List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine characters
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This is a list of fictional characters of the fictional Star Trek universe that appeared exclusively in the television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and related material.
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Boday
Captain Boday is commander of a Gallamite ship. Jadzia Dax went on many dinner dates with Boday, a man whom she felt was a brilliant individual. Not too surprisingly given that he has a transparent skull, Boday never appeared on the show but he was talked about in many episodes, usually in conversations between Kira and Dax.
Brunt
Image:Brunt.jpg Liquidator Brunt is a character played by actor Jeffrey Combs. He is a Ferengi who works with the Ferengi Commerce Authority and over the course of the series he makes several appearances (list below). His job is to enforce the decisions of the FCA, which on more than one occasion, have involved shutting down, or threatening to shut down Quark's bar. Brunt derives great pleasure from wielding power in the process. Quark and Brunt become natural enemies, forming a rather personal rivalry.
In the mirror universe, Brunt is a kind character.
Brunt appears in the following DS9 episodes:
- "Family Business" (season 3, episode 23)
- "Bar Association" (season 4, episode 16)
- "Body Parts" (season 4, episode 25)
- "Ferengi Love Songs" (season 5, episode 20)
- "The Magnificent Ferengi" (season 6, episode 10)
- "Profit and Lace" (season 6, episode 24)
- "The Emperor's new Cloak" (season 7, episode 12) (as the mirror Brunt)
Dax, Joran
Joran Dax was a noted musician on the planet Trill, and was chosen to host the Dax symbiont after the death of the previous host, Torias. What was not known at the time was that Joran was insane - a psychopath and a murderer who killed the Trill doctor who'd recommended that Joran be expelled from the symbiosis program. Joran's joining with Dax was considered a failure, and all records of the joining were covered up by the Trill government, to prevent a panic (the official party line was that no joining could ever fail in this way). Later, Jadzia Dax experienced hidden memories of Joran, which were so traumatic that they threatened to kill her, requiring Trill doctors to uncover the memories of Dax's joining with Joran (and, consequently, to unseal the government's records of the joining) to save Jadzia's life.
The Trill government had desperately tried to quash all data about Joran's joining, fearing that if word got out that Joran had passed the host screening procedures and was technically a viable host, then the truth - that over half the Trill population was capable of joining, not the small fraction as was generally believed - would cause the public to riot, and would turn the symbionts into commodities to be fought over.
Later, Ezri Dax was forced to call upon her memories of Joran in order to catch a killer who had claimed several victims on Deep Space Nine.
Dax, Tobin
Tobin Dax was a noted engineer and mathematician in Trill history, Tobin was the second host of the Dax symbiont. Tobin had a keen scientific mind, but was timid and shy in social situations. He had several children, but had a hard time disciplining them. Tobin also dabbled in botany and sleight-of-hand magic. He also devised his own proof of Fermat's last theorem.
When Curzon Dax underwent the ceremony of zhian'tara, in which his friends and family temporarily embodied past Dax hosts, Curzon gleefully got the Tobin host roaring drunk during the ceremony.
Eddington, Michael
Image:Michael Eddington.jpg Lieutenant Commander Michael Eddington (played by Kenneth Marshall) is a human Starfleet security officer who defected to the Maquis. Eddington's character was first seen in episode "The Search", during which he was placed in charge of a Romulan cloaking device, on loan for the war against the Dominion. In episode "The Die is Cast", Eddington sabotaged the cloaking device, in order to prevent it from being used against Starfleet orders.
In the episode "For the Cause", Eddington lured station commander Benjamin Sisko and chief of security Worf away from the station in order to steal replicators intended for Cardassia Prime and, in doing so, became a renegade whom Sisko vowed to track down and bring to justice. In episode "For the Uniform", Sisko finally succeeded in capturing the wanted fugitive by threatening to destroy planets colonized by the Maquis, forcing Eddington's surrender. Eddington died in the episode "Blaze of Glory" while heroically saving his wife (and Sisko himself) from attacking Jem'Hadar forces on Athos IV, after Eddington had duped Sisko into releasing him from prison to prevent a fictional missile attack.
One of Eddington's prized possessions, which he left on Deep Space Nine in his hasty departure, was his "lucky loonie", an old Canadian coin from the late 20th and 21st centuries.
