Corat Damar
Legate Corat Damar had been a disciple of Skrain Dukat and inherited his position of power on Cardassia after Dukat’s fall from grace. The rise of the Breen in the Dominion hierarchy came at the expense of Damar’s position and that of the Cardassian people, whom which the Dominion treated as disposable second-class citizens. After the Dominion allowed 500,000 Cardassian soldiers to fall to Klingon forces on Septimus III, Damar had finally had enough. He freed Worf and Dax from captivity and told them to inform the Federation that they now had an ally on Cardassia. In secret, Damar began to form an underground resistance movement within the Cardassian military.
Breen Offensives and the Second Battle of Chin’toka
The boost that the Breen gave to the Dominion War effort instantly negated any advanced that the combined Alpha Quadrant forces had made. They attacked the very heart of Federation space in a daring attack on Starfleet Headquarters in San Franscisco on Earth itself. The attacking force was destroyed, but not before causing significant casualties and damage. Soon after, Breen forces attacked the Chin’toka system, breaking the Federation’s only foothold in Dominion space.
When the Federation, Klingon and Romulan reinforcements arrived at Chin’toka for the counterattack, they were confronted by a Breen fleet equipped with a deadly new technology that drained the power of the Federation vessels, leaving them helpless to the Breen attack. The Second Battle of Chin’toka was a complete disaster for the Alpha Quadrant forces, who lost 311 out of 312 vessels in the attack.
The only vessel to survive the attack was a Klingon vessel whose engineer had made adjustments to the vessel’s warp-core just prior to the battle. General Martok ordered all of the ships in the Klingon fleet to make the same adjustments to their warp cores while the Federation and Romulan fleets scrambled to make similar adjustments to their own fleets.
Founder Illness
During this time a mysterious malady had befallen the Changelings, disrupting their morphogenic structure and effecting their ability to change their form. They were unable to hold their physical form without their “skin” peeling and flaking from their bodies. The disease had affected the entirety of the Great Link and without a cure, the prognosis was fatal for the entire species. Vorta scientists worked to find a cure without pause or rest to find a cure without success.
When Doctor Bashir detected the virus within Odo, Bashir requested Odo’s Medical files from his examination at Starfleet Headquarters on Earth from Stardate 49419 in hopes of developing a cure, only to told that the files were classified and that he should drop the matter. Fortunately, Captain Sisko had the proper clearance to obtain the information, but when Bashir received the files, he realized that the data had been falsified.
Suspecting the involvement of Section 31, Bashir and Chief Miles O’Brien investigated deeper and came to the realization that the virus was a Section 31 creation meant to bring about the genocide of the Changeling people and that they had infected Odo with the virus to use him as the agent of delivery.
Miles O’Brien
No history of Starfleet can be complete without mention of Chief Miles Edward O’Brien, whom some have called “the most important man in Starfleet history”, as a symbol of the importance of the often-unsung contributions to Starfleet’s enlisted personnel. Though never a captain or admiral, O’Brien’s career placed him front and center of several turning points in the 24th century -- the liberation of Jean-Luc Picard from the Borg, the exposure of Section 31’s virus against the Founders, and the final days of the Dominion War.
Born in Ireland in 2328, O’Brien was a gifted musician but chose Starfleet over attending the Aberdeen Music Academy, enlisting at age seventeen. First serving aboard the USS Rutledge during the Cardassian border wars, he endured the horrors of the Setlik III massacre, an event where O’Brien was forced to take a life for the first time, an experience that shaped his complicated view of the Cardassians. By 2364, he was transporter chief of the USS Enterprise-D, and in 2369 became chief of operations on Deep Space Nine.
The Cure
Working together, Bashir and Chief O’Brien lured Section 31 Director Sloan to the station with a false message sent to Starfleet Medical claiming to have found the cure, which would disrupt Section 31’s plans of genocide. After capturing Sloan, Bashir connected him to a Romulan Memory Scanner, technology that is illegal in Federation space.
