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Vedek Bareil Antos (Philip Anglim)

A Bajoran religious leader, of moderate beliefs, who was known to interpret the prophecies in unorthodox ways. Bareil, who had grown up in Relliketh, began his monastic life as a gardener, and would have been content to remain one, but his popularity was such that he eventually became a vedek. He was a close associate of Kai Opaka, and was her personal choice as her successor.

At some point between 2365 and 2369, Bareil went on retreat at the Dakeen monastery and was incommunicado. It was during this time that Prylar Bek, a monk of his order, betrayed a rebel camp in the Kendra Valley to the Cardassians, who slaughtered 43 Bajorans there. Bek then committed suicide. However, Bareil came to learn that Kai Opaka herself had directed Bek to give the Cardassians the camp's location. Bareil kept this information a secret.

In "In the Hands of the Prophets", Bareil was approached by Commander Sisko for support in the controversy between Federation and Bajoran values on DS9. Bareil at first chose not to involve himself, lest it hurt his chances of becoming Kai, but after the DS9 schoolroom was bombed, he had a change of heart and came to the station to call for reconciliation. During his speech, a Bajoran engineer named Neela attempted to assassinate him, but was foiled by Sisko. It turned out that the situation had been manufactured by Bareil's rival, Vedek Winn.

Bareil took an interest in Major Kira Nerys (after having Orb visions that included her), and invited her to stay at his monastery, where he allowed her to experience the Orb as well ("The Circle"). He also later aided Kira and Dax in getting to the capital with the evidence of Cardassian involvement in the Circle's coup ("The Siege"). Later in that year, Bareil visited DS9 again, and he and Kira became lovers ("Shadowplay").

In "The Collaborator", on the eve of the choosing of the new Kai, allegations surfaced that Bareil had been the one who ordered Prylar Bek to betray the Kendra Valley rebel camp to the Cardassians. The only way to disprove the accusation would have been to reveal Kai Opaka's involvement, which Bareil was unwilling to do, for the sake of preserving her memory. He finally withdrew from the race for Kai; by the time Kira eventually discovered the truth, the election was over. Bareil became one of Kai Winn's closest advisors.

Bareil went to DS9 again for the 2371 Gratitude Festival, and to see Kira. However, things went awry when Bareil inexplicably became romantically infatuated with Jadzia Dax; he even attempted to propose marriage by giving Dax his heirloom betrothal bracelet. It was finally learned that this was only a latent attraction, brought out by the influence of Lwaxana Troi's Zanthi fever. Bareil returned to normal along with everyone else when Lwaxana was cured ("Fascination").

In "Life Support", Bareil, who had been assisting Kai Winn in negotiating a peace treaty with Cardassia, suffered massive injuries when the shuttle in which they were traveling to the talks developed a plasma conduit rupture. Bareil died at first on the operating table, but Dr. Bashir was able to revive him with a dose of radiation. Unfortunately, the blood flow to his organs was impaired. Bareil, wanting to stay functional so he could continue to advise Winn, directed Bashir to treat him with an experimental drug, vasokin; but while the drug increased the blood flow, it also damaged Bareil's organs one by one, as fast as they could be replaced. Bashir finally had to replace half of Bareil's brain with a positronic implant. When the other half of the brain began to deteriorate as well, however, Bashir drew the line. Bareil was finally allowed to die, with Kira at his side.

Bareil's given name, Antos, was not revealed until "Resurrection" (when his mirror-universe counterpart appeared).

Other facts: Bareil enjoyed springball, both playing and watching.

Appearances: "In the Hands of the Prophets", "The Circle", "The Siege", "Shadowplay", "The Collaborator", "Fascination", "Life Support".

 

Liquidator Brunt (Jeffrey Combs)

A Ferengi, an enforcer for the FCA, whom Quark first encountered when he came to DS9 to serve a Writ of Accountability for Quark's failure to "properly supervise" his mother Ishka ("Family Business"). He returned to put an end to the strike at Quark's bar by any means necessary; his tactics included having Quark beaten up, in an attempt to intimidate Rom ("Bar Association").

In "Body Parts", when Quark put his remains up on the Ferengi Futures Exchange, Brunt bought them; then when Quark learned he wasn't dying after all, Brunt refused to let Quark out of the deal. Quark finally broke the contract, whereupon Brunt seized his assets and revoked his business license. It was the result of a scheme by Brunt, who saw Quark as a threat to Ferengi society because of his "corruption" by Federation ideals.

A year later, in "Ferengi Love Songs", Brunt concocted a scheme to become Grand Nagus. He enlisted Quark's aid, using the promise of reinstating his business license, in order to break up the romance between Zek and Ishka. Without Ishka to advise Zek, the Nagus' failing memory would be revealed to all. Quark eventually foiled him, but retained his license; Brunt's way of keeping an eye on him.

Having been kicked out of the FCA, Brunt leaped at the opportunity to redeem himself by helping to rescue Ishka from the Dominion. He offered to join Quark's team, and was actually accepted, due to the fact that he was the only one with a ship ("The Magnificent Ferengi"). For his efforts, Brunt was reinstated in the FCA, and managed to bribe his way back into a positon of power. He became Acting Grand Nagus when Zek was deposed, and followed Zek to DS9 in order to gloat. When Quark posed as a female to win the support of Nilva, Brunt tried to expose the ruse, but Nilva didn't believe him ("Profit and Lace").

Finally, in "The Dogs of War", after hearing rumors that Zek was going to DS9 to name his successor, and assuming that it would be Quark, Brunt came to the station again, to offer congratulations and angle for a position as financial advisor. He quickly transferred his efforts to Rom when it turned out the latter was the one who was to be the next Grand Nagus.

Appearances: "Family Business", "Bar Association", "Body Parts", "Ferengi Love Songs", "The Magnificent Ferengi", "Profit and Lace", "The Dogs of War".

 

Damar (Casey Biggs)

A Cardassian officer who served under Dukat, as a glinn, on the freighter Groumall and later on his captured Klingon ship ("Return to Grace", "Apocalypse Rising"), and was with him when Dominion/Cardassian forces took DS9 in late 2373 ("Call to Arms"). As Dukat's confidante, Damar carried some weight, but his rise truly began when he engineered a method to disable the minefield Starfleet had left across the wormhole entrance, for which he was promoted to Gul. He could not, however, resist bragging about the plan to Quark when the Ferengi got him drunk on kanar ("Behind the Lines".

Sometime later, Damar was sent by Dukat to bring Ziyal to him, but was beaten up by Kira in the process of trying to force Ziyal to go with him. Later, after the battle for the station had finally been lost to Starfleet, Damar shot and killed Ziyal after overhearing her admit to her father that she had helped Kira and the others escape. Damar departed in the evacuation to Cardassia, having failed to get Dukat to leave as well ("Favor the Bold"/"Sacrifice of Angels").

After this, Damar became a legate, and succeeded Dukat as head of the Cardassian government. He governed only at the Dominion's sufferance, and knew this very well, but could do little about it. At one point, he apparently arranged Weyoun's death in a transporter accident, but it did him no good, as Weyoun was immediately replaced by a new clone ("Treachery, Faith and the Great River").

By the time of the episode "Penumbra", Damar was descending into depression and alcoholism, and was essentially little more than a figurehead, though he had enough clout to secretly aid Dukat in his plan to masquerade as a Bajoran. Finally, in "Strange Bedfellows", chafing under Weyoun's continual belittling and dismissal of his authority, and incensed by the Dominion's casual sacrifice of an entire Cardassian order, Damar made his choice. He helped Worf and Ezri to escape, with a message: the Federation now had an ally on Cardassia.

In "The Changing Face of Evil", Damar gathered a force of officers still loyal to him and finally declared his rebellion by sending them on a strike against a Dominion outpost. He went underground with his men, including his aide Gul Rusot, and accepted help from Starfleet in the form of Kira, who came with Odo and Garak to teach the Cardassians guerrilla fighting tactics ("When It Rains..."). When Damar learned, while on a mission to capture a Breen energy dissipator, that his wife and son had been murdered by the Dominion, it only made him more determined; so much so that when Rusot threatened to kill Kira and Odo, Damar shot and killed his friend instead ("Tacking Into the Wind").

Not long afterwards, an intended meeting with potential allies turned out to be a trap, and Damar went into hiding with Garak and Kira, in Enabran Tain's old house. To his surprise, Damar learned soon afterwards that he was becoming a legend to the Cardassian people. At Kira's suggestion, Damar then began a popular uprising ("The Dogs of War").

Finally, in "What You Leave Behind", after he had been captured with Kira and Garak by the Jem'Hadar, but rescued by fellow revolutionaries, Damar was killed in the initial assault of the rebel forces against Dominion headquarters.

Appearances: "Return to Grace", "Apocalypse Rising", "Call to Arms", "A Time to Stand", "Sons and Daughters", "Behind the Lines", "Favor the Bold", "Sacrifice of Angels", "Statistical Probabilities", "Waltz", "In the Pale Moonlight", "Tears of the Prophets", "Image in the Sand", "Shadows and Symbols", "Treachery, Faith and the Great River", "Penumbra", "'Til Death Do Us Part", "Strange Bedfellows", "The Changing Face of Evil", "When It Rains...", "Tacking Into the Wind", "The Dogs of War", "What You Leave Behind"

 

Gul Dukat (Marc Alaimo)

The last Cardassian prefect of Bajor, gul and commander of Terok Nor, until the end of the Occupation. Dukat was the son of a Cardassian officer who apparently at one time became overly ambitious, was betrayed and tortured by Garak, and eventually underwent trial and execution. (Dukat hated Garak for this, while Garak returned the grudge due to a matter involving some arms merchants.) Dukat was married and had seven legitimate children, including a son named Mikor; he also sired at least two half-Bajoran offspring, one of whom was Tora Ziyal.