Fontaine, Vic
Image:Vic Fontaine.jpg Vic Fontaine is a fictional holographic entertainer appearing in a program run in one of Quark's holosuits on the space station Deep Space Nine. He is played by James Darren.
Created by an unseen holoprogrammer named Felix, Vic is self-aware and knows he is a hologram. He has the ability to turn his program off and on, but after Vic helps Nog over a period of depression, Nog arranges for Vic's program to be allowed to run "26 hours a day" so he could live a real life within the holodeck. Vic works as a singer who resembles Frank Sinatra. He is used as counselor by various crewmembers of Deep Space 9, and he took it upon himself to get Odo and Kira together romantically.
Oddly enough, in the Mirror Universe, Vic is a real person, in the form of an android (possibly enjoying rights analogous to the ones Data enjoys), so perhaps Felix used a source of inspiration also used by the android builder as the model for Vic Fontaine.
Ishka
Image:Ishka.jpg Ishka, daughter of Adred and widow of Keldar, is played by Cecily Adams and Andrea Martin.
Ishka is a rather unorthodox female of the ultra-capitalist Ferengi race, flouting Ferengi law by wearing clothes and earning profit. These activities landed her son, Quark, in trouble with the FCA for "improper supervision" in 2371. In 2373, Ishka began a relationship with Grand Nagus Zek, leader of the Ferengi, and through him exerted considerable influence on Ferengi politics and economic policy.
She was briefly held captive by the Dominion when her transport shuttle was captured. Quark was charged by Zek with rescuing her. With the help of her other son Rom, she is eventually rescued through a prisoner exchange during which Ishka is traded for the Vorta captive Keevan, who was captured earlier.
Notable accomplishments of her family include Rom succeeding Zek as Grand Nagus, and his son, Ishka's grandson, Nog, becoming the first Ferengi in Starfleet. Her family usually refers to her by the nickname "Moogie".
Keldar
Keldar, a Ferengi, was the father of Quark (the owner of a bar on Deep Space Nine). Keldar had always warned his son never to leave home, insisting that there were plenty of opportunities for profit right outside their front door; however, Quark heeded the maxim "Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum" (one of the Rules of Acquisition) and left Ferenginar to make a name for himself on DS9. Keldar disapproved of his son's choice, but respected it nonetheless. Keldar's greatest strength was his devotion to family, though he was never very good at acquiring profit - that honor fell to his wife Ishka, who said she loved her husband anyway, despite his relative lack of business sense.
As the series begins, Keldar is apparently already dead (he has never appeared onscreen, though he has been mentioned several times) though the circumstances of his death have never been revealed. Keldar and his wife left behind two sons, Quark and Rom; each child took after a different parent - Rom inherited their father's compassion and attention to family, whereas Quark inherited Ishka's business acumen.
Leeta
Image:Leeta.jpgLeeta is a secondary character on Star Trek Deep Space 9, portrayed by Chase Masterson. She is of Bajoran ancestry and is employed as a dabo girl in Quark's bar. She marries Ferengi engineer Rom after having a brief romantic relationship with Dr. Julian Bashir.
Although initially played as a stereotypical "ditzy blonde", over the course of the series it was revealed that she was in fact an intelligent woman who chose to maintain a carefree attitude. She was a ringleader when Quark's employees attempted to start a union, and also volunteered to play temporary host to one of Jadzia Dax's former personalities.
Morn
Morn is played by Mark Alan Shepherd. He is a Lurian male and the only member of his species seen in Star Trek. Morn has 17 brothers and sisters.
Morn runs a shipping business, but he is more frequently seen sitting on Deep Space Nine at Quark's bar. Morn's name is a deliberate anagram of the name Norm, a character on the TV show Cheers whom Morn resembles both physically and for his regularity at the bar.
Morn has never spoken on camera (though he has laughed), but from the accounts of other characters, one gets the impression that Morn rarely stops talking. This was a running joke of the series, and used successfully several times. Morn is credited with knowing the funniest joke in the Universe, and in several episodes an incidental character is seen to start laughing as he/she/it leaves his side. Quark often breaks down laughing when he tries to retell the joke, and always gives up by saying that no one can tell it like Morn can. Despite this, Morn rarely seems to get Quark's jokes, and when he does, it takes him a while.