Rather than let the secret of the cure escape, Sloan chose to activate a suicide chip in his head. Bashir and O’Brien took the step of using the invasive tech to enter Sloan’s mind and retrieve the information directly before he died. After successfully developing a vaccine, Bashir deliver the cure to Odo, completely eliminating the virus from his system. While Starfleet now possessed the cure to the virus, they chose not to share it with the Dominion so long as the Founders were at war with the Alpha Quadrant.
This decision to withhold the cure from the Founders is one that remains controversial. While Starfleet could not be held responsible for the unauthorized actions of Section 31, some argue that their refusal to mitigate the damage done by Section 31 when they had the power makes them ethically complicit in the crime.
Damar’s Resistance
Damar’s resistance movement revealed itself when Cardassian vessels under Damar’s command attacked the Dominion cloning facility on Rondac III, limiting the Dominion’s ability to create Vorta and Jem Hadar. To assist Damar, Sisko ordered Kira into Cardassian space accompanied by Odo and Garak, to find and assist Damar’s movement. Kira advised Damar and his movement in the kind guerilla warfare that enabled the Bajorans to defeat the Cardassian occupation. Despite some push-back from some of his people, Damar took Kira’s advice to heart and incorporated it into his strategies when attacking and destroying a key Dominion shipyard.
With Federation efforts to counter the Breen energy dissipation weapon unsuccessful, plans were made by Damar’s cell to infiltrate a Dominion repair facility to acquire one of the Breen weapons for study by the Federation. After commandeering a vessel equipped with the weapon, Kira and Odo returned to DS9 with the valuable technology. Kira would return to Cardassian territory while Odo stayed behind for medical attention.
Chancellor Martok
General Martok had grown very popular among the Klingon people, who began to hold him a similar or higher regard than they did for Chancellor Gowron himself. Gowron was jealous of Martok’s popularity and sought to eclipse the General’s status by taking control of the war effort himself.
After Gowron’s hubris dishonorably wasted Klingon lives and resources at the Battle of Avenall VII, Worf decided to take action and challenged Gowron in open council. Worf defeated Gowron in a battle to the death, but rather than take the Chancellorship for himself, he passed the honor onto Martok as he was the best choice to lead the Empire into the future. This was the second time that Worf had had a direct hand into succession of the Chancellorship.
Gambit of the Pah Wraiths
Dukat, guided by the Pah Wraiths and surgically altered to appear Bajoran, travelled to Deep Space 9 to carry out their designs against the Prophets and his revenge against Benjamin Sisko. At this time, the Pah Wraiths recruited the Bajoran Kai Winn Adami, who despite her protestations of faith, had never truly embraced the teachings of the Prophets and used her position within the church for the furtherment of her own power rather than to the service of the Prophets.
Together, they were tasked to bring about what the Pah Wraiths described as “The Restoration”, the release from their ancient imprisonment by the Prophets in the “Fire Caves” on Bajor. Dukat approached Winn in guise as a Bajoran farmer named Anjohl Tennan and gained her trust with the deception. Dukat used her jealousy of Sisko’s relationship with the Prophets to win her over to their cause. By studying the ancient Book of the Kost Amojan, Winn deciphered the dark texts and the pair made plans to release the Pah Wraiths and destroy the Prophets.
The Civilian Resistance
Damar started by travelling to Cardassia with Kira and Garak in hopes of bringing more troops into his cause only to be betrayed by Gul Revok, who revealed himself as a Dominion collaborator. Dominion forces destroyed Damar’s ship, leaving the trio stranded on Cardassia while Dominion forces destroyed all of Damar’s resistance bases.
The group sought refuge in Garak’s childhood home, the former home of Enabrin Tain. Despite the destruction of the armed resistance, the tales of Damar still inspired the civilian population to rise. Damar rallied the people in the streets to rise against their Dominion oppressors sabotaging Dominion power, communications and transportation on the planet. In response, the Female Changeling ordered the destruction of Lakarian City and its population of over two million Cardassians.
The Battle of Cardassia
Thanks to the knowledge gained from the Dominion vessel captured by Damar’s resistance, Federation engineers were able to devise a countermeasure to the Breen energy dissipation weapon and in response, the Dominion’s forces retreated from occupied territory and back into Cardassian space. There, established a tight military perimeter to allow the Dominion enough time to rebuild their fleet and replenish their supply of soldiers.
