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== Main Cast ==
=== Commander/Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) ===
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{{quote| ''"So you're the commander of Deep Space 9. And the Emissary of the Prophets. Decorated combat officer, widower, father, mentor and... oh, yes, the man who started the war with the Dominion. Somehow I thought you'd be taller..."''|'''Senator Vreenak''', "In the Pale Moonlight"}}
 
{{quote| -- '''Senator Vreenak''', "In the Pale Moonlight"}}
 
[[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: theThe Next Generation|TNG]]) with a young son, Jake.
 
* [[A Father to His Men]]: Throughout the series Sisko shows great concern for the people under his charge.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type III. He enters Type IV and even Type V terrorityterritory in certain episodes (For the Uniform, In the Pale Moonlight).
* [[Ascend to Aa Higher Plane of Existence]]: {{spoiler|At the end of the series Sisko is ascended into the celestial temple for an unspecified amount of time.}}
** {{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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** 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]]''.
{{quote| '''Q''': You ''hit'' me! ''Picard'' never hit me!<br />
'''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 Asas People]]/[[Good Parents]]: He has a tough time raising Jake, but does a pretty good job of it anyway.
* [[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-Correct History]]: This [[Berserk Button|irritates him]]; it's one of the reasons he doesn't initially care to try out the Rat Pack era casino simulation.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]
* [[Resigned to Thethe Call]]: Sisko drags his heels all the way to his new assignment on DS9. It'a miserable job, and no one wants it. He quickly changes his tune after convening with the Prophets, who restore his hopes for the future.
** 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.
{{quote| '''Sisko:''' Commander, launch torpedoes.<br />
''[Worf stares at him in shock; hesitates]''<br />
'''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.''
{{quote| '''Sisko (smiling politely):''' Go over my head again and I'll have ''yours'' on a platter.}}
* [[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).
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=== Major/Colonel Kira Nerys ([[Nana Visitor]]) ===
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{{quote| '''Kira:''' You break the rules, you pay. <br />
'''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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* [[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 Byby Any Other Name|Holocaust survivor]].
* [[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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* [[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-Shocked Veteran]]: The Occupation was ''not'' fun for her.
* [[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: theThe Next Generation]]'' [[Recurring Character]] Ro Laren, but Michelle Forbes didn't want to commit to a TV series. By a couple episodes in, however, Kira had become a character in her own right and developed her own personality and history. [[Show Runner|Showrunners]] later remarked that Kira - who was emphatically ''not'' a member of Starfleet and didn't trust the Federation one whit - provided much more opportunity for drama and conflict.
* [[Ten Minutes in Thethe Closet|Ten Hours In The Closet]]: Used to resolve a months-long disagreement between Odo and Kira (specifically, his falling under the influence of the {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Female Changeling]]}}) in "You are Cordially Invited" - so we never ''actually'' hear the discussion, we just find out that they've been up all night talking. Incidentally, Visitor and Auberjonois pitched a fit about this and insisted that any other arguments between the two be resolved ''on''screen.
* [[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.
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=== Odo (Rene Auberjonois) ===
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{{quote| '''Odo:''' What makes you think I'm going to follow him? <br />
'''Garak:''' I happen to know that you're too dogged an investigator to allow the only witness in this case to simply disappear. <br />
'''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 [[Columbo (TV)|Columbo]].
* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: With a dash of [[Cowboy Cop|cowboy]]. He follows the rules to the letter, but isn't above letting the small fish go free in pursuit of a bigger offender. Contrast with Worf, who doesn't share Odo's discretion and bungles a few cases.
* [[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.''
{{quote| '''Odo:''' "You humanoids are all alike, you have no sense of ''order!'' And Dax is the most humanoid person I know."}}
** Unfortunately, without realizing it, by being ''this'' much of a neat freak, he's being a stereotypical Changeling.
{{quote| '''Female Changeling:''' It is not justice you ''desire,'' Odo--but order, the same as we do.}}
* [[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.
{{quote| "No player shall at any time make contact with the umpire in ''any'' manner. The prescribed penalty for the violation is immediate ejection from the game. Rule Number 4.06, Sub-Section A, paragraph four. Look it up, but do it in the stands. You're '''''GONE!'''''"}}
** As part of his objectivity, he did it to both teams. Though he clearly enjoyed doing it to Solok.
* [[Shapeshifter Baggage]]: In the third episode, he transforms himself into a ''rat''.<ref>Anyone know if this got more "realistic" later on? I vaguely recall them saying he couldn't do X or Y because it would be too small, but I also recall him covering another human like a new skin.</ref>
* [[Show the Forehead]]: His hairstyle is modeled after the Bajoran scientist who studied him for much of his life.
* [[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]].
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=== Doctor Julian Bashir (Siddig El Fadil a.k.a. Alexander Siddig) ===
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{{quote| ''"You may be inside my head, but you don't know me half as well as you think you do. Take Dax. I do have feelings for her. But the important thing is, she's my friend. You know? Friend? Hm? And I wouldn't exchange that friendship for anything. As far as my career is concerned, I may have been a good tennis player, but I am a great doctor. Maybe I could have been first in my class; but it wouldn't have changed anything in my life. I still would have chosen this assignment. This is where I belong."''}}
 
