History Characters / StarTrekDeepSpaceNine

StarTrekDeepSpaceNine's stationary setting and arc-based storylines lead to a very large number of recurring cast members. As such, its character sheet has been split into several pages.

* [[Characters/DeepSpaceNineStarfleet Starfleet Crew]]

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!!Commander/Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks)
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->''"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. [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller Somehow I thought you'd be taller.]]."''
-->-- '''Senator Vreenak''', "In the Pale Moonlight"

TheCaptain (though actually only ranked Commander until late Season 3), with a touch of the WarriorPoet due to his motivations for helming the titular space station. Prior to the series, Sisko became a widower following the infamous Wolf 359 incident ([[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]) and was left adrift with a young son, Jake. He briefly considered resigning from Starfleet, but was instead saddled with the task of admitting Bajor into the Federation. Following a chance encounter with entities living inside the Bajoran Wormhole, Sisko is ([[ReluctantHero reluctantly]]) anointed as the Emissary, their corporeal agent and a [[CrystalDragonJesus religious icon]] to the Bajorans.

* AntiHero: Type III. He enters Type IV and even Type V territory in certain episodes (For the Uniform, In the Pale Moonlight).
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[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.]]
--->'''Kasidy:''' When will you be back?\\
'''Sisko:''' It's hard to say - maybe a year, maybe... yesterday. But I ''will'' be back.
* {{Badass}}: Takes on several Jem'Hadar on his own and also leads several of the fleet battles.
** BadassBeard: Though he did have hair in earlier seasons, he eventually went bald with a goatee.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Current trope image holder. Sisko looks far more badass once he goes bald.
* TheBigEasy: He hails from New Orleans, and is the son of a creole chef. Joseph Sisko still operates a restaurant there.
* {{Blackmail}}: How he usually keeps Quark in-line or gets him to do something for the good of the station. Usually leads to BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord.
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Sisko is a pretty irritable guy in own right, but he's more likely to treat you to a DeathGlare and then storm out because he has more important things to do. That's when his Doberman (Kira) comes into the picture.
* TheCastShowoff: 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.
* CommandingCoolness: For three seasons.
* CompanionCube: His baseball.
* TheChosenOne: Being the Emissary. So much so that [[spoiler:the Prophets arranged for his birth!]] As the Emissary to the Prophets, "The Sisko" has a destiny to fulfill, many trials to face, and an important role in Bajoran theology and prophecy.
* CrystalDragonJesus: The Emissary is a messiah figure in the Bajoran religion.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: For the first episode at least. The Prophets help him get over it ([[TheChosenOne giving him his life back, as was prophesied]]) when he teaches them the nature of linear existence and they make him explain why he keeps living in his own "past" if the point is to move forward.
* DatingCatwoman: His relationship with [[spoiler: Kasidy Yates when she turns out to be running supplies (medicine and food according to her) to the Maquis.]]
** He also slept with ''both'' Intendant Kira and (an unjoined) Jadzia from the Mirror Universe.
* {{Determinator}}: In the episode "Paradise", Sisko and O'Brien are trapped on a planet by an EvilLuddite. She offers Sisko water if he will only take off his uniform. After a night in the punishment box, she offers it again, and Sisko's response is to put ''himself'' in the box.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The only being to knock Q flat on his ass ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome and get away with it]]''.
-->'''Q''': You ''hit'' me! ''Picard'' never hit me!
-->'''Sisko''': I'm ''not'' Picard.
* DivineParentage: In a complicated way. [[spoiler:His mother was human... but was possessed by a Prophet at the time. Once the possession wore off, she ran and left his father Joe heartbroken.]]
* DrinkOrder: Sisko picked up a love of Klingon coffee from Curzon. He certainly drinks the most elaborate concoctions of any Trek Captain.
-->"One raktajino with [[RealMenWearPink a jacarine peel!]]"
* AFatherToHisMen: Throughout the series, Sisko shows great concern for the people under his charge.
-->'''Adm. Ross:''' They're a good crew.\\
'''Sisko:''' ''(visibly moved)'' The best.
* GameOfNerds: He's such a fan that uses it as an allegory for linear time and existence -- in ''the first episode!''
* GeniusBruiser: Brooks described his character as "a quick thinker, but also a deep thinker," and that's basically on target.
* AGodIAmNot: Well, in his defense, [[spoiler:he's only half-god]].
* GoodIsNotNice: Not if its pushed, anyway.
* GuileHero: He has a reputation for fighting, but he's also ''very'' good at talking his way through difficult situations, even manipulating the Jem'hadar when they take over the ship and have guns pointed at his head, or successfully posing as Gabriel Bell and convincing an on-edge thug that they're on the same side in order to protect the hostages.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: He tackles Dukat off of a cliff into the aptly-named Fire Caves, although the Prophets grab him.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: 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 HeterosexualLifePartners, 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 HeterosexualLifePartners ''again'', only this time he was Dax's mentor.
* HotDad: Yates thinks so.
* ImportantHaircut: 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.
* TheKirk
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Sisko admitted to some fanboy glee at breathing the same air as James T. Kirk, but nonetheless ordered his squad to stay focused on their mission. The episode ended with Sisko [[HypocriticalHumor getting Kirk's autograph]] (Kirk thought he was signing a crew complement list).
* KungFuJesus: Word of God cites Moses as an inspiration for Sisko's story.
* MenDontCry: Averted in the very first episode. Reliving the memory of your beloved spouse dying would be enough to make anyone cry.
* TheMessiah
* ParentsAsPeople[=/=]GoodParents: He has a tough time raising Jake, but does a pretty good job of it anyway.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Jadzia Dax. He was also ''very'' close friends 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...
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: This [[BerserkButton irritates him]]; it's one of the reasons he doesn't initially care to try out the Rat Pack era casino simulation.
** It was [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] in that same episode when it was explained that equality regardless of race or gender wasn't the way things were, but it's the way it ''should have'' been.
* ResignedToTheCall: Sisko drags his heels all the way to his new assignment on [=DS9=]. It's 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.
* ScaryBlackMan: 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.
--> '''Sisko:''' Commander, launch torpedoes.
--> ''[Worf stares at him in shock; hesitates]''
--> '''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.''
-->'''Sisko (smiling politely):''' Go over my head again and I'll have ''yours'' on a platter.
* SecondLove: Kasidy is Sisko's, after Jennifer, who was killed in the pilot (at Wolf 359).
* SeriousBusiness: He gets a little emotional over coaching baseball. Usually an understated performer, Brooks' capacity for [[ChewingTheScenery ham]] is on full display in "Take Me Out to the Holosuite."
-->'''Sisko:''' You are finished! Gone! Off the team!\\
'''Rom:''' ....I can't play?\\
'''Sisko''': THAT'S THE SMARTEST THING YOU'VE SAID ALL WEEK!
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Several times throughout the series.
* StopWorshippingMe: 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.
* TeamChef: 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).
* TimeyWimeyBall: [[spoiler:His entire existence.]] Since the Prophets exist outside of linear space-time, their first meeting with The Sisko took place relatively speaking ''before'' they'd sent their prophecies to the Ancient Bajorans about the Emissary. [[spoiler:To ensure that that meeting took place, they sent one of their number to engineer his very ''birth''. ]]Furthermore, it's very likely that the Prophets began influencing Bajoran society due to meeting Sisko, making him somewhat culpable for most of Bajoran history... and thus the reason he first arrived at Bajor to begin with! Yeah, it's ''kinda'' complicated.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Both Sisko and Dax have admitted that they share a mutual attraction towards the other, despite never acting on it, it would be too weird given their previous relationship. As he puts it, "She may not be Curzon, but she's still DAX!"
** He does sleep with her mirror-universe counterpart while posing as their Ben Sisko though; an unjoined Jadzia was that Ben's mistress, and he had to maintain his cover when she threw herself at him after all…
* VillainByProxyFallacy: A rarity in how he views this of ''himself'' during "In The Pale Moonlight".
-->'''Sisko''': I am an accessory to murder(...) I think I can live with it.
* WarriorPoet: Can sometimes do this, notable in ''In The Pale Moonlight''.
* WouldntHitAGirl: He half-jokes about this whenever Dax manages to piss him off. He'll comment, "If you were still a man..." while knowing perfectly well that even if she's not really the "Old Man" anymore, Dax could still easily beat him.
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Sisko struggles to keep a tight lid on his temper, to the point where he comes across as incredibly mellow. Don't be fooled.

