DS9 Stories/News: Cardassian Names (2)

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Belor, Ulani – Female

Doctor, Scientist (Ministry of Science). In order to help set up a subspace relay through the wormhole, came to DS9 with Dr. Gilora Rejal. DS9: Destiny

Benil – Male – Gul.

The commander of the 8th Order and a captain of a Galor-class Cardassian warship. In 2371, Benil’s ship intercepted the Federation starship Defiant on its way to Cardassia to rescue Major Kira from the Obsidian Order. Garak, who was on the rescue team, issued an Obsidian Order access code, which convinced Benil to apologize and go on about his business.  DS9: Second Skin

Boheeka – Male – Glinn.

Boone, Raymond – Male

Borven – Male – Glinn. Aide to Gul Trepar in 2373. A political opportunist, according to Ghemor. DS9: Ties of Blood and Water

Broca – Male

 Legate. The third puppet leader of the Cardassian Union, chosen by Weyoun during the Dominion occupation of Cardassia and promoted from gul to legate. Later after the destruction of Lakarian City, he was executed by the Jem’Hadar on orders of the female changeling. DS9: The Dogs of War, What you leave behind

Bronok – Male – A Cardassian officer and Dominion resistance fighter in 2375 under Gul Rusot, one of Rusot’s most experienced men.  He was involved in the planting of a bomb in a Jem’Hadar ship’s intercooler matrix. He and his four companions ignored the orders of Kira Nerys, who had told them to plant it in the secondary plasma relay.  DS9: Tacking Into the Wind, When it Rains

Brun – Male – Former associate and later enemy of Enabran Tain. In 2373, Tain’s son, Garak, intimated that Tain was responsible for Brun’s death. DS9: In Purgatory’s Shadow

Bry, Maran – male – Poet who was noted for his criticism of the Bajoran Occupation.  A Stitch in Time

DS9 Stories/News: The Federation Leaders In the Dominion War (2)

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Constable Odo

One of the hundred Founders sent out to collect data on the rest of the galaxy before returning to the Great Link, Odo was taken in, held captive, abused, and generally emotionally and psychologically battered by the Bajoran people. Left only dimly aware of his extraordinary potential, Odo spent many years wasting his talents as security chief of Terok Nor/DS9. After learning of his true heritage, Odo attempted on several occasions to fulfill his destiny by rejoining the Link but was thwarted by fiendish emotional manipulations perpetrated against him by the crew of DS9, most notably the reviled Colonel Kira. Odo at one time stood accused and convicted of killing another Founder and was punished for this transgression by being transformed into a solid. However, he serendipitously recovered his abilities by merging with an infant Founder and was permitted to keep them as the gift of providence. Following the Dominion’s strategic withdrawal from Cardassia Prime, Odo at last escaped Colonel Kira’s fiendish grasp and returned to the Great Link, bringing with him the cure to a minor ailment which had been troubling the Founders.

Garak

Notorious criminal, wanted for crimes against the Romulans, Cardassians, and Dominion, Garak is a cruel and unfeeling individual who has been cast out by his own people, the Cardassians, for high crimes against the state. Garak played a pivotal role in the failed Tal Shiar/Obsidian Order strike against the Founder’s home world and at that time, further distinguished himself in the annals of infamy by torturing Odo to whom he had formerly pretended friendship. Rumors also suggest that Garak may have played a part in convincing the Romulans to abandon their non-aggression pact with the Dominion, though, reports concerning this operation are sketchy. Garak is most recently placed on Cardassia Prime in the company of Colonel Kira and the traitor, Damar.

Chief O’Brien

Former Chief Petty Officer aboard the USS Enterprise and later Chief of Operations aboard DS9, Miles O’Brien’s technical acumen is much vaunted throughout the Federation. This reputation not withstanding, the Chief is a dogged, plodding, uninspired thinker, well suited for his latest post as an instructor at Starfleet academy.

