Gul Dukat |
RANK: Gul
POSITION: Commander of the 2nd Order
ACCESS/SECURITY COMMANDS: Security Clearance Levels 1 - 9.
Security Identification: ADL40. Priority One Override
Authorization: Dukat-5116-Green.
RACE/SEX: Cardassian male
BIRTH DATE/PLACE: Unknown (Cardassia Prime?)
MOTHER: Unknown
FATHER: Unknown (presumably deceased)
SIBLINGS: Unknown
MARITAL STATUS: Married
OFFSPRING: 1 son - Mekor (6 other children)
LANGUAGES: Cardassian and English
HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Food/Beverages - Red Leaf tea.
2360: Assumes command of Terok Nor. Birth date of Mekor.
2362: Orders the abduction of Rugal Pa'Dar.
2363: Attends the funeral of Gul Darhe'el.
2365: Installs Odo as Terok Nor security chief.
2369: Cardassian withdrawal from Bajor.
2370: Briefly held by the Maquis.
Although the exact details are unknown, Dukat's father was apparently tried
on Cardassia and undoubtedly convicted of the crime and executed. According
to Garak, who had some connection to this trial, Dukat's father stated at
the trial that his biggest flaw was that his ambition outweighed his patriotism.
Dukat, however, believed that his father's biggest flaw was in trusting Garak.
Dukat had at some time tried to execute Garak, but did not for unknown reasons.
He would later regret not going through with the execution.
As Prefect of Bajor and commander of Terok Nor (later Deep Space 9), Dukat
ordered the abduction of Kotan Pa'Dar's son Rugal in 2362. Pa'Dar was a long
time political enemy of Dukat's and he was hoping to use the incident, based
on strong Cardassian beliefs in family unity, to discredit Pa'Dar sometime
in the future. Rugal, believed killed by a Bajoran terrorist raid on his
home, had actually been kidnapped and brought to the Tozak Resettlement Center
as an orphan by one of Dukat's officers. He was adopted by Bajorans and taught
to hate his Cardassian heritage.
He attended the funeral of Gul Darhe'el on Cardassia Prime in 2363.
In 2365 he enlisted the services of Odo in the investigation of a Bajoran
chemist who had been murdered on the station. He told Odo that he needed
a neutral party to conduct the inquiry because none of the Bajorans would
cooperate with the Cardassians. Although this was true, Dukat also needed
to distance himself from the investigation because the murdered Bajoran,
Vatrik, was a collaborator with the Cardassians and reported directly to
Dukat. He had previously seen, and been impressed with Odo at a reception
held for the Cardassian High Command at the Bajoran Center for Science in
2363. Although Odo was unsuccessful in solving the crime, Dukat kept him
on as station security chief.
At some point in his career Dukat had dealings with Obsidian Order agent
Elim Garak regarding an arms merchant. When it seemed apparent that Garak
would be returning to the Obsidian Order in 2371 (following his earlier exile
from Cardassia), Garak noted that he would have to look up Dukat and possibly
see to Dukat's execution.
He lost command of Terok Nor in 2369 after the military evacuated Bajor,
presumably because all of its resources had been stripped and nothing was
gained by staying. This action, which included leaving many Cardassian orphans
behind, is often blamed on the orders of the Civilian Assembly (of which
Kotan Pa'Dar was a member of).
He returned to the station shortly after Starfleet took administrative control
in order to meet Commander Sisko and to assure him that the Cardassians were
willing to give assistance to the station whenever needed. Dukat sent his
ship into the Wormhole shortly after its discovery and was stranded on the
other end due to damage to the ship during the passage. Eventually the Cardassian
warship was towed back to Bajoran space by Commander Sisko in USS Rio
Grande.
He was in communication with the station again later in the year in connection
with the detainment of Aamin Marritza, suspected by Major Kira of being a
Cardassian war criminal. Dukat was originally reluctant to give the station
any information, simply demanding that Marritza be released immediately.
He eventually complied and the information he provided proved that Marritza
was not involved in any of the crimes committed on Bajor.
In 2370 he contacted DS9 and issued an official apology from the Cardassian
High Command regarding the discovery of a forced labor camp on Cardassia
IV. The Hutat labor camp had been infiltrated by Major Kira and Chief O'Brien
in order to rescue Li Nalas, a famous Bajoran war hero who was thought to
have been dead. Dukat claimed that the Cardassian government had no knowledge
of the camp and promised that its prefect who be properly punished.
He was finally able to attempt to discredit Kotan Pa'Dar in 2370 when Rugal
caused an incident on DS9 that brought him and the existence of other Cardassian
orphans to the surface. Pa'Dar's supposed involvement in the ordering of
the evacuation of Bajor and the abandonment of Cardassian orphans played
perfectly into Dukat's plans to ruin Pa'Dar. An investigation conducted by
Dr. Bashir and DS9's resident Cardassian Garak uncovered the evidence regarding
Rugal's abduction. With his involvement revealed, Dukat abandoned his plans
to ruin Pa'Dar's political career and left DS9 without comment.