When Dukat became prefect (in or before 2346, according to "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night"; or in 2360, according to "The Maquis, Part I" -- take your pick), one of his first acts was to reform the labor camps, to which the Bajoran rebels responded by blowing up a drydock, killing 200 Cardassians; Dukat was "forced" to execute 200 Bajorans at random, as retaliation.

After the end of the Occupation, Dukat went on patrol on a warship, and for a time was the most frequent spokesperson of the Cardassian government when dealing with the Federation and Bajor. He was even of assistance to them at times: for example, he brought the growing problem of the Maquis to Sisko's attention, and accompanied him on a mission to prevent a Maquis attack after being rescued from the terrorists by Sisko and his officers ("The Maquis, Parts I and II"). Dukat also cooperated with Sisko when the Defiant was hijacked by Tom Riker ("Defiant"). When the military government on Cardassia was overthrown, Dukat managed to win a position as military advisor to the civilian government, was promoted to legate, and was instrumental in helping save the Detepa Council during the Klingon invasion of Cardassia ("The Way of the Warrior").

Not long afterwards, in "Indiscretion", Dukat went on a joint mission with Major Kira Nerys to discover what had happened to the Ravinok, a Cardassian prison ship that had been lost during the Occupation. He eventually revealed to Kira that his Bajoran mistress Tora Naprem had been on the ship, with their daughter Ziyal. Dukat intended to kill Ziyal, in order to prevent his political enemies from using her against him; but when he finally saw her, he changed his mind, and took her home to Cardassia. It was a risk that resulted in a major setback for Dukat: his mother disowned him, his wife left him along with their children, and he was demoted, reduced to commanding the freighter Groumall. However, with Kira's aid, he captured a Klingon cruiser, and set out as a renegade, sending Ziyal to DS9 under Kira's protection ("Return to Grace").

About a year later, Dukat's fortunes took another dramatic turn, when Cardassia became an ally of the Dominion, and Dukat was placed by them at the head of his world's government ("In Purgatory's Shadow"/"By Inferno's Light"). What was to him the culmination of his triumph came when Starfleet eventually retreated from DS9, and he was able to once again take control of the station, which he insisted on renaming Terok Nor ("Call to Arms"). Dukat ruled jointly with Weyoun, confident that eventually he could conquer the Alpha Quadrant with the Dominion's aid and then toss them aside, until Starfleet's forces returned to retake the station ("Favor the Bold"/"Sacrifice of Angels"). Distracted by a rift with Ziyal, he gradually saw his dreams of victory vanish. When Ziyal was murdered by Damar during the evacuation, Dukat suffered a mental breakdown, and was captured by Starfleet.

Dukat was treated by Starfleet counselors, and in "Waltz", when they had deemed him stable enough to stand arraignment, he was sent to a starbase along with Sisko (who was to testify). The ship was destroyed, and Dukat and Sisko wound up stranded together on a planet. Dukat's mental state deteriorated until finally he escaped in a shuttle, vowing to kill all Bajorans.

He disappeared for several months (once contacting Kira to regale her with the information that her mother had been his mistress, in "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night"), and spent time studying ancient Bajoran texts, then returned to Cardassia, claiming to have the key to victory over Sisko and the Alpha Quadrant. Breaking a Bajoran statue, he became possessed by the pah-wraith inside, and went to DS9, where the wraith destroyed the Orb of Contemplation, also killing Jadzia Dax in the process ("Tears of the Prophets").

Dukat vanished again for a time, and set himself up on Empok Nor as "Master" of a community of pah-wraith worshippers, believing himself to be Emissary to the pah-wraiths. However, when a half-Cardassian child was born, Dukat tried to kill the mother rather than let the truth be known; and when that failed, he convinced his followers to take poison (to shed their corporeal existence and become one with the pah-wraiths). Naturally, his own pill was a fake. Having been exposed by Kira, Dukat beamed away to an unknown location ("Covenant").

Months later, in "Penumbra", Dukat returned to Cardassia, and secretly obtained Damar's help in finding a surgeon to alter his features so that he would appear Bajoran. He went to DS9, posing as Anjohl, a Bajoran farmer, and insinuated his way into Kai Winn's confidence, as well as a sexual relationship ("'Til Death Do Us Part"). When he revealed his true purpose (but not his identity) to Winn, she eventually joined him on the path of the pah-wraiths ("Strange Bedfellows"). Under Dukat's guidance, Winn researched the Text of the Kosst Amojan to learn how to free the pah-wraiths from the Fire Caves. He was unmasked to her by Solbor, but although she was horrified at first, she continued to work with him ("The Changing Face of Evil"). Dukat was blinded by the pah-wraiths when he tried to read the text for himself; Winn had him put out to beg on the streets ("When It Rains...").

In "What You Leave Behind", with his eyesight restored, Dukat returned to Winn, and accompanied her into the Fire Caves. During the ritual to free the pah-wraiths, she poisoned him as a sacrifice; but the wraiths possessed Dukat's body instead, returning him to his Cardassian appearance. When Sisko arrived, Dukat taunted him, and in the ensuing struggle was pushed by Sisko over a cliff into the fires, taking the Text of the Kosst Amojan with him.

Other facts: Dukat's first name was never revealed; he referred to himself in a log entry in "A Time to Stand" as "Dukat, S.G." His security ID was ADL-4-0. (Note: A line deleted from the script of "The Die is Cast" mentions that Dukat was the son of Justice Procal.)

Appearances: "Emissary", "Duet", "The Homecoming", "Cardassians", "Necessary Evil", "The Maquis, Part I", "The Maquis, Part II", "Civil Defense", "Defiant", "Explorers", "The Way of the Warrior", "Indiscretion", "Return to Grace", "Apocalypse Rising", "Things Past", "In Purgatory's Shadow", "By Inferno's Light", "Ties of Blood and Water", "Call to Arms", "A Time to Stand", "Sons and Daughters", "Behind the Lines", "Favor the Bold", "Sacrifice of Angels", "Waltz", "Far Beyond the Stars", "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night", "Tears of the Prophets", "Covenant", "Penumbra", "'Til Death Do Us Part", "Strange Bedfellows", "The Changing Face of Evil", "When It Rains...", "What You Leave Behind".

 

Lt. Commander Michael Eddington (Kenneth Marshall)

A human Starfleet security officer assigned to DS9 (initially, at least, due to Starfleet's mistrust of Odo). He came to the station with Sisko when the latter brought the Defiant there, and appeared in the simulated reality that most of DS9's officers were subjected to by the Founders ("The Search, Parts I and II". Eddington was later included in the Defiant's mission to rescue Odo from the Obsidian Order/Tal Shiar fleet, with secret orders from Admiral Toddman to sabotage the ship's cloaking device; but when the sabotage was discovered, he immediately confessed and told O'Brien where to direct his repair efforts ("The Die is Cast").

Eddington served for some eighteen months on DS9; it is unknown when he went from being a loyal officer to joining the Maquis. But in "For the Cause", when 12 CFI replicators came to the station, on their way to Cardassia, he suddenly revealed himself as a Maquis agent, and absconded with the replicators in a Vulcan freighter. After eight months on the run, Eddington began detonating biogenic weapons against Cardassian colonists, but finally turned himself in when Sisko threatened to poison Maquis settlements ("For the Uniform").

A few months later, in "Blaze of Glory", after a message about Maquis missiles headed for Cardassia was intercepted, Sisko got Eddington out of prison to help deactivate them. However, the message about the "missiles" was actually a signal from Rebecca Sullivan (whom Eddington had married two weeks before his capture). After he and Sisko found her and several other Maquis survivors on Athos IV, hiding from Jem'Hadar attackers, Eddington was killed covering their retreat.

Appearances: "The Search, Part I", "The Search, Part II", "The Die is Cast", "The Adversary", "Rejoined", "Our Man Bashir", "For the Cause", "For the Uniform", "Blaze of Glory"

 

Female Changeling (Salome Jens)

The Changeling who most often served as spokesbeing for the Founders. Like most other Changelings, she had no name. (Scripts often referred to her, alternately, as the Female Shapeshifter.) This individual was the one who, in "The Search, Parts I and II", greeted Odo when he first arrived at the Great Link, answered his questions, attempted to instruct him in the ways of their people, and linked with him. Afterwards, when he realized that the Changelings were the Founders, she admitted it.

Later that year, in "Heart of Stone", the Female Changeling implemented a scheme in order to trick out of Odo the "true" reason why he had not joined his people, and hopefully to sever his "link" to the solids. She posed as a Maquis fugitive, lured Odo and Kira to a moon in the Badlands, and impersonated Kira, leading Odo to believe that she was being slowly covered by a living crystal, and was about to die. He confessed his love for her, but then finally caught on to the ruse, and the Female Changeling beamed away after telling him that Kira could never love him.

A year and a half later, when Odo became deathly ill, and the Defiant entered the Gamma Quadrant seeking the Founders' help, the Female Changeling came aboard, stabilized Odo, and told him he was to be judged for having killed another Changeling. She also spoke briefly to Sisko and Bashir after Odo was turned human, explaining his new status ("Broken Link").

Odo did not see her again until "Behind the Lines", after he had become a Changeling once more, and the station was occupied by Dominion and Cardassian forces. The Female Changeling arrived, saying she had been trapped in the Alpha Quadrant by the minefield across the wormhole's entrance, and craved the company of one of her kind. She proceeded to manipulate Odo by linking with him, and succeeded until she let slip the news to him that Kira had been arrested and would be executed. Later, she evacuated to Cardassia with the rest of the Dominion forces on the station ("Favor the Bold"/"Sacrifice of Angels").