!!Major/Colonel Kira Nerys (NanaVisitor)
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->'''Kira''': Well, now that you have another pip on your collar, does that mean I can't disagree with you anymore?\\
'''Sisko''': No. It just means I'm never wrong.\\
'''Kira''': Ah. We'll see about that.
-->-- "The Adversary"

The most visible Bajoran and, at least initially, TheLancer. She resented Starfleet's presence, thinking of Bajor as having swapped one set of occupiers for another. Grew up as a Bajoran [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters freedom fighter]] and is thus skilled in guerrilla warfare, as well as capable enough to take on a Klingon in [[ActionGirl hand-to-hand combat]]. Begins her story arc angry and broken, but slowly [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosts]] over the course of the series. Kira is her family name and Nerys is her given name, said last as part of Bajoran naming custom (like Japanese names).

* ActionGirl: Good lord, she beats the stuffing out of a ''serial killer'' while the equivalent of ''[[PregnantBadass nine months pregnant]].''
* AntiHero: Type IV/V. She is one of the most ruthless protagonists in ''Trek'' canon.
* {{Badass}}: Manages to fight while ''pregnant''.
* BerserkButton: The Cardassian Occupation, [[ShellShockedVeteran unsurprisingly]].
* BreakTheCutie: That's quite the achievement but Silarin Prin, 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.
* BrokenBird: The horrors she has seen - well, she can [[TearJerker break your heart]].
* ColonelBadass: Promoted in the seventh season.
** CommandingCoolness: At the end.
* CombatPragmatist: Fair tactics do not keep you alive in the Bajoran Resistance. Kira, therefore, doesn't use them.
* CustomUniformOfSexy: Later traded in her padded-shoulder uniform for a [[CombatStilettos high-heeled]] catsuit, in the grand ''Trek'' tradition. The other members of her militia are stuck wearing the garish red & pink number.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Cardassian Occupation. In other words, she is a [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Holocaust survivor]].
* DefrostingIceQueen: 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
** Largely moves away from this trope altogether as the series progresses. CharacterDevelopment comes into play as we learn that Kira, while always wearing "armor" to some degree, is more then capable of kindness, and genuine human emotion.
* {{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.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Punch that console like you mean it, girl!
** 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''.
* FantasticCasteSystem: According to the old Bajoran caste system, she was supposed to be an artist. The castes were abandoned during the occupation, but her parents were still apparently disappointed and embarrassed that she never showed any artistic talent. When she attempts to be artistic during ''Accession'' when Akorem Laan is temporarily the Emissary, she ends up sculpting one of the ''worst'' pieces of pottery that's ever existed; it doesn't look like '''anything'''. She ends up giving it to Sisko, sarcastically noting that it's "a Kira Nerys original."
* FantasticRacism: Against Cardassians, because she was on the other end of it from them during their brutal occupation of her planet. Growing past it is part of her character development, beginning with the episode "Duet" and culminating perhaps in "Ties of Blood and Water".
* FieryRedhead
* GeneralRipper: She's down a few pay grades, and more heroic (and principled) than most examples, but if you replace 'Enemy X' with 'the Cardassians', she fits perfectly. Getting out of this is, consequently, a major part of her CharacterDevelopment.
* HotBlooded: Kira is very... passionate about what she believes in, although she ''is'' capable of controlling her emotions when the chips are down.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: As mentioned, she's a former Resistance fighter, and not of [[LaResistance the prettier variety]] either.
-->'''Kira''': ''None of you'' belonged on Bajor. It wasn't your world. For ''fifty years'', you ''raped'' our planet! You lived on our land and you took the food out of our mouths, and I don't care whether you held a phaser in your hand or you ''ironed shirts'' for a living; you were ''all'' guilty and you were '''''all legitimate targets!'''''
-->- "The Darkness and the Light"
* InterspeciesRomance: Bajoran/Changeling.
* KickedUpstairs: Sisko requested a Bajoran national to accompany him as a token of goodwill. The Bajoran government seized the chance to get Kira out of their hair.
* TheLancer: At first.
* LastNameBasis: For the first few series, very rarely is she called by her given name, Nerys. Even into the later series, the only people who regularly call her this are Jadzia Dax, her closest friend, and Odo, her love interest. And even Odo only switches over once they actually get together.
* LoveEpiphany: Or as she calls it, a "moment of pure clarity." Good thing she doesn't waste time, because it took her the better part of a decade to figure it out.
* MajorlyAwesome: For most of the show's run.
* TheMcCoy: A darker version, as she is not afraid to PayEvilUntoEvil, a la her stint with the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Resistance]].
* MoeCouplet: With Odo.
* NumberTwo: Of Deep Space Nine and, initially, the ''Defiant'' despite not being a member of Starfleet; essentially shares the role with Worf from season 4 onward.
* NotSoDifferent: With Garak, interestingly, while as liaison to the Cardassian LaResistance. Most of the rebels were rather oafish soldiers and Garak and Kira were notable for having the most experience with [[CloakAndDagger sinister doings.]]
* OddFriendship: With O'Brien. With hints of awkward UnresolvedSexualTension in several later episodes.
** [[spoiler: Hint nothing, when she moves in with the O'Briens as the surrogate carrier of their child, the B-plot of an episode is dedicated to them realizing their mutual attraction and coming to terms with it.]]
* ObliviousToLove: Justified, as Odo admits that he'd been doing his best to conceal his feelings for her.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Less so now that she's gotten tangled up with Starfleet, but this is ''definitely'' part of her past.
* PowerHair
* ReligiousBruiser: Religious enough that the Prophets choose her as a vessel in the Reckoning.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Her backstory as a leader of the Bajoran Resistance.
* SecondLove: Odo is arguably this for her, after [[spoiler:Vedek Bareil]], who [[spoiler:was tragically killed]] early in the series.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The Occupation was ''not'' fun for her.
* SupportingLeader: 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.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Her part was originally written to be ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' RecurringCharacter 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. {{Showrunner}}s 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.
* [[TenMinutesInTheCloset 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:[[BigBad 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.
* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy Hot Girlfriend]]: With Odo.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: 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.
* UptightLovesWild: She's the "wild" one, being considerably more fiery than the much more sedate Odo.
* WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid: Kira's not ''human'', but close enough.
* WhatTheHellHero: More than a few people are uncomfortable about her terrorist past. She is unrepentant due to the IDidWhatIHadToDo nature of fighting the Cardassian Occupation. Nevertheless, it does cause her a not-insignificant amount of {{angst}}.
* WhenSheSmiles: How Odo feels about her.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Almost a decade's worth with Odo before TheyDo.
* ZipMeUp: Odo. Interestingly, this is ''after'' they've gotten together - so he kisses her shoulder along the way.

