Damar
was an officer aboard the freighter Groumall in 2372 when Gul
Dukat was assigned as the ship's
captain.
In early 2373 Dukat agreed to smuggle four DS9 officers into Klingon
territory in order to expose
Chancellor
Gowron as a suspected Changeling. Damar was more interested
in a frontal attack on the
command
center at Ty'Gokor, believing that the disguised officers were on
a suicide mission. With his bird
of
prey's holofilter damaged, Dukat departed Klingon territory after beaming
the four down to Ty'Gokor.
By
late 2373, following Cardassia Prime's entrance into the Dominion
under the leadership of Dukat, Damar
was
a crewmember aboard Dukat's vessel during an assault on Deep Space 9 that
had been triggered by
the
laying of a minefield that prevented Dominion reinforcements from entering
the Alpha Quadrant. The sta-
tioned
eventually surrendered after Starfleet evacuated and the Bajorans,
who had signed a non-aggression
treaty
with the Dominion, welcomed them aboard.
After
Terok Nor was reclaimed Damar continued to serve at Dukat's side.
When Bajorans began to return to
the
station three months into the war, which was going well for the Dominion,
it was Damar who saw to in-
creasing
security in order to watch over the Bajorans.
After
being berated by Dukat, Damar set about developing a plan to disable the
minefield protecting the
Wormhole.
It was after celebrating his succesfull fieldtests, that due to much Kanar
he told Quark what the
plan
was, and thus giving the the local resistance cell an the task of disabling
the array, and give word to
Starfleet.
This was the beginning of a massive-scale mission to retake the station.
An
evacuation of Terok Nor was quickly ordered, but Damar was unable to convince
Dukat to leave immedia-
tely.
Dukat was first intent on finding Ziyal, whom he would later track down
in a corridor. Having followed
Dukat
through the station, Damar was witness to Ziyal's revelation that
she had helped to free Rom, who
had
disabled the station's
weapons, from his holding cell. Seeing Ziyal as a traitor, Damar shot her
and then
tried
to get Dukat to evacuate along with the other personnel. A distraught Dukat
refused to leave the body
of
his dying
daughter and Damar was forced to leave the station without him. Than while
the distraught Dukat
was
arrested by Odo, Damar went back to Cardassia Prime where he was elected,
as Cardassia's new
leader,
and became the brand new Legate Damar. |