The Female Changeling became stricken with the disease that had infected the Great Link, but continued to command the Dominion from Cardassia, directing the war effort and initiating the alliance with the Breen, until "What You Leave Behind", when the Dominion headquarters was finally captured by Damar's rebels. At that point, she was so ill that she was no longer able to shapeshift, and was taken prisoner. However, she was then cured by Odo, who arrived and linked with her, gaining in return her agreement to cease hostilities and stand trial for her crimes. She was taken away by Starfleet after signing the peace treaty between the Dominion and the Alpha Quadrant powers.

Appearances: "The Search, Part I", "The Search, Part II", "Heart of Stone", "Broken Link", "Behind the Lines", "Favor the Bold", "Sacrifice of Angels", "Treachery, Faith and the Great River", "Penumbra", "'Til Death Do Us Part", "Strange Bedfellows", "The Changing Face of Evil", "Tacking Into the Wind", "The Dogs of War", "What You Leave Behind"

 

Vic Fontaine (James Darren)

A holographic 1960's Las Vegas lounge singer, designed by Bashir's friend Felix. Vic was a heuristic, fully interactive, and self-aware hologram who was able to access comm lines, turn himself off and on, program other holocharacters, and transfer his own matrix into other holoprograms. Part of his "story" was that he was from South Philadelphia and was a friend of Frank Sinatra and the "Rat Pack".

Vic possessed remarkable perception and wisdom concerning affairs of the heart, not to mention initiative, as he proved in "His Way", when Odo began consulting him for advice on how to win Kira. Vic arranged a "practice" date between the two of them, without telling Odo he was having dinner with the real Kira and not a hologram. This led to Odo and Kira finally beginning a romantic relationship.

Vic's program became a favorite retreat of DS9's senior officers. It even played a major role in Nog's recovery after losing his leg. Vic provided him a safe haven and a purpose within the program; but finally turned himself off, forcing Nog back to reality. Nog began to heal, and in gratitude, arranged with Quark to leave Vic's program running around the clock so that Vic could experience "life" ("It's Only a Paper Moon").

Some time afterwards, in "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang", a "jack-in-the-box" was sprung in Vic's program -- a surprise plot development, in which Vic was fired when the mob took over his lounge. However, the DS9 officers teamed up to return things to normal by robbing the casino.

The last time the DS9 senior staff were all together was at a victory/goodbye party in Vic's lounge, listening to one of his songs ("What You Leave Behind").

Appearances: "His Way", "Tears of the Prophets", "Image in the Sand", "The Siege of AR-558", "It's Only a Paper Moon", "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang", "What You Leave Behind".

 

Elim Garak (Andrew J. Robinson [credited without the J. until "Body Parts"])

The only Cardassian resident left on DS9 after Starfleet took over; he ran a clothier's shop on the Promenade. Garak, however, was much more than a tailor -- he had once been a high-ranking member of the Obsidian Order, a protege of Enabran Tain himself, especially talented at interrogation. He had been exiled from Cardassia; the specific reason was never revealed, though it seems to have involved what Tain interpreted as a personal betrayal.

At some point, Garak had caused the downfall of Dukat's father, for which Dukat tried to have him executed. Garak returned Dukat's grudge over an incident involving some arms merchants.

Garak proved useful to DS9's officers on many occasions, for reasons of his own, of course. His many talents included computer engineering and hacking, codes, and a knowledge of the Klingon language. He first came to notice in "Past Prologue", when he befriended Dr. Bashir, and involved him in spying on Lursa and B'Etor; Garak's devious way of alerting the station's officers to the situation. He also recruited Bashir to help uncover Dukat's plot to use a young Cardassian boy to ruin the career of his father ("Cardassians"). When offered a chance to regain his status by killing two renegade Cardassian students, Garak instead helped them escape ("Profit and Loss").

In "The Wire", when Garak began suffering life-threatening headaches, Bashir treated him, and eventually learned that this was due to an Obsidian Order implant in Garak's brain. It had been put there to help him withstand torture, but now had become a source of torture, as he had been running it for two straight years, and it was now breaking down. During this time period, Garak told Bashir three different stories of why he had been exiled. Bashir was finally able to remove the implant, thanks to Enabran Tain.

Garak continued to lend his enigmatic aid for several years, but he never claimed to be trustworthy. He once blew up his own shop, as a rather unique way of getting Odo involved in an investigation; one which led to the discovery that the Obsidian Order, led again by Tain, and the Tal Shiar were planning to destroy the Founders' homeworld. Garak allied himself with Tain, and tortured Odo for information, but when the fleet was massacred by the Jem'Hadar, they escaped together and were rescued by the Defiant. This occurred in "Improbable Cause"/"The Die is Cast".

For another example, in "Broken Link", when Garak went along on the Defiant in hopes of learning from the Founders if there were any survivors of the Obsidian Order fleet, and he was told there were none, he tried to commandeer the Defiant's weapons to destroy the new Founder homeworld, but was caught by Worf. He was sentenced to six months in prison, after which he returned to the station.

Yet there was another side to Garak as well: he became close to Dukat's half-caste daughter Ziyal, whom he met in "For the Cause", and who fell in love with him. Garak also seemed to feel deep loyalty toward Enabran Tain, and when he was reunited with him in a Dominion prison as Tain lay dying, we learned why: Tain was Garak's father. For some reason (the most popular conjecture is that Garak was illegitimate), Tain never acknowledged it until he died ("In Purgatory's Shadow").

When Starfleet withdrew from DS9, Garak chose to leave with the Defiant crew, rather than stick around and face the hatred of his enemy Dukat ("Call to Arms"). On his return, he was saddened to learn that Ziyal had been killed ("Sacrifice of Angels").

Later that year (in "In the Pale Moonlight"), Garak was enlisted by Sisko to help him find evidence that the Dominion planned to invade Romulus. After his connections on Cardassia were killed, Garak proposed that they manufacture the evidence. He aided Sisko in obtaining an optolythic data rod and a holoforgery expert; but when their fake recording failed to convince Senator Vreenak, Garak planted a bomb on Vreenak's ship that killed him.

Aside from one more mission on the Defiant ("Tears of the Prophets"), Garak spent the rest of the war decoding Cardassian transmissions for Starfleet Intelligence, until word came of Damar's rebellion. He used his remaining contacts on Cardassia to learn Damar's location, and accompanied Kira and Odo there to aid the movement ("When It Rains..."). Garak ended up taking Damar and Kira into hiding in the cellar of his boyhood home (Tain's old house), with Mila. They later began a street uprising ("The Dogs of War").

In "What You Leave Behind", Garak participated in the storming of Dominion headquarters and the capture of the Female Changeling. With the end of the war came an end to his exile; but the future for Garak seemed uncertain, as he contemplated the fact that his home would never be the same as he remembered it.

Other facts: Garak was claustrophobic, and once suffered a severe attack on Tzenketh.

Appearances: "Past Prologue", "Cardassians", "Profit and Loss", "The Wire", "The Search, Part II", "Second Skin", "Civil Defense", "Distant Voices", "Improbable Cause", "The Die is Cast", "The Way of the Warrior", "Our Man Bashir", "For the Cause", "Body Parts", "Broken Link", "Things Past", "In Purgatory's Shadow", "By Inferno's Light", "Empok Nor", "Call to Arms", "A Time to Stand", "Rocks and Shoals", "Favor the Bold", "Sacrifice of Angels", "In the Pale Moonlight", "Tears of the Prophets", "Afterimage", "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges", "When It Rains...", "Tacking Into the Wind", "Extreme Measures", "The Dogs of War", "What You Leave Behind".

 

Chancellor Gowron (Robert O'Reilly)

Head of the Klingon High Council, who had gained his position largely thanks to Worf. His first DS9 appearance was in "The House of Quark". Later, he led an invasion of Cardassia, believing the new government to be under Dominion influence; but withdrew from all but a few strategic positions. He declared the Federation/Klingon alliance at an end, and disowned Worf ("The Way of the Warrior").

After Gowron demanded that the Federation give up the Archanis sector to the Klingon Empire, he was suspected to be a Changeling, due to something Odo remembered from the Great Link during his trial ("Broken Link"); but in "Apocalypse Rising", while on the mission to expose him, Odo finally discovered that Martok was the one who had been replaced. In appreciation, Gowron agreed to call a ceasefire. Some months afterward, when Cardassia had joined the Dominion and chased the Klingons out of Cardassian space, Gowron was persuaded by Sisko to reinstate the Khitomer Accords. He also assigned a permanent Klingon military presence to DS9 ("By Inferno's Light").

In "When It Rains...", when Gowron came to DS9 to induct Martok into the Order of Kahless, he also announced that he planned to take direct command of the Klingon forces, and that he would go on the offensive, a plan that alarmed Martok and Worf. He ordered several impossible attacks on Dominion territory, which Worf recognized as a ploy to undermine Martok's standing in the Empire by forcing him to endure defeat after defeat. Finally, he was challenged by Worf, who killed him, and passed the Chancellor's robe to Martok ("Tacking Into the Wind").

Appearances: "The House of Quark", "The Way of the Warrior", "Broken Link", "Apocalypse Rising", "By Inferno's Light", "When It Rains...", "Tacking Into the Wind".