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 [[UpperclassUpper Class Twit]] (prattling eagerly about frontier medicine gets up the locals' noses). Later his behavior gives way to some dark personal secrets. Notable as the first time that a US TV show recognised that [[A Touch of Class, Ethnicity, and Religion|not all English people are white]].
 
* [[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 [[UpperclassUpper Class Twit]]-ish behavior.
* [[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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* [[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 Withwith Numbers]]: He's able to do very complex calculations in his head.
* [[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-Up]]: to Worf. ''Worf!''
* [[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]]''.
* [[UpperclassUpper Class Twit]]: In earlier episodes, prior to [[Character Development]].
* [[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-Human?]]
* [[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.
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{{quote| ''"Worf, my love - let me make this very clear: I do not want to spend my honeymoon climbing, hiking, sweating, bleeding or suffering in any way."''}}
 
[[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. ([[wikipedia:Lesbian kiss episode|It was actually the fifth.]])
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* [[Honest Advisor]]
* [[Hot Amazon]]: [[Lady of War]] variety, at least in personality. Fighting style is more [[Lightning Bruiser]].
* [[Hot Chick Withwith a Sword|Hot Chick With A Bat'lithe]] : And she wields it as well as any Klingon.
* [[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 Inin Badass]]: particularly after Curzon's Klingon-loving personality came to the forefront during her ''zhian'tara''.
* [[Uptight Loves Wild]]: With Worf. Three guesses on who is which.
 
=== Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton) ===
[[File:292px-Jake_Sisko_2375_3587.jpg|frame]]
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 [[Creator's Pet]], for the most part, via actually ''suffering'' sometimes, in his growth as a character; also showed the impressive insanity--sorry, ''[[Refuge in Audacity|testicular fortitude]]''--to remain behind and try to be a journalist covering [[A Nazi Byby Any Other Name|Dominion-occupied DS9]].
 
* [[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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{{quote| ''"How many times do I have to tell you to stop calling me "sir"? I'm not an officer."''}}
 
[[Mr. Fixit]] - an [[Ascended Extra]] from ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'', with a bigger role this time. Gets a bit of [[Ho Yay]] with Bashir later on when they almost become [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]. Subject of the annual "[[The Woobie|O'Brien Must Suffer]]" writers' in-joke. The only non-commissioned officer in the franchise to be a main character, he can easily be mistaken for the only one in the service. (The others were mostly [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Starfleet_enlisted_personnel very minor roles], dutifully enumerated on other wikis.) In the novelization of the pilot episode, O'Brien is slightly altered -- he accepted a promotion to Ensign and was no longer a noncom when the story began.
 
