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== Main Cast ==
=== Commander/Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) ===
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[[The Captain]] (though actually only ranked Commander until late Season 3), with a touch of the [[Warrior Poet]] thanks to his role as the Emissary, a (reluctant) [[Crystal Dragon Jesus|religious icon]] to the Bajorans. In addition, he was a widower (from the infamous Wolf 359 battle in [[Star Trek:
* [[A Father to His Men]]: Throughout the series Sisko shows great concern for the people under his charge.
* [[Anti
* [[Ascend to
** {{spoiler|Emphasis on "unspecified": the Prophets are non-linear beings outside time.}}
* [[Badass]]: Takes on several Jem'Hadar on his own and also leads several of the fleet battles.
* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]: Current trope image holder. Though he did have hair in earlier seasons he eventually went bald with a goatee.
* [[Bald of Awesome]]: Sisko looks far more badass once he goes bald.
* [[Blackmail]]: How he usually keeps Quark in-line or gets him to do something for the good of the station. Usually leads to [[Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word]].
* [[Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough]]: Sisko's a pretty irritable guy in own right, but he's more likely to treat you to a [[Death Glare]] and then storm out because he has more important things to do. That's when his Doberman (Kira) comes into the picture.
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: The moment in "Far Beyond the Stars" when Sisko briefly breaks into song seems designed to showcase that Avery Brooks' voice is sexy both speaking ''and'' singing. And then, in "Badda Bing Badda Bang," they do it again.
* [[Commanding Coolness]]: For three seasons.
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* [[Dating Catwoman]]: His relationship with {{spoiler|Kasidy Yates when she turns out to be running supplies (medicine and food according to her) to the Maquis.}}
** He also slept with ''both'' Intendant Kira and (an unjoined) Jadzia from the Mirror Universe.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: The only being to knock Q flat on his ass ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|and get away with it]]''.
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'''Sisko''': I'm not Picard. }}
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Has quite the female following.
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* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: He was this close to his mentor and best friend, Curzon Dax. Then Curzon died and Dax became Jadzia Dax, with whom he was still [[Heterosexual Life Partners]], to the point of still calling her "Old Man". The Jadzia died and Dax became Ezri Dax, who was a neurotic mess after an unexpected Joining that she had never prepared for, and they were [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] ''again'', only this time he was Dax's mentor.
* [[Hot Dad]]: Yates thinks so.
* [[Important Haircut]]: Sisko grows a goatee and loses the buzz cut after he's promoted. It's around the same time the series started to get dark.
* [[The Kirk]]
* [[Men Don't Cry]]: Averted in the very first episode. Reliving the memory of your beloved spouse dying would be enough to make anyone cry.
* [[The Messiah]]
* [[Parents
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Jadzia Dax. He was also ''very'' close friends (bordering on [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] and [[Ho Yay]]) with Dax's previous male host Curzon. Less so with Ezri because she was so much younger than him and had so much trouble adjusting to the joining that they almost swapped roles with Sisko becoming ''Dax's'' mentor.
** Subverted when he traveled to the Parallel Universe. Where apparently he had sex with the alternate (Dax-less) Jadzia in order to maintain his cover as the alternate Sisko...
* [[Politically
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]
* [[Resigned to
** Being the Emissary in general also turns into this, what with all the religious ceremonies that he has to take part in and everything else that comes with the job. "Accession," however, changes that viewpoint.
* {{spoiler|[[Retirony]]}}: Sisko plans to build a house on Bajor once the war is settled with.
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Apparently Worf is intimidated by him. Worf. Intimidated by a human. He plays this to the ''hilt'' in "For the Uniform", when he orders biogenic weapons to be launched at a Maquis settlement to get Eddington to surrender.
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''[Worf stares at him in shock; hesitates]''
'''Sisko:''' Commander, I said ''launch torpedoes!'' }}
** In the third episode he has to deal with Kira interrupting an admiral's staff meeting to complain about Sisko's methods. The look on Kira's face is ''priceless.''
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* [[Second Love]]: Kasidy is Sisko's, after Jennifer, who was killed in the pilot (at Wolf 359).
* [[Smart People Play Chess]]: Several times throughout the series.
* [[Stop Worshipping Me!]]: Feels this way about being the Emissary initially, but mostly keeps it to himself. He stays rather humble about the position even after he accepts it as part of his identity though
* [[Team Chef]]: He claims his dad taught him everything he knows, and his dad is the owner and operator of a restaurant, so in a 24th century where cooking is mostly a hobby, he's a hobbyist (and a good one, we are told).
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Both Sisko and Dax have admitted that they share a mutal attraction towards the other, despite never acting on it, it would be too weird given their previous relationship. As he puts it, "She may not be Curzon, but she's still DAX!"
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=== Major/Colonel Kira Nerys ([[Nana Visitor]]) ===
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'''Odo:''' Wait a minute, I wanna be sure I heard that correctly. Because it doesn't sound like the Kira Nerys who has made a career out of breaking the rules. }}
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* [[Action Girl]]: Good lord, she beats the stuffing out of a ''serial killer'' while the equivalent of ''[[Pregnant Badass|nine months pregnant]].''
* [[Anti
* [[Badass]]: Manages to fight while ''pregnant''.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Cardassians, [[Shell
* [[Break the Cutie]]: That's quite the achievement but Trentin Fala, from 'The Darkness and the Light' episode managed to do that, ''twice''. First, he {{spoiler|killed all the friends Kira made}} during her days at the Shakaar Resistance cell, except Shakaar himself. Second, he cracked her armor by trashing her actions and ideology, backing it with some good points. She managed to defend herself, but considering what she said to the rescue team after their fight, it's obvious Kira thought he was right to some extent, even talking in the same maneer he had.
* [[Broken Bird]]: The horrors she has seen - well, she can [[Tear Jerker|break your heart]].
* [[Child Soldier]]: Grew up as one. [[HAD to Be Sharp|She survived.]]
* [[Colonel Badass]]: Promoted in the seventh season.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Fair tactics do not keep you alive in the Bajoran Resistance. Kira, therefore, doesn't use them.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Cardassian Occupation. In other words, she is a [[A Nazi
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: At the start of the series Kira is always all business and is suspicious of Starfleet. She calms down after Sisko saves her life and proves that he's willing to defend the Bajorans.
* [[Deuteragonist]]: Initially. Demoted to Tritagonist after the arrival of Worf. Nana Visitor, to her credit, knew that her early prominence wouldn't last, and very much took it in stride. She still remains a critical character, although more of her adventures take place off-screen during the Dominion arc.
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: The first time we meet her, she's in the middle of a screaming match with the Bajoran provisional government, and when she sees Sisko the first words out of her mouth are a rather tart "I suppose you'll want the office." About the only thing we ''don't'' see in those first thirty seconds is her soft side - it takes us half a season to see ''that''.
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* [[General Ripper]]: She's down a few pay grades, and more heroic (and principled) than most examples, but if you replace 'Enemy X' with 'the Cardassians', she fits perfectly. Getting out of this is, consequently, a major part of her [[Character Development]].