 

Ishka (Andrea Martin [left], Cecily Adams [right])

A Ferengi, widow of Keldar and mother of Quark and Rom; she was a spirited and independent woman who had the "lobes for business". In fact, she had secretly built a financial empire all over the Ferengi Alliance, when three bars of latinum from a Hupyrian beetle farm were finally noticed by the FCA. Quark had to try to convince her to confess and make restitution for breaking the Ferengi law against females making profit. Ishka finally agreed; only she and Rom knew that she actually gave up only a third of her fortune ("Family Business").

During Ferenginar's planetary Tongo championships, Ishka passed tips to Grand Nagus Zek which helped him win, and they began a correspondence, which led to a romance (once he got over finding out she was a female). When Quark finally learned of this (in "Ferengi Love Songs"), he connived to break them up, in exchange for Brunt's promise to restore his business license. But then, finding that Ishka's influence had been protecting Zek's failing memory from discovery, he set things right, and Ishka became Zek's unofficial financial advisor.

At one point during the Federation/Dominion war, Ishka was traveling to Vulcan to get her ears raised when the transport she was on was captured by the Dominion. Quark was able to save her after a prisoner exchange was arranged ("The Magnificent Ferengi").

Under Ishka's influence, Zek instituted reforms that caused him to be deposed, after which they went to DS9, where Ishka was to meet with an important FCA member, Nilva, to convince him to aid in reinstating Zek. However, she suffered a heart attack during an argument with Quark; but recovered after receiving a new heart ("Profit and Lace"). A year later, Ishka finally moved to Risa with Zek, stopping off at DS9 for the passing of the staff to Rom ("The Dogs of War").

Other facts: Ishka's father's name was Adred.

Appearances (played by Martin): "Family Business".

Appearances (played by Adams): "Ferengi Love Songs", "The Magnificent Ferengi", "Profit and Lace", "The Dogs of War".

 

Kor (John Colicos)

A Klingon Dahar Master, comrade of Kang and Koloth. Together with them, he swore a blood oath in 2290 to kill the Albino, a pirate who had murdered their firstborn sons; Curzon Dax took the oath with them.

In 2370, Kor came to DS9 to meet the others, and was arrested by Odo for drunkenness, but Dax took responsibility for him. With the others, they finally managed to find the Albino and fulfill the blood oath; Dax and Kor were the only survivors ("Blood Oath").

After this, Kor was the Klingon ambassador to Vulcan, and obtained the shroud of Kahless' sword, which had been found by a Vulcan mining expedition to the Gamma Quadrant. In "The Sword of Kahless", he had the shroud positively identified by Dax, and with Worf, they went in search of the Sword. When they found it, however, they ended up setting it adrift rather than let it divide the Empire.

Three years later, in "Once More Unto the Breach", with no family or influence left in the Empire, Kor appealed to Worf to help him get a command in Martok's fleet. However, Martok only grudgingly allowed Kor a place as third officer on the Ch'Tang on a raiding mission. But Kor was suffering from memory loss, and relived an old battle, nearly getting the ship destroyed. He redeemed himself by taking command of the Ning'tao in order to delay ten pursuing Jem'Hadar ships, and was believed to have died as a warrior.

Other facts: Kor had blood descending from the Imperial court; his father's name was Rynar. He was at several famous battles, including Klach d'Kel Brakt, Korema Pass, and the Klingon victory over the Federation at Caleb IV. Kor also once contended with Captain James T. Kirk in a well-known incident on Organia ("Errand of Mercy" [TOS]). He was on the council that denied Martok entrance into the Klingon officers' academy because his blood was not noble enough; Martok hated him because of this.

Appearances: "Blood Oath", "The Sword of Kahless", "Once More Unto the Breach".

 

Leeta (Chase Masterson)

A Bajoran Dabo girl who worked for Quark. In "Explorers", she introduced herself to Bashir, pretending to have a cough; she also met Dax, who became her close friend. Leeta acted as host to Emony during Dax's zhian'tara ("Facets").

Leeta (who participated in the strike against Quark in "Bar Association") had a relationship with Bashir for two years (though it was barely shown on screen at all), until they decided to break up, and went to Risa to enact the Rite of Separation ("Let He Who is Without Sin..."). Leeta told Bashir and Quark that she had her eye on Rom. For some time she waited for Rom to make a move, but he was too shy. Finally, she considered an offer from Dr. Lewis Zimmerman (who was interested in her) to manage a cafe at the Jupiter Research Station, but happily chose to stay on DS9 when Rom at last declared his feelings ("Doctor Bashir, I Presume").

Leeta and Rom became engaged, but their plans hit a snag in "Ferengi Love Songs" when Rom wanted her to sign a Waiver of Property and Profit. Leeta refused, and the wedding was off, until Rom told her he had given away his money, and therefore had no assets to protect. The two were married just before the station was taken by the Dominion ("Call to Arms"); Leeta was evacuated to Bajor, but later returned.

When Rom was imprisoned, Leeta promised Quark to work without wages for two years if Quark freed her husband. Later, she was held with Kira, Rom, and Jake on suspicion of having aided Rom's act of "terrorism", but they were freed by Quark and Ziyal ("Favor the Bold"/"Sacrifice of Angels").

Leeta's roles after that were minor. Her last episode was "The Dogs of War", in which she was present when Rom was named Zek's successor as Grand Nagus.

Other facts: Leeta considered herself an amateur sociologist. Dax used Leeta's name when she was cast in the role of an unknown Bajoran woman during the Occupation in "Things Past".

Appearances: "Explorers", "Facets", "Bar Association", "Let He Who is Without Sin...", "Doctor Bashir, I Presume", "Ferengi Love Songs", "In the Cards", "Call to Arms", "Favor the Bold", "Sacrifice of Angels", "You Are Cordially Invited", "The Magnificent Ferengi", "Profit and Lace", "Take Me Out to the Holosuite", "It's Only a Paper Moon", "The Dogs of War".

 

Maihar'du (Tiny Ron)

Valet to Grand Nagus Zek. Like other servants from his race, the Hupyrians, he was extremely loyal, although silent.

Appearances: "The Nagus", "Rules of Acquisition", "Prophet Motive", "Ferengi Love Songs", "Profit and Lace", "The Emperor's New Cloak", "The Dogs of War".

 

Martok (J.G. Hertzler)

A Klingon officer who had come from a humble house of soldiers, in the Ketha province, but rose to become a general, a top aide to Gowron, and eventually Chancellor himself.

As a youth, he applied to the Klingon officers' academy, but his admission was denied by the council because Kor, a council member, believed his house was not noble enough. Martok was unable to join the military even as a common soldier. For five years, he was a civilian laborer on General Shivang's flagship, until earning a battlefield commission during a Romulan attack. His father did not live to see this, and Martok hated Kor for years as a result.

In 2371, Martok was hunting saberbear on Kang's Summit when he was taken prisoner by the Dominion and replaced by a Changeling. He was found in a Dominion prison by Worf and Garak (in "In Purgatory's Shadow"/"By Inferno's Light"), having lost his left eye in a fight with Ikat'ika. After he escaped with the other prisoners, Sisko appointed him to command the Klingon military attachment to DS9.

Not long afterwards, in "Soldiers of the Empire", Martok commanded the Rotarran on a mission to locate the B'Moth, but his excessive caution nearly caused a mutiny until Worf challenged him. Martok won, but was reminded of his duty and rescued the crew of the B'Moth, after which he adopted Worf into his house as his brother. He also later adopted Worf's son Alexander ("Sons and Daughters").

During the Federation/Dominion war, Martok proved invaluable to the Alpha Quadrant forces, and after the retaking of DS9, was made Supreme Commander of the 9th Fleet, on Sisko's recommendation ("You Are Cordially Invited"). Finally, though, when Gowron came to the station to give him the Order of Kahless, the Chancellor also assumed direct command of the Klingon forces ("When It Rains..."). He began ordering Martok on one impossible mission after another. This was because Gowron felt politically threatened by Martok, and wanted to undermine him. In the end, when Martok would not challenge Gowron, Worf did so instead, and killed him. He then placed the Chancellor's robe of office on Martok's shoulders, and Martok accepted ("Tacking Into the Wind").

After Chancellor Martok participated in the final victorious offensive against the Dominion, he got Worf assigned as Federation ambassador to Qo'Nos ("What You Leave Behind").

Other facts: Martok had a wife, Lady Sirella; a son named Drex; and at least one other child.

Appearances: "In Purgatory's Shadow", "By Inferno's Light", "Soldiers of the Empire", "Blaze of Glory", "Call to Arms", "A Time to Stand", "Sons and Daughters", "Favor the Bold", "Sacrifice of Angels", "You Are Cordially Invited", "Tears of the Prophets", "Image in the Sand", "Shadows and Symbols", "Treachery, Faith and the Great River", "Once More Unto the Breach", "The Emperor's New Cloak", "Strange Bedfellows", "The Changing Face of Evil", "When It Rains...", "Tacking Into the Wind", "The Dogs of War", "What You Leave Behind".

 

Morn (Mark Allan Shepherd) (uncredited)

A Lurian, Quark's most dedicated regular, who ran a shipping business. He never spoke on camera during the entire series. (The name of his race was not revealed onscreen until "Who Mourns for Morn?")

Morn didn't do much through most of the series besides be a sort of unofficial mascot, but during the station's Dominion occupation, he played an important role. He smuggled a message from Jake to his father off the station, in one of his presents for his mother when he left for her birthday party. In this way Sisko learned of the minefield's imminent destruction ("Favor the Bold").