!!Odo (Rene Auberjonois)
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->''"At the request of Commander Sisko, I will hereafter be [[CaptainsLog recording a daily log of law enforcement affairs]]. The reason for this exercise is beyond my comprehension, except perhaps that Humans have a compulsion to keep records and lists and files. So many in fact, that they have to invent new ways to store them microscopically. Otherwise their records would overrun all known civilization. My own very adequate memory not being good enough for Starfleet, I am pleased to put my voice to this official record of this day: Everything's under control. End log."''
-->-- "Neccessary Evil"

Functions as TheSpock initially, later becoming TheJudge. Served as Chief of security (affectionately referred to as "[[RedBaron Constable]]") of Deep Space Nine, having occupied that position even during the Cardassian Occupation. A [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] (or "Changeling", a clever double-meaning). Originally a bit angsty over not knowing his origins; eventually he discovers that his own people are the leaders of the Dominion and thus the enemy, which doesn't really help with the angst one bit. During the series, it's revealed that Odo's name is a shortened form of a Cardassian term, ''odo'ital'' ("nothing", a mistranslation of the Bajoran "unknown sample"), that the Cardassian overseers gave him during the Occupation.
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* AbusiveParents: Odo views Dr. Mora this way for a long time thanks to the unpleasant methods Mora used in researching him, even after learning that Odo was an organism rather than vaguely organic goop. There's also the name Odo itself: from the Cardassian word for "nothing.[[hottip:*:odo'ital, their term for "unknown sample"]]" Mora contends that he had Cardassians breathing down his neck for results and his methods motivated Odo to develop, and the two men eventually reconcile.
* AchillesHeel: He must revert to his [[ShapeshifterDefaultForm liquid form]] every sixteen hours to regenerate. If prevented from doing so, he experiences pain and physical deterioration. Garak takes advantage of this weakness when he tortures Odo using a device that prevents him from reverting to his liquid form.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: He ''rewrote history'' to save Kira. Kira, however, wasn't pleased, and it created a rift between them that took months to heal.
** Possibly why he subverts it later, when he tells the senior staff ''not'' to purge a Prophet from her body, as she is quite willing to risk her life in their battle.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: 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.
* AndAnotherThing: A staple of his investigative/interview technique, in the great tradition of Series/{{Columbo}}.
* {{Badass}}: He's not much use in a phaser battle, since he doesn't like using them and, as "Crossover" so... messily revealed, he's quite vulnerable to them. But in a hand-to-hand fight, or with non-energy weapons, he's basically invincible.
* BerserkButton: In "The Alternate," Odo reacts ''very'' angrily when Mora suggests he return to Mora's science facility for medical treatment. Given his [[AbusiveParents experiences in Mora's lab]] as an infant, this is not surprising.
--> '''Odo:''' I... am not going back to the center with you.
--> '''Mora:''' Why? We'll work through this together. We'll solve it together like we used to.
--> '''Odo:''' ''NO!!''
* BodyHorror: When an illness causes his physical appearance to deteriorate, such as the Section 31 virus and the infection inflicted on him by the Founders to force him back to the Great Link. Also when Garak tortures him using a device that prevents him from regenerating, his appearance becomes horrific.
* ByTheBookCop: With a dash of [[CowboyCop 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.
* CelibateHero: At first. In the first season, he admits that he has never "coupled" and fails to see the appeal of it. Subverted later in the series when Arissa takes his virginity, when the Female Changeling enchants him, and when he and Kira fall in love.
* CharacterTics: The short, businesslike nod he gives to acknowledge orders from his superiors. It's basically series shorthand for 'this is now guaranteed to happen'.
** He also features a condescending grunt (''...Huh'') that almost qualifies as a CatchPhrase. Usually aimed at Quark - in fact, it's the last thing he "says" to him.
* TheComicallySerious: He actually invokes it sometimes.
* DatingCatwoman: A brief sexual relationship with the Female Changeling, under the guise of learning about solids and their personal habits. Really, she had hoped to brainwash him into letting go of Kira.
* DeadpanSnarker: When he's not being TheComicallySerious. Quark is his principal victim, naturally.
* [[{{DefrostingIceQueen}} Defrosting Ice King]]: Starts the series perplexed and often disdainful of humanoid habits, such as courtship rituals which involve "bad poetry and sacrificing plants."
* DirtyBusiness: Years after the fact, he still feels guilty for having worked for the Cardassian occupiers. He admired Arissa for escaping from a dishonorable life whereas he did not.
* DoesNotLikeGuns: Prefers to use shapeshifting whenever possible.
* EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity: He has the appearance and psychological makeup of a middle-aged man. However, he was adrift in space as an infant Changeling for an unknown amount of time, meaning that he is likely chronologically older than he appears.
* EvilMentor: The Female Changeling.
* ExpressiveHair: 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'.
* FantasticRacism: He's on the receiving end of this when he is a suspect in a Bajoran's murder. His office is vandalized and [[{{Fantastic Slurs}} "SHIFTER"]] is written on the wall. Later, an angry mob threatens to kill him.
** His fellow Changelings are baffled that Odo is not overtly racist toward "solids." The Female Changeling tries to pull Odo from his life among humanoids several times, and the Changeling infiltrator invites Odo to leave them. Even Laas is profoundly distrustful of them.
* [[spoiler: FinalSolution: Averted. He prevents a Changeling genocide when he agrees to return to the Great Link and cure the other changelings of a devastating disease engineered by Section 31.]]
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: He spends much of his time in humanoid form in order to interact smoothly with solids. And with good reason; in "Chimera", Quark observes that Odo's liquid form triggers primal fears in humanoids, thanks to evolution.
* GutturalGrowler: Harumph!
* HatesSmallTalk: Inevitably leading up to making small talk with Worf about how they hate small talk.
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: In the "Chimera" episode, he embraces Kira while in the form of shimmering light.
* HulkOut: An encounter with an alien gas disrupts Odo's body, turning him into a giant monster reminiscent of Yellow Devil from ''Megaman''. An emotional trigger is required for the change, and afterward Odo had no memories of his actions. ("The Alternate")
* [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe I Can't Believe A Girl Like You Would Notice Me!]]: This is never actually said aloud after Odo ''finally'' gets Kira. That doesn't stop it from being written all over his face every time he so much as looks at her.
** His surpise at Kira's love might spring from doubts that the Female Changeling instilled in him in "Heart of Stone".
--> '''Female Changeling:''' She's never going to love you. How could she? You are a changeling.
* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: After he reveals his feelings and Kira is no longer with Shakaar, Odo tells her that he ''would'' ask her out, but with the Dominion and all he wants to put it off until they have more time.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Arissa and later Kira. His relationship with Arissa ended when it was discovered that she was [[GoodAdulteryBadAdultery married]], [[spoiler: and the latter ended when Odo returned to the Great Link to cure his people of a morphogenic virus that threatened to wipe them out.]]
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler: In "The Alternate," when he unconsciously transforms into a monster several times.]]
* TheJudge: Later on in the show. It's explained that his impartial attitude allowed him to be the security chief on [=DS9=] even during the occupation.
** In "Take Me Out to the Holosuite," Sisko names him umpire for the baseball game because he will be this no matter what.
* LongingLook: Constantly at Kira.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: The Female Changeling has this effect on him for a while.
* MagicPants: {{Justified|Trope}} in that he creates clothing out of his own substance.
* MeaningfulName: His original name, Odo Ital, is derived from ''odo'ital'' ("nothing" in Cardassian, a mistranslation of the Bajoran "unknown sample"). As an infant, Odo was studied in a science facility on Cardassian-occupied Bajor.
* ModeLock / BroughtDownToNormal: 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. In the Founders' eyes, this was {{a fate worse than death}}.
--> '''Female Changeling:''' Oh, poor Odo. Perhaps we should have killed you. It would have been far less cruel.
** He regains his shapeshifting ability after the events of "The Begotten".
* MoeCouplet: With Kira.
* MonsterRoommate: In "The Search, Part I", he briefly serves as this to Quark, literally and figuratively. Limited space on board the Defiant means that the two must share quarters, which becomes very uncomfortable for both men when Odo has to [[ShapeshifterDefaultForm liquefy]] in order to rest.
-->'''Odo:''' I have been holding this shape for sixteen hours. I have to revert back to my liquid state, but I don't want you to watch and gawk at me.
-->'''Quark:''' I understand, completely. This is a very private moment and I won't interfere. This won't be so bad, sharing--
-->'''Odo:''' I HAVE NO INTEREST IN SPEAKING TO YOU, OR IN LISTENING TO YOUR WITLESS PRATTLE. SO STAY OUT OF MY WAY, OR YOU'LL REGRET THE DAY YOU EVER MET ME.
* MoralityChain: Kira. In "Chimera", Laas insists that Kira is the only reason Odo hasn't left Deep Space Nine and joined the Dominion.
--> '''Odo:''' I won't have anything to do with the Founders and their war.
--> '''Laas:''' Odo, we linked. I know the truth. You stayed here because of Kira. If it weren't for her, you would be with our people. War or no war, you would be a Founder!
* MosesInTheBullrushes: He was discovered in the Denorios Belt as an infant.
* MundaneUtility: Shapeshifting is a wonderful talent for espionage. It also lets you give ''terrific'' massages.
* MyGreatestFailure: 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.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: The Founders protest ''far'' too much.
* NeatFreak: Is very upset after Dax shifts all the things in his room by ''centimeters.''
--> '''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.
---> '''Female Changeling:''' It is not justice you ''desire,'' Odo--but order, the same as we do.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: A {{starfish alien}} shapeshifter cop. InSpace
* NotSoDifferent: Odo has an inherent need to maintain order, displaying fascist tendencies when discussing how he'd ''prefer'' to be allowed to run the Promenade. One could infer that these same traits are likely what caused the Founders to create the Dominion in the first place.
** His Mirror Universe counterpart is a brutal slave overseer, hinting at what Odo could have become without a strong moral code to balance out his need for order.
* OlderAndWiser: His other self in "Children of Time."
* ParentalSubstitute: To the Infant Changeling in "The Begotten" and the Jem'Hadar boy in "The Abandoned."
* PatientZero: Of the [[spoiler:Section 31]] virus.
* PlatonicLifePartners: 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.
* RaisedByNatives: He's a Changeling who was raised by a Bajoran scientist, surrounded by humanoids all his life.
* RageBreakingPoint: In "Crossfire," when he smashes up his quarters in a fit of romantic jealousy.
* RomanticFalseLead: Arissa, and later the Female Changeling.
* RulesLawyer: Allow Odo to get his hands on a baseball rulebook, and weep.
-->"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.
* [[spoiler: SaveTheVillain: He cures the Female Changeling of a deadly disease afflicting the Changeling race.]]
* ShapeshifterBaggage: In the third episode, he transforms himself into a ''rat''. (Sorry, Cardassian vole) Incidentally, this is also his sole ability in the game adaptation.
** High-level shapeshifters, such as Las, have been able to morph into mist and even fire.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Although he normally appears as a humanoid adult male, his natural state is a gelatinous liquid. To rest, he must regularly return to his gelatinous form.
* ShapeShifterShowdown: With a Changeling infiltrator in "The Adversary."
* ShapeshiftingSquick: He and the Female Changeling have sexual relations in humanoid form during the occupation of Deep Space Nine. She tells him that it's nothing to the intimacy of the Great Link.
* TheSnarkKnight: Always manages to have something snarky to say about ''everything''.
* TheSpock: Most of the time. As the series progresses, we see more of the strong emotions beneath the surface, which occasionally cloud his judgment.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: 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 and Kira are very good at bringing this out of him.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler: His unconscious transformation into a monstrous form in "The Alternate", triggered by exposure to a psychotropic gas on L-S VI.]]
* {{Tearjerker}}: A poignant example is when he [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove confesses his love for Kira]] in "Heart of Stone." Another is when Kira comforts him as he deteriorates from the Section 31 virus in season 7. [[spoiler: When he and Kira are forced to part ways in the series finale, despite their love for each other, is perhaps the biggest tearjerker of all.]]
* TokenHeroicOrc / TokenEnemyMinority: Until Season 3, nobody has the slightest inkling that [[spoiler:[=DS9=]'s lowly security chief is a relative of the Dominion's {{Shadow Dictator}}s]].
* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy Hot Girlfriend]]: With Kira.
* UnusualEars: While in humanoid form, his ears are smooth and blunted, like [[UncannyValley his facial features]].
* UnwantedFalseFaith: To those Dominion devotees he encounters.
* UptightLovesWild: You really can't get more uptight than Odo.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Quark, eventually.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting
* WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid: Kira is not ''human'', but close enough.
* WhatTheHellHero: When he becomes involved with the Female Changeling and neglects his resistance responsibilities during the occupation of Deep Space Nine. Given the Founder's brutal tyranny and the Female Changeling's previous antics, this was [[LoveMakesYouDumb not his smartest move]]. Kira angrily calls him out on it.
* [[WillTheyOrWontThey Will They Or Won't They]]: Almost a decade's worth with Kira before TheyDo.
* [[spoiler: YouCantGoHomeAgain: Subverted]] in the series finale.

