DS9 Stories/News: Deep Space Nine Races – The Dominion (1)

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Facts: 

The Dominion have torpedoes that go through Federation shields.

Motto:

We live to serve the founders

History:

The Dominion attempted to take over the Alpha Quadrant, sending its fleet through the Bajoran Wormhole from the Gamma Quadrant.

However their plan failed as the Federation and its allies soon beat the Dominion and Cardassians.

Ships

 Notes: The Jem’Hadar battlecruiser is the Dominion’s large capital ship, similar in size to a Galaxy class starship, used for fleet engagements and a command ship for high ranking Vorta. Able to inflict major damage on enemies, several Starfleet ships would be required to take a battlecruiser down.

Notes: The Jem’Hadar attack ship is a small agile fighter, manned by a crew of a dozen Jem’Hadar soldiers and a Vorta commander, normally found operating in small hunter packs. Like all Dominion warships, the main weapons of the attack ship are phased polaron beams. When the Federation first encountered the Dominion, these beams were able to penetrate the shielding of Starfleet ships leaving them defenseless. The initial engagement with three attack ship resulted in the loss of the U.S.S. Odyssey, a Galaxy class starship, with all hands on board. Before the start of the Dominion War, Starfleet was able to salvage a crashed attack ship which allowed defenses to be developed against Dominion weaponry. Following their unquestioning loyalty to the Founders, Dominion attack ships will not withdraw from combat and have also shown the obedience to use their ship as a weapon by ramming large slow enemy cruisers.

Notes: The Jem’Hadar battleship was an experimental prototype warship built in the Alpha quadrant for the Dominion conquest. The battleship is twice the size of Galaxy class starship with more powerful weapons then any Starfleet, Klingon, or Romulan starship. The U.S.S. Valiant was destroyed by the prototype on an ill-conceived attack, as a result little is known about the true capabilities of the battleship.

Notes: Little is known about the Breen cruiser. Before the war what little information Starfleet had, reported that the Breen used organic technology in their ships. After the Breen joined the Dominion, Starfleet quickly discovered that the Breen possessed energy draining weapons that leave vessels dead in space. No defense was available until a Jem’Hadar attack ship was stolen which was being outfitted with the Breen energy weapon. Though possessing a terrifying weapon the Breen cruiser’s defenses are not any stronger then the average Dominion ship, easily destroyed by quantum torpedoes.

DS9 Stories/News: The Federation Leaders In the Dominion War (1)

Site: http://dominion.tvheaven.com/fedpers.html

Capt. Benjamin Sisko

The plucky if somewhat unstable commander of Deep Space 9 and the USS Defiant, and emissary of the Bajoran prophets, Sisko is considered the Federation’s key military commander in the Alpha Quadrant War. Because of the strategic importance of Sisko’s command, he has played a pivotal role in many of the Dominion’s skirmishes with the Federation Alliance. Despite Sisko’s dogged tendency to survive his encounters with the Dominion’s usually invincible Jem’hadar soldiers, these successes are attributable mainly to luck, and it is his connection with the worm hole aliens known to the Bajorans as “the prophets” which is considered most significant. Sisko’s rapport with these guardians of our only gateway to the Alpha Quadrant led to the destruction of hundreds of Dominion ships during our first offensive against the Federation Alliance. Sisko was last reported seen in the Bajoran fire caves and is reported by some (mostly unreliable) sources to have “ascended” to the “temple of the prophets.”

Admiral Ross

Fleet commander for the Federation forces arrayed against the Dominion, Ross usually has a terrific view of Starfleet vessels being disemboweled by the Dominion from his comfy office, well behind the lines. Though the nominal commander of the Federation forces, Ross acts, in truth, as little more than a mouthpiece for Sisko’s ideas.

Commander Worf

Sisko’s slow-witted right hand man, Worf is the Federation’s token Klingon officer, easy to anger or confuse. This thundering lummox previously served as chief of security aboard the USS Enterprise before transferring to DS9 during the brief Federation-Klingon war in order to sell out his people. Captured by the Breen, briefly held by the Dominion at our installation on Cardassia Prime, and ultimately freed by the traitorous Legate Damar, Worf is at large in the Alpha Quadrant but considered to be of little threat.