Dr. Julian Bashir

Chief Medical Officer aboard DS9, the otherwise insignificant Bashir is credited with obtaining the cure for a Federation engineered disease with which the Founders were infected. Though of little consequence to the invincible Founders, Bashir is respected within the Dominion for this small service and is considered a possible ally within the Federation. Formerly held captive at a Dominion internment camp while replaced at DS9 by a Founder, Bashir may have learned to feel the proper awe and respect for the Dominion during this time.

DS9 Stories/News: Dominion Leaders

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Thot Gor

This shadowy and mysterious character joined the Dominion as part of their alliance with the Breen. Thot Gor proved himself a capable and effective leader of the formidable Breen forces allied with the Dominion. The favor which Thot Got found with both Weyoun and the Founder proved a source of distress to Legate Damar and may have preciptated Damar’s betrayal of the Dominion.

Cardassians

Legate Dukat

Unpredictable, savage, and mentally unstable, Dukat commanded the mining station Terok Nor during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor and later went on to help forge the alliance between the Cardassians and the Dominion. However, his lackluster military strategy is considered one of the key factors in allowing the Federation to retake Terok Nor/DS9. The death of his traitorous daughter Ziyal at the hands of Damar led Dukat to mental collapse and imprisonment by the Federation authorities. After escaping confinement, reports placed Dukat throughout the Alpha Quadrant, allegedly proselytizing for the cult of the pah-wraiths. These reports were confirmed by Dukat’s possession by the Costa Mogen, during which he murdered Jadzia Dax and temporarily sealed the worm hole linking the Gamma and Alpha Quadrants. Confirmed reports from reliable Dominion sources indicate that Dukat later transformed himself into a Bajoran through plastic surgery, presumably in an attempt to further infiltrate the cult of the pah-wraiths. Nothing is known of Dukat’s current whereabouts.

Tora Ziyal

Beautiful angel of light and mercy, Ziyal was the half-Bajoran, half-Cardassian daughter of Dukat. Forced to work in a dilithium mine during the early days of her life, Ziyal was eventually liberated from this dreary life by her father. Though initially ashamed of Ziyal for her mixed heritage, Dukat eventually came to recognize her for the perfect creature of goodness that she was. Unfortunately, Ziyal fell in with the criminal element during the Dominion occupation of Terok Nor/DS9 and was persuaded by the members of Colonel Kira’s terrorist cell to assist in the liberation of the criminal saboteur, Rom. For this betrayal of her people, Ziyal was murdered by Damar, sending her father into a void of insanity from which he never emerged.

Legate Damar

Dukat’s successor as commander of the Cardassian forces allied with the Dominion, Damar abandoned the familial fold of the Dominion allies presumably after pollution by the Federation captives, Worf and Dax. After turning against the Dominion, Damar encouraged his forces to do the same with some limited success. He received assistance in his crusade against his former allies from the noted terrorist Colonel Kira Nerys. Damar was killed in an ill-planned assault on the Dominion headquarters at Cardassia Prime.

Legate Broca

This lumbering oaf served as commander of Cardassian forces and liaison to the Dominion following the defection of Legate Damar. An uninspired and uninspiring leader, Broca distinguished himself only in his unswerving loyalty to the Dominion. However, Broca was ultimately executed by the Dominion when the Cardassians unanimously turned against their Dominion and Breen allies.

DS9 Stories/News: Goodbyes

Source: http://deflipside.com/?page_id=1693

by Christopher DeFilippis

DeFlip Side, Vol. 1, No. 6
(First Appeared: June/July, 1999; First Light E-zine, Issue #82)

This is going to be short and sweet, folks. My original plan for this month’s column was to bid a fond farewell to Deep Space Nine, until recently the best show on television. I was going to do an in-depth review of the final episode, exploring whether or not it brought the Dominion war arc to a satisfying conclusion, as well as if it proved a fitting send-off to the best Trek series ever; my swan song to the swan song, so to speak. But those ne’er do-wells at Paramount took the wind out of my sails. After watching the finale, I came to only one inescapable conclusion: It’s not over.

After all, Sisko left his baseball behind.