!!Doctor Julian Bashir (Siddig El Fadil a.k.a. Alexander Siddig)
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->''"I didn't want some cushy job or a research grant, I wanted ''this''! The farthest reaches of the galaxy; one of the most remote outposts available. ''This '' [[DareToBeBadass is where the adventure is! This is where heroes are made]]! Right here - in the wilderness."''
-->-- "Emissary"

Thrill-seeking newcomer who believes he's God's gift to medicine; life on the station would [[BreakTheHaughty shatter that notion]] pretty quickly. Started off alternatively being droolingly infatuated with Dax, painfully green, and an all-round CasanovaWannabe, as well as coming off as a bit of an UpperClassTwit (prattling eagerly about frontier medicine gets up the locals' noses). Later his behavior gives way to some [[HiddenDepths dark personal secrets]]. The showrunners weren't sure what to do with Bashir in the beginning, having rather off-handedly written a Doctor into the show. Negative viewer response to the character [[ShillingTheWesley only emboldened the writers]] to make Bashir a fan favorite; in this rare case, it worked. Notable as the first time that a US TV show recognized that [[ATouchOfClassEthnicityAndReligion not all English people are white]].
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* {{Adorkable}}: How much of the cast feels about him later in the series.
* AlwaysSecondBest: On purpose.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Though the name is clearly Arabic, nobody ever mentions where Bashir hails from - a fact which Siddig was personally proud of.
* BioAugmentation: Not by choice, and kept secret for most of the series.
* BolivianArmyEnding: Some of his favorite holosuite programs are the [[TheHomeFront Battle of Britain]], [[RememberTheAlamo the Alamo]], and the [[GrecoPersianWars Battle of Thermopylae]]. Ezri teasingly speculates about these "annihilation fantasies."
* CasanovaWannabe: His attempts to be suave always fail horribly.
* CerebusRetcon: The revelation about his genetic enhancements casts a much darker light on his initial UpperClassTwit-ish behavior.
* CombatMedic: 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, and manages to come out of a brawl with a dozen TOS-era Klingons unscathed.
* CompanionCube: His teddy bear, Kukalaka.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Towards Dax. It doesn't work with Jadzia. Does with Ezri (who he is not dogged with, but she reveals that Jadzia would have reciprocated if Worf hadn't arrived when he did).
** Although by the time Worf arrived, he'd matured considerably.
* MrFanservice
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Garak was implied to be hitting on Bashir during their first meeting -- though the Paramount suits put the kibosh on that, right quick.
* FanOfThePast: Bashir is a huge geek about 1960s spy fiction and something of a war history buff.
* FantasticRacism: His genetic augmentation nearly got him kicked out of Starfleet when they found out, due to the Federation's strict, almost draconian, laws against it. Every other augment in the series gets stuffed into a clinic/prison, though this is partially because the poor quality of their augmentation has left them extremely smart but lacking in social skills or common sense. Bashir is one of the few that doesn't have extreme personality quirks or dangerous amounts of ambition. Sisko mentions that Bashir is the first case they've dealt with in decades, making this a very rare occurrence indeed. Sisko also pointed out that the law is somewhat dated simply because it is so rarely enforced, so it may just be a case of them not getting around to updating the books. It's also possible that this is a much more common occurrence than anyone wants to admit, [[FridgeBrilliance it's just that it's a lot harder to catch someone who several times more intelligent than the average human]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A throwaway moment occurs in the S4 episode ''Homefront'', when Odo chats with O'Brien and Bashir right before a trip to Earth. O'Brien cheerfully asks Odo to say hi to O'Brien's parents in Dublin. Odo turns and asks Bashir if he has any family he'd like Odo to visit; Bashir immediately clams up and changes the subject, a hint at his strained relationship with his parents almost a full season before it's explicitly established.
* GenreSavvy: At least in regards to James Bond novels.
* GoodCounterpart: To Khan Noonien Singh, who was also Indian.
* GoodWithNumbers: He's able to do very complex calculations in his head.
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster?: How some feel about his augmentations. Julian apparently took it to heart, as he's allowed his personal life and career to fall to shambles, too afraid to attract attention.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: 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.
* HospitalHottie
* InsufferableGenius: 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 CharacterDevelopment. This turned out to fit well with the later idea that it's because of his genetically enhanced origins.
* TheIntern
* TheMedic: Even if it doesn't make any sense for a station doctor to be out in the field.
* MultipleChoicePast: His reasons for going into medicine change from person to person. This is one of the reasons people thought the writers planned the reveal of his augmentations from the beginning, instead of [[AuthorsSavingThrow a last-minute change]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: 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.
* OddFriendship: With Garak.
* PropheticName: The meaning of the name Bashir is "well-educated; wise".
** Originally, the character was meant to be a LatinLover named "Dr. [[PunnyName Amaros]]", which is a bit on the nose.
* RomanticRunnerUp: Twice. The first time was to Rom and the second time was to Worf.
* SatelliteCharacter: 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).
* SuperLoser: Genius-level intellect! Superhuman reflexes! ...But he's rubbish at pulling girls.
* StupidSexyFlanders
* ThatManIsDead: 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.
* ThemeInitials: Bashir. [[TheNameIsBondJamesBond Julian Bashir]].
* {{Transhuman}}: A jarring 180 to the NoTranshumanismAllowed usually employed in ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
** TokenHeroicOrc: Julian is one of the few Augmented Humans in the franchise ''without'' any psychological or mental problems, a common side-effect amongst individuals who have undergone extensive genetic modification. It's a ''very'' sharp bell-curve. The augments in DS9 are not evil, but they are seriously maladjusted.
* UpperClassTwit: In earlier episodes, prior to CharacterDevelopment.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: 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 his bad luck, he deserved to get a break.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: 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.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: 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 [[StageMom 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.
* WideEyedIdealist: Frequently {{deconstructed}}; the fresh-faced, brilliant young officer out of the Academy ends up wrong or in trouble many times due to his naivete. He gets better, but it still bites him sometimes, such as the late-season episode "Inter Arma Silent Legis."

!!Lieutenant/Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell)
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->''"Don't mistake a new face for a new soul, Kang."''
-->-- "Blood Oath"

TheChick, ReallySevenHundredYearsOld (and the ActionGirl sometimes), with the slight twist of being an attractive young female - albeit one inhabited by a symbiont [[TheNthDoctor with several centuries of memories and experience from hosts of both genders]]. Some fans claim she mutated into a FauxActionGirl after she got together with Worf, although she first showed her proficiency with the ''bat'leth'' in Season 2. For Season 7, she is [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute replaced]] by ''Ezri'' Dax who is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} not at all similar]]. Luckily, her species had a built-in storyline reason that made this possible; [[TheNthDoctor symbionts need new hosts]] on occasion after all, and the joining adds the new personalities to the mix. For the hosts of the Dax symbiont beyond Jadzia and Ezri, see the "Others" folder.
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* ActionGirl
* BattleCouple: With Worf.
* BiTheWay: Ostensibly, the result of being a [[GenderBender gender-bending]] alien whose life keeps criss-crossing with past lovers who are ''also'' gender flipped.
** Dax played a dominant male role in her and Kahn's relationship, though they were still pretty solidly {{Lipstick Lesbian}}s. This led to ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' airing what was (incorrectly) touted to be the first lesbian kiss on network television, between Dax and "his" former wife. ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_kiss_episode It was actually the fifth.]])
* TheConsigliere: To Sisko. It helps that Dax has been knocking about for a long while, and knows the attitudes of Starfleet's various adversaries.
* CulturedBadass: She can speak Klingon, drink any Klingon under the table, handle a Bat-leth with ease, beat Ferengi at Tongo (their variation of poker), and imitate a Romulan with flawless disdain, just to name a few. Admittedly, she still hasn't solved an Altonian brain teaser after 160 years. Bashir tried it, and [[YourBrainWontBeMuchOfAMeal caused the game to crash immediately]].
* DrinkOrder: Has a taste for bloodwine, of course. But her preferred way to start the morning is by slamming a Black Hole, a strong Ferengi drink.
* EnemyWithin: Joran Dax, the most unstable of her past personalities.
* GenderBender: She has the gender of her host of the time. She has been both men and women in past lives.
* HappilyMarried: To Worf, [[spoiler:until her Jadzia host died]].
* HonestAdvisor: To Ben. She also dumps Quark's friendship after he becomes an arms dealer, although she is genuinely outraged in that instance.
* HotScientist
* ImmortalImmaturity: The Dax symbiont is particularly rowdy. This is proven by Jadzia's former personality before her joining: a bookish ShrinkingViolet.
--->'''Jem'Hadar''': Few Jem'Hadar live that long. If we reach twenty, we're considered honored elders. ''(leans in)'' How old are you?\\
'''Dax'''': I stopped counting at three hundred.\\
'''Jem'Hadar''': ''(dumbfounded)'' You don't look it.
* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: In-universe version. The Dax symbiont has fought alongside the likes of Kang, Kor, and Koloth; he negotiated the Khitomer Accords to usher in peace between the Federation and Klingons; and Dax even (gulp!)... dated Bones [=McCoy=] in college.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Worf.
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: While the Dax symbiont Passes on to Ezri, Jadzia is still quite dead.]]
* TheLadette: There were early attempts at making Dax reserved and wise, but it never stuck. After one season, Ira Behr realized the 'old soul' angle wasn't working out; the character was gradually retooled into a sort of androgynous commando, switching gender roles depending on the setting. She can be quite butch when the situation calls for it, but she's wickedly girlish in private.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome
* TheNthDoctor: The eighth host of Dax.
* OlderThanTheyLook: 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."
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: In series 1, she's only 28. It's confirmed that all of her vast amount of scientific knowledge and multiple degrees were gained prior to receiving the Dax symbiont at the age of 26. While Dax has been hosted by an engineer and a pilot, Jadzia is Dax's first scientist.
* [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Adopted Warrior Foreigner]]: A Trill who is more Klingon than most Klingon.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Terry Farrell decided not to return for the show's seventh season, so they wrote Jadzia out.
* ShesGotLegs: Those spots go ''all the way'' down, baby. Makeup veteran Michael Westmore actually got paid to spend an hour scribbling them on with magic marker.
* TheSpock: This is her initial characterization, but the writers decided to make her more emotional and fun-loving. Although she still fulfills rational Spock functions, she becomes something of a combination of him and TheKirk.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: A bit of a [[LeonardNimoy Nimoy]] fangirl, as evidenced when she laid eyes on him in a hallway. Sisko had to drag her away by the arm.
* TookALevelInBadass: Particularly after Curzon's Klingon-loving personality came to the forefront during her ''zhian'tara''.
* UptightLovesWild: With Worf. Three guesses on who is which.
* WorkHardPlayHard: When she works she is an ingenious and competent officer. When she plays she likes gambling, flirting, and making love [[DestructoNookie Klingon Fashion]].