Not wanting to allow the Dominion to opportunity to regather its strength the decision was made by the Alpha Quadrant forces to attack the Dominion lines and break through to Cardassia. The battle was not going well until the Cardassian fleet, responding to the destruction of Lakarian City, abandoned the Dominion and joined Damar’s resistance. With the assistance of the Cardassian fleet, the allied forces broke through the battle lines and proceeded to Cardassia Prime and surrounded the planet.
Cardassian Genocide
In response to this turn of events the Female Changeling ordered the greatest atrocity of the entire war -- the total extermination of the Cardassian people. The Dominion started bombing all Cardassian cities into rubble, killing millions. Hoping to capture the Female Changeling, Damar led his forces into the Dominion headquarters in Cardassia City. Damar was killed in the initial charge, but the plan was successful as Kira, Garak and other Cardassians made their way to the command center and apprehended the Female Changeling, who was now in the final stages of the Changeling virus.
The End of the War
Despite defeat now being an inevitability, the Female Changeling refused to order the Jem Hadar forces to stand down, preferring that they fight to last soldier and take as many of the Alpha Quadrant forces with them before dying themselves. Odo ended the stalemate by offering to cure the Great Link of the disease -- against the wishes of Starfleet -- in exchange for her surrender and the standing down of the Jem Hadar forces. The Female Changeling turned herself over to the Federation to face judgement for her multitudes of war crimes and Odo finally returned to the Great Link and cured his people. Odo agreed to remain within the Link to ensure that his people would follow a new path. The war officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Bajor in late 2375.
The Emissary’s Fate
While celebrating the end of the war with his crew on Deep Space 9, Sisko was alerted to Dukat and Winn’s plans in the Fire Caves by the Prophets. Understanding finally what his role was meant to be, Sisko immediately travelled to Bajor and the Fire Caves to confront Dukat, who had been empowered by the Pah Wraiths by the Book of the Kost Amojan. Dukat turned against Winn and killed her, but not before she told Sisko to destroy the book. Launching himself into Dukat, Sisko flung them both into the flaming depths of the Fire Caves, destroying the book and keeping the Pah Wraiths at bay. For his failure Dukat was condemned to spend all eternity suffering at the hands of the Pah Wraiths.
Sisko was delivered from this fate by the intervention of the Prophets, who summoned him home to the Celestial Temple. Sisko was born to both humanity and the Prophets and his time and trials of corporeal existence had come to an end and that it was time to for him to walk with the Prophets. Sisko was allowed to say farewell to his wife Kasidy, who recently discovered that she was with child, and told her that he would always be closer than she thinks before beginning his new existence with the Bajoran Gods.
The War’s Aftermath
The Dominion War was the costliest and deadliest conflict in Alpha Quadrant history at the cost of billions of Federation, Klingon, Romulan and Cardassian souls among many others. The Cardassians in particular paid a great price with over 800 million lives lost on Cardassia alone. Elim Garak ended his exile to a home in rubble and in need of rebuilding.
Some would claim that what happened to the Cardassian people was justice for a species that ruthlessly conquered and exploited the people of other worlds, but that is a short-sided and simplistic outlook. By all indications, the Cardassian people were on the verge of a cultural awakening in the days after the withdrawal from Bajor with people such as Amin Marritza, who sought to call out Cardassian war crimes and hold his people accountable. People such as Legate Tekeny Ghemor and Natima Lang sought to influence Cardassian youth from within and the civilian government of The Detapa Council sought many progressive social and political reforms. If it were not for the betrayal of Cardassia to the Dominion by Gul Dukat, there is no telling where the path of the Cardassian people might have led.
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Next Week: USS Voyager
Beta canon and head canon alerts! Kira going into the Bajoran church comes from just about every post-DS9 beta canon story, including the theoretical reunion episode that the writers room came up with for the documentary. Section 31 going dark after Narendra III comes from my fan-fiction here.
