The
former Cardassian prefect of DS9, or Terok Nor, Dukat has
proven himself a survivor as well as
an
expert tactician at political intrigue as well as combat. He has
ridden the roller-coaster of change
sweeping
his people, incredibly recovering from the DS9
loss to becoming military advisor after
a
shocking
civilian coup in 2371, then a lone
marauder against Klingon aggressors after losing his
legate
rank over a mistress scandal, and finally
as ruler of a puppet government in
the Dominion on
the
verge of taking the Alpha Quadrant
in 2373-74.
A wily
egotist and more silver-tongued than most
Cardassians, he was a part of the Bajoran occupation
at
least as far back as 2352 (when he
fathered a daughter by a Bajoran mistress) and
came to head
the
station about ten years
before the overall Bajoran withdrawal he opposed. He
had dealt with Quark
throughout
the Occupation, but had first met both Kira and Odo in
2363 as
a member of the Central
Command
-- afterwards making Odo his station security
chief, and later coming to have an
ever-enlarging
crush
on Kira; he had called labeled her
a 'minor operative' who ran 'errands for the terrorist leaders.
After
the withdrawal he still kept meddling
in station affairs as commander of the Second Order but
was
not
above cooperating when it suited him, as in hunting down the Maquis
with Sisko who kidnapped him
in
2370, or searching for his mistress and daughter among
the Ravinok survivors with Kira in 2372.
Dukat
had just been promoted to legate after
helping save the civilian Deteppa Council from Klingon
capture
in early 2372
during their invasion, but he lost all standing
and his wife and seven children,
including
an 11-year-old
son Mikor in 2371 by admitting to his
illegitimate daughter Tora Ziyal.
Rather
than keep his demotion to a freighter captain, he broke off to prey
as a bandit on Klingon intruders,
but
eventually sold out his world to the Dominion to become
its leader under, Weyoun. Although
they
fought
together against
the Klingon invaders, Dukat and Garak share
a special hatred: the former
Obsidian
Order agent
had Dukat's father on trial and executed, and Dukat has wanted
to do the same
to
his rival, now in exile. |