Often, other characters will refer to something Morn has done that, to the viewer, would seem very uncharacteristic for Morn, considering his usual on-camera silence. For example, when it became clear war with the Dominion was inevitable, Morn is said to have thrown a chair at Quark, then run around the promenade, screaming "We're all doomed!" Vic Fontaine, the holographic singer who is a recurring character in the later seasons, has stated that Morn's rendition of "New York, New York" has to be seen to be believed.
Very little is revealed about Morn or his species on the show. In The Way of the Warrior, it was implied Lurians are usually found near the Hyundite Nebula — a hostile Klingon suggested it was suspicious to find Morn so far from there. It was revealed in the episode "Who Mourns for Morn?" (season six) that he had been previously involved in some criminal activities, notably the Mother's Day Heist in which his crew stole 1000 bricks of gold-pressed latinum. Like all Lurians, Morn has two stomachs; it was revealed that he was storing the latinum in one of them, and it was implied that is the reason his hair had fallen out.
Morn also appeared on the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Birthright, Part I" and made a cameo on the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Caretaker".
Opaka Sulan
Image:Kai Opaka.jpgOpaka Sulan was the Kai or spiritual leader of the Bajorans through the latter days of the Cardassian occupation and the first months of freedom in 2369, Opaka determined that Sisko's arrival at Deep Space Nine was in fulfilment of prophecy and the beginning of his own personal journey, although he did not return her enthusiasm at first.
Only a few weeks later, Opaka was tragically lost to Bajor in a move she foresaw as prophecy when she left Bajor for the first time ever to tour DS9 unannounced. Journeying through the wormhole, she was killed in a Runabout crash on the Ennis/Nol Ennis penal moon and then resurrected by the artificial microbes present on the moon. Her body became dependent on these microbes which were designed specifically to live on this moon, forcing her to stay behind. She saw this as an opportunity to help heal the spirit of the undying combatants there as a fulfilment of her own personal prophecy.
Opaka Sulan was played by Camille Saviola.
Pazlar, Melora
Image:Melora Pazlar.jpgMelora Pazlar is a female Elaysian, a species from a planet where gravity is weaker than on most other planets. As of stardate 47229.1, Pazlar was an Ensign in Starfleet, and a cartographer.
Melora Pazlar first appeared in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Melora", in which she came to the station prior to a mapping mission to the Gamma Quadrant. Because the gravity on DS9 is too strong, she had to rely on either a wheelchair or a system of flexible metal beams throughout her body to help her move around the station. Doctor Julian Bashir devised a treatment to help her walk like the other humanoids on the station. Pazlar started the treatment, but when she realized that she wouldn't be able to enjoy low-gravity environments anymore, she decided to discontinue the treatment.
Pazlar later appeared in the (non-canonical) novels Star Trek: The Next Generation: Gemworld (two novels) and Star Trek: Titan: Taking Flight. She was portrayed by actress Daphne Ashbrook.
The character of Melora Pazlar was initially to be one included within the main cast of the show, but the cost of showing Pazlar 'fly' in almost every episode proved to be too much to justify her recurring appearance, and the character was dropped, before appearing in the one episode "Melora".
Ross, William
Image:William Ross.jpg Vice Admiral William Ross was the Field-Commander of Starfleet forces during the Dominion War and was the coordinator of Starfleet's defense of the Bolian and Bajoran fronts in the early stages of that war. His command post was situated on Starbase 375; he was in direct command of the 7th Tactical Wing. During the first three months of the war, Ross was under severe pressure to halt the advance of the Dominion. Ross did this by making Captain Sisko his adjutant, in order to relieve himself of making minor tactical plans and reports. This action gave Ross the initiative to find the "Argolis Cluster Sensor Array." This sensor array was the Dominion's line of sight over all the Bajoran and Bolian fronts at the start of the War. Ross, along with Sisko, planned the attack on the Argolis Array and succeeded in the destruction of the array in late March 2374. As the war progressed, Ross took a much more tactical role in the war effort rather than strategically planning the war effort.
After the first battle of Chin'toka, Ross was posted aboard Deep Space Nine to command the Allied forces presently hemmed in at Chin'toka.
During the Battle of Cardassia, Ross led the Starfleet wing of the assault fleet. He devised the planned assault on Cardassia and, soon afterwards, presided over the signing of the Treaty of Bajor at which he gave a speech to the delegates.