* [[Hot Amazon]]: Military hard-ass variety.
* [[Hot
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: As mentioned, she's a former Resistance fighter, and not of [[La Résistance|the prettier variety]] either.
{{quote|'''Kira''': ''None of you'' belonged on Bajor. It wasn't your world. For ''fifty years'', you ''raped'' our planet! You lived on our land and you took the food out of our mouths, and I don't care whether you held a phaser in your hand or you ''ironed shirts'' for a living; you were ''all'' guilty and you were '''''all legitimate targets!'''''|"The Darkness and the Light"}}
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Bajoran/Changeling.
* [[The Lancer]]: At first.
* [[Last
* [[Love Epiphany]]: Or as she calls it, a "moment of pure clarity." Good thing she doesn't waste time, because it took her the better part of a decade to figure it out.
* [[Majorly Awesome]]: For most of the show's run.
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* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: Less so now that she's gotten tangled up with Starfleet, but this is ''definitely'' part of her past.
* [[Power Hair]]
* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]: She first ended up on Deep Space Nine because she had annoyed her superiors.
* [[Religious Bruiser]]
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]]: Her backstory as a leader of the Bajoran Resistance.
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Bureaucratized]]: Subverted. She has a hard time adapting to peace and annoyed her superiors(see [[Reassigned to Antarctica]] above) but in the end she knew when the time for fighting had ended and the time for rebuilding was begun.
* [[Second Love]]: Odo is arguably this for her, after {{spoiler|Vedek Bareil}}, who {{spoiler|was tragically killed}} early in the series.
* [[Shell
* [[Supporting Leader]]: Leads the ground assault on Cardassia Prime. As irony would have it, her troops are composed of rebelling Cardassians, whom she trains using the same guerrilla tactics that overthrew Bajor's occupation.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Her part was originally written to be ''[[Star Trek:
* [[Ten Minutes in
* [[Tsundere]]: Type 1, normally ''tsuntsun'' but liable to go ''deredere'' in certain romantic situations, usually around Odo.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: With O'Brien, during the time when she is the surrogate carrying Miles and Keiko's baby. Both Kira and O'Brien naturally freak out when they realise they're developing romantic feelings for the other, having gotten closer during this time.
* [[Uptight Loves Wild]]: She's the "wild" one, being considerably more fiery than the much more sedate Odo.
* [[What Measure Is a Humanoid?]]: Kira's not ''human'', but close enough.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: More than a few people are uncomfortable about her terrorist past. She is unrepentant due to the [[I Did What I Had to Do]] nature of fighting the Cardassian Occupation. Nevertheless, it does cause her a not-insignificant amount of [[Angst]].
* [[When She Smiles]]: How Odo feels about her.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Almost a decade's worth with Odo before [[They Do]].
* [[Zip Me Up]]: Odo. Interestingly, this is ''after'' they've gotten together - so he kisses her shoulder along the way.
=== Odo (Rene Auberjonois) ===
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'''Garak:''' I happen to know that you're too dogged an investigator to allow the only witness in this case to simply disappear.
'''Odo:''' Oh, congratulations, your powers of deduction are truly astonishing. Now, if you will kindly disembark, I will get on with my "dogged" investigation. }}
Partially [[The Spock]] initially, later becoming [[The Judge]]. He was the constable (chief of security) of Deep Space Nine, having been in that position even during the Cardassian Occupation. A [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|shapeshifter]] (or "Changeling", a clever double-meaning). Originally a bit angsty over not knowing his origins; eventually he discovers that {{spoiler|his own people are the enemy, which doesn't really help with the angst bit}}. During the series, it's revealed that Odo's name is a shortened form of a Bajoran term, ''odo'ital'' ('unknown sample'), that the Cardassian overseers gave him during the Occupation. Unfortunately, Cardassian humor being what it is, ''Odo'' is literally translated as 'nothing.'
* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: Inverted, he usually resembles a Bajoran as that is the form ''he'' is comfortable with, as they adopted and raised him.
* [[Always Save the Girl]]: He ''rewrote history'' to save Kira. Kira, however, wasn't pleased.
* [[An Odd Place to Sleep]]: In a bucket. Beat ''that'', Worf.
** After {{spoiler|losing and then regaining his shapeshifting powers}}, he tried to keep to sleeping in a bed (as he rather enjoyed it) but kept sliding off when he reverted to his gelatinous form.
* [[And Another Thing]]: A staple of his investigative/interview technique, in the great tradition of [[
* [[By
* [[Character Tics]]: The short, businesslike nod he gives to acknowledge orders from his superiors. It's basically series shorthand for 'this is now guaranteed to happen'.
* [[The Comically Serious]]
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: When he's not being [[The Comically Serious]]. Quark is his principal victim, naturally.
* [[Does Not Like Guns]]: Prefers to use shapeshifting whenever possible.
* [[Expressive Hair]]: Odo's hairstyle communicates his obsession with tidiness and order. Very rarely does Odo's hair fall past his face; when it does, it signals that he is figuratively and literally 'coming apart'.
* [[Guttural Growler]]: Harumph!
* [[Hates Small Talk]]: Inevitably leading up to making small talk with Worf about how they hate small talk.
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* [[Kuudere]]: He may seem cold and unfeeling on the outside, but those who know him admit that's he's just about the sweetest man alive. Mrs. Troi in particular is very good at bringing this out of him
* [[Mode Lock]] / [[Brought Down to Normal]]: In "Broken Link", where the Founders lock him into the form of a normal humanoid in retaliation for his being the first Changeling to kill another. He regains his shapeshifting ability after the events of "The Begotten".
* [[The Needless]]: He does not need food; as he told Kira once, he tried to do so once, but it was unsatisfying, as he has no taste buds. He claims it was "messy" too, likely because he had no idea how to chew.
* [[Lawful Neutral]]: In a sense. When the Cardassians recruit him they expect him to catch resistance members. However he is shown looking the other way when Kira does an Op on the station. He is interested in catching plain old-fashioned criminals not in fighting for the Cardassians or for the Resistance for that matter.
* [[Moe Couplet]]: With Kira.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Shapeshifting is a wonderful talent for espionage. It also lets you give ''terrific'' massages.
* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Allowing Dukat to execute three innocent Bajorans as retribution for a bomb attack. There was enough evidence to at the very least arrest, but had Odo dug deeper, he would have been able to find them innocent, instead of the amount needed to satisfy the Cardassian judicial system.
* {{spoiler|[[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: The Founders protest ''far'' too much}}.
* [[Neat Freak]]: Is very upset after Dax shifts all the things in his room by ''centimeters.''
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** Unfortunately, without realizing it, by being ''this'' much of a neat freak, he's being a stereotypical Changeling.
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* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Mrs. Troi. Although it is non-romantic she is the only person (aside from Kira) that he admits to loving. He even married her to protect her and her child.