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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* [[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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{{quote| ''"Isn't there anything you... desire?"''}}
 
A mix of [[Anti-Hero]] and [[TedSmall BaxterName, Big Ego]] (there were lots of [[TedBig BaxterEgo, CloseHidden Up|Ted Baxter Close UpsDepths]] types featuring Quark). Being a Ferengi meant he was a member of a [[Planet of Hats]] of ultra-ruthless, ludicrously sexist capitalists. His brother Rom and his nephew Nog started out as the [[Too Dumb to Live]]-type, but it turned out they were just hiding behind these images too.
 
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type I
* [[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 Withwith Nuthin']]
* [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]]
* [[Cowardly Lion]]
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** 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 John's Dealership]]: The Ferengi's [[Planet of Hats|Hat]].
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: For all his scheming, he's not one to let innocent people get murdered to satiate his own greed.
* [[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 Onon Deck]]: As the station's eyes and ears ([[Obligatory Joke|Ha!]]), Quark comments on the pairings occurring all around him. Even some that [[Ship Tease|never actually took off]], such as Sisko/Jadzia.
* [[TedSmall BaxterName, Big Ego]]
* [[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) ===
[[File:292px-Worf2379_2198.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| '''Ezri:''' Worf, you are the most honorable and decent man that I've ever met. And if ''you're'' willing to tolerate men like {{spoiler|Gowron}}, then what hope is there for the Empire?}}
 
[[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: theThe Next Generation|The Next Generation]]''. The conflicts of this series and heavy involvement with the Klingon Empire were more suited to his strengths and instincts. As well, Michael Dorn ensured that, should he come on to another series, he would be both unique among Klingons and he would have a chance to be [[Badass]]. Hence his fondness of Prune Juice over Blood Wine. See also his section on the ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)/Characters|Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)/Characters|character sheet]].
 
* [[Battle Couple]]: With Jadzia
* [[The Big Guy]]
* [[Bruiser Withwith a Soft Center]]: Miles' baby can go to sleep in his arms.
* [[The Comically Serious]]
{{quote| '''Garak''': Mr. Worf, you're no fun at all.<br />
'''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.
{{quote| '''Ikat'ika:''' I yield. I cannot defeat this Klingon. I can only kill him, and [[Worthy Opponent|that no longer holds my interest]]."}}
* [[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-Forged Friends]]: With Martok.
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* [[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 Withwith a Sword|Jadzia]] in a friendly duel, Grilka's bodyguard in a real one, and actually kill Gowron in a [[Duel to Thethe Death]], he must be one of the best fighters to ever handle a bat'leth.
* [[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) ===
[[File:292px-Ezri_dax_2375_1717.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"She's a Dax. Sometimes they don't think, they just do."''}}
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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* [[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 Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes]]: She's tasked with Garak's ''very'' difficult case when she is in desperate need of therapy herself.
* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Well, at least a half-level, especially after a particularly scathing [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] from Garak; they squeeze in a little character development for her in the single season she's on the show, and she ends up hunting down a Vulcan serial killer.
* [["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.)
 
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=== Rom (Max Grodénchik) ===
{{quote| ''"I've always been smart, brother. I just lack self-confidence."''}}
 
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.
{{quote| '''Rom:''' I've ''always'' been smart, brother. [[Hand Wave|I've just lacked self-confidence.]]}}
* [[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.
{{quote| '''Quark:''' "Looks like your stupidity has saved you again."<br />
'''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 Withwith a Smile|Dabo girl]] Leeta.
** 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) ===
 
{{quote| ''"I may be a Starfleet officer but I am still a Ferengi!"''}}
 
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-Shocked Veteran]]
* [[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 Onon the Fourth Wall]] a bit)}}
 
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.
* [[Momma's Boy]]: A vital message that changed the course of the Dominion War only got through because he smuggled it in one of the many presents he was rushing home to give his mother for her birthday.
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=== Grand Nagus Zek (Wallace Shawn) ===
{{quote| ''I'm your Nagus. You have no secrets from me.''}}
 