!!Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton)
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->'''Quark:''' [[WhyAreYouNotMySon Why can't you take after your friend here?]] ''He'' knows enough to stay out of Starfleet. Even a Hew-man can see there's a lot more profitable opportunities out there for a young man with ambition.\\
'''Nog''': Uncle, he wants to be a ''writer''! There's no profit in that!
-->-- "Facets"

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 CreatorsPet, for the most part, via actually ''suffering'' sometimes, in his growth as a character; also showed the impressive insanity--sorry, ''[[RefugeInAudacity testicular fortitude]]''--to remain behind and try to be a journalist covering [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Dominion-occupied [=DS9=]]].
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* AbsenteeActor: 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!
* ActionSurvivor: "Nor the Battle to the Strong."
* {{Adorkable}}: Especially when he's trying to pick up women.
* TheArtifact: After [[TheScrappy how badly]] [[CreatorsPet Wesley]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Crusher]] was received, Jake was conceived as the anti-Wesley (a perfectly normal child), and it was his friend, recurring character Nog, who would join Starfleet. But it meant that in the later seasons, as he grew up and the Dominion War was underway, Jake had very little to do while Nog, among other recurring characters, got more to do.
* BlackAndNerdy
* ADayInTheLimelight: In the Season 5 episodes "Nor The Battle For The Strong" and "In The Cards".
* DirtyCoward: "Nor the Battle to the Strong" [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructs]] this idea. At first, Jake is contemptuous of a soldier who shoots himself in the foot, but then he realizes just how powerful fear can be when he's caught in battle and abandons Bashir.
* FailedASpotCheck: During the Dominion Occupation of [=DS9=], Jake is honestly ''surprised'' when Weyoun refuses to send his articles to the Federation New Service, because they portrayed the Dominion in an unflattering light (ie. an as evil Empire). After he ''still'' doesn't get it, Jake asks about the right of the press? This naturally causes Weyoun to ''laugh!''
* IntrepidReporter: Particularly during the re-occupation arc. He banks on the fact that the Dominion won't want to upset the Bajorans by hurting the Emissary's son, although he knows it's a pretty risky bet.
* TheMatchmaker: He sets up his dad with Kasidy.
* MilitaryBrat
* MostWritersAreWriters: The crew was not particularly happy with "The Muse", especially when they realized they had strayed well into this trope.
* OnlySaneMan: In "Valiant," being the only one who thinks that Cadet Watters and the rest of Red Squad should not be commanding a warship on a clandestine mission. He is one hundred percent correct.
* SatelliteCharacter: To his father.
* TagalongKid: This became unintentionally hilarious in the later seasons, as Lofton ended up being one of the tallest actors. For example, the episode "Valiant" has a crew full of cadets who barely reach his neck trying to order him around. They have to look up to point a phaser to his chin!
* ThoseTwoGuys: Himself and Nog, who considered him to be a pest initially. The pair were roughly the same age, and grew up together.
-->'''Jake''': You always used to chase me away.\\
'''Odo''': I never chased you away, I chased Nog. You just happened to be with him.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Subverted, as he ''doesn't'' want to follow his father into Starfleet and worries that his father will be disappointed with his desire to be a writer.

!!Chief Miles O'Brien (Colm Meaney)
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->'''Sisko''': Relax, Chief, it's just a computer.\\
'''O'Brien''': This is no computer. [[WhatAPieceOfJunk This is my arch-enemy!]]
-->-- "The Forsaken"

MrFixit, as well as an AscendedExtra from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', with a bigger role this time who becomes HeterosexualLifePartners with Bashir. Subject of the annual "[[TheWoobie 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 ''Franchise/StarTrek'' 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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* AscendedExtra: From a nameless con in the ''TNG'' premiere to a major character on another series.
* AlmightyJanitor: The only reason ''anything'' on [=DS9=] works is because of him.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Devoted family man? Check. Dutiful officer? Check. Capable of taking on BrainwashedAndCrazy former Obsidian Order operative Garak on a booby-trapped station with minimal supplies and almost no backup, and winning? ''Check.''
* ButtMonkey: There was an "O'Brien must suffer" at least once a season, because the writers thought Colm Meaney was good in those plots.
* CloningBlues: By the end of the series its not exactly our O'Brien but an O'Brien who came back from a few hours in the future after seeing our O'Brien die. Basically the same guy and he does dwell on it, but not for long.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Several. Some prime examples include "Whispers", "Tribunal" and "Visionary".
* TheEveryman: Devoted family man, down-to-earth soldier, and enlisted man.
* FantasticRacism: Occasionally towards Cardassians, and has been known to utter the phrase "Cardy Bastards".
** To clarify, O'Brien fought in the Federation-Cardassian War and was present at the Setlik III massacre, an event that affected him deeply. This was also the first time he'd ever killed someone, ''vaporising'' a Cardassian when he fired a phaser not knowing that it'd be set to maximum. As O'Brien summed up in TNG, he doesn't hate Cardassians, he hates what he became because of them.
** He's not thrilled with Changelings either, Odo aside.
* GadgeteerGenius
* HappilyMarried: To Keiko.
* LimitedAdvancementOpportunities: Given his record of genius and heroism, you'd expect him to make Master Chief by the end of the series, but he stays an [=SCPO=] for the entire run (although it is possible that might be the top of the Starfleet NCO ranks, we haven't seen enough of them on screen to be sure). He does continually gain responsibilities and duties throughout the series, so there is a career progression of sorts going on.
* MrFixit: Well into Season 6, it is ''still'' strongly implied that the only reason all the mixed Federation and Cardassian technology on board [=DS9=] runs anything close to smoothly is because he has been working on it non-stop from day one.
* OddFriendship: With Kira. With hints of awkward UnresolvedSexualTension in several later episodes.
* TimeyWimeyBall: In the third-season episode "Visionary", O'Brien is sent to the future several times. [[spoiler:Ultimately, "our" O'Brien dies and the one that comes back to the present is an O'Brien from two-and-a-half hours into the future]].
* VeteranInstructor: Sort of slips into the old-hand mentor role in the final two seasons, and the GrandFinale sees him return to Earth to become an official instructor at the Academy.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: "Hard Time" involves this. [[spoiler:He kills a good man for a scrap of bread. Even if that man was an illusion, O'Brien is so horrified at himself that he attempts suicide]].