* [[Rules Lawyer]]: Allow Odo to get his hands on a baseball rulebook, and weep.
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** As part of his objectivity, he did it to both teams. Though he clearly enjoyed doing it to Solok.
* [[
* [[
* [[The Snark Knight]]: Always manages to have something snarky to say about ''everything''.
* [[The Spock]]: At first.
* [[Token Heroic Orc]]: Inverted. Until Season 3, nobody has the slightest inkling that {{spoiler|1=DS9's lowly security chief is a relative of the Dominion's [[Shadow Dictator|Shadow Dictators]]}}.
* [[Unwanted False Faith]]: To those Dominion devotees he encounters.
* [[Uptight Loves Wild]]: He's the much more sedate one, next to the fiery Kira.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Quark, eventually.
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[What Measure Is a Humanoid?]]: Kira's not ''human'', but close enough.
* [[Will They or Won't They?|Will They Or Won't They]]: Almost a decade's worth with Kira before [[They Do]].
* {{spoiler|[[You Can't Go Home Again]]: Subverted}} in the series finale.
=== Doctor Julian Bashir (Siddig El Fadil a.k.a. Alexander Siddig) ===
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Starts off alternately drooling after Dax, being painfully naive, or being an all-round [[Casanova Wannabe]], and also coming off as a bit of an [[
* [[Adorkable]]: How much of the cast feels about him later in the series.
* [[Always Second Best]]: On purpose.
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Though the name is clearly Arabic, nobody ever mentions where Bashir hails from - a fact which Siddig was personally proud of.
* [[Bio Augmentation]]: Not by choice, and kept secret for most of the series.
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: His attempts to be suave always fail horribly.
* [[Cerebus Retcon]]: The revelation about his genetic enhancements casts a much darker light on his initial [[
* [[Combat Medic]]: Holy cow, the medic just stabbed his captor in the neck! Justified, given the stakes, but somewhat unexpected.
** Gives a good showing of himself in "The Siege of AR-558" as well.
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* [[Foreshadowing]]: A throwaway moment occurs in the S4 episode ''Homefront'', when Odo chats with O'Brien and Bashir right before a trip to Earth. O'Brien cheerfully asks Odo to say hi to O'Brien's parents in Dublin. Odo turns and asks Bashir if he has any family he'd like Odo to visit; Bashir immediately clams up and changes the subject, a hint at his strained relationship with his parents almost a full season before it's explicitly established.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: At least in regards to James Bond novels.
* [[Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?]]?: How some feel about his augmentations.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Julian claims that Miles likes him more than Miles ''loves'' Keiko. Although Miles would like to deny this, he does admit to sometimes wishing that Keiko was more like Julian.
* [[Hospital Hottie]]
* [[Good
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: He tends to brag about beating a Vulcan in a racquetball match and his many medical miracles. Ironically, this is toned down after his augmentation is revealed.
** Siddig has revealed that he deliberately made Bashir jerkish because he knew the show would run for years and he wanted to show [[Character Development]]. This turned out to fit well with the later idea that it's because of his genetically enhanced origins.
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* [[The Medic]]: Even if it doesn't make any sense for a station doctor to be out in the field.
* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: His reasons for going into medicine change from person to person. One of the reasons people thought the writers planned the reveal of his augmentations from the beginning, instead of a last-minute change.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Unsatisfied with the audiences' response to "bumbling" Bashir, the writers outed him as a genetically-enhanced über genius who has been operating under the radar.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Garak.
* [[Prophetic Name]]: The meaning of the name Bashir is "well-educated; wise".
** Among the original names for the character was "Dr. [[Punny Name|Amaros]]", which is a bit on the nose.
* [[Romantic Runner
* [[Satellite Character]]: Nope, not O'Brien. To ''Garak''. Without his spy intrigue, Bashir wouldn't be included in some of the more interesting arcs (including Section 31).
* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]
* [[That Man Is Dead]]: He refuses to go by his childhood nickname 'Jules', insisting that Jules died on the operating table, and is now Julian.
** A bit of clarification: Julian is his birth name, while Jules was an affectionate nickname. At fifteen, when he realized what had been done to him, he stopped going by it, to the point where, when he has a moment in private with his parents, he lashes out at them for using it.
* [[Transhuman]]: A jarring 180 to the [[No Transhumanism Allowed]] usually employed in ''[[Star Trek]]''.
* [[
* [[Urban Legend Love Life]]: Even the actor is amazed at Bashir's amazingly bad luck with women. The two early objects of his affection end up with ''Rom'' and ''Worf'' respectively. Ouch.
** Which is potentially why he ends up with Ezri, in all her tiny, cute awesomeness. After all those tough breaks karma owes him big time.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Alexander Siddig was originally considered for the role of ''Sisko'' because the producers had seen him in a movie where he was playing a much older man (with makeup to age him up). When they found out how young he actually was, he was cast in the Bashir role instead. Incidentally, "Julian Bashir" was initially named "Julian Ambrose," but the name was changed when Siddig was cast to reflect his Arab heritage.
* [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?]]: As a small child, Bashir had several severe learning disabilities, so his parents had him undergo an illegal and extremely dangerous genetic treatment. Since then, it is implied that they were [[Stage Mom|Stage Parents]], pushing him towards a high-profile, high-status occupation, instead of letting him make up his own mind, as well as constantly monitoring his behavior so as not to end up in prison. This is the cause of Bashir's resentment and estrangement towards them.
=== Lieutenant/Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) ===
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[[The Spock]], [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] (and the [[Action Girl]] sometimes), with the slight twist of being an attractive young female - albeit one inhabited by a symbiont [[The Nth Doctor|with several centuries of memories and experience from hosts of both genders]]. Some fans claim she mutated into a [[Faux Action Girl]] after she got together with Worf, although she first showed her proficiency with the ''bat'leth'' in Season 2. For Season 7, she is [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|replaced]] by ''Ezri'' Dax who is [[Cloudcuckoolander|not at all similar]]. Luckily, her species had a built-in storyline reason that made this possible; [[The Nth Doctor|symbionts need new hosts]] on occasion after all, and the joining adds the new personalities to the mix.
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Battle Couple]]: With Worf.
* [[Bi the Way]]: When you're a [[Gender Bender|gender-bending]] alien whose life keeps criss-crossing with past lovers who are ''also'' gender flipped, you're bound to be confused.
** This led to ''[[DS 9]]'' airing what was (incorrectly) claimed to be the first lesbian kiss on network television, between Dax and "his" former wife Kahn. ([
* [[The Consigliere]]: To Sisko. It helps that Dax has been knocking about for a long while, and knows the attitudes of Starfleet's various adversaries.
* [[Enemy Within]]: Joran Dax, the most unstable of her past personalities.
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* [[Honest Advisor]]
* [[Hot Amazon]]: [[Lady of War]] variety, at least in personality. Fighting style is more [[Lightning Bruiser]].
* [[Hot Chick
* [[Hot Scientist]]
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With Worf.
