the holographic projectors, causing a hologram of Gul Dukat to dance through the classroom declaring that he was a kata-bunny in the sunshine. (DS9 novel Warchild).

O'Brien operated the school for another year, until shortly after the Federation made first contact with the Dominion. Because the station would be the first target in a Dominion attack, the families of the Bajoran children attending the school moved back to Bajor. This left Jake and Nog as her last two students. Keiko decided to close the school, and offered to tutor both Jake and Nog individually from that point on. (DS9 episode The House of Quark).