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.
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=== 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]]
* [[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 Byby Awesome]]: While she isn't a bad character, unfortunately but inevitably she gets shoved to the side because of her unadventurousness.
* [[Schoolmarm]]
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]
* [[Wide -Eyed Idealist]]: Which makes Miles rather uncomfortable in ''Looking for Par'mach in all the Wrong Places''
 
=== 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 the usual: she's genuinely religious but becomes steadily more and more bitter that her gods keep, as she sees it, favouring foreigners and dilettantes over her, despite her lifelong service to them.
 
* [[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, It's That Guy!]]: [[One Flew Over the CuckoosCuckoo's Nest|Nurse Ratched]] is now a spiritual leader??
* [[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.
* [[It's All About Me]]: Although she's a believer, she spends most of her time as Kai trying to wrestle influence away from Sisko. {{spoiler|This is probably why the Prophets give her the cold shoulder.}}
* [[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 Thethe Works]]: Her appearance frequently throws Starfleet for a loop. {{spoiler|And she deliberately disrupts the Reckoning, a battle between the Prophets and Pah-Wraiths that has been prophesied for thousands of years}}.
* [[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 trytries will get one. Hell, even ''Quark'' had it on his first try. Even worse, when she finally meets one, even kneeling before it to show her devotion, it proceeds to ignore her spectacularly.
** 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) ===
{{quote| ''"People don't enter Starfleet to become commanders, or admirals for that matter, it's the captain's chair that everyone has their eye on. That's what I wanted when I joined up. You don't get to be a captain wearing a gold uniform."''}}
 
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.
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=== 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) ===
{{quote| ''"The Federation needs men like you, doctor. Men of conscience. Men of principle. Men who can sleep at night... You're also the reason Section Thirty-One exists -- someone has to protect men like you from a universe that doesn't share your sense of right and wrong."''}}
 
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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=== Elim Garak (Andrew Robinson) ===
[[File:292px-Elim_Garak_2374_1951.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"Lately, I've noticed that everyone seems to trust me. It's quite unnerving. I'm still trying to get used to it."''}}
 
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 behaviourbehavior becomes less and less as time goes by due to the influence of the Federation and, in particular, a couple of personal relationships mainly with Bashir and Odo.
* [[Claustrophobia]]: He suffers from aan acute version that becomes a plot point on several occasions.
* [[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 -Proclaimed Liar|encourages]] this attitude. This has the useful side-effect of him being able to protect important information because he'll even lie about trivial things, resulting in people not being able to tell what's important and what's not. There are a very few who learn how to read him accurately, most notably Odo.
* [[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 sticksstick. Apparently, he had one lying around just in case.
* [[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.
{{quote| '''Bashir''': They broke seven of your transverse ribs and fractured your clavicle.<br />
'''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.
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* [[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, It's That Guy!]]: Seems [[Dirty Harry (Film)|Scorpio]] is helping out the good guys this time.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: He once killskilled an engineer with a flux coupler.
* [[Knowledge Broker]]: It's one of the reasons why Sisko's team and later the Federation findsfind him so useful to keep around.
* [[Mysterious Past]]
** [[Multiple Choice Past]]: He insists that every version is true - [[Especially Zoidberg|especially the lies.]]
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* [[Retired Monster]]: He was a very successful operative for the [[Secret Police|Obsidian Order]], and is not apologetic about this in the slightest.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Improbable military knowledge? He reads a lot! Unusual and fancy engineering equipment? It's a common tailor's tool! Ability to ooze power and order around Guls like you own them while spouting active and valid codes despite having been in exile for years? Overheard it while hemming a woman's dress! Expert ability to rewrite high-class military encryption software? Any tailor can do it!
* [[Self -Proclaimed Liar]]: And a legend in his own lifetime.
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: The go-to guy for this on the station.
{{quote| ''That's why you came to me, isn't it, Captain? Because you knew I could do those things that you weren't capable of doing.''}}
* [[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-Forged Friends]] beginning to form between Garak and Kira.
* [[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.
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=== Gul Dukat (Marc Alaimo) ===
[[File:292px-Dukat-closeup_8949.jpg|frame]]
{{quote| ''"There is no problem that cannot be solved by a disciplined Cardassian mind."''}}
 
