Furthermore, Beimler considered Dukat an authority on surprises in a person's lifetime, the writer commenting, "Life has a way of providing some strange twists. [4], Occasionally, Dukat's motivations mirror those of historic figures. On his deathbed, after being sure all his enemies were dead, Tain asked Garak to escape and seek vengeance on the Dominion for what it had done to him. With limited medical facilities, he was still able to treat and save many of the wounded. Dukat promised to the Cardassian people that under his leadership, all that Cardassia lost would be regained. Both were being mentally affected by Saltah'na energy spheres that contained a log of a similar battle in an ancient culture, causing the crew to do the same thing. (TNG: "Data's Day"), When Geordi La Forge and Ensign Ro Laren were presumed dead in a transporter accident in 2368, Data volunteered to arrange the memorial service, but he was unsure about what kind of ceremony to have and asked Worf for advice. (DS9: "Afterimage"), Worf participated in Sisko's grudge game against former Academy classmate, Captain Solok. There, he set Odo straight, although with the usual facade; Quark ran a regular betting pool on how long it would take Odo to catch a perpetrator, and he claimed his profits would suffer if Odo did not rectify things and get back to work. Characters are ordered alphabetically by family name, and only characters who played a significant major role in the series are listed. Dukat then transports Q, Kirk, Spock and Sisko aboard the Enterprise as his prisoners. It was during one of these luncheons that Bashir discovered an implant that was killing Garak and he was able to save him. The Defiant went on to retake the station and win the battle. How do we bring him in? (DS9: "Covenant"), In late 2375, Dukat secretly underwent cosmetic surgery on Cardassia Prime to pose as a Bajoran farmer, Anjohl Tennan. Robinson's initial performance as Garak received scrutiny as his portrayal was interpreted as Garak being homosexual or bisexual. Played by: Silver Surfer Veteran . However, Worf was skeptical of the Klingon's authenticity, even as he admitted that he wanted to believe in Kahless' divinity. On the crash site (in the Dozaria system) Kira found out Dukat went along because his mistress (Tora Naprem) was aboard the Ravinok. (DS9: "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night"), Towards the end of the Occupation, Dukat fell in love with another Bajoran woman, Tora Naprem, and the two had a daughter named Tora Ziyal. In 2373, he and his ship helped an undercover Starfleet team, led by Sisko, to infiltrate Klingon military headquarters on Ty'Gokor to expose a Changeling. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion(2nd ed., p. 20)), According to Robert Justman, Dorn's stage training, as well his lack of a "street accent", were some of the factors which led to Dorn securing the role. Barclay. At age six, Bashir was small, not very bright, and a bit physically awkward for his age. In Star Trek Online, set thirty years after the events of DS9 and Nemesis, Worf has remained ambassador to Qo'noS and remains one of the few pro-Federation voices in the Empire after the breakdown of the Khitomer Accords. On the fourth day of the episode's production, the original performer of Dukat was involved in filming of the scene from "Emissary" in which the character visits DS9. When the time came, the Changeling Bashir hijacked the runabout Yukon to perform his mission, but at about the same time, the real Bashir and his fellow prisoners escaped the internment camp. The two of them clashed while Worf was attempting to acclimate himself to life aboard DS9. [4], A sketch of Worf including his new baldric by Durinda Rice Wood, Worf's first-season baldric was fabric. 28, No. Oct 29, 2022 Elim Garak Veteran . But the character played well on the show, and helped the show over the years. According to Q, Dukat had been the reason of General Picard receiving a synthetic body. (DS9: "Prophet Motive"), Another of Bashir's early research topics on Deep Space 9 was an immuno-therapy project of T-cell anomalies conducted on Bajor. Reacting to these sentiments from Combs, Alaimo stated, "I think he's in awe of Dukat." B-negative Worf's posting aboard DS9 was commented on in the first draft script of VOY: "Death Wish", in which Q referred to Worf as having been one candidate who Q believed might have been promoted to command the USS Voyager. Similarly, Cinefantastique (Vol. Romulan forces attacked the Khitomer colony, killing nearly all of the four thousand Klingon colonists, including Worf's parents. Worf experienced one such flashback when he went to get his hair cut by Mot. Elim Garak is a character from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.. I think he's really turned into a very interesting character [] A lot of people assume that I am bad, that I am a heavy on the show, and I don't think so at all. (DS9: "Heart of Stone", "Paradise Lost"), Nonetheless, Odo was able to improve his abilities with time and practice. 32, Nos. According to the Star Trek: Terok Nor novel Night of the Wolves, Odo was found in a spherical module in the Denorios Belt by the Cardassian vessel Kevalu, which was under the command of Dalin Malyn Ocett, in 2345. He, in collaboration with Dr. Mora, made attempts to teach the infant, which was very ill, to change form, just as Mora had done with Odo himself. He wagered that if she won, O'Brien would owe Worf a bottle of bloodwine. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion(p. 398)), Dukat's alliance with the Dominion was planned out. Since he had suffered memory loss, the crew simply referred to him as John Doe. (TNG: "Sins of The Father", "The Emissary", "Family", "Reunion", "New Ground"; DS9: "Soldiers of the Empire", "You Are Cordially Invited", "Tacking Into the Wind", "What You Leave Behind"), Worf was born in 2340 on the Klingon homeworld, Qo'noS, as the son of Mogh, patriarch of one of the Klingon Empire's Great Houses. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 107) Behr clarified, "In Dukat's mind, Dukat is the hero of every episode he appears in." Benjamin Sisko was an old friend of Curzon, the host immediately prior to Jadzia, and that Sisko regarded Curzon as a mentor. Keiko married Miles O'Brien aboard the USS Enterprise-D in the TNG episode "Data's Day". He's not performing for anybody. We saw the potential of having the character grow into his role as a hero." Back on Deep Space Nine in Vic Fontaine's holosuite program, the Prophets send Sisko a premonition about a dangerous situation on Bajor. It was a coup." Worf vowed that while the Jem'Hadar commander may succeed in carrying out his threat, he would not live to boast about it, which Sisko wryly found very comforting. "I always knew that the ultimate challenge would be Dukat, and not the war," admitted Ira Behr. He outfitted his personal quarters to this end. (DS9: "Sacrifice of Angels"), Falling into insanity following the death of his daughter Ziyal, Afterward, Dukat began suffering from hallucinations and fits of paranoia, and was treated by Federation doctors. They even built a scale model of the Battle of the Alamo. On Riker's orders, Worf and Data boarded the cube, and were able to retrieve Picard, allowing Dr. Crusher to restore their captain's Humanity. The Prophet vanishes but this is of no concern to Dukat who is assured of his victory. (Cinefantastique, Vol. It's also revealed that during Dukat's time as leader of Cardassia, he undertook a number of secret projects that involved quietly acquiring samples of "misplaced" Dominion technology, in preparation to lead a stronger Cardassia against the Dominion. With the assistance of Commanders Data and La Forge, they ran a full circuit pathway diagnostic on the device in engineering. O'Brien was wounded, and Bashir helped save him. Ikat'ika himself yielded the match. 520-521)) When it became evident to the writing staff that what they were instinctively concentrating on more and found more appealing were the reality scenes, however, Dukat's fantasy was excluded from the episode. [5] Garak uses his knowledge to assist the Federation in its war against the Dominion and Cardassia. Holographic lounge-singer, featured on Quark's holosuites. Not only was Dukat highlighted, in this footage, with a spotlight shining straight down on him but he also appears to be crowned with a halo, an effect produced by showing an overexposed circle from a Bajoran symbol above the top of his head. With the assistance of his new attach, Giancarlo Wu, and the crew of the IKS Gorkon, Worf adapted to the needs of his new post and came up with a solution that pleased all parties and avoided bloodshed and installed a Klingon engineer from the Gorkon crew as a ceremonial emperor while also granting practical autonomy to the populace. This is a list of secondary characters from the science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Over the course of the show's run, much of the backstory of the previous hosts of the Dax symbiont was established. (DS9: "Civil Defense"), Dukat strongly opposed the Cardassian withdrawal from Bajor in 2369, a move which damaged his career due to the politicians, such as Kotan Pa'Dar blaming him, as it occurred during Dukat's administration. (Cinefantastique, Vol. (DS9: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume"), Bashir later encountered other genetically enhanced humans who had undergone the same accelerated critical neural pathway formation process he did as a child. (DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations"), Bashir did not have a positive relationship with his parents for many years. In appreciation for Worf's help, Chancellor Gowron restored honor to the House of Mogh, allocated Worf's brother, Kurn, a seat on the Klingon High Council, and gave Worf the life of Duras' illegitimate son, Toral. This is probably most evident in the episode's first shot of Dukat, from the installment's teaser. Quark sometimes breaks down laughing when he tries to retell the joke, and always gives up by saying that no one can tell it like Morn. He's really good. (Star Trek: Insurrection), Worf dated K'Ehleyr, a Human-Klingon woman, while he attended Starfleet Academy, but the relationship at the time ended acrimoniously. "If he had read in the book, 'You will be killed and reborn,' he might not have gone for it," Echevarria speculated. (DS9: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"), Several months later, Bashir and O'Brien realized that Section 31 was responsible for the morphogenic virus that was killing the Founders of the Dominion, as well as their friend Odo. Garak, Elim. You speak so softly. Elim Garak responded that he wasn't sure if Odo even had a mother. [14], In 2020, Screen Rant ranked Garak