Admiral Ross was portrayed by actor Barry Jenner.
Shakaar Edon
Shakaar Edon was First Minister of Bajor's Provisional Government, following Kalem Apren and the brief administration of Kai Winn Adami. He first appeared in the episode Shakaar, where he stood for the position against Kai Winn. A former resistance leader, Shakaar was involved with Kira Nerys, but their respective careers kept them apart. His subsequent appearances were in the episodes Crossfire and The Begotten. He was played by Duncan Regehr.
In the Deep Space Nine relaunch novels Shakaar was one of the first victims of the Parasite attacks.
Sisko, Joseph
Image:Joseph Sisko.jpg Joseph Sisko, father of Captain Benjamin Sisko, was played by the late Brock Peters (who also played Admiral Cartwright in Star Trek IV and Star Trek VI).
Joseph runs a restaurant in New Orleans, with a particular specialty each night. While Nog is at Starfleet Academy, he commutes from San Francisco to dine, as Sisko obtains Ferengi tube grubs for Nog, wishing he could cook them to make them palatable for humans. Jake has often worked at the restaurant, and son Benjamin works there circa 2374-2375, when the Pahwraiths collapse the wormhole, while waiting for the Prophets to communicate with him.
Joseph was married, but inexplicably, not long after Benjamin was born, the woman left. It is discovered very many years later, in early 2375, that the wife was in fact a Prophet taking human form in order to conceive and bear Benjamin.
After much urging, Joseph takes a trip to Deep Space Nine, just as Benjamin undergoes an experience that makes him dream he is Benny, a sci-fi writer in the 1950s.
Sloan, Luther
Image:Luther Sloan.jpg Luther Sloan is played by William Sadler. An operative in the secret police organization known as Section 31, Sloan appeared in three episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Inquisition," "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges," and "Extreme Measures."
In 2374, Sloan placed Dr. Julian Bashir in a psychologically intense holodeck scenario designed to test his loyalties to the Federation. Satisfied that Bashir was a steadfast Starfleet officer, Sloan offered Bashir a position in Section 31, knowing of the doctor's fondness for 20th century espionage fiction. Bashir adamantly refused, but Sloan was content to to let him consider the offer.
In 2375, Sloan attempted to recruit Bashir for a mission to gather information on Koval, chairman of the Romulan Tal Shiar. Bashir initially declined, but agreed with Captain Sisko that this would allow them to learn more about Section 31's operations and possible connections to Starfleet Command. However, unbeknownst to both of them, Sloan had already enlisted the assistance of Admiral William Ross and thus succeeded in strengthening covert ties to one highly-placed Romulan and subverting the career of another. Despite appearing to perish at Koval's hand, Sloan returned to thank Bashir for playing his part and living up to Sloan's high expectations of him.
Later that year, Bashir discovered evidence that Section 31 was responsible for infecting Odo with a genocidal virus intended to bring an end to the Dominion War. With the assistance of Miles O'Brien, Bashir lured Sloan to Deep Space 9 and captured him. Rather than risk handing Bashir the cure, however, Sloan triggered a neuro-depolarizing device in his brain, effectively killing himself. After stabilizing Sloan, Bashir and O'Brien linked their minds to his in a last-ditch effort to secure information that would lead to a cure. While inside Sloan's mind, Bashir was offered secret documents that could bring about the end of Section 31; this was Sloan's way of delaying Bashir from escaping with the knowledge needed to save Odo's life, and, by extension, the Founders. If not for O'Brien's intervention, Bashir would have died with Sloan and the Founders would have perished as a species.
Vreenak
Image:Vreenak.jpg Senator Vreenak (played by Stephen McHattie) was a key member of the Romulan Senate from 2360 to 2374. He was also the vice-chairman of the Tal Shiar, secretary of the War Plans Council, and one of Proconsul Neral's most trusted advisors. Vreenak is perhaps most well-known for negotiating the non-aggression pact between the Romulan Star Empire and the Dominion in late 2373. One of the most ardently pro-Dominion senators, Vreenak had very little faith in the Federation-Klingon alliance's chances against the Dominion.