“For Cardassia!” – Corat Damar
Legate Corat Damar had been a disciple of Skrain Dukat and inherited his position of power on Cardassia after Dukat’s fall from grace. The rise of the Breen in the Dominion hierarchy came at the expense of Damar’s position and that of the Cardassian people, whom which the Dominion treated as disposable second-class citizens. After the Dominion allowed 500,000 Cardassian soldiers to fall to Klingon forces on Septimus III, Damar had finally had enough. He freed Worf and Dax from captivity and told them to inform the Federation that they now had an ally on Cardassia. In secret, Damar began to form an underground resistance movement within the Cardassian military.
Breen Offensives and the Second Battle of Chin’toka
The boost that the Breen gave to the Dominion War effort instantly negated any advanced that the combined Alpha Quadrant forces had made. They attacked the very heart of Federation space in a daring attack on Starfleet Headquarters in San Franscisco on Earth itself. The attacking force was destroyed, but not before causing significant casualties and damage. Soon after, Breen forces attacked the Chin’toka system, breaking the Federation’s only foothold in Dominion space.
When the Federation, Klingon and Romulan reinforcements arrived at Chin’toka for the counterattack, they were confronted by a Breen fleet equipped with a deadly new technology that drained the power of the Federation vessels, leaving them helpless to the Breen attack. The Second Battle of Chin’toka was a complete disaster for the Alpha Quadrant forces, who lost 311 out of 312 vessels in the attack.
The only vessel to survive the attack was a Klingon vessel whose engineer had made adjustments to the vessel’s warp-core just prior to the battle. General Martok ordered all of the ships in the Klingon fleet to make the same adjustments to their warp cores while the Federation and Romulan fleets scrambled to make similar adjustments to their own fleets.
Founder Illness
During this time a mysterious malady had befallen the Changelings, disrupting their morphogenic structure and effecting their ability to change their form. They were unable to hold their physical form without their “skin” peeling and flaking from their bodies. The disease had affected the entirety of the Great Link and without a cure, the prognosis was fatal for the entire species. Vorta scientists worked to find a cure without pause or rest to find a cure without success.
When Doctor Bashir detected the virus within Odo, Bashir requested Odo’s Medical files from his examination at Starfleet Headquarters on Earth from Stardate 49419 in hopes of developing a cure, only to told that the files were classified and that he should drop the matter. Fortunately, Captain Sisko had the proper clearance to obtain the information, but when Bashir received the files, he realized that the data had been falsified.
Suspecting the involvement of Section 31, Bashir and Chief Miles O’Brien investigated deeper and came to the realization that the virus was a Section 31 creation meant to bring about the genocide of the Changeling people and that they had infected Odo with the virus to use him as the agent of delivery.
Miles O’Brien
“It’s not you I hate Cardassian; I hate what I became because of you.” – Miles O’Brien
No history of Starfleet can be complete without mention of Chief Miles Edward O’Brien, whom some have called “the most important man in Starfleet history”, as a symbol of the importance of the often-unsung contributions to Starfleet’s enlisted personnel. Though never a captain or admiral, O’Brien’s career placed him front and center of several turning points in the 24th century -- the liberation of Jean-Luc Picard from the Borg, the exposure of Section 31’s virus against the Founders, and the final days of the Dominion War.
Born in Ireland in 2328, O’Brien was a gifted musician but chose Starfleet over attending the Aberdeen Music Academy, enlisting at age seventeen. First serving aboard the USS Rutledge during the Cardassian border wars, he endured the horrors of the Setlik III massacre, an event where O’Brien was forced to take a life for the first time, an experience that shaped his complicated view of the Cardassians. By 2364, he was transporter chief of the USS Enterprise-D, and in 2369 became chief of operations on Deep Space Nine.
The Cure
Working together, Bashir and Chief O’Brien lured Section 31 Director Sloan to the station with a false message sent to Starfleet Medical claiming to have found the cure, which would disrupt Section 31’s plans of genocide. After capturing Sloan, Bashir connected him to a Romulan Memory Scanner, technology that is illegal in Federation space.
Rather than let the secret of the cure escape, Sloan chose to activate a suicide chip in his head. Bashir and O’Brien took the step of using the invasive tech to enter Sloan’s mind and retrieve the information directly before he died. After successfully developing a vaccine, Bashir deliver the cure to Odo, completely eliminating the virus from his system. While Starfleet now possessed the cure to the virus, they chose not to share it with the Dominion so long as the Founders were at war with the Alpha Quadrant.