In "Who Mourns for Morn?", Morn was apparently killed in a transport accident, after making Quark his heir. Quark then learned that Morn had a shady past: he had been one of a group of 5 people who stole 1000 bricks of gold-pressed latinum from the Central Bank of Lissepia during the Lissepian Mother's Day celebration. Morn took all the money, secretly storing the bricks in the Bank of Bolias while keeping the liquid latinum (extracted from the gold) in his second stomach. It turned out that, with the statute of limitations about to run out, Morn had faked his death, knowing that Quark would lead Hain, Larell, Krit, and Nahsk to the money while keeping them off balance long enough for them to turn on each other. Afterwards, Morn returned and took up his regular seat again.

Other facts: In an alternate future, Morn became owner of the bar ("The Visitor"). He sparred with Worf weekly. He had a mother living in 2374, as well as 17 brothers and sisters. Morn had hair at the time he first entered Quark's.

For a listing of all Morn's appearances, look here.

 

Nog (Aron Eisenberg)

A Ferengi, Rom's son and Quark's nephew; grandson of Ishka; who at first did various odd jobs around his uncle's bar. Nog had a far from spotless record; in fact, in "Emissary", he was caught fleeing after looting the assay office, and was used by Sisko to blackmail Quark into staying on the station. Not long after that (in "A Man Alone"), Nog and Jake met, and became inseparable, much to Sisko's chagrin.

During the first two seasons, Nog and Jake were quite the terrible twosome. Among other things, they were partners in a business venture that ended up with 5 bars of latinum ("Progress"); and they tried to pilot a runabout together after Sisko and Quark were captured by the Jem'Hadar ("The Jem'Hadar").

Then, in 2371 ("Heart of Stone"), after undergoing his Attainment Ceremony, Nog suddenly declared that he wanted to become a Starfleet officer, offering Sisko latinum to become his apprentice. Sisko finally agreed to write him a letter of recommendation to the Academy, after Nog proved he could work hard, and after the young Ferengi admitted his real reason for wanting to join Starfleet: he didn't want to repeat his father's mistake of going into business without having the lobes for it. Finally, in "Little Green Men", Nog was taken to the Academy by his father and uncle, though they took an inadvertent side trip through a time warp to 1947 Earth.

For a year, Nog attended the Academy, and was seen only in "Homefront"/"Paradise Lost". Then, in "The Ascent", he returned to DS9 for a year of field study (though he never did go back to the Academy), and he and Jake became roommates. Nog's first bridge position on the Defiant was relaying orders from the bridge to engineering in "For the Uniform". He was one of the Starfleet officers who evacuated the station in "Call to Arms", but not before he attended his father's wedding to Leeta.

Nog, who had been field-promoted to Ensign, returned to the station again (in "Sacrifice of Angels"), and later that year was one of the Ferengi team that Quark put together to rescue Ishka ("The Magnificent Ferengi"). In "Valiant", he was also sent with Jake to Ferenginar with a diplomatic message for the Grand Nagus; but they were attacked by a Jem'Hadar ship, and rescued by the Valiant. Nog was caught up in it all when Watters made him chief engineer and a Lt. Commander; however, after all the other officers were killed, he chose to escape with Jake and Chief Collins.

In "The Siege of AR-558", Nog was doing recon when he was shot by the Jem'Hadar, and had to have the lower half of his left leg amputated. After returning to DS9 with his new biosynthetic leg, Nog took refuge in a holosuite, in the Vic Fontaine program ("It's Only a Paper Moon"). Finally, though, after a confrontation with Vic in which he confessed his fears, he was able to face reality again. He returned the favor to Vic by helping pull off a holographic casino robbery ("Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang").

After Nog proudly watched his father become Grand Nagus ("The Dogs of War"), he helmed the new Defiant in the final battle against the Dominion, and was made a lieutenant. Putting Nog in for the promotion had been one of Sisko's last official acts ("What You Leave Behind").

Other facts: Nog's year of birth was never stated, but he was older than Jake. Other known relatives include his mother, Prinadora, and a cousin named Gant. Nog did not know how to read until Jake taught him in "The Nagus". He was seen as a Starfleet captain in an alternate future in "The Visitor".

Appearances: "Emissary", "A Man Alone", "The Nagus", "The Storyteller", "Progress", "The Siege", "Sanctuary", "The Jem'Hadar", "Life Support", "Heart of Stone", "Facets", "The Visitor", "Little Green Men", "Homefront", "Paradise Lost", "The Ascent", "The Darkness and the Light", "For the Uniform", "Soldiers of the Empire", "Blaze of Glory", "Empok Nor", "In the Cards", "Call to Arms", "A Time to Stand", "Rocks and Shoals", "Favor the Bold", "Sacrifice of Angels", "You Are Cordially Invited", "The Magnificent Ferengi", "One Little Ship", "Valiant", "Profit and Lace", "Tears of the Prophets", "Image in the Sand", "Take Me Out to the Holosuite", "Chrysalis", "Treachery, Faith and the Great River", "The Siege of AR-558", "It's Only a Paper Moon", "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang", "'Til Death Do Us Part", "The Changing Face of Evil", "The Dogs of War", "What You Leave Behind".

 

Professor Keiko Ishikawa O'Brien (Rosalind Chao)

Wife of Miles O'Brien; mother of Molly and Kirayoshi. Keiko was a botanist who was formerly a civilian member of the Enterprise-D's science department. However, she gave that up to move with her husband to DS9.

In "A Man Alone", Keiko at first felt useless because there was no particular call on DS9 for her specialty, but then she noticed that the children on the station had no structured activity, and decided to start a school. She did so, with Sisko's full support, and for the first two seasons was a teacher. When Vedek Winn criticized her curriculum for teaching "blasphemous" scientific principles about the wormhole, Keiko stood her ground, even when the school was bombed ("In the Hands of the Prophets").

In "Armageddon Game", when Miles and Julian were reported dead, Keiko believed that the security log showing the fatal accident was faked, because it showed Miles drinking coffee in the late afternoon, something she said he never did. It turned out she was right about the tape, but wrong about Miles' coffee habits. Keiko continued to be brave and calm in crises, such as the time that her husband was replaced by a replicant ("Whispers"), and when he was put on trial on Cardassia ("Tribunal").

After the Dominion threat became prominent in people's minds, families began moving away from the station. This led to Keiko closing the school in "The House of Quark". She was depressed for a while until, at Miles' suggestion, she took a position as chief botanist on an expedition to the Janitza Mountains on Bajor. The expedition turned out to take much longer than Miles would have liked, however, although Keiko did return with Molly for the Gratitude Festival in 2371 (in "Fascination"). On that occasion, she and Miles fought, but made up.

Finally, after about a year and a half away, Keiko returned to DS9 for good (in "Accession"), pregnant with a son (the result of a visit that was unmentioned onscreen). In "Body Parts", when Keiko was injured in a runabout accident during a botanical expedition, she was unable to carry the fetus full-term, so Bashir transferred him to Kira's uterus. Keiko and Miles then invited Kira to live with them for the duration. Kira did so, and Keiko was fortunately unaware of the brief attraction between Kira and her husband ("Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places").

In "The Assignment", after Keiko visited the Bajoran Fire Caves, she returned to the station, possessed by a pah-wraith. The wraith threatened to kill her unless Miles performed certain tasks in secret, the purpose of which was to destroy the Prophets. Miles was finally able to foil the wraith and free his wife.

Kira finally gave birth to Kirayoshi in "The Begotten"; and at the end of that year, Miles sent Keiko and the children away to Earth for their safety, due to the imminent invasion by the Dominion. They stayed away for a year, and returned. To celebrate, the family held a picnic on Golana, during which Molly fell through a time portal and re-emerged as a savage 18-year-old; eventually, Miles and Keiko decided to send her back, and in the process regained their little girl ("Time's Orphan").

Keiko stayed on DS9 for one more year until she and Miles finally moved permanently back to Earth with the children ("What You Leave Behind").

Other facts: Keiko and Miles were introduced by Data, and married by Captain Picard in the Enterprise's Ten-Forward lounge. Keiko had a grandmother whom she helped with brush writing as a child. Keiko's mother was 100 years old in 2369 and living in Kumomoto, Japan. Her father's name was Hiro.

Appearances: "A Man Alone", "If Wishes Were Horses", "In the Hands of the Prophets", "The Siege", "Cardassians", "Rivals", "Armageddon Game", "Whispers", "Tribunal", "The House of Quark", "Fascination", "Accession", "Hard Time", "Body Parts", "Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "The Assignment", "The Begotten", "Time's Orphan", "What You Leave Behind".

 

Kirayoshi O'Brien (infant actor[s?] uncredited)

The O'Briens' second child, a boy; called Yoshi for short. He was born in 2373, with Kira acting as surrogate mother (because Keiko had been injured and was unable to carry him to term). Kirayoshi's name was first mentioned in "In Purgatory's Shadow".

Appearances: "The Begotten" (when he was born), "Business As Usual", "Ties of Blood and Water", "Time's Orphan", "What You Leave Behind".

 

Molly O'Brien (Hana Hatae)

The O'Briens' first child, a daughter. She was born in 2368 (but by 2370, she was 5, and in 2374, she was 8). Molly moved to DS9 with her parents, and was taken along by her mother on the Janitza Mountains expedition on Bajor, which lasted for a year and a half. Molly then stayed on the station until being evacuated shortly before the Dominion invasion, and later returned.

In "Time's Orphan", Molly was on a family picnic on Golana when she fell into a time portal and re-emerged as a savage 18-year-old (see Molly O'Brien (Age 18) under Humans). She eventually returned to her family, restored to her proper age. A year later, Molly moved permanently back to Earth with her family, in "What You Leave Behind".

Other facts: Molly was born in the Enterprise-D's Ten-Forward lounge during a shipwide emergency ("Disaster" [TNG]), and was delivered by Worf. She had a necklace which Kai Opaka gave her father to be given to her.