In 2374, Vreenak attended a high-level diplomatic meeting with Weyoun on Soukara. Captain Benjamin Sisko convinced him to made a secret detour to Deep Space Nine, to view supposed evidence of a planned Dominion invasion of Romulan space. However, Vreenak discovered that the evidence had been forged, and headed back to Romulus threatening to expose the plot for all to see. En route, his shuttle exploded, a result of sabotage by Garak.
A subsequent investigation by the Tal Shiar uncovered the fabricated evidence, but its defects seemed to be a result of the explosion. The Romulans logically concluded that the Dominion had assassinated Vreenak to prevent him from returning to Romulus with the evidence, and join the Dominion War on the side of the Federation and the Klingons. (DS9: "In the Pale Moonlight")
Yates, Kasidy
Image:Kasidy Yates.jpg In the fictional Star Trek universe, Kasidy Yates is a freighter captain. She was played by Penny Johnson Jerald. She is introduced to Benjamin Sisko by his son Jake. Jake had felt that it was time for Sisko to start dating again after the death of his first wife Jennifer at Wolf 359.
Jake's attempt at matchmaking worked in this instance. Kasidy and Sisko become close friends, even when she is arrested and serves time for working with the Maquis. When she is released from prison, the two resume their relationship.
Eventually, Kasidy becomes Sisko's second wife. At the end of the series, she was pregnant with their child. When Sisko left to join the Prophets, he tells her that he would be away for a while, but would eventually return to her.
Zek
In the fictional Star Trek universe, Zek was the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance throughout most of the 24th century. He was played by Wallace Shawn, and was a recurring character on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Zek attempted retirement shortly after the discovery of the wormhole near Bajor. He arrived on DS9 and during a business meeting announced Quark would be his successor and then appeared to have died. Eventually it is discovered that Zek faked his death by entering into a trance his attendant Maihar'du taught him. The whole setup was to test to see if his son Krax was ready to take over but failed.
Later, Zek visited the Bajoran Prophets within the wormhole in an attempt to prod them for information about the future he could use to further his profits. Instead, the Prophets 'devolved' Zek's personality to that of a proto-Ferengi, before his people had dedicated their lives to the acquisition of wealth. During his time in this state, Zek made many radical reforms to his people's laws and government directing his people away from their greedy ways, including reformatting the long-standing Ferengi Rules of Acquisition. He was eventually changed back and his reforms nullified after Quark had successfully appealed to the Prophet's fear of interaction with other corporeal life forms that might come investigating the change.
During a Tongo tournament on Ferenginar, he receives a tip from Ishka who is the mother of Quark & Rom which helped him make a come back to win. They begin to write to each other regularly and eventually fall in love. They were briefly broken up by Quark at the prodding of Liquidator Brunt who was plotting to depose Zek and replace him as Nagus. Ultimately the effort failed after Quark realized the plan and stopped Brunt's take over and got Zek and Ishka back together again. (DS9: "Ferengi Love Songs")
Zek, suffering from failing memory, acquiesced all his financial dealings to the financially brilliant Ishka, eventually caving into her not-so-subtle prods for female rights. He was once again deposed, this time successfully by Brunt, after he amended the Ferengi constitution to allow females to wear clothes in public, but was later reinstated after the populace learned of the new and exciting business opportunities such reforms would pave.
Eventually he and Ishka retired to Risa after naming Rom as his successor.
Ziyal, Tora
Image:Ziyal.jpg Tora Ziyal is the half Cardassian / half Bajoran daughter of Gul Dukat and Tora Naprem.
Tora Ziyal was first introduced in the Season 4 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Indiscretion". In this episode, Gul Dukat accompanies Kira Nerys to the crash site of the Cardassian prison transport "Ravinok". On the crash site (in the Dozaria system) Kira finds out Dukat went along because his mistress (Tora Naprem) was aboard the Ravinok. They find the grave of Tora Naprem, but Dukat confesses Tora Naprem and he had a daughter, Tora Ziyal, who was also on the transport. They find Ziyal in a Breen prison camp on the planet and free her.
After living on Cardassia for a short time, Ziyal moves to DS9. She lives there until she is killed by Gul Dukat's first officer Damar, because she confessed to freeing Rom, Kira, Jake and Leeta from prison (Season 6 episode "Sacrifice of Angels").
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). Her given name, Ziyal, is a popular Cardassian name.
She was portrayed by three actresses: Cyia Batten, Tracy Middendorf, and Melanie Smith.