This decision to withhold the cure from the Founders is one that remains controversial. While Starfleet could not be held responsible for the unauthorized actions of Section 31, some argue that their refusal to mitigate the damage done by Section 31 when they had the power makes them ethically complicit in the crime.
Damar’s Resistance
Damar’s resistance movement revealed itself when Cardassian vessels under Damar’s command attacked the Dominion cloning facility on Rondac III, limiting the Dominion’s ability to create Vorta and Jem Hadar. To assist Damar, Sisko ordered Kira into Cardassian space accompanied by Odo and Garak, to find and assist Damar’s movement. Kira advised Damar and his movement in the kind guerilla warfare that enabled the Bajorans to defeat the Cardassian occupation. Despite some push-back from some of his people, Damar took Kira’s advice to heart and incorporated it into his strategies when attacking and destroying a key Dominion shipyard.
With Federation efforts to counter the Breen energy dissipation weapon unsuccessful, plans were made by Damar’s cell to infiltrate a Dominion repair facility to acquire one of the Breen weapons for study by the Federation. After commandeering a vessel equipped with the weapon, Kira and Odo returned to DS9 with the valuable technology. Kira would return to Cardassian territory while Odo stayed behind for medical attention.
Chancellor Martok
“This is a moment worth savoring. To victory, hard fought and well earned.” -- Martok
General Martok had grown very popular among the Klingon people, who began to hold him a similar or higher regard than they did for Chancellor Gowron himself. Gowron was jealous of Martok’s popularity and sought to eclipse the General’s status by taking control of the war effort himself.
After Gowron’s hubris dishonorably wasted Klingon lives and resources at the Battle of Avenall VII, Worf decided to take action and challenged Gowron in open council. Worf defeated Gowron in a battle to the death, but rather than take the Chancellorship for himself, he passed the honor onto Martok as he was the best choice to lead the Empire into the future. This was the second time that Worf had had a direct hand into succession of the Chancellorship.
Gambit of the Pah Wraiths
Dukat, guided by the Pah Wraiths and surgically altered to appear Bajoran, travelled to Deep Space 9 to carry out their designs against the Prophets and his revenge against Benjamin Sisko. At this time, the Pah Wraiths recruited the Bajoran Kai Winn Adami, who despite her protestations of faith, had never truly embraced the teachings of the Prophets and used her position within the church for the furtherment of her own power rather than to the service of the Prophets.
Together, they were tasked to bring about what the Pah Wraiths described as “The Restoration”, the release from their ancient imprisonment by the Prophets in the “Fire Caves” on Bajor. Dukat approached Winn in guise as a Bajoran farmer named Anjohl Tennan and gained her trust with the deception. Dukat used her jealousy of Sisko’s relationship with the Prophets to win her over to their cause. By studying the ancient Book of the Kost Amojan, Winn deciphered the dark texts and the pair made plans to release the Pah Wraiths and destroy the Prophets.
The Civilian Resistance
Damar started by travelling to Cardassia with Kira and Garak in hopes of bringing more troops into his cause only to be betrayed by Gul Revok, who revealed himself as a Dominion collaborator. Dominion forces destroyed Damar’s ship, leaving the trio stranded on Cardassia while Dominion forces destroyed all of Damar’s resistance bases.
The group sought refuge in Garak’s childhood home, the former home of Enabrin Tain. Despite the destruction of the armed resistance, the tales of Damar still inspired the civilian population to rise. Damar rallied the people in the streets to rise against their Dominion oppressors sabotaging Dominion power, communications and transportation on the planet. In response, the Female Changeling ordered the destruction of Lakarian City and its population of over two million Cardassians.
The Battle of Cardassia
Thanks to the knowledge gained from the Dominion vessel captured by Damar’s resistance, Federation engineers were able to devise a countermeasure to the Breen energy dissipation weapon and in response, the Dominion’s forces retreated from occupied territory and back into Cardassian space. There, established a tight military perimeter to allow the Dominion enough time to rebuild their fleet and replenish their supply of soldiers.