one of the top 5 most likeable characters on the show. Furthermore, the actor desired for some of the other elements of the character's personality to be explored, including Dukat's heroism, parts of his backstory, and his relationships with such characters as Garak and Kira Nerys. Like all Lurians, Morn has two stomachs; Quark realized that he had extracted the liquid latinum from the bricks and was storing it in one stomach, causing his hair to fall out. ", Dukat's initials (S.G.) come from the DS9 Season 6 opener "A Time to Stand", in which Dukat records a permanent documentation file identifying himself as "Dukat, S.G." Though it is possible that it stands for "Station Gul", Ronald D. Moore jokingly gave Dukat's first name as "Elmo" on several occasions, stating it had "always been his first name." (DS9: "What You Leave Behind"), Unknown: Found adrift and in his gelatinous state in the Denorios belt, Odo is brought to the Bajoran Institute of Science to be studied by Doctor Mora Pol, 2363: Guls Dukat and Hadar attend a reception at the Bajoran Center for Science to view Odo and his abilities. He and O'Brien occasionally used a kayaking holoprogram, which O'Brien brought with him from the USS Enterprise-D. Odo found the experience "quite enjoyable," although he refrained from singing sea shanties while they paddled. Although Worf believed that Muniz would not survive his wounds, O'Brien did not agree and clashed with Worf's pessimism escalating into a near brawl between the two. ("A Truly Model Doctor", Star Trek Monthlyissue 30), The relationship built up between O'Brien and Bashir was very important to all of the writers, as well as both actors. ", "I don't understand their humor, either. In 2016, the character of Admiral Ross was ranked as the 41st most important character of Starfleet within the Star Trek science fiction universe by Wired magazine. (TNG: "Time Squared") He also held this opinion of a pasta al fiorella from DS9's replimat, which Geordi La Forge considered to taste like liquid polymer. Odo has also been played by Salome Jens (when he took the form of the Female Changeling in "Tacking Into the Wind" to infiltrate a Jem'Hadar ship), several unnamed animals (including rats, birds, and a German Shepherd), and various inanimate objects. Realizing this, Worf subtly let his guard down and allowed Martok to win the fight, severely injuring Worf and retaining command of the Rotarran while restoring the crew's loyalty. (TNG: "11001001", "Skin Of Evil"), Worf ran regular Mok'bara classes during his time on the Enterprise-D, of which Deanna Troi and Dr. Crusher became regular students. (Cinefantastique, Vol. The death of Duras allowed Gowron to become the new chancellor. With the date moved up, Alexander was allowed to participate in Worf's Kal'Hyah ceremony (a Klingon bachelor party), along with Sisko, Martok, Bashir, and O'Brien. The reduction of Dukat's part in the story was made when the narrative became a single installment. He and his father got caught in an ionic storm and found shelter with a girl who became ill and later died because no one present knew that a nearby herb could have saved her. In the novel Fearful Symmetry, it's revealed that Dukat was responsible for kidnapping Iliana Ghemor and saving Kira from being replaced by her as he was honoring the promise he made to Kira Meru to protect her family. The reward for her support would have been the guarantee of becoming Kai. They note how Rom transforms from a comedic sidekick for Quark to Universe saving character that was much more important to the series. He played a major role in many interactions between the Cardassian military and the Federation for the next three years, and made several visits to his former command post, Deep Space 9, under various circumstances. They note that the actor that played Garak wrote A Stitch In Time, and recommended for aficionados of this Star Trek: Deep Space Nine character. Joseph was first married to a woman named Sarah, but when their son Benjamin was a year and a half old, Sarah left, eventually moving to Australia and dying in a shuttle accident. Worf interrupted a fight between Alexander and Ch'Targh, when Alexander was on the verge of losing. (DS9: "Return to Grace"), In 2372, Dukat oversaw the Groumall on a courier mission to ferry Kira Nerys to the outpost at Korma. Federation StarfleetHouse of Martok Although deeply despondent at this failure, Bashir inadvertently discovered an in-vitro vaccine that would allow the population to give birth to children immune to the blight. After destroying the Borg sphere, Worf successfully helped destroy the Enterprise's deflector dish, which the Borg were turning into an interplexing beacon, and prevent them from changing history. "We will see. Strategic operations officer, Deep Space 9Ambassador to Qo'noS Krosskove noted, "He's in black with a very strong backlight." Maintains some contact with Cardassian intelligence. "You listen to Marc talk about Dukat, and it's totally different than I see the character, but he brings that to it and adds a whole other level to it." He has the adopted child syndrome, searching for his own personal identity. In his visits, Q frequently took pleasure in teasing Worf, to whom Q referred as "micro brain." (DS9: "Call to Arms", "A Time to Stand"), However, victory was snatched from his grasp when the Dominion reinforcements were eliminated by the Prophets. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion(p. 260)), Ronald D. Moore has also commented, "I've been happy to see the changes in the character since he was brought onto DS9 I think we ran the danger of "de-fanging" Worf by the end of TNG and there's been a concerted effort made to roughen him up and give him some sharper edges. (DS9: "To the Death"), In 2373, Worf participated in recovering a Jem'Hadar ship from Torga IV, the last mission of Enrique Muniz who was severely wounded with a Jem'Hadar weapon. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion(p. 717)) According to one of the episode's call sheets, this actor was apparently Michael McRae. The diversion proved to be a bad idea, as that nebula housed the first Dominion invasion fleet, on its way to invading the Alpha Quadrant. Hertzler. 9/10, p. 69), Hans Beimler has likewise commented, "With Dukat, you were writing a Nazi; an intelligent, vicious, complicated Nazi. ", "Are you the son of Mogh?" Bashir and Garak often discussed literature during their lunches and frequently debated the differences between Human and Cardassian written works. But on at least one occasion Odo elected to wear a "real" combadge. "You think Quark had something to do with this?" (Star Trek: First Contact), Guinan and Worf compete on the phaser range, Worf met Guinan when she first came aboard the Enterprise. Son of Enabran Tain. K'Ehleyr took this opportunity to introduce their child, Alexander, to Worf. When Kira announced she has the thumb scan of a Cardassian Gul signing off on a shipment of weapons to the Kressari, who in turn sent them on to The Circle, Winn immediately changed sides telling Minister Jaro that if he truly believes the Cardassians were not supplying the weapons, he should not mind an examination of the evidence. Unfortunately, due to damage sustained in the battle, the Enterprise stardrive section was destroyed, with the separated saucer section crashing on Veridian III, damaged beyond repair. She spent most of her early life with her mother, and thus her name is structured as are all Bajoran names (with the family name first). Soon after his arrival on Gault, the seven year-old bloodied the noses of five teenage boys, whom Worf deemed "disrespectful". The Sonchi ceremony over the body of K'mpec was interrupted by an attempt to assassinate Gowron. At first, he was excited to see all the aliens in the hospital, but then they gave him a room and started a series of treatments. The character was later made a full Starfleet officer, and was one of the last additions to the permanent cast. Clint Eastwood, Rene Auberjonois? Lwaxana saw how different I was and she didn't recoil. Kai Winn Adami held the title of "Vedek" during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor, and claimed to have been beaten for her religious teachings. He attended to the wounded on a colony attacked by the Klingons. This became known in Human history as the Roswell Incident. (DS9: "Crossfire", "Broken Link"), Odo did not have the benefit of connection with the Great Link while he matured, and as a result, he was relatively unskilled in the use of his shapeshifting abilities when compared to most other Changelings. Killing Duras directly affected the ascension of a new Klingon Chancellor after the death of K'mpec. (DS9: "Tacking Into the Wind"). He made a few rather obvious advances towards Kira, which she rebuffed with disgust. In his online review of "Hide And Q", Wil Wheaton made a comment on Worf's early character and giving Dorn respect for playing Worf as he was back then. ", Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, No. He permitted Dr. Toby Russell to perform a dangerous and experimental procedure to replace his spinal column. Winn also directs one of her supporters to assassinate Bareil, who is Winn's chief rival in the Vedek Assembly. Joined Mar 8, 2015 Messages 17,627 Reputation 2,574 Daps 76,680. Enthused Behr, "I thought that Alaimo was terrific [] It was just so great to put him out there." "I totally agree," stated Alaimo. ", "You wrote this holodeck program yourself" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion(pp. 44 & 45) In a retrospective interview, Alaimo stated, "I thought Dukat had a lot of different levels that could have been played [.] You didn't know whether you should love him or hate him. Garak also became Bashir's sidekick in Bashir's holoprogram about international spies. He's the kind of dictator who thinks, 'It's not enough that I put my foot on the throat of the people I'm oppressing, I want them to love me for it.' I think the writers like him, too [] There's a tremendous sensuality to the character, don't you think?" On a subsequent occasion, Worf commanded the Defiant on a mission to escort Cardassian freighters across a volatile sector of Klingon space. A brief insurrection, with Shakaar's people preparing to fight security forces sent out by Winn, results in the security force leader and Shakaar burying the hatchet. (TNG: "The Bonding"), Jadzia Dax was Worf's second mate, and the first woman he ceremonially took as his wife.
Osseo Animal Hospital,
Bright Health Medicare Advantage Prior Authorization Form,
Cassie's Cafe Ardmore, Al Menu,
What Did The Immigration Act Of 1952 Do,
Rate Of Inflation Turkey 2022,
Shadow Of War How To Recruit,
Nightfall Penelope Douglas Trigger Warnings,
Do Rx Bars Have Preservatives,
Maldives Country Religion,