!!Quark (Armin Shimerman)
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->'''Quark''': You do this for me, and I promise you, there'll be no more secrets between us. I'll tell you about every underhanded deal, every lying scheme, every dirty trick... [[IHaveThisFriend my brother Rom's involved in]].\\
'''Odo''': Well, since you put it that way!-- ...[[BaitAndSwitchComment I'm not interested]].
-->-- "The Magnificent Ferengi"

A mix of AntiHero and TedBaxter (there were lots of {{Ted Baxter Close Up}}s featuring Quark). Being a Ferengi meant he was a member of a PlanetOfHats of ultra-ruthless, ludicrously sexist [[ProudMerchantRace capitalists]]. His brother Rom and his nephew Nog started out as the TooDumbToLive-type, but it turned out they were just hiding behind these images too.
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* AntiHero: Type I.
* TheBartender
* BadBoss / BenevolentBoss: Both, thanks to the Rules of Acquisition. He considers himself benevolent because [[DeliberateValuesDissonance only he is allowed to sexually harrass the dabo girls]]; to his credit he did leap into the path of a knife to protect them in "In the Pale Moonlight."
** And in "The Bar Association," he refuses to let Rom take time off to treat a life-threatening ear infection, but it's later revealed that he cut everyone's salary so he wouldn't have to ''fire'' anyone.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: A mostly non-violent example. He does occasionally kill Jem Hadar, but he mostly shows this with wit and ingenuity. The best example is in "The Magnificent Ferengi" where he and his ferengi recruits lure a Vorta to Empok Nor, trick him into sending most of his backup several light years away, kill his two remaining guards, then take him prisoner and hand him to the federation.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin
* CowardlyLion: Avidly preaches that he is not a fighter and proclaims himself to be a coward without shame. As seen by these other tropes, Quark's a lot braver than he gives himself credit for.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Kills at least half a dozen Jem'Hadar {{Super Soldier}}s in shootouts over the course of the series, despite how often he insists fighting is no way for a Ferengi to behave. When circumstances forced him into a duel with a Klingon, he escaped with his life by showing up anyway, throwing the fight and saying how it's effectively an execution ("Killing an unarmed ferengi... ''half his size''"), goading his opponent into fighting anyway and causing Chancellor Gowron to intervene and admonish his opponent for such a dishonor. Quite a little BatmanGambit on his part.
* ADayInTheLimelight: He's pretty much the star of the show for all the Ferengi-centric episodes. Particularly the ones that take place almost entirely on Ferenginar.
* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Swindlers Have Standards]]: He goes into business with his cousin Gaila, an arms merchant, but changes his mind and ultimately wrecks Gaila's business because he can't stand to sell the death of millions.
** When the Dominion takes over the station, Quark is initially okay with it. Sure, he misses the Federation, but business is good and (as he says) the current occupation is nowhere near as bad as the Cardassian one. However, his viewpoint changes over the course of the arc. Towards the end, he bemoans the current situation, saying he doesn't like the Cardassians and finds the Jem'Hadar creepy (not to mention they don't ever buy anything so all they do is take up space and scare away business). He culminates by saying, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "I wanna sell root beer again!"]]
* {{Determinator}}: Not often but in 'The Ascent' Quark, crashed on a uninhabited planet, refuses to die and attempts to signal for help simply to spite Odo.
* FangThpeak: Especially in early episodes.
* FriendlyEnemy: He and Odo eventually arrive at this.
* TheGambler
* GoodOldWays: Why he doesn't get on with his 'ahead of the times' mother and why he's skeptical of Rom's new Ferenginar.
* HiddenDepths: It's usually a B-Plot or sprinkled into background material, but Quark is not the typical Ferengi. His comment in "Bar Association" is telling; he can either cut everyone's hours (and salaries) by a third to keep the bar running, or fire half his staff. He chooses to keep everyone's job. He almost never resorts to violence to get anything done (other Ferengi have no such compunctions), and the reason why he gets so many StrawmanHasAPoint moments is that he is entirely too human and can relate (his "Root Beer" speech is classic Quark). He gets into constant trouble with the Ferengi Commerce Authority because of his strangely compassionate side. Comes to a head in "Body Parts", where Brunt explains that his hatred of Quark is not due to any particular misdeed, but rather that he is a philanthropist by Ferengi standards.
** On the other hand, this also explains why he's such a traditionalist. While other Ferengi are often shallow and greedy enough to do just about anything for profit, he considers the public welfare just as important.
** 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.
* HonestJohnsDealership: The Ferengi's [[PlanetOfHats Hat]].
* InterspeciesRomance: With Grilka, a female Klingon; over the course of two episodes she kidnaps and marries him to save her House from being taken by an enemy, he saves her House, they divorce, and then they start falling in love. She only appears in two episodes without further mention, so it's unknown where things went after the first time they had sex. In the continuity of ''StarTrekOnline'', it's mentioned she ended up marrying Worf in 2386 and they have a son together.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his scheming, he's not one to let innocent people get murdered to satiate his own greed.
* LoveableSexManiac: Tries to sleep with the Dabo girls he hires, although this gets toned down later.
* NecessaryEvil: Sisko considers Quark an anchor to the merchant community and social potpourri of the station, and repeatedly takes steps to keep him in operation.
* MayorOfAGhostTown: Began the series as this. Cunningly, Sisko snatches Quark before he can leave the station and appoints him "[[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord community leader]]"; a nice way of saying that if Quark doesn't stay, his nephew goes to jail.
* TheMillstone: 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.
* NecessaryEvil: Odo regularly allows Quark to break the law, while using him to get a bead on the more significant criminals Quark interacts with.
* NeverMyFault: When he's caught out, you can always count on Quark to throw Rom under the bus. He did it in the pilot episode, he does it every other week, and a wonder Rom hasn't buried a spanner in his head by now.
* NotSoDifferent / StrawmanHasAPoint: Quark has a lot to say about the Federation, and hew-mons in particular. Sometimes his observations are devastatingly on target. Also, for all his criticism of humans, he often acts remarkably human himself. See, for example, his gunning down a Jem Hadar to save himself and Nog, after criticizing the violent nature of humanity.
* PapaWolf: Contrary to appearances, he's fiercely protective of his nephew Nog. Although sometimes what he does to "help" is wrong (like sabotaging his entry exam to Starfleet Academy), sometimes it isn't.
* ReadTheFinePrint: Feeling up the Dabo girls is "part of the job." ...Literally, look at the employee contract. It's in there, buried in a sub-section written in Ferengi-only script.
** There's also a provision that anything that goes wrong in the bar is automatically Rom's fault.
* ShipperOnDeck: As the station's eyes and ears ([[ObligatoryJoke Ha!]]), Quark comments on the pairings occurring all around him. Even some that [[ShipTease never actually took off]], such as Sisko/Jadzia.
* TedBaxter
* TheUnfavorite: 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.
* UnusualEars: Like all Ferengi.
* {{Whatever}}: An occasional catch-phrase.
* WorthyOpponent: Feels this way about Odo. Even in the second episode, he defends Odo against accusations of murder.