Not wanting to allow the Dominion to opportunity to regather its strength the decision was made by the Alpha Quadrant forces to attack the Dominion lines and break through to Cardassia. The battle was not going well until the Cardassian fleet, responding to the destruction of Lakarian City, abandoned the Dominion and joined Damar’s resistance. With the assistance of the Cardassian fleet, the allied forces broke through the battle lines and proceeded to Cardassia Prime and surrounded the planet.
Cardassian Genocide
“Which is why I must inform you a few moments ago, Dominion troops reduced Lakarian City to ashes. There were no survivors. Two million men, women and children gone in a matter of moments. For each act of sabotage committed against the Dominion, another Cardassian city will be destroyed. I implore you not to let that happen. Let us return to the spirit of friendship and cooperation between our peoples, so that together, we can defeat our common enemies, the Federation, the Klingons, the Romulans and all the others that stand against us. Thank you.” – Weyoun 8 announcing the commencement of Cardassian genocide
In response to this turn of events the Female Changeling ordered the greatest atrocity of the entire war -- the total extermination of the Cardassian people. The Dominion started bombing all Cardassian cities into rubble, killing millions. Hoping to capture the Female Changeling, Damar led his forces into the Dominion headquarters in Cardassia City. Damar was killed in the initial charge, but the plan was successful as Kira, Garak and other Cardassians made their way to the command center and apprehended the Female Changeling, who was now in the final stages of the Changeling virus.
The End of the War
Despite defeat now being an inevitability, the Female Changeling refused to order the Jem Hadar forces to stand down, preferring that they fight to last soldier and take as many of the Alpha Quadrant forces with them before dying themselves. Odo ended the stalemate by offering to cure the Great Link of the disease -- against the wishes of Starfleet -- in exchange for her surrender and the standing down of the Jem Hadar forces. The Female Changeling turned herself over to the Federation to face judgement for her multitudes of war crimes and Odo finally returned to the Great Link and cured his people. Odo agreed to remain within the Link to ensure that his people would follow a new path. The war officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Bajor in late 2375.
The Emissary’s Fate
While celebrating the end of the war with his crew on Deep Space 9, Sisko was alerted to Dukat and Winn’s plans in the Fire Caves by the Prophets. Understanding finally what his role was meant to be, Sisko immediately travelled to Bajor and the Fire Caves to confront Dukat, who had been empowered by the Pah Wraiths by the Book of the Kost Amojan. Dukat turned against Winn and killed her, but not before she told Sisko to destroy the book. Launching himself into Dukat, Sisko flung them both into the flaming depths of the Fire Caves, destroying the book and keeping the Pah Wraiths at bay. For his failure Dukat was condemned to spend all eternity suffering at the hands of the Pah Wraiths.
Sisko was delivered from this fate by the intervention of the Prophets, who summoned him home to the Celestial Temple. Sisko was born to both humanity and the Prophets and his time and trials of corporeal existence had come to an end and that it was time to for him to walk with the Prophets. Sisko was allowed to say farewell to his wife Kasidy, who recently discovered that she was with child, and told her that he would always be closer than she thinks before beginning his new existence with the Bajoran Gods.
The War’s Aftermath
The Dominion War was the costliest and deadliest conflict in Alpha Quadrant history at the cost of billions of Federation, Klingon, Romulan and Cardassian souls among many others. The Cardassians in particular paid a great price with over 800 million lives lost on Cardassia alone. Elim Garak ended his exile to a home in rubble and in need of rebuilding.
Some would claim that what happened to the Cardassian people was justice for a species that ruthlessly conquered and exploited the people of other worlds, but that is a short-sided and simplistic outlook. By all indications, the Cardassian people were on the verge of a cultural awakening in the days after the withdrawal from Bajor with people such as Amin Marritza, who sought to call out Cardassian war crimes and hold his people accountable. People such as Legate Tekeny Ghemor and Natima Lang sought to influence Cardassian youth from within and the civilian government of The Detapa Council sought many progressive social and political reforms. If it were not for the betrayal of Cardassia to the Dominion by Gul Dukat, there is no telling where the path of the Cardassian people might have led.