After the destruction of the Cardassian freighter Bok'Nor at DS9 in 2370,
Dukat left Cardassia and made passage to DS9 as an unregistered passenger
on a Kortakian ship. After arriving at the station he made his way to Commander
Sisko's quarters and persuaded Sisko to accompany him to Volan III, a former
Federation colony ceded to the Cardassians during the border realignments,
in order to find out who was responsible for the freighter's destruction.
Dukat was acting on his own, Central Command having no knowledge of his actions.
Dukat was aware that a Federation colonist from Volan II had already been
captured and confessed to sabotaging Bok'Nor. After Sisko saw the confession
and heard complaints concerning violence against the Federation colonists
now living under Cardassian jurisdiction, he and Dukat returned to DS9. Shortly
after returning to the station, Dukat was abducted by an anti-Cardassian
organization that would later proclaim itself as the Maquis. He was taken
aboard a freighter falsely registered to the Galadorans and brought to an
uncharted planet near the Federation/Cardassian DMZ. A Vulcan member of the
Maquis attempted to mind-meld with him in order to obtain information but
was unsuccessful because of Dukat's strong mental discipline. He was rescued
by a party from DS9 and taken back to the station only to find out that the
Cardassian Central Command had claimed that he was part of a group of misguided
officers who were supplying weapons to the Cardassian colonists along the
DMZ. Having previously denied that Central Command was smuggling weaponry
to the DMZ, Dukat realized that had been deceived by his own superiors, some
of whom still blamed him for not killing every Bajoran he could during his
withdrawal from Bajor in 2369. Working with Sisko in order to prevent a
full-scale war, Dukat managed to discover the location of the Maquis' next
target: a secret Cardassian weapons depot located within the DMZ. DS9's entire
runabout complement was sent to the Bryma colony to intercept the Maquis
attack. Dukat, accompanying Sisko onboard USS Rio Grande, was angered and
disappointed when Sisko allowed a Maquis vessel to escape after successfully
preventing them from attacking the weapons depot. After a brief layover at
DS9, Dukat returned to Cardassia.
While patrolling near the Federation/Cardassian DMZ in 2371, Dukat was surprised
and amused to receive an automated distress call from himself indicating
that their was a worker revolt on Terek Nor. Arriving at Deep Space 9 and
beaming aboard the station, Dukat found that a series of old counter-insurgency
security programs had accidentally been triggered by station personnel. Knowing
that he was the only one that could stop the station's self-destruct sequence,
Dukat tried to strike a deal with Major Kira that would allow a small Cardassian
garrison to be permanently stationed on DS9. Planning on returning to his
vessel while awaiting Kira's response, Dukat found that he could not transport
off the station. An automated recording from a Cardassian officer informed
him that he was suspected of abandoning his post during a self-destruct sequence
and that all of his security access codes had be rescinded.
Forced to help station personnel in order to save his own life, Dukat devised
a plan to neutralize the forcefields that had cut off the Operations Center
and had prevented anyone from reaching the main fusion reactor to prevent
its explosion. Ultimately, Commander Sisko was able to reach a control junction
and diverted the reactors explosion into the station's deflector shields.
Following the theft of USS Defiant from DS9 in 2371 by Maquis sympathizer
Thomas Riker, Dukat was called to the station and informed that Defiant was
in the hands of the Maquis. Angered that Starfleet would allow such a breach
of security, Dukat explained that the Central Command would send a small
fleet after Defiant to ensure its destruction at all costs, even to the point
of violating the DMZ treaty. As a measure of good faith and to prevent any
drawn-out conflict, Commander Sisko agreed to return to Cardassia Prime with
Dukat and assist in stopping Defiant. When it became clear that Defiant was
heading toward the Orias system, Obsidian Order observer Korinas made it
known that the Order would not allow any ships inside the system, not even
Cardassian ships. Korinas' threat became real when a total of six Keldan
class warships, not under the authority of the Guard, emerged from the Orias
system to confront Defiant. In a deal suggested by Sisko, Dukat agreed to
let Defiant and her Maquis crew go in exchange for Riker and the sensor
information collected on the Orias system by Defiant. Riker agreed to these
conditions and surrendered to one of the ships of the Guard that had pursued
him to the Orias system. At Sisko's request, Dukat was able to convince the
Ministry of Justice to commute the standard death sentence for Riker in favor
of life imprisonment in a Cardassian labor camp.
In 2371 he contacted Sisko after learning of Sisko's intent an building a
replica of an ancient Bajoran solar-powered craft in order to prove that
the Bajorans had developed space travel 800 years ago as Bajoran history
claimed. Dukat tried to convince Sisko not to go through with his plans to
journey to the Denorios Belt and back, claiming that he was concerned with
Sisko's safety. Later, when Sisko's little vessel appeared in the Cardassia
system after having been caught in a tachyon eddy that had propelled the
ship past sublight speeds, Dukat was there to greet him. Somewhat reluctantly,
Dukat read a message prepared by the Cardassian government which indicated
the Cardassian's acceptance that the ancient Bajorans had developed space
travel before the Cardassians. The message also indicated that the ruins
of a Bajoran spacecraft had recently been discovered on Cardassia, the first
time the Cardassians had ever admitted that the Bajorans had been the first
to make contact between the two races.
Marc Alaimo |
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