* [[The Nth Doctor]]: The eighth host of Dax.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Sort of. Jadzia is actually exactly as old as she looks but through Dax she has the memories and some of the personality of a much older being. A century old Bajoran magistrate said (paraphrasing) "When I started this hearing I didn't know if you were as young as my great-granddaughter, or three times as old as I am. Now I'm starting to think you're both."
* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Adopted Warrior Foreigner]]: A Trill who is more Klingon than most Klingon.
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* [[The Spock]]
** Though generally rational she is to emotional to be a classic spock. She is more [[The Kirk]].
* [[Took a Level
* [[Uptight Loves Wild]]: With Worf. Three guesses on who is which.
=== Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton) ===
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Benjamin Sisko's son. A rather inexplicable member of the main cast, but he was ''always'' in the starting credits, even when guys like Garak and Nog started featuring more than him, and he had a tendency to vanish for several episodes at a time. However, some of the most critically acclaimed writing and acting on the series were the Jake/Ben Sisko scenes. He blessedly avoided becoming another [[
* [[Absentee Actor]]: In the first six seasons, he would often vanish for multiple episodes at a time; more inexplicably he's missing from the majority of the last season. Hell, Morn appeared in more episodes than Jake!
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* [[Most Writers Are Writers]]: The crew was not particularly happy with "The Muse", especially when they realized they had strayed well into this trope.
* [[Tagalong Kid]]: This became unintentionally hilarious in the later seasons, as Lofton ended up being one of the tallest actors. For example, the episode "Valiant" has a crew full of cadets who barely reach his neck trying to order him around. They have to look up to point a phaser to his chin!
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Subverted, as he ''doesn't'' want to follow his father into Starfleet and worries that his father will be disappointed with his desire to be a writer.
=== Chief Miles O'Brien (Colm Meaney) ===
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[[Mr. Fixit]] - an [[Ascended Extra]] from ''[[Star Trek:
A note for trivia buffs: both he and Worf were present in the series premiere (and series finale) of ''TNG'', and hold the records for "Appeared In The Most" (or "2nd Most" in O'Brien's case) "Episodes Of ''[[Star Trek]]'' Ever." (Majel Barrett Roddenberry, whose voice "appears" as the Federation computer's for something like 250 episodes, holds a different record.)
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* [[Limited Advancement Opportunities]]: Given his record of genius and heroism, you'd expect him to make Master Chief by the end of the series, but he stays an SCPO for the entire run (although it is possible that might be the top of the Starfleet NCO ranks, we haven't seen enough of them on screen to be sure). He does continually gain responsibilities and duties throughout the series, so there is a career progression of sorts going on.
* [[Mr. Fixit]]: Well into Season 6, it is ''still'' strongly implied that the only reason all the mixed Federation and Cardassian technology on board DS9 runs anything close to smoothly is because he has been working on it non-stop from day one.
* [[Timey
* [[Veteran Instructor]]: Sort of slips into the old-hand mentor role in the final two seasons, and the [[Grand Finale]] sees him return to Earth to become an official instructor at the Academy.
=== Quark ([[Armin Shimerman]]) ===
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A mix of [[Anti
* [[Anti
* [[Boxed Crook]]: In the pilot, he was about to leave, but was forced to stay on DS9. He still is involved in some degree of criminal activity of his own regardless despite his own "prison", but it's on purpose, so Sisko and Odo can monitor him better.
* [[The Bartender]]
* [[Can't Get Away
* [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]]
* [[Cowardly Lion]]
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Kills at least half a dozen Jem'Hadar [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]] in shootouts over the course of the series, despite how often he insists fighting is no way for a Ferengi to behave. When circumstances forced him into a duel with a Klingon, he escaped with his life by showing up anyway, throwing the fight and saying how it's effectively an execution ("Killing an unarmed ferengi... ''half his size''"), goading his opponent into fighting anyway and causing Chancellor Gowron to intervene and admonish his opponent for such a dishonor. Quite a little [[Batman Gambit]] on his part.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards|Even Swindlers Have Standards]]: He goes into business with his cousin Gaila, an arms merchant, but changes his mind and ultimately wrecks Gaila's business because he can't stand to sell the death of millions.
** When the Dominion takes over the station, Quark is initially okay with it. Sure, he misses the Federation, but business is good and (as he says) the current occupation is nowhere near as bad as the Cardassian one. However, his viewpoint changes over the course of the arc. Towards the end, he bemoans the current situation, saying he doesn't like the Cardassians and finds the Jem'Hadar creepy (not to mention they don't ever buy anything so all they do is take up space and scare away business). He culminates by saying, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"I wanna sell root beer again!"]]
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** On the other hand, this also explains why he's such a traditionalist. While other Ferengi are often shallow and greedy enough to do just about anything for profit, he considers the public welfare just as important.
** He's also ''deeply'' religious, almost as spiritual as Kira in his own way. He's been seen praying and in one episode even had a dream about visiting the Ferengi equivalent of Heaven.
* [[Honest
* [[Jerk
* [[Mayor of a Ghost Town]]: Began the series as this. Cunningly, Sisko snatches Quark before he can leave the station and appoints him "[[Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word|community leader]]"; a nice way of saying that if Quark doesn't stay, his nephew goes to jail.
* [[The Millstone]]: Particularly in the show's early years. Quark often endangers the entire station in pursuit of an illegal transaction. One such incident (smuggling Verad onboard) almost got Jadzia killed -- this caused him to tone it down a little.
* [[Not So Different]] / [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: Quark has a lot to say about the Federation, and hew-mons in particular. Sometimes his observations are devastatingly on target.
* [[Shipper
* [[
* [[The Unfavorite]]: His mother always preferred Rom, partly because Rom takes a lot after his late father. Quark and his mother have a lot in common, but are on opposite ends opinion-wise.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Feels this way about Odo. Even in the second episode, he defends Odo against accusations of murder.
=== Lt. Commander Worf (Michael Dorn) ===
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[[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] and often sufferer of [[The Worf Effect]] (obviously), another reassignment from the ''Enterprise''-D, turning up with the show's [[Retool]] at the start of season 4. Notably, Worf suffered less of [[The Worf Effect]] on this show than ''[[Star Trek:
* [[Battle Couple]]: With Jadzia
* [[The Big Guy]]
* [[Bruiser
* [[The Comically Serious]]
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'''Worf''': ... good. }}
* [[Determinator]]: Famously stood his ground against '''ten''' Jem 'Hadar warriors in a [[Forced Prize Fight]]. When he finally does hit the mat, it's his ''opponent'' who calls it quits.
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* [[Deuteragonist]]: Essentially becomes this when he joins the cast; the entire Klingon War arc was more or less built around bringing his character onto the show.
* [[Fire
* [[Happily Married]]: To Jadzia.
* [[Heartbroken Badass]]: Worf is, quite simply, devastated {{spoiler|after Jadzia is killed}}. He didn't suffer that much even after K'Ehleyr was murdered by Duras and his performance of the Klingon Death Ritual over her body is one of the few times he actually ''[[Manly Tears|weeps]].''