Of course, there’s also the question of his unborn child, his career in Starfleet, a new Defiant that needs to be broken in, an unfinished real estate transaction on Bajor and his promise that he would return “in a year from now or yesterday.” But the baseball is the cincher. He doesn’t leave home without it, much less take up permanent residence in Prophet limbo. We haven’t heard the last from him or the rest of these characters. I don’t know when or in what format, but we’ll see them again. Bet on it.

This fact colors my opinion of the two-hour series finale. As a final good-bye, it would have left too many loose ends. But as a “so long for now” it was perfect. It brought enough closure to satisfy, but egged us on just enough to keep our expectations for a return simmering on a low frame somewhere in the back of our brains. Like Kira and Jake, we’re all gazing out of a portal on the Promenade, waiting patiently to see what happens next.

I’ll spare you all a long-winded essay on what I liked and why. Different parts of the finale will have appealed to different people for different reasons. But there is no call for excess exposition. After all, we’re not talking about “Mirror Image” here (the legendarily confusing finale to the TV series Quantum Leap). Instead, I’ll be as succinct as possible:

The Good Stuff:

• The death of Kai Winn.
• The kick-ass battle scenes.
• Kai Winn’s unfortunate demise.
• Garak’s revenge on Weyoun.
• Barbecued Kai.
• Nog’s promotion.
• Pah Wraiths 1, Kai Winn 0
• Kira’s ironic role in the liberation of Cardassia.
• Kai Winn all gone.
• Ezri’s nearly exposed breasts.
• Bye bye Kai.
• Sisko plowing Dukat over the cliff’s edge in a flying tackle.
• The old bag bites it.
• Martok’s self-satisfied belt of blood wine while standing on bloated enemy corpses.
• She’ll finally shut up.
• The faint hope that once O’Brien accepts a teaching position at the academy, he’ll attain some kind of rank (Where does “Chief” fall, anyway? As far as I can tell, it’s somewhere between ensign and lieutenant. So Nog outranks him now? Not a proud legacy for more than a decade in uniform…).
• Winn-kabob.
• Damar’s last stand.
• Burn Winnie burn.
• Worf’s new-found honor and influence with the Klingon council.
• Are those Kai burgers I smell?
• Bashir finally gets some.
• Armagedd-Winn.

The Bad Stuff:

• Vic Fontaine’s schmaltzy send-off.
• A too-short stand-off between Dukat and Sisko that smacked of the
• Kirk/Mitchell showdown in “Where No Man has Gone Before” (“Get on your knees and pray to me, James”).
• A tuxedo-clad Odo melting into the Great Link.
• The use of stock footage of a Klingon getting blown down a corridor on a wave of fire (from The Undiscovered Country, I think).
• Worf’s flashback sequence that held not a smidgen of Jadzia memories. (I guess Paramount didn’t want to have to pay residuals to Terry Farrell.)

 

As you can see, the good clearly outweighed the bad. I think the very best thing about the episode, and the series over all, was that I could never tell exactly how things would turn out. And even when I did have a pretty good idea of where things were going, the characters would reach their destinations via completely unexpected routes.

This rule holds true for the future of Deep Space Nine. It’s a foregone conclusion that Sisko will come back. Just watch; he’ll soon get tired of playing pinochle with Wesley on the astral plain and shuffle back into his mortal coil for a return to his old life. But to what effect? Will he be considered a lord on Bajor? Will his new found Prophet wisdom cause a rift between him and his all-too-human friends and family? Will he have hair? I can’t even guess at the possibilities.

Of course, we’re most likely to be hearing from Worf the soonest. I just hope the powers that be use the opportunity they’ve created to full effect in the next movie. Worf’s position as Federation ambassador to Qo’noS lends itself to a sweeping story that could encompass the Federation and Klingon Empire and propel the franchise forward, something it sorely needs after the disaster that was Insurrection.