Dax

Joined Trill, once science officer and current counselor on DS9, former mate to Worf, and long time friend and mentor to Sisko, the Dax symbiont has been hosted by both Ezri and Jadzia Dax during the course of the Alpha Quadrant War. Despite its extreme longevity, Dax seems to have learned little during its long life. Jadzia was slain by former Dominion ally Legate Dukat during one of several ill-fated associations with the Bajoran pah-wraith, Costa Mogen. Ezri received the Dax symbiont following this incident during an emergency transplant and has proven emotionally unstable and generally unfit as a host. She is currently stationed aboard DS9.

DS9 News & Stories: Founders of the Dominion

Site: http://lcars.frontierfleet.net/core/Founders

Quadrant: Gamma Quadrant

Physiology:

The Female Founder

In their natural form, the Founders exist as a gelatinous liquid and can unite is what is described as the Great Link which they can leave and reform into any any shape whenever possible.

Their ability to shapeshift is so complete that a founder in the guise of another species is virtually undetectable even with scanning equipment. However, should a piece of the Founder’s body be separated from the main body mass, the separated piece reverts to a gelatinous state. The Founders also revert to a gelatinous state upon death.

Starfleet phasers set to a force of 3.5 are sufficient to force a Founder to revert to a gelatinous state.

Dr. Ethan Locken theorized that the Founders were once solids, but their current state was achieved through the same genetic engineering used to create the Jem’Hadar and the Vorta.

History:

The Founder’s Gelatinous State

The Founders created the Dominion. Some Dominion subjects believe they are a myth. The Founder’s homeworld is a sunless Class-M planet located in the Omarion Nebula.

Long ago, the Founders explored the galaxy, but were persecuted by non-shapeshifters. This persecution fueled their all-powerful drive to control the chaos around them. Beginning some 2,000 years ago, they sought to maintain order out of this chaos with a rule based on strict obedience, enforced by the Jem’Hadar troops they genetically bred into chemical addiction for control, and administered by the cloned Vorta both of whom worship the Founders as gods.

The Founders did not lose their curiosity about the universe. They sent a hundred infant members of their race across the galaxy, implanting in each a powerful desire to return home, so that the Founders could learn of distant places. Odo was one of these infants.

Odo & The Female Founder linking

Until Odo’s torn loyalties led him to defend the U.S.S Defiant by accidentally killing a Changeling spy in 2371, no Founder had ever harmed another due to their strong link with all other members of their species.

In 2371, the Romulan Tal Shiar and Cardassian Obsidian Order launched a massive attack against the Founder’s Homeworld, bombarding the planet with a fleet of 20 starships. The Founders had learned of the plan, and staged an ambush, by evacuating the planet, and placing a fleet of 150 Jem’Hadar ships nearby to destroy the invading fleet. Both organizations were decimated by the Jem’Hadar.

The Founders also tried to initiate a war between the Federation and the Tzenkethi.

Sometime before 2373, the Founders replaced Klingon General Martok in hopes the Dominion could gain control over the Klingon Empire. The Founders then led Odo to believe that Gowron, not Martok, had been replaced by a changeling. However, the truth was discovered, and the original Martok was eventually rescued.

In 2373, The Founders entered into an alliance with the Cardassian Union, giving the Dominion a significant foothold in the Alpha Quadrant. The agreement resulted in a reinstatement of the Khitomer Accords.

Cardassians, members of the Dominion

New Info:

Founders have to return to their natural state every 18 hours to regenerate. (DS9: A Man Alone)

Founders do not eat. (DS9: The Forsaken)

Contributed by: Clare Bradley

DS9 Stories/News: The Awesome Women of DS9

Source: http://awesome-women.livejournal.com/6211.html

By Little Red (mylittleredgirl) wrote in awesome_women,
2010-11-15 22:29:00

Now I absolutely must chime in with a rousing cheer for the women of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Kira Nerys and Jadzia Dax, shown here in Season 1 telling Quark to stop messing around and cooperate, which he does, because they’re awesome and terrifying.

Jadzia Dax

Jadzia Dax is Deep Space Nine’s ultimate renaissance woman. As a joined Trill, she adds her symbiont’s centuries of experience to her host’s youth and brilliance, eventually finding her place as the fun-loving warrior scientist who (almost) always gets the last word.