* [[Immigrant Patriotism]]: Played with. He is loyal to the Federation to the point of fighting against the Klingon Empire when they go to war. At the same time, he is obsessed with Klingon tradition more then most Klingons are. (Again, see the ''TNG'' character sheet for an accurate analysis of his mentality.)
* [[Master Swordsman|Master Batlith man]] : Given that he can beat [[Hot Chick
* [[My Greatest Failure]]: In "Let He Who is Without Sin...", we learn that Worf's uptight nature is the result of a childhood soccer match, when young Worf accidentally headbutted an opposing player. Klingon foreheads being what they are, the kid died. This tragedy convinced Worf to reign in his Klingon passion.
* [[Number Two]]: Is First Officer of the ''Defiant''. In practice, he and Kira share this role, which is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in "Apocalypse Rising".
* [[An Odd Place to Sleep]]: Right from Day One, Worf has trouble adjusting to the morally-grey atmosphere on the station. Following a string of disasters, he decides that the only way to adjust to life aboard the station is to live outside it, and makes the ''Defiant'' his crib.
* [[Offered the Crown]]: After his killing of {{spoiler|Gowron in "Tacking Into the Wind"}} he basically earned the right to rule the Klingon Empire. He chose wisely instead to hand it Martok. A [[Running Gag|bit of running theme with Worf.]] When ever he got involved with leadership of the Klingon people someone ends up dead and someone ends up a new leader.
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]
* [[The Stoic]]
** [[Not So Stoic]]: See [[Heartbroken Badass]]
* [[Warrior Poet]]: Loves Klingon Opera, Klingon legends, and Klingon traditions.
* [[The Worf Effect]]: [[Averted Trope|Starting to wane]] by this point, thank goodness.
* [[Uptight Loves Wild]]: With Jadzia. Three guesses who is which.
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=== Lieutenant Ezri Dax (Nicole de Boer) ===
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The new Trill host for the Dax symbiont, owing that only to chance. Ezri was serving on the ship taking Dax back to Trill when the symbiont became extremely ill and the only way to save its life was immediate implantation in a new host. As the only Trill onboard, Ezri reluctantly volunteered, and her unease at being a "joined" Trill, which was something prospective hosts are supposed to train for years to deal with, became a centerpiece of her character. She also had to deal with Dax influencing her feelings about Worf and Bashir, her own attraction to Bashir, and the fact that an officer of her general inexperience -- specifically, a Lieutenant Junior Grade '''Assistant Counselor''' -- was suddenly part of the Federation's front-line wartime command crew.
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* [[The Nth Doctor]]: The ninth host of Dax.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: She's got the same deal as Jadzia going on.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Is on the receiving one of Garak's. Later, she delivers one to Worf about the Klingon Empire being plagued with corruptness.
* [[Stepford Snarker]]: She frequently makes sarcastic comments and uses [[Self Deprecating Humor]] to cover her real anxiety. The episode focusing on her family implies Ezri did this before she was joined.
* [[The
* [[Took a Level
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy|Well Done Daughter Girl]]: Somewhat. When she realized she would never get this, she joined Starfleet and didn't look back. (Until O'Brien goes missing on her home planet and she ''has'' to.)
== Quark's Bar, Family & other Ferengi ==
=== Rom (Max Grodénchik) ===
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Quark's younger brother and Nog's father. Initially nothing more than a goofy comic relief character, completely dominated by his brother, he was revealed to have [[Hidden Depths]] as the series went on.
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* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: But pretty much only as far as Quark is concerned.
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Rom was not only unnamed in his first appearance, he also was depicted with a vastly different characterization and even ''voice'' by Grodénchik. Later, he was thought of as being an idiot (Odo even said that he couldn't have fixed Quark's replicator, because he couldn't fix a straw if it was bent), but as it turns out, he's a ''highly'' competent engineer.
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* [[Genius Ditz]]: A damn fine engineer, completely lacking in common sense and, worse for a Ferengi, business sense, until near the end of the show.
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'''Rom:''' "It comes in handy sometimes." }}
* [[Mr. Fixit]]
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* [[Simpleton Voice]]
* [[The Unfavorite]]: With everyone but his and Quark's mother.
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Eventually marries [[Fan Service
** Pretty much everyone considers this a [[Crack Pairing]] in-universe, for varying reasons.
*** By Ferengi standards Rom is considered something of a [[Brainless Beauty]] though.
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=== Nog (Aron Eisenberg) ===
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Quark's nephew. Starts out as Jake's [[Book Dumb]] Ferengi best friend, but then joins Starfleet and becomes a shining example of a straight-up, by-the-book soldier. This occasionally lapses into [[New Meat]], except that, because Starfleet is only [[Mildly Military]], no one finds him the least bit annoying.
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* [[Artificial Limbs]]: After the Siege of AR-551.
* [[Book Dumb]]
* [[Eager Young Space Cadet]]▼
* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Vic in "It's Only a Paper Moon."
* [[Shell
* [[The Scrounger]]
▲* [[Space Cadet]]
* [[Values Dissonance]]: His friendship with Jake is occasionally troubled by this, considering that Nog is a Ferengi while Jake is a citizen of the moneyless, classless, gender-equitable Federation.
=== Leeta (Chase Masterson) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Morn (Mark Allen Shepherd) ===
{{quote|''"People love him. He's like a mascot. Everyone who comes in here expects to see him, and if they don't, it doesn't feel like home to them."''|'''Quark''' ([[Leaning
A friend of Quark's and a permanent fixture at his bar. He never speaks a single line over the course of the series.
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* [[Informed Ability]]: Comedic version. He's quite the blabbermouth. You'd never know from watching.
** He's also referred to as the resident [[Boisterous Bruiser]] on a couple of occasions and apparently has a tremendous singing voice.
** Apparantly aslo a lady's man. See [[Kavorka Man]].
* [[Kavorka Man]]: If you pay attention, every appearance where he isn't drinking usually has him with a lady (sometimes two) in his arms. Dax admitted to being attracted to him but she figured he was way out of her league.
* [[
* [[Running Gag]]: Everyone always talks about qualities he has or actions he took we never get to see. Such has him being very talkative.
* [[The Voiceless]]: You never actually see him speak.
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=== Grand Nagus Zek (Wallace Shawn) ===
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Leader of the Ferengi Alliance, he appears in almost every Ferengi episode. He is often toted as being the wealthiest Ferengi alive, but later on it is revealed that his mind is not what it used to be. He starts a relationship with Quark's mother, Ishka, who ends up becoming the [[Man Behind the Man|woman behind the man]] by helping him with his memory problems. At the end of the show, he retires from the position and (at Ishka's suggestion) passes social reform granting female rights, environmental regulations, and many other things.
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Has a healthy libido, similar to most Ferengi.
* [[Hey,
* [[Hospitality for Heroes]]: More or less the reason why he continues to hang out with a bartender and his brother.