Those Left Behind
Kira Nerys was given command of DS9 and held that posting for several years before leaving the Bajoran Defense Force and gaining prominence within the Bajoran Church.
The Dax Symbiont would continue to move on from host to host and experience the history of the Federation first hand. The Dax Symbiont, now nearly 1,200 years old, is currently hosted by Professor Illa Dax, a Trill/Cardassian hybrid who currently teaches classes on unexplained phenomena at Starfleet Academy.
Worf accepted a posting on Q’onos as the new Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire, a position previously held by K’Ehleyr and Dax, two of the greatest loves and influences on Worf’s life, before returning to Starfleet.
Miles O’Brien accepted a teaching position at Starfleet Academy and returned to Earth with his family.
Jake Sisko would find renown as a successful author and would often speak of the influence his father had on his own life and how he approached raising his own children.
Nog ended the war with the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade and would go on to have long and illustrious career with Starfleet, as evidenced by the fact that the Eisenberg -Class USS Nog is still in active service to Starfleet in his honor to this very day.
Quark would expand his business and turn his single bar into a franchise with locations spanning the entire Alpha Quadrant which still has outlets in operation in the 32nd century.
Ultimately, the Bajoran people would decide against joining the Federation, choosing instead to follow any path that the Prophets may place before them rather than the path that the Federation would present. Despite this, Bajor remained a staunch and loyal ally of the Federation in the years that came later.
Starfleet would never recover the remains of Benjamin Sisko from the Fire Caves and considered him to be “Missing in Action”. The Bajoran people would continue to revere the name of Benjamin Sisko, and to this day consider him a sacred figure who ascended from the physical world and joined the Prophets in the Celestial Temple, where he would forever serve as their Emissary in their love, service and protection of Bajor.
And who are we to say otherwise?
“Divine laws are simpler than human ones, which is why it takes a lifetime to be able to understand them. Only love can understand them. Only love can interpret these words as they were meant to be interpreted.” – Attributed to the Emissary of the Prophets
Kira Nerys was given command of DS9 and held that posting for several years before leaving the Bajoran Defense Force and gaining prominence within the Bajoran Church.
The Dax Symbiont would continue to move on from host to host and experience the history of the Federation first hand. The Dax Symbiont, now nearly 1,200 years old, is currently hosted by Professor Illa Dax, a Trill/Cardassian hybrid who currently teaches classes on unexplained phenomena at Starfleet Academy.
Worf accepted a posting on Q’onos as the new Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire, a position previously held by K’Ehleyr and Dax, two of the greatest loves and influences on Worf’s life, before returning to Starfleet.
Miles O’Brien accepted a teaching position at Starfleet Academy and returned to Earth with his family.
Jake Sisko would find renown as a successful author and would often speak of the influence his father had on his own life and how he approached raising his own children.
Nog ended the war with the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade and would go on to have long and illustrious career with Starfleet, as evidenced by the fact that the Eisenberg -Class USS Nog is still in active service to Starfleet in his honor to this very day.
Quark would expand his business and turn his single bar into a franchise with locations spanning the entire Alpha Quadrant which still has outlets in operation in the 32nd century.
Ultimately, the Bajoran people would decide against joining the Federation, choosing instead to follow any path that the Prophets may place before them rather than the path that the Federation would present. Despite this, Bajor remained a staunch and loyal ally of the Federation in the years that came later.
Starfleet would never recover the remains of Benjamin Sisko from the Fire Caves and considered him to be “Missing in Action”. The Bajoran people would continue to revere the name of Benjamin Sisko, and to this day consider him a sacred figure who ascended from the physical world and joined the Prophets in the Celestial Temple, where he would forever serve as their Emissary in their love, service and protection of Bajor.
And who are we to say otherwise?
*****
Next Week: USS Voyager
Beta canon and head canon alerts! Kira going into the Bajoran church comes from just about every post-DS9 beta canon story, including the theoretical reunion episode that the writers room came up with for the documentary. Section 31 going dark after Narendra III comes from my fan-fiction here.
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