Appearances: "A Man Alone", "If Wishes Were Horses", "The Siege", "Whispers", "Fascination", "Accession", "Hard Time", "Body Parts", "The Assignment", "Time's Orphan", "What You Leave Behind".

 

Kai Opaka (Camille Saviola)

The revered spiritual leader of the Bajoran people, who in "Emissary" was the first person to greet Sisko as the Emissary when he arrived, and loaned him an Orb to guide him to the Celestial Temple.

Later that year, in "Battle Lines", Opaka went on an impromptu tour of the Gamma Quadrant with Sisko, Bashir, and Kira. Their runabout crashed on a moon that turned out to be a penal colony. Opaka died in the crash but was resurrected by artificial microbes; however, due to their environment-specific nature, she was unable to leave. She accepted this, believing she had been brought there to heal the warring Ennis and Nol-Ennis.

In "The Collaborator", Kira learned that Kai Opaka had ordered Prylar Bek to reveal the location of a rebel camp in the Kendra Valley to the Cardassians. 43 Bajorans were killed as a result; one of them was Opaka's own son. Opaka made this sacrifice because otherwise the Cardassians would have massacred the inhabitants of the entire valley.

Opaka appeared in orb visions to Bareil in "The Collaborators", and in orb shadows to Sisko in "Accession".

Other facts (more of a speculation really): Opaka seemed to have some type of precognitive ability.

Appearances: "Emissary", "Battle Lines", "The Collaborator", "Accession".

 

Rom (Max Grodénchik)

A Ferengi, younger brother of Quark, and father of Nog. Most people believed he was stupid (Quark's favorite manner of address towards him was "you idiot"); but Rom was actually a mechanical genius. Nog said of him once that he could have been chief engineer of a starship if he had had the opportunity. However, he went into business, like a good Ferengi; but he did not have the lobes for it, and was conned out of all his money by his father-in-law. Rom then ended up working for Quark, and stayed with his brother when Starfleet took over the station.

Rom's one ambition in those days was to take over the bar, and it was to this end that he actually plotted with Krax to assassinate Quark when the latter was briefly made Grand Nagus (in "The Nagus"). Afterwards, Quark was so impressed by Rom's unusual show of initiative that he made him assistant manager of policy and clientele...which pretty much meant that Rom's job was exactly the same as before. Rom acted in a similarly sneaky manner when he sold Quark's runabout seat during an evacuation to a Dabo girl in "The Siege", and when he snooped out Pel's secret in "Rules of Acquisition". He once deserted Quark to work for Martus (in "Rivals") for a short period of time.

Rom increasingly showed signs of backbone in "Heart of Stone" (when he supported Nog's desire to join Starfleet, against Quark's wishes), in "Family Business" (when he schemed to get his feuding brother and mother talking again), and in "Facets" (when he told Quark off after the latter sabotaged Nog's pre-Starfleet Academy entrance exam). His engineering expertise was instrumental in "Little Green Men" and "Our Man Bashir".

In "Bar Association", finally fed up with Quark's heavy-handed management, Rom led a strike of the bar's workers. After Brunt had Quark beaten up as an example, Rom agreed to settle the matter secretly. He quit the bar and took a position in the station's crew, as Diagnostic and Repair Technician, junior grade, night shift (he later was promoted to the exalted day shift, and in the 7th season, he became a maintenance engineer, first class). But Rom continued to be Quark's main (albeit unappreciated) source of support.

During this period, Rom fell in love with Leeta, one of his brother's Dabo girls, but was too shy to tell her until she nearly left the station in "Doctor Bashir, I Presume". They became engaged, though they hit a snag (in "Ferengi Love Songs") when Rom wanted Leeta to sign a Waiver of Property and Profit, and she refused; Rom's solution was to give away all his money, so that he no longer had assets to "protect" from her. Rom and Leeta were married by Captain Sisko in "Call to Arms", after which he stayed on the station to be a spy for the Federation. (Whether the Federation was aware of this or not is debatable.)

Rom undeniably played the biggest role in saving the Alpha Quadrant during the occupation of DS9 by the Dominion and Cardassia. For one thing, it was he who came up with the idea for the self-replicating mines that were deployed across the wormhole's entrance and prevented more Dominion ships from coming through. In "Behind the Lines", to prevent the station's deflector array from being used to destroy the minefield, he tried to disable it, but was caught and arrested. Rom was to be executed for his act of "terrorism" in "Favor the Bold"/"Sacrifice of Angels"; but after he, Kira, Leeta, and Jake were freed by Quark and Ziyal, he tried to shut down the station's power. He failed to do so in time to stop the destruction of the minefield. However, he did take the station's weapons offline, preventing Damar from firing on the Defiant as it entered the wormhole.

Rom got to be a hero again when he helped rescue his mother from the Dominion in "The Magnificent Ferengi"; and on a smaller scale in "Take Me Out to the Holosuite", when he entered the baseball game as a substitute (after being kicked off the team by Sisko due to his ineptness), and enabled the Niners' only score due to a purely accidental bunt. In "The Emperor's New Cloak", he accompanied Quark and the mirror Ezri to the alternate universe, and saved the day there by sabotaging the power grid of Regent Worf's ship.

Finally, in "The Dogs of War", when Quark believed he was soon to become the next Grand Nagus, he sold the bar to Rom at last. However, when Zek arrived, it turned out that Rom himself was Zek's intended successor. Rom accepted the staff and the position. His comment: "Wow."

Other facts: As a child, Rom was teased for his smaller-than-average lobes; on his Naming Day, Quark replaced his presents with old vegetables, and sold the presents. His first wife, Nog's mother, was named Prinadora; Rom signed a standard five-year marriage contract with her in order to have a child, but then fell in love with her and wanted to extend the contract. Prinadora's father swindled him out of all his money, and Prinadora left Rom for a richer man. Rom was credited only as the "Ferengi Pit Boss" in "Emissary", and was named for the first time in "A Man Alone", in which he was a very different character from what he later became: he was much more of a hardline Ferengi, and the actor used a different voice.

Appearances: "Emissary", "A Man Alone", "The Nagus", "Vortex", "The Homecoming", "The Siege", "Rules of Acquisition", "Necessary Evil", "Rivals", "The House of Quark", "Heart of Stone", "Prophet Motive", "Family Business", "Facets", "Little Green Men", "Our Man Bashir", "Bar Association", "Body Parts", "The Assignment", "The Ascent", "Doctor Bashir, I Presume", "Ferengi Love Songs", "Call to Arms", "Behind the Lines", "Favor the Bold", "Sacrifice of Angels", "You Are Cordially Invited", "The Magnificent Ferengi", "Profit and Lace", "Take Me Out to the Holosuite", "Treachery, Faith and the Great River", "The Siege of AR-558", "It's Only a Paper Moon", "The Emperor's New Cloak", "The Dogs of War".

 

Vice Admiral William J. Ross (Barry Jenner)

A Starfleet admiral stationed at Starbase 375, whose command Sisko was under during the Federation/Dominion war. He ordered Sisko on the mission to destroy a Ketracel-white facility in "A Time to Stand", and made him his adjutant for a brief period in "Behind the Lines"; then later approved Sisko's plan to retake DS9 in "Favor the Bold". He gave Sisko a medal, and ordered him to lead the attack on Chin'toka, in "Tears of the Prophets".

In "Image in the Sand"/"Shadows and Symbols", Ross came to DS9 to smooth over the establishing of the Romulan contingent on the station. Though he tried to dissuade Kira from going through with her blockade, after the wormhole was restored, in the end he finally backed Kira up.

He attended conference on Romulus in "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"; when Bashir told him of Sloan's plot, Ross ordered him to sit tight while Sloan was taken into custody, then supposedly had an aneurysm. Bashir realized that Ross was working with Section 31, in a temporary alliance.

In "'Til Death Do Us Part", Ross performed the wedding ceremony between Benjamin Sisko and Kasidy Yates. He brought the Sao Paulo to DS9 and turned command over to Sisko, and later agreed to the offensive against the Dominion, in "The Dogs of War".

Ross later participated in the Alpha Quadrant assault against the Dominion, and also presided over the signing of the peace treaty ("What You Leave Behind").

Appearances: "A Time to Stand", "Behind the Lines", "Favor the Bold", "Tears of the Prophets", "Image in the Sand", "Shadows and Symbols", "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges", "'Til Death Do Us Part", "The Changing Face of Evil", "When It Rains...", "The Dogs of War", "What You Leave Behind".

 

Shakaar Edon (Duncan Regehr)

A Bajoran resistance fighter, leader of the cell named after him, which was the cell in which Kira fought. He had a bit of a reputation as a ladies' man, which reached even Dukat's files. After the Occupation, however, Shakaar became a farmer in Dahkur Province.

In "Shakaar", he was keeping some soil reclamators which Kai Winn wanted back. Kira was attempting to reach a compromise when Winn sent security agents to arrest Shakaar, who went on the run with his old cell, including Kira. During this time, Shakaar's popularity grew to the point where he realized that a civil war could result if the conflict continued. Finally he announced his intention to run for First Minister, an office which he won.

Shakaar came to DS9 in "Crossfire" for negotiations to shorten the timetable for Bajor's admission to the Federation. While there, he was guarded by Odo due to threats of assassination. Shakaar and Kira became lovers at that time. He later was present when Kira gave birth to Kirayoshi O'Brien in "The Begotten". However, Shakaar and Kira finally broke up following a visit to the Kenda shrine, where they had asked the Prophets if they were meant to walk the same path, and the answer came up negative.