* [[Money Fetish]]: Like all Ferengi.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Basically his response when the FCA tries to shoot down his social reform.
=== Ishka (Andrea Martin/ Cecily Adams) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Liquidator Brunt ([[Jeffrey Combs]]) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Vic Fontaine (James Darren) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
* [[Instant AI Just Add Water]]▼
▲* [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]]
* [[Intangible Man]]
* [[The Sixties]]
== Federation & Bajor ==
=== Kai Opaka (Camille Saviola) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Keiko O'Brian (Rosalind Chao) ===
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* [[Hot Scientist]]
* [[Housewife]]
* [[Overshadowed
* [[Schoolmarm]]
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]
* [[Wide
=== Vedek/Kai Winn Adami (Louise Fletcher) ===
Traditionalist Bajoran religious leader who is introduced as generically [[The Fundamentalist]], but develops into a far more complex antagonist for the heroes. Ends up in [[Sinister Minister]] territory, but has a much less cartoonish motivation than
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|The Prophets have NEVER spoken to her, not even indirectly, once. It's clear this is because she's greedy for temporal power and respect and it was because of her lack of humility, but she eventually loses all her faith they cared to begin with and descended into betraying her own faith due to this trope}}.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: She schemes, plots assassinations, undermines Sisko at every turn, {{spoiler|but when she finds out that the Bajoran 'spiritual guide' she slept with is Gul Dukat, she looks like she's going to throw up}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}: About five minutes before the end.
* [[Hey,
* [[Holier Than Thou]]: If she's onscreen with Sisko, expect her to make a dig at him for being foreign. If she's onscreen with Kira, expect "gentle" reminders about just who is the Kai.
* [[Ignored Epiphany]]: She gets told the one way to get what she wants is to {{spoiler|relinquish any power as Kai, that humility would finally resolve her problems}}. She unable to do so out of pride, and it all goes downhill from there.
* [[
* [[Jerkass]]: She is the high queen of being passive-aggressive. And bombing schools.
* [[Large Ham]]: It is very, ''very'' easy to see Louise Fletcher positively ''luxuriating'' in the sheer hamminess of this character.
* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]}}: {{spoiler|Gives Sisko key information immediately before Dukat kills her.}}
* [[Sinister Minister]]: She kicks off her first major role by plotting the assassination of a rival who was favored to become Kai. Shortly after that, she involves herself in a coup that intends to expel the Federation.
* [[Spanner in
* [[The Unfavourite]]: In a religious sense. Despite her Kai title and obstination, the prophets will never give her an audience, even if she's using orbs, that were created so Bajorans could have access at any time to their Gods. It's particularly noticeable because everyone else who
** Such a treatment gives us a good example of [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]. It plays a good part in her {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]] against them}}.
=== Vedek Bareil Antos (Philip Anglim) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Lt. Commander Michael Eddington (Kenneth Marshall) ===
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Initially assigned to Deep Space 9 as Chief of Starfleet Security after first contact with the Dominion. This was done in part due to a lack of trust Starfleet Command had for Odo. Ironically, Eddington would eventually betray his uniform and join the Maquis.
* [[
* [[The Mole]]
=== Kasidy Yates (Penny Johnson) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Shakaar Edon (Duncan Regehr) ===
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=== Joseph Sisko (Brock Peters) ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
=== Vice Admiral William Ross (Barry Jenner) ===
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* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: If he is not the most reasonable Starfleet admiral in the entirety of Trek, then he is certainly the second most.
* [[Secret Keeper]]: Ross tries to impress on Bashir the necessity for this concerning {{spoiler|Section 31}}.
** {{spoiler|While only implied in the show, the novels confirm Ross was affiliated with Section 31, and was doing this trope on purpose because he knew if he revealed their secrets, they would kill not only him but anyone else he told}}.
* [[Throw It In]]: A joking reference by Odo to Ross as "Bill" in the first episode of season 7 was taken literally by the writing staff, resulting in his canonical first name.
=== Luther Sloan (William Sadler) ===
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An operative of Section 31, a clandestine black ops organization within the Federation and independent of Starfleet. Sloan and the others of his agency have dedicated their lives to eliminating threats to the Federation's survival by any means necessary, even if it means violating the very freedoms and principles that Federation citizens are supposed to hold dear.
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* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: The validity of just about every biographical detail we are given about him is questionable.
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]
* [[Well
== Cardassian Union ==
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=== Elim Garak (Andrew Robinson) ===
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A Cardassian tailor (and [[Magnificent Bastard]]) with a [[Mysterious Past]] as a top-notch spy, field agent and torturer for the feared Cardassian Obsidian Order; his moral ambiguity, unique skills and network of shady contacts become rather important in later seasons.
* [[Almighty Janitor]]: This lowly tailor is plugged into more resources than the whole of Starfleet '''combined'''.
** Well, except Section 31, but he gives them a run for their money.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: According to his actor he initially played Garak as being Omnisexual.
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* [[Beware the Silly Ones]]
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "There may be hope for you yet" He utters the phrase pretty much anytime he observes a principled or noble character show signs of cynicism or suspicion (particularly if they indicate they don't trust ''him'')
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: His desire to engage in this kind of
* [[Claustrophobia]]: He suffers from
* [[Consummate Liar]]: It's so difficult for most people to be able to tell when he's being truthful or lying that the default reaction is to assume he's always lying. He himself [[Self
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: At one point Garek spots an assassin sent after him and deliberately blows up his own shop so security will protect him. The Crazy Prepared part? Garek builds the bomb with a specific type of pheromone trigger favored by the assassin's species to make the frame
* [[Curiosity Causes Conversion]]: According to Robinson, Garak is intrigued by Bashir's motiveless compassion for others - something totally alien to Cardassians at this point in their history.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: After getting beaten by Klingons, Garak tells Bashir that ''he'' got the better end of the deal.
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'''Garak''': Ah, but I got off several cutting remarks which no doubt did serious damage to their egos! Thanks to your ministrations, I'll be back on my feet in no time, whereas the damage I did will last a ''lifetime.'' }}
** Garak has several deadpan-snark moments in virtually every episode he appears in. He's probably the ''Trek'' universe's Most Triumphant Example.
* [[Don't Call Me "Sir"!]]: Just [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|"plain, simple Garak!"]].
** [[Exploited Trope|Exploited]], obviously.
* [[Double Reverse Quadruple Agent]]: The Cardassians may secretly employ him to keep eyes and ears on DS9, but they also seem to have good reasons for making sure he stays ''out'' of Cardassia.
* [[Fake Defector]]
* [[Fake Guest Star]]: introduced in the second episode of the show. Appears in all seven seasons. Becomes absolutely ''central'' to the plot. Doesn't appear in the opening credits because Robinson asked not to.
* [[Hey,
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: He once
* [[Knowledge Broker]]: It's one of the reasons why Sisko's team and later the Federation
* [[Mysterious Past]]
** [[Multiple Choice Past]]: He insists that every version is true - [[Especially Zoidberg|especially the lies.]]
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* [[Recurring Character]]
* [[Retired Monster]]: He was a very successful operative for the [[Secret Police|Obsidian Order]], and is not apologetic about this in the slightest.