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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* [[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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* [[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 [[Captain's Log]].
* [[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) ===
{{quote| ''"They'll just [[Cloning Gambit|make another copy of him]], you know. You should've killed ''me''. There's only one Damar."''}}
 
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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* {{spoiler|[[Killed Mid-Sentence|Died Mid-Sentence]] Damar died trying to give a rallying speech to his troops. [[Word of God]] is that originally he was simply going to die; but Casey Biggs decided he should say something. He still has no idea what the rest of sentence was going to be.}}
* [[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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* [[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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* [[Four-Star Badass]]
* [[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.
{{quote| "Magnificent, isn't she."}}
* [[Hero of Another Story]]
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]
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=== Kor (John Colicos) ===
 
Legendary Klingon warrior, ''Dahar Master'' (A rank for legendary Klingon Warriors) and former enemy of a certain equally-legendary [[Star Trek: theThe Original Series|James T. Kirk]]. Old Klingon battle comrade of Jadzia's who goes on revenge quest with her over the loss of his son. Enemy of Martok's because of career rivalry. Forgiven by Martok at his death.
 
* [[The Alcoholic]]
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* [[Grumpy Old Man]]
* [[Old Master]]
* [[Role Reprisal]]: John Colicos portrayed Kor in ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'' and returned to portray Kor in DS9.
* [[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
{{quote| '''Odo:''' "How did you get in here?"<br />
'''Koloth:'''"I am Koloth."<br />
'''Odo:'''"That doesn't answer my question."<br />
'''Koloth:'''"Yes, it does." }}
* [[Bling of War]]: Koloth always wears his full Klingon dress uniform, covered in many, many decorations.
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* [[Amicably Divorced]]: To Quark
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: To Quark
* [[Bothering Byby the Book]]: Klingon law doesn't ''quite'' say a Ferengi can't rule a Klingon house.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: In Looking for Par'Mach
* [[Iron Lady]]
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* [[Just the First Citizen]]
* [[Moral Myopia]]/[[It's All About Me|It's All About Us]]
* [[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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=== The Female Changeling (Salome Jens) ===
{{quote| ''What you can control cannot hurt you.''}}
 
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.
* [[EverybodyEveryone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Everybody Calls Her "Founder"]]
* [[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-Skinned Brunette]]
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* [[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.
* [[IdI'd Tell You, butBut Then IdI'd Have To Kill You]]: A scene between Weyoun, Damar, and Damar's lady friend, in the Important War Room.
{{quote| '''Weyoun''': I have news.<br />
'''Damar''': Well?<br />
'''Weyoun''': Your ''friend'' doesn't want to hear this.<br />
'''Damar''': And why doesn't my friend want to hear this?<br />
'''Weyoun''': Because if she did, I would be forced to have her executed.<br />
''[She leaves.]''<br />
'''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 Withwith Food and Drink]]: The Dominion probably noted that their diplomats are often victims of this, so they engineered them to be immune to most poisons. Weyoun [[Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo|takes a swig from one]] to prove his point.
* [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]: With Dukat, and later (even more hilariously) Damar.
* [[The Thirty-Six Stratagems]]: Required reading for all higher ranked Vorta, along with Sisko's psychological profile.
* [[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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=== Tosk ===
{{quote| ''I am Tosk: The Hunted.''}}
 
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 -bear -like, but not to be messed with.
 
* [[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, It's That Guy!]]: Tosk was played by Scott MacDonald, who later played Dolim in the third season of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]
* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]]
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* [[Warrior Poet]]
 
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