She’s flying the Defiant in battle. While the Bridge is on fire. Yeah, that’s badass.

Why I Love Her: She’s pretty much relentlessly awesome. She’s loyal, brilliant and brave, like most Star Trek characters, but she’s also fun, and she seems to love and appreciate life every step of the way. Growing up, she was my idol for personal, professional and sexual empowerment.

Here, Jadzia faces the blade of a legendary Klingon warrior to earn the right to join a quest of vengeance. When you’re a skinny young Trill and have Kor, Kang and Koloth taking you into battle as their equal, you’re awesome.

Why I’d Take Her Into A Fight: In hand-to-hand combat, she can take out a Klingon twice her size. As a strategist and a pilot, well, she once defeated a squadron of Jem’Hadar when she was an inch tall in a runabout the size of a coffee cup (it’s Star Trek; these things happen). Chief among her scientific greatest hits: the time she discovered the wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant, which necessitated the existence of the whole show. Her worldly experience gives her both encyclopedic knowledge and a deep understanding of people – if you bring her to a fight, she may charm her way to victory without firing a shot.

Bedecked in questionable 21st century fashion, Jadzia goads the conservative head of a news network into ruining his career to make history.

Kira Nerys

Kira is a survivor. From a childhood in a refugee camp, she started fighting for the liberation of her people as soon as she was old enough to pick up a phaser. She grows from the angry young woman from the trenches into a powerful, passionate and wise leader who ultimately faces down her demons to save the galaxy.

This is any one of three thousand times Kira kicks ass and takes names. She does this three times before breakfast.

Why I Love Her: I love Kira for her resilience. She struggles with the Cardassians, with her own people, with her conscience and with the rapidly changing world around her, and she never stops fighting for what she believes in. She makes mistakes. In spite of herself, she can be vulnerable and compassionate and even, sometimes, capable of forgiveness. She’s devoted to her people and her culture. My favorite part of her character is her spirituality – her devotion to her faith never wavers, and I love watching how it weaves in and out of the rest of her life.

It should be noted that Kira lays this Klingon flat out after he stabs her in the spleen.

Why I’d Take Her Into A Fight: ALL OF THE ABOVE. The very first time we meet her, she wins a standoff with the Cardassians on nothing but blind hatred; in season 7, she basically leads the entire Cardassian rebellion against the Dominion (which is, I have to say, pretty much my favorite come-full-circle character arc in the history of TV). She’s resourceful, capable, and does not quit. Ever. Whatever war you find yourself in, you don’t want to end up on the opposite side.

Kira faces down a Romulan fleet with a dead man’s gambit for the safety of Bajor. She wins, of course, and schools a Federation admiral in the process. CASE CLOSED.

DS9 Stories/News: USS Defiant – Sisko’s Tough Little Ship (7)

USS Valiant (NCC-74210)

The USS Valiant (NCC-74210) was a Federation Defiant-class escort that was in service with Starfleet in the late 24th century. The Valiant was launched from the Antares Ship Yards in 2372. It was assigned as a training ship for the elite cadet corps Red Squad under the command of Captain Ramirez.

In late-2373, the Valiant began a three month training cruise mission to circumnavigate the entire Federation before returning home. The plan was for the cadets to run the ship while the officers aboard observed and critiqued their performance.

The ship was transiting the Kepla sector when the Dominion War began, and subsequently trapped behind enemy lines after a Dominion fleet conquered that sector on the first day. In attempting to return to Federation territory, the Valiant encountered a Cardassian battle cruiser near El-Gatark. In the first fifteen minutes, all seven of the regular officers were killed or critically wounded, including the captain. The Valiant lost main power and was adrift; fortunately the Cardassian cruiser was no better off. The cadets got weapons and impulse engines back on-line within three hours, and were able to destroy that cruiser. The next day, just before Ramirez died, he appointed Cadet Tim Watters to the command.

Courtesy of Memory Alpha.org

The Valiant‘s motto was “We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained and new rights to be won“, a quote by John F. Kennedy.

“Valiant” was the name that Ronald D. Moore originally wanted to give to the Defiant. However, with the development of Star Trek: Voyager, he was forbidden to use a name that began with V.

Finally, Here are some Defiant Models

http://www.trektoy.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php?t4394.html

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