In "His Way", when Kira went to Bajor to visit Shakaar, everyone, including Odo, assumed that they would resume their relationship, but actually she only briefed him on the situation with the Dominion.

Appearances: "Shakaar", "Crossfire", "The Begotten".

 

Joseph Sisko (Brock Peters)

Father of Benjamin Sisko; a master cook and owner of a restaurant in New Orleans (called Sisko's Creole Kitchen, or Sisko's for short). Joseph also had a daugher named Judith, and at least two other sons.

He first appeared in "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost", when Benjamin and Jake visited him. Joseph was arrested (but soon released) because he refused to take a routine blood test to show he wasn't a Changeling. Later, however, he cooperated with the blood tests. In "A Time to Stand", he was horrified to learn that Benjamin had left Jake on DS9 during the station's occupation by the Dominion and Cardassia. Later, Joseph visited the station, leaving Earth for the first time in his life, in "Far Beyond the Stars".

While Benjamin was staying with him in "Image in the Sand", a picture of a woman surfaced in Joseph's home, along with a locket with Bajoran writing on the back (saying "Orb of the Emissary"). Joseph finally told him an astonishing secret: that the woman was Benjamin's real mother, Sarah. She was Joseph's first wife, whom he had met in Jackson Park in 2331, and married a few months later. But two days after Benjamin's first birthday, she left him. He finally tracked her down, but it was too late: she had died the month before. Joseph accompanied Benjamin and Jake (along with Ezri Dax) to Tyree to find the Orb ("Shadows and Symbols").

Other facts: Joseph had progressive atherosclerosis. Benjamin told Odo in "The Alternate" about a period of time when his father was severely ill and bedridden (it was heavily implied that his father had died, but this was of course later contradicted).

Appearances: "Homefront", "Paradise Lost", "A Time to Stand", "Far Beyond the Stars", "Image in the Sand", "Shadows and Symbols".

 

Enabran Tain (Paul Dooley)

A Cardassian, former head of the Obsidian Order, the only one to live long enough to retire. He was Garak's immediate superior, and was directly responsible for his exile, after Garak betrayed him in some fashion.

In "The Wire", Tain was living in retirement on Arawath when he was visited by Bashir, who sought information on Garak's implant so that he could remove it. Tain helped Bashir so that Garak could live a long, miserable life.

A year later, in "Improbable Cause"/"The Die is Cast", Tain attempted to stage a comeback by destroying the Founders' homeworld with an Obsidian Order/Tal Shiar fleet. First, though, he had several old proteges murdered to protect his secrets; Garak would have been one. Tain was presumed killed in the fleet's ensuing destruction; but actually he survived, and was imprisoned by the Dominion.

However, in "In Purgatory's Shadow", he managed to send a signal indicating he was alive, but by the time Garak got to him in the Dominion prison, he was dying of unspecified heart trouble. Tain expired after finally acknowledging Garak as his son.

Appearances: "The Wire", "Improbable Cause", "The Die is Cast", "In Purgatory's Shadow".

 

Tora Ziyal (Cyia Batten [left], Tracy Middendorf, Melanie Smith [right])

Daughter of Gul Dukat, by one of his Bajoran mistresses, Tora Naprem. At age 13, Ziyal was sent with her mother to Lissepia by Dukat, who knew the Occupation would soon end and that Ziyal would not be accepted by either Bajoran or Cardassian society. The ship they were on, the Ravinok, crashed in the Dozaria system; Naprem died in the impact.

Ziyal spent the next six years enslaved in a Breen mine, until she was found there by her father and Kira. Rather than kill Ziyal as he had planned, Dukat chose to take her home and face the consequences ("Indiscretion"). Although his acknowledgement of her was the direct cause of his political downfall, Dukat did not abandon his daughter, and kept her with him as a member of his crew on the Groumall. She stayed until Kira decided to take her back to live on DS9, so that Ziyal would be spared the life of a terrorist ("Return to Grace").

On DS9, in "For the Cause", Ziyal met and befriended Garak, her father's enemy. She fell in love with him, a fact which displeased Dukat, who disowned her when she chose to wait for Garak's return rather than go to Cardassia with her father ("In Purgatory's Shadow"/"By Inferno's Light").

Ziyal was evacuated to Bajor in "Call to Arms", and attended art school at a Bajoran university, until she finally reconciled with her father and returned to the station ("Sons and Daughters").

In "Favor the Bold"/"Sacrifice of Angels", at Kira's request, Ziyal tried to talk her father into freeing Rom, but failed, which caused another rift between them. Later, she aided Quark in breaking Kira and the others out of a holding cell. As the Cardassian/Dominion forces evacuated, Ziyal refused to leave with her father, and told him of her actions. She was then murdered by Damar, who had overheard.

Appearances (played by Batten): "Indiscretion", "Return to Grace".

Appearances (played by Middendorf): "For the Cause".

Appearances (played by Smith): "In Purgatory's Shadow", "By Inferno's Light", "Call to Arms", "Sons and Daughters", "Favor the Bold", "Sacrifice of Angels".

 

Madame Ambassador Lwaxana Troi (Majel Barrett)

A Betazoid ambassador, Daughter of the Fifth House, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, and Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed. Lwaxana came to DS9 for the first time in "The Forsaken", as part of a fact-finding delegation, and became smitten with Odo. The two of them were trapped for some time together on a turbolift, where Lwaxana came to understand him better.

She returned in "Fascination" for the Gratitude Festival, unaware that she had Zanthi fever, which caused her to project her emotions to others nearby (in this case, her amorous feelings for Odo). By the time she was cured, Lwaxana realized that Odo was in love with Kira.

Afterwards, Lwaxana sought to mend her broken heart by marrying a Tavnian official named Jeyal; but she ended up feeling imprisoned in her own home. When she became pregnant with a son, and her husband declared that the baby would be raised by him alone (according to his world's customs), Lwaxana fled, coming to Odo on DS9 for protection. Odo helped her keep custody of the baby by marrying her himself. He indicated that he wouldn't have minded if Lwaxana remained, but, knowing that he would never return her feelings, she left DS9 to have her baby on Betazed instead ("The Muse"). Lwaxana's marriage to Odo was never mentioned again on the series, but it was presumably annulled in a few months.

Other facts: Lwaxana had two daughters by her first husband, a human Starfleet officer named Ian Andrew Troi. Her elder daughter, Kestra, drowned in an accident (a memory Lwaxana repressed until 2370); her second daughter, Deanna, became ship's counselor on the Enterprise-D (and later the Enterprise-E).

Appearances: "The Forsaken", "Fascination", "The Muse".

 

Weyoun (Jeffrey Combs)

A Vorta, who became the Dominion's chief representative in the Alpha Quadrant, as well as heading up the war effort against the Federation and its allies, and acting as liaison to the Female Changeling. (Five out of eight cloned incarnations of Weyoun were seen; for convenience, they are all included in this entry.)

Weyoun was first seen as his fourth clone, in "To the Death", when he was field supervisor of the group of Jem'Hadar led by Omet'iklan, who allied with the Defiant crew to destroy an Iconian gateway on Vandros IV. This Weyoun was killed after the raid, by Omet'iklan, for having questioned his loyalty to the Dominion.

The fifth Weyoun came to DS9 as Dukat's Dominion advisor in "Ties of Blood and Water". He returned to meet with Kai Winn regarding a non-aggression pact between Bajor and the Dominion in "In the Cards"; while there, Weyoun became suspicious of the activities of Jake and Nog, and detained them for a while until convinced they were innocent of plotting against the Dominion. Weyoun even showed some interest in Dr. Giger's cellular entertainment chamber.

Weyoun led the takeover of DS9, together with Dukat, in "Call to Arms", and stayed there until "Favor the Bold"/"Sacrifice of Angels", when, with Dukat, he supervised the Dominion/Cardassian forces during the battle with Starfleet. When the Dominion reinforcements failed to arrive through the wormhole, Weyoun evacuated to Cardassia along with the Female Changeling and the rest of their troops. After that, he was mainly concerned with directing the war effort from Cardassia, and keeping Damar in line.

Early in 2375, Weyoun 5 was killed in a suspicious transporter accident (probably arranged by Damar). Weyoun 6 replaced him, but was later deemed "defective" due to his unusual pacifist tendencies, and Weyoun 7 was then activated. However, Weyoun 6 refused to terminate himself as ordered, and in "Treachery, Faith and the Great River", he met with Odo, offering to give Dominion secrets to the Federation. On the way back to DS9, the two were pursued by Jem'Hadar, sent by Damar and Weyoun 7. When escape proved impossible, Weyoun 6 signaled his successor and finally triggered his termination implant. He died in Odo's arms, asking for and receiving his "god"'s blessing.

Weyoun 7 continued his predecessors' work, overseeing the effort to cure the Founders' disease ("Penumbra") and going with the Female Changeling and Damar to a rendezvous with the Dominion's new allies, the Breen ("'Til Death Do Us Part"). Then he was killed by Worf, who broke his neck when Weyoun incautiously taunted Ezri in their cell, in "Strange Bedfellows"; he was quickly replaced by Weyoun 8.

Weyoun 8 also served the Dominion, in the face of Damar's rebellion, until finally, in "What You Leave Behind", he was shot and killed by Garak when the Cardassian resistance captured Dominion headquarters. Since the Dominion Vorta cloning facility had been destroyed, he was the last of the Weyouns.

Appearances (Weyoun #4): "To the Death".

Appearances (Weyoun #5): "Ties of Blood and Water", "In the Cards", "Call to Arms", "A Time to Stand", "Behind the Lines", "Favor the Bold", "Sacrifice of Angels", "Statistical Probabilities", "Waltz", "Far Beyond the Stars", "Inquisition", "In the Pale Moonlight", "Tears of the Prophets", "Image in the Sand", "Shadows and Symbols".