* [[Self
* [[Self
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: The go-to guy for this on the station.
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* [[Strange Bedfellows]]: The fate of Cardassia and the Alpha Quadrant ends up requiring Garak, Kira, and Damar to put aside their three-way loathing of each other and work together. By the end of the series, there are even signs of a [[Fire
* [[Token Heroic Orc]]: [[Inverted Trope|To an extent]]. Garak doesn't mind Cardassia's military expansionism, per se. The tipping point is when his homeworld is overrun by the Dominion due to a couple short-sighted opportunists, like Dukat.
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]
* [[That Man Is Dead]]: Claims to be responsible for the death of his best friend, Elim. This is then revealed to actually be Garak's ''first'' name.
* [[The Exile]]
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: He tells Sisko off after Sisko's self-righteous reprimanding of him over the murder of a Romulan diplomat, given that Sisko knew ''exactly'' the kind of person Garak was and more or less what he would do if Sisko tried to recruit him to frame up the Dominion.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: It was only on Tain's deathbed that Garak received some recognition.
=== Gul Dukat (Marc Alaimo) ===
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Possibly the finest [[Magnificent Bastard]] the franchise has seen, and eventual [[Big Bad]]. Wavered between [[Kick the Dog]] and [[Pet the Dog]] moments (especially with his daughter) before things transpired to make him nice and crazy, at which point he crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]], especially from the end of Season 6 onward.
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* [[Ambition Is Evil]]
* [[And I Must Scream]]: {{spoiler|Sealed away in the Fire Caves with the Pah-Wraiths... ''forever''}}.
* [[Anti
* [[Big Bad]]
* [[Dark Messiah]]
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* [[Insane Admiral]]: Briefly promoted to Legate, the Cardassian equivalent of Admiral. Dukat requested to be bumped back down to Gul (despite [[Just the First Citizen|reigning as de facto dictator of his homeworld]]), apparently as a gesture of modesty. It might have also been a snub at his superiors for ignoring his abilities for so long.
* [[Jerkass Dissonance]]: This became a problem. Eventually, even the actor got in on the act; Marc Alaimo believed that Dukat was essentially good, and was saddened when he had to punch an old guy in Season 7.
* [[Kavorka Man]]: Among Bajoran women, anyway.
* [[Kicked Upstairs]]: At the start of the series. It's his frustration at his inability to fix this that drives Dukat toward the Dominion.
* [[Magic Plastic Surgery]]: While masquerading as "Anjohl Tennan", a Bajoran farmer.
* [[No Name Given]]: Dukat's first name is never stated in canon, though the non-canonical first name of "Skrain" has been adopted by many fans. At one point he identifies himself as "Dukat, S.G." though it's been suggested by [[Word of God]] that this is a title (like Ph.D., M.D., or R.N.).
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* [[The Quisling]]: For Dukat, a few months of being a lowly guerrilla fighter made a pact with The Dominion look mighty attractive.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Before he signs an alliance with the Dominion.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[Resenter]]: Like Sisko, Dukat too once presided over Bajor as an outsider. The difference is that Dukat was reviled, whereas the Bajorans embraced Sisko as their spiritual idol. Ouch.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]
* [[Sinister Minister]]: As leader of the Pai-Wraith cult.
* [[Troll]]: His behavior in "Civil Defense". When Cardassian security programs take control of the station, he teleports in purely to be as smug as possible before teleporting out. {{spoiler|Then he finds out that he can't.}}
* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: Manages to re-take Deep Space Nine with Jem'Hadar help.
** Amusingly, Dukat even takes over the [[
* [[Visionary Villain]]: Dukat assumed his post on Bajor with the firm intention of offering more carrot, and less stick. However, rather than shower affection on their new shogun, the Bajorans raised their heads (to Dukat's astonishment) and overthrew the Cardassian forces. [[Word of God]] says that Dukat's deep-seated hate for the Bajorans is rooted in the fact that they refused to love him.
* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: With Kai Winn.
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=== Damar (Casey Biggs) ===
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Dukat's right-hand man, he did little of note until killing Dukat's daughter Ziyal for treachery (she had been sabotaging DS9 during the Cardassian-Dominion re-occupation of Bajor), which directly led to Dukat's going [[Omnicidal Maniac|completely batshit insane]]. Afterwards he became leader of the Cardassian Union and was shown to be a visibly troubled man both uncomfortable with power and increasingly dissatisfied with the actions of the Dominion. In the show's final episodes, he led [[La Résistance]] on Cardassia and ended up {{spoiler|getting killed for his trouble}}.
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* [[Ascended Extra]]: Damar was originally just a crewmember on Dukat's ship. Biggs originally thought he was just a glorified extra in his first episode.
* [[Character Development]]: Perhaps the single most extreme example in all of ''[[Star Trek]]''.
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Mid
* [[Heel Face Turn]]
* [[La Résistance]]:
* [[Mook Promotion]]
* [[No Honor Among Thieves]]: With Weyoun. It's hinted that Damar tried bumping him off via a "[[Make It Look Like an Accident|transporter accident]]". Vorta being what they are, though, it didn't take.
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** Tracy Middendorf's one appearance as Ziyal is also a less-extreme example; 19-year-old Ziyal was being played by an actress who was, at the time of filming, 25 years old.
* [[Missing Mom]]
* [[Mad
* [[Morality Pet]]: Is this for Dukat. {{spoiler|Ultimately, this ends ''badly''.}}
* [[Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid]]: Half-Cardassian, half-Bajoran.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: ''Twice''. There was a little drama about this behind the scenes, evidently - then-22-year-old Cyia Batten played her brilliantly in Ziyal's debut appearances, but was replaced when they wanted someone "older" to pair up with Garak (despite Ziyal canonically being all of 19 years old when rescued).
* [[Unlocking the Talent]]: Tragically subverted. She was receiving mentoring off-screen for a rare artistic gift that she was deliberately keeping secret so she could earn a prestigious university place by merit rather than through her father making connections on her behalf. Experts consider her art to be a callback to both a great Bajoran artist and a great Cardassian artist. She intends to use her mixed culture and the fact people can see both Cardassian techniques and Bajoran techniques in her work as a way of trying to bring the two worlds together and the university professors thinks her talent is good enough for her dream. And then she's murdered.
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* [[Cowardly Lion]]: His experiences in the Jem'Hadar prison camp left him more shaken than initially thought. On his first command afterwards, he passes up opportunities for victories and his crew starts to consider him a coward. Worf manages to find a way to restore Martok's confidence, unsurprisingly.
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Except he doesn't actually wear an eyepatch.
* [[Fire
* [[Four
* [[Happily Married]]: He seems a bit of a [[Henpecked Husband]], but when he describes his marriage to Sisko, it's clear he would have it no other way... when his wife sweeps imperiously onto the station, Martok watches with clear love and admiration.