The one thing I do not want to see is a feature length film that combines the Next Gen and DS9 casts. The writers have a tough enough time as it is finding useful roles for the entire Enterprise-E ensemble with each outing. If they tried to add the DS9 crew as well, the screen would be packed tighter than Seven of Nine’s Wonder Bra, but with a far less marvelous result. I’ll pin my hopes on a small-screen reunion that will give the DS9 characters and plot lines free reign.

In the meantime, I guess I still have Voyager to give me my Star Trek fix, though it’ll be like going from heroin to methadone. Now that the DS9 writers are freed up, maybe they can help put Voyager on the right track and raise it to the standards we’ve come expect from Star Trek. But I’m not gonna hold my breath. I don’t have to anyway.

When DS9 premiered, I still had a maniacal hatred of new Trek. I wasn’t sucked over the Next Gen event horizon until Generations hit the theaters. And by the time I got into DS9, it was well into its run. So I ask you to pray with me now that channel 11 in NY soon starts rerunning the series from the beginning. There are three years worth of episodes I’ve never seen. It’s a little something extra to look forward to.

See Pop? Sometimes it works to your benefit to be a day late and a dollar short…

DS9 Stories/News: DS9 Stories/ News: Odo & Kira Relationship Review (14)

“The Abandoned”

Review originally printed in ORACLE

Newsletter July 2011

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Review written by Mary Shaver

Sisko hasn’t heeded Odo’s earlier unspoken warning and has placed teams of Star Fleet security personnel around the airlock leading to the runabout.  When Odo and the Jem’Hadar reach the airlock Odo realizes that nothing good can come from this standoff. He entreats Sisko to let them go. He will deliver the Jem’Hadar to the Gamma Quadrant and then return in the runabout. Sisko is concerned about Odo’s safety but Odo assures him the Jem’Hadar ‘couldn’t ‘ harm him because of his genetic programming. The boy bows his head in silent acknowledgement, but the Captain remains unconvinced that this is a wise course of action. At this point Odo has no choice but to give Sisko the brutal truth. If they put the boy on the Star Fleet vessel, he will kill a lot of innocent people and wind up being killed himself long before they ever reach their destination. Odo’s argument tips the scales for Sisko and he agrees to let them go, although it does seem as if he capitulates a little too quickly. Not only is this decision likely to get him in hot water with Star Fleet, but the Captain Sisko we’ve come to know would exhaust every option before admitting defeat. What about putting him in stasis until arrival at Star Base 201, or keeping him sedated, or pulling out the feeding tube to weaken him? The fact that Sisko was so willing to release the Jem’Hadar suggests that he too was terribly uncomfortable with the prospect of turning him into a lab specimen.

 

In response to Sisko’s largess, the Jem’Hadar displays behavior typical of his race. Rather than being thankful that the Captain was doing right by him and trying to be his friend, he announces proudly to Odo that Sisko was afraid of him. He then goes on to assert that not only is Sisko his enemy, but everyone except his own people are his enemies. “Does that include me?” Odo gravely asks. He receives no response. The gulf between them has become an abyss, While the Jem’Hadar can’t harm him, it is clear to Odo that he has become another enemy.

 

So, despite all Odo’s best efforts he couldn’t overcome the genetic encoding his people implanted in the Jem’Hadar. If Odo hoped to ease his own guilt over what the Founders did to the Jem’Hadar, this failure did nothing to ease his conscious. In fact the encounter with a member of a race created by the Founders for the express purpose of implementing the Dominion’s ideology of total control must have further complicated Odo’s conflicted feelings about his people. The very existence of the Jem’Hadar and their genetically designed drug addiction make the Founders even more repugnant. And yet deep in his core Odo still holds a secret longing to be part of the Great Link. It is a perfect recipe for fueling Odo’s sense of shame and self-hate.

 

Finally, whatever idealistic tendencies Odo might have, he is first and foremost a realist and a pragmatist. In the final scene, Odo approaches Kira in the replimat. Taking a seat opposite her, Odo acknowledges the validity of her warnings in his usual simple and direct way. “Major, about the boy. You were right.” While this is a painful admission, it is also another important step in Odo’s personal journey of self-discovery.