Appearances (Weyoun #6): "Treachery, Faith and the Great River".

Appearances (Weyoun #7): "Treachery, Faith and the Great River", "Penumbra", "'Til Death Do Us Part", "Strange Bedfellows".

Appearances (Weyoun #8) "Strange Bedfellows", "The Changing Face of Evil", "Tacking Into the Wind", "The Dogs of War", "What You Leave Behind".

 

Winn Adami (Louise Fletcher)

A Bajoran religious leader, originally of a small orthodox sect. As Vedek Winn, she first came to the attention of DS9's officers in "In the Hands of the Prophets", when she came to the station and started a conflict between the Bajorans there and the Federation. Winn had staged the controversy to lure Bareil to DS9 to be assassinated, which was suspected but not provable.

In "The Circle" and "The Siege", Winn worked secretly with Minister Jaro, but adroitly distanced herself when the evidence came to light that the Circle's coup was supplied by the Cardassians. Later that year, in "The Collaborator", she gave asylum to Kubus Oak in exchange for information incriminating Bareil in the Kendra Valley massacre, which she forced Kira to investigate. Winn was elected Kai after Bareil withdrew.

Kai Winn negotiated a peace treaty with Cardassia in "Life Support", taking advantage of Bareil's sense of duty by continuing to rely on his advice despite his precarious condition, and showing no regret of her role in his eventual death.

After the death of Kalem Apren, Winn acted as First Minister pro tem, and nearly started a civil war when she tried to force Shakaar to return some soil reclamators. She stepped down, however, when Shakaar declared his candidacy for First Minister ("Shakaar").

Winn's next appearance was in "Rapture", when she came to the station for the formalizing of Bajor's entry into the Federation. When Sisko had several prophetic visions, and found the legendary city of B'Hala, Winn actually seemed finally convinced that he was the Emissary. She later turned to him for advice when the Dominion approached her about a non-aggression pact, in "In the Cards".

In "The Reckoning", Winn came to DS9 to urge Sisko to return the tablet he had taken from B'Hala. She was present when the Reckoning began between a Prophet and a pah-wraith, but, lacking faith in the outcome, she then went to Ops and triggered a buildup of chroniton radiation, driving the beings away and disrupting the battle, thus leaving Bajor's future in grave doubt. Kira nailed Winn's motivation when she divined that Winn was resentful of having to share her power as Bajor's spiritual leader with the Emissary.

She finally got what she had wanted all her life in "'Til Death Do Us Part": a vision from what she thought were the Prophets, telling her to expect a guide who would aid her in the restoration of Bajor. When a Bajoran farmer named Anjohl arrived, she welcomed him, and began a romantic liaison, unaware that he was actually Gul Dukat in disguise. In "Strange Bedfellows", however, Winn underwent a spiritual crisis when the beings she had been communicating with revealed themselves as the pah-wraiths, and when Anjohl urged her to join the "true gods of Bajor". However, rather than step down as Kai, she chose to finally reject the Prophets as she felt they had rejected her, and vowed to destroy them and their Emissary.

Winn retreated to her study on Bajor to research the Text of the Kosst Amojan for information on how to free the pah-wraiths. The pages were blank until after Winn's aide Solbor unmasked Anjohl as Gul Dukat. Winn stabbed Solbor to death, and dripped the blood onto the book, which revealed the evil writing contained on the pages ("The Changing Face of Evil"). Later, she took a certain pleasure in having Dukat put out on the street to beg when he was blinded for trying to read the text himself ("When It Rains...").

In "What You Leave Behind", Winn had completed her study of the Text when Dukat returned, his vision restored. Together they entered the Fire Caves, and Winn began the ritual to free the pah-wraiths. She poisoned Dukat as a sacrifice to them, but they knocked her down and possessed his body instead of hers. When Sisko arrived, Winn seemed to have a last-minute change of heart, calling out a warning about the book before she was incinerated in a column of fire.

Other facts: At some point in her life, Winn spent five years in a Cardassian prison camp, during which she was beaten for teaching the Bajoran religion. Also during the Occupation, as a Ranjen, she convinced the vedek of her order to let her bribe several Cardassians for small acts of leniency toward the Bajorans. One such act was the "accidental" rerouting of a transport taking 100 Bajorans to the capital for execution.

Appearances: "In the Hands of the Prophets", "The Circle", "The Siege", "The Collaborator", "Life Support", "Shakaar", "Rapture", "In the Cards", "The Reckoning", "'Til Death Do Us Part", "Strange Bedfellows", "The Changing Face of Evil", "When It Rains...", "What You Leave Behind".

 

Captain Kasidy Danielle Yates (Penny Johnson)

A freighter captain who eventually became Benjamin Sisko's second wife. She was first mentioned in "Explorers", by Jake, who was already acquainted with her, and got his father to agree to meet her. Sisko did so in "Family Business", in which they hit it off (despite an awkward start) after discovering their mutual interest in baseball.

By the time of "The Way of the Warrior", when the Defiant aided Kasidy's ship when it was detained by Kaybok, Sisko and Kasidy had a romantic relationship. In "Indiscretion", Kasidy got a job hauling cargo for the Bajoran Ministry of Commerce, and took up residence on the station.

However, later that year, in "For the Cause", Kasidy was revealed to be smuggling supplies to the Maquis. She finally turned herself in and was arrested; she served six months in prison and returned to DS9 in "Rapture", in which she and Sisko resumed their romance. She served as a convoy liaison officer on the Defiant in "The Sound of Her Voice"; and as third baseman for the Niners in "Take Me Out to the Holosuite". She also joined the majority of DS9's officers in helping Vic in "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang".

In "Penumbra", Kasidy accepted Sisko's marriage proposal; but in "'Til Death Do Us Part", when Benjamin told her of the vision warning him against marrying her, Kasidy was devastated, and the wedding was off until suddenly he changed his mind. They were married by Admiral Ross in a small Starfleet ceremony in DS9's wardroom. Afterwards, Kasidy settled into married life with Sisko, but refused to play a ceremonial role as the Emissary's wife ("Strange Bedfellows"); she also had a problem with his trying to protect her by cramping her career in "The Changing Face of Evil". At the end of "The Dogs of War", Kasidy told Benjamin that she was pregnant with their child.

After Benjamin disappeared in the Fire Caves in "What You Leave Behind", Kasidy experienced a vision in which he appeared to her, explaining that he had joined the Prophets, but that he would return.

Other facts: Kasidy's ship (at least until her arrest in 2372) was the Xhosa. She had a mother living as of 2375, and a number of brothers, the youngest of whom was a colonist on Cestus III and played baseball.

Appearances: "Family Business", "The Way of the Warrior", "Indiscretion", "For the Cause", "Rapture", "Far Beyond the Stars", "The Sound of Her Voice", "Take Me Out to the Holosuite", "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang", "Penumbra", "'Til Death Do Us Part", "Strange Bedfellows", "The Changing Face of Evil", "The Dogs of War", "What You Leave Behind".

 

Grand Nagus Zek (Wallace Shawn)

The Grand Nagus of the Ferengi. He first came to DS9 with his son Krax and his servant Maihar'du in tow, in "The Nagus", in which he named Quark his successor and then faked his death, which turned out to be a test for Krax -- who failed miserably, in Zek's view. Zek returned in "Rules of Acquisition", to have Quark negotiate a deal with the Dosi, for 10,000 vats of tulaberry wine; this was part of a plan to make contact with members of the Dominion.

A year later, in "Prophet Motive", Zek went into the wormhole with an Orb he had acquired, and consulted the Prophets, in hopes of gaining advance knowledge of economic changes. Instead, he was changed by them into an earlier version of his people: a kindly philanthropist. Quark eventually convinced them, however, to change Zek back to his greedy self.

At some point, Zek met Ishka after corresponding with her (which started when she gave him tips that helped him win a Tongo championship. In "Ferengi Love Songs", Quark discovered that they were involved. In fact, Ishka was also secretly aiding Zek due to his failing memory. Though they broke up briefly due to Quark's machinations on Brunt's behalf, Zek survived Brunt's attempt to expose him, and made Ishka his presumably unofficial advisor. He planned to seek Vulcan medical aid for his memory loss.

Due to Ishka's influence, Zek (who was previously as sexist as any male Ferengi) instituted a series of reforms giving equal rights to females, including the right to wear clothing. This upset the status quo so much that Zek was deposed. In "Profit and Lace", Zek came to DS9 with Ishka, planning to present her to the FCA Commissioners to convince them to restore him. Despite several snags (forcing Quark to pose as a female), Nilva agreed to use his influence on Zek's behalf; and Zek was eventually reinstated.

After finding information on Rom's engineeering PADD on how to cross over to the mirror universe, Zek couldn't resist the opportunity, and went there in hopes of expanding Ferengi business. Instead, however, Zek was taken prisoner by the Alliance, and was held hostage in exchange for a cloaking device. He was eventually rescued along with Quark, Rom, and Maihar'du when Regent Worf was captured ("The Emperor's New Cloak").

In "The Dogs of War", Zek sent a static-garbled message saying that he planned to retire and move to Risa with Ishka, and that he was coming to DS9 to name his successor. Quark thought it would be him; however, when Zek did arrive, it turned out that he had meant Rom.

Other facts: Zek had a nephew named Belongo.

Appearances: "The Nagus", "Rules of Acquisition", "Prophet Motive", "Ferengi Love Songs", "Profit and Lace", "The Emperor's New Cloak", "The Dogs of War".

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