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* [[Hero of Another Story]]
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]
* [[Scars Are Forever]]: Subverted. He refuses a prosthetic eye when its offered, wearing the scars as a badge of honour from having recieved them in battle with a Jem'hadar. Its also possible he knows that they make him even more intimidating to his opponents.
* [[Self
=== Kor (John Colicos) ===
Legendary Klingon warrior, ''Dahar Master'' (A rank for legendary Klingon Warriors) and former enemy of a certain equally-legendary [[Star Trek:
* [[The Alcoholic]]
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* [[Grumpy Old Man]]
* [[Old Master]]
* [[Role Reprisal]]: John Colicos portrayed Kor in ''[[Star Trek:
* [[No Hero to His Valet]]: Martok despised him because he refused to allow him into military service because Martok was low-born. Having a Dahar Master saying no to him basically put him on the military blacklist and only got into the military by performing some heroics after signing up as a civilian auxiliary.
* [[Shrouded in Myth]]
* [[Hero of Another Story|Villain Of Another Story]] : Rival of Kirk's in TOS.
* [[Warrior Heaven]]: Promises Worf that he will say hi to Jadzia when he [[Suicide Mission|gets to Sto-vo-kor]].
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* [[Badass Boast]]: Koloth to Odo
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'''Koloth:'''"I am Koloth."
'''Odo:'''"That doesn't answer my question."
'''Koloth:'''"Yes, it does." }}
* [[Bling of War]]: Koloth always wears his full Klingon dress uniform, covered in many, many decorations.
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Chancellor of the Klingon Empire
* [[Anti
* [[Corrupt Politician]]
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Out of jealousy, he deliberately sacrifices Klingon lives to make Martok look like an incompetant general.
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* [[Amicably Divorced]]: To Quark
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: To Quark
* [[Bothering
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: In Looking for Par'Mach
* [[Iron Lady]]
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* [[God King]]
* [[Just the First Citizen]]
* [[Moral Myopia]]/[[
* [[Paranoia Gambit]]: A favored tactic, often seeking to provoke [[Divided We Fall]] among the Alpha Quadrant.
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: They usually keep to themselves and delegate the running of the Dominion to the Vorta, but occasionally they act as spies and infiltrators.
* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]
* [[Shadow Dictator]]
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* [[Cyanide Pill]]: The termination implant; they are supposed to activate it immediately upon capture, but not all do. Apparently the Founders made them a little ''too'' devious.
* [[Eerie Pale
* [[Expendable Clone]]: Part of the Vorta's schtick was that they were grown as clones and had the memories of their identical predecessor imprinted on them.
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]
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=== The Female Changeling (Salome Jens) ===
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Ostensibly the leader of the Dominion, the public face of the Founders, and Weyoun's boss. She straddled the line between [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] and [[Complete Monster]], and would have been the [[Big Bad]] of the series had Dukat not gone crazy.
* [[Big Bad]]
* [[Definitely Just a Cold]]: After Odo unwittingly acts as carrier to a virus cooked up by Section 31. The Female Changeling does her best to disguise her symptoms, but eventually starts to visibly rot away.
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* [[The Vamp]]: To Odo.
=== Weyoun ([[Jeffrey Combs]]) ===
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* [[Ascended Extra]]: First appeared in "To the Death" and was promptly killed off. The concept of Vorta cloning was created solely to bring Combs back as Weyoun.
* [[Bandwagon Technique]]: One of the arguments he uses when trying to persuade people over to the dark side- I mean, the Dominion.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Oh, my god.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Of the more strategic type than actual throw-downs, but... yep.
* [[Eerie Pale
* [[Evil Virtues]]: Hard work, Loyalty, Patience, Responsibility, Selflessness...
** Temperance too. Though it is not clear that counts for a creature bred to have almost no fleshly desires anyway.
* [[Genre Savvy]]
* [[Ho Yay]]: "Do you remember the first time I brought you scones?" Too bad this was just a holo-recording. That scene had [[Ho Yay]] written all over it.
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'''Damar''': Well?
'''Weyoun''': Your ''friend'' doesn't want to hear this.
'''Damar''': And why doesn't my friend want to hear this?
'''Weyoun''': Because if she did, I would be forced to have her executed.
''[She leaves.]''
'''Weyoun''': [[Sarcasm Mode|What a pleasant woman.]] }}
* [[Out of Continues]]: Once Damar blows up his cloning facilities. Oops.
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* [[Sissy Villain]]
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[Tampering
* [[Teeth
* [[The Thirty
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: How his clones usually die. Questioning a Jem'Hadar's loyalty to the Dominion? Getting too close to Worf? Mocking the widespread destruction across Cardassia to ''a Cardassian''?
** Damar burst out laughing when Worf killed him, and mocked the next clone about it as well.
* [[The Unfettered]]: Most definitely qualifies for his often frightening devotion to the Founders and their cause. He would do ANYTHING for them... the only 'right' or 'wrong' that exists for this character is whether or not something will serve the Founders.
* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: He gets a few of these moments. There's one where he is analyzing (or trying to analyze) a painting, and even asks Major Kira (a good guy who is under an occupation force that is under his command) what she thinks of it... genuinely, with no sinister undertones whatsoever, [[Your Mileage May Vary|making it extra creepy to some, yet creepily cute to others]]. There's also a clip from the final montage of the fabulous episode "In The Cards", showing Weyoun thoroughly enjoying the crack-pot "Cellular Regeneration And Entertainment Chamber". Like I said. Fabulous.
* [[Your Favorite]]: When a holo-image of Weyoun says to Bashir, [[Ho Yay|"Do you remember the first time I brought you scones?"]] in that magnificent voice of his, after delivering said scones on a tray (with jam and tea, just the way Bashir likes it!) to a flustered and freaked out Bashir.
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* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: Odo's arms, specifically.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: [[Driven to Suicide|Activated his termination implant]] to save Odo from the attacking Jem'Hadar ship.
* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]: Subverted. He saw himself as loyal to the Founders and the Dominion as a whole, but he just couldn't support the war, seeing it as both immoral and ultimately counter to the Dominion's best interests.
* [[Offered the Crown]]: Asks Odo to come take over the Dominion and reform it after the Founders die. Odo never gives him a definitive answer, but {{spoiler|the Founders don't die at the end, and Odo does wind up joining them and trying to reform them}}.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]
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=== Tosk ===
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From episode ''Captive Pursuit.'' Member of a race bred by aliens to be hunted in ritual [[Blood Sport]] determined to play his assigned role for the honor of his race. Teddy
* [[All There in the Manual]]: According to the ''Star Trek Deep Space Nine Companion'', those that breed the Tosk also breed the Jem'Hadar. In a [[What Could Have Been]] moment, the Hunters were going to be revealed as Dominion members. (The Tosk apparently being their "reward" for loyal service.)
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]
* [[Hey,
* [[Honor Before Reason]]
* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]]
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* [[Warrior Poet]]
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