why Kai Winn and Kai Opaka wore different robes even though they held the same office (no answers found)
My guess would be that it's because they belonged to different orders. In the Catholic Church, if a member of a monastic order becomes Pope, (theoretically) he is supposed to wear his monastic habit along with his papal regalia. (This doesn't always actually happen.) Since there's so much papal imagery with the Kai, I figured I could make the analogy.
(Although celibacy obviously either isn't an issue or doesn't mean to them what it means to us. Sometime I'm going to have to take up in fic the question of what it means to join a monastic order on Bajor.)
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Date: 2005-03-20 06:25 pm (UTC)My guess would be that it's because they belonged to different orders. In the Catholic Church, if a member of a monastic order becomes Pope, (theoretically) he is supposed to wear his monastic habit along with his papal regalia. (This doesn't always actually happen.) Since there's so much papal imagery with the Kai, I figured I could make the analogy.
(Although celibacy obviously either isn't an issue or doesn't mean to them what it means to us. Sometime I'm going to have to take up in fic the question of what it means to join a monastic order on Bajor.)