!!Lt. Commander Worf (Michael Dorn)
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->'''Worf''': I have a sense of humor. On the ''Enterprise'', I was considered to be quite amusing.\\
'''Dax''': That must've been one dull ship.
-->-- "Change of Heart"

Another reassignment from the ''Enterprise''-D, turning up with the show's ReTool at the start of season 4. Notably, Worf suffered less of TheWorfEffect on this show than ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]''. The conflicts of this series and heavy involvement with the Klingon Empire were more suited to his strengths and instincts. In addition, Michael Dorn was savvy enough to ensure that, should he be invited onto another series, he would be both unique among Klingons ''and'' would have a chance to be {{Badass}}. Hence his fondness of Prune Juice over Blood Wine. See also his section on the ''[[Characters/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' [[Characters/StarTrekTheNextGeneration character sheet]].
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* BattleCouple: With Jadzia.
* BattleCry: PlayedForLaughs in "Take Me Out To The Holosuite"
-->'''Sisko:''' Alright, I wanna hear some chatter!\\
'''Ezri:''' Heeeeyy batter batter batter!\\
'''Kira:''' Hey batter batter!\\
'''Worf:''' '''''DEATH TO THE OPPOSITION!'''''
* TheBigGuy
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Miles' baby can go to sleep in his arms... and initially, ''only'' his arms.
** And he's always dreamed of a traditional Klingon wedding, with all the trimmings. (Although "soft" might not be the best word given the ''Klingon'', but he's still quite a romantic.)
* CargoShip:[[invoked]] Dax insinuated that Worf's first love is the ''Defiant''. In a sense, he considers it ''his'' ship, not Sisko's.
* TheComicallySerious
-->'''Garak''': Mr. Worf, you're no fun at all.\\
'''Worf''': ... good.
* {{Determinator}}: Famously stood his ground against '''ten''' Jem 'Hadar warriors in a ForcedPrizeFight. When he finally does hit the mat, it's his ''opponent'' who calls it quits.
-->'''Ikat'ika:''' I yield. I cannot defeat this Klingon. I can only kill him, and [[WorthyOpponent 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.
* DrinkOrder: Prune juice, chilled. To Quark's surprise.
* FireForgedFriends: With Martok.
* HappilyMarried: To Jadzia.
* HeartbrokenBadass: 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 ''[[ManlyTears weeps]].''
* ImmigrantPatriotism: 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.)
* [[MasterSwordsman Master Bat'leth Suvwl']] : Given that he can beat [[ActionGirl Jadzia]] in a friendly duel, Grilka's bodyguard in a real one(while [[NeuralImplanting piloting Quarks body]] instead of his own too), and actually kill [[spoiler:Gowron]] in a DuelToTheDeath, he must be one of the best fighters to ever handle a ''bat'leth''. Despite his prowess with the weapon, Worf seems to prefer using a ''mek'leth'' in combat, a machete-like weapon half the size (and therefore much easier to carry around).
* MyGreatestFailure: 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.
* NumberTwo: Is First Officer of the ''Defiant''. In practice, he and Kira share this role, which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in "Apocalypse Rising".
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: 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.
* OfferedTheCrown: 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 [[{{RunningGag}} 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.
** A cut scene would have had Worf confiding in Ezri that his one regret was that his father wasn't there to see it.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy
* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic: See HeartbrokenBadass.
* WarriorPoet: Loves Klingon Opera, Klingon legends, and Klingon traditions.
* TheWorfEffect: [[AvertedTrope Starting to wane]] by this point, thank goodness.
* UptightLovesWild: With Jadzia. Three guesses who is which.

!!Lieutenant Ezri Dax (Nicole de Boer)
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--> ''"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 Tigan 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. For the hosts of the Dax symbiont beyond Jadzia and Ezri, see the "Others" folder.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: With Worf, since he obviously hasn't gotten over [[spoiler:Jadzia's death]], and Jadzia's memories are confusing her emotions.
* CloudCuckooLander: As a result of having eight full lifetimes shoehorned into her head. She adjusts eventually.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Considering that she showed up in the final season, most of it was devoted to developing her character as much as they could (while still focusing on the rest of the storyline), but the episodes "Prodigal Daughter" and "Field Of Fire" are very specifically about only her.
* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Ezri was not planning to be a symbiont host and had no training. Her entire prep time was a 15-minute lecture from the ''Destiny'''s non-Trill Chief Medical Officer.
* NaiveNewcomer: Even without suddenly becoming Dax, she's a very young Starfleet officer.
* TheNthDoctor: The ninth host of Dax.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's got the same deal as Jadzia going on, plus she's a few years younger than Jadzia was at the beginning of the series.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Is on the receiving one of Garak's. Later, she delivers one to Worf about the Klingon Empire being plagued with corruption.
* SexWithTheEx: A variant, since of course Ezri is a different person than Jadzia. Luckily for their sanity, this clears up for both of them just ''what'' their relationship is (Worf realizes that it's time to stop thinking of Ezri as Jadzia, and Ezri realizes she's in love with Julian)
* SlapSlapKiss: Again with Worf. When he's missing and she goes on a one-woman rescue mission, they get into a huge argument after she saved him and they ended up sleeping together.
-->"Do you really think that I would disobey orders and risk my life so that I could seduce you? I hate to burst your bubble, Worf, but it wasn't ''that'' good."
* StepfordSnarker: She frequently makes sarcastic comments and uses SelfDeprecatingHumor to cover her real anxiety. The episode focusing on her family implies Ezri did this even before she was joined.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: She's tasked with Garak's ''very'' difficult case when she is in desperate need of therapy herself.
* TookALevelInBadass: A half-level at first after a particularly scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech 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.
** She goes a BIG step further in "Penumbra", when she singlehandedly braves the storms of The Badlands to save Worf. Oh, and she gives a few nice mini-[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "Reason You Suck Speeches"]] when Worf seems to forget his gratitude for it, in that episode and one two episodes later.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's basically impossible to say anything about Ezri without explaining that [[spoiler:Jadzia dies]]. If you're talking to someone who knows how Trill work, they're going to figure out the implications of her last name very fast.
* [[WellDoneSonGuy 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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[[folder: Quark's Bar, Family & other Ferengi]]

!!Rom (Max Grodénchik)
->'''Odo:''' I've had my eye on you for a long time, Rom. You're not as stupid as you look.\\
'''Rom''': I am, too!
-->-- "Necessary Evil"

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 HiddenDepths as the series went on.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: But pretty much only as far as Quark is concerned.
* TheCastShowoff: Averted. Although Rom is the worst player on the station's baseball team, Max Grodénchik was a semi-pro player in high school and considered going full professional before going into acting. In fact, Max was literally incapable of playing as badly as he was supposed to, which is why Rom plays left-handed. Nana Visitor was by far the worst player.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: 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.
-->'''Rom:''' I've ''always'' been smart, brother. [[HandWave I've just lacked self-confidence.]]
** Specifically, he was more ruthless (even trying to ''kill'' Quark in "The Nagus") and meaner to Nog in the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.
*** Later, when an Orb experience temporarily induced Zek to turn the Ferengi Alliance into an interstellar charity, Rom earned Quark's respect by ''embezzling from the Grand Nagus''.
* GeniusDitz: A damn fine engineer, completely lacking in common sense and, worse for a Ferengi, business sense, until near the end of the show.
-->'''Quark:''' "Looks like your stupidity has saved you again."\\
'''Rom:''' "It comes in handy sometimes."
* MrFixit: Because Quark is so cheap when it comes to repairs, Rom has to be ridiculously inventive to keep everything running smoothly. For example, he uses a spatula as a key conductor in the holosuite's mechanisms.
** GadgeteerGenius: He's the one who comes up with the idea of self-replicating mines.
* PapaWolf: As Quark found out, mess with Nog at your peril. Rom went as far as to threaten to burn the bar down.
* RealMenWearPink: Provides Quark with sage advice for passing himself off as a woman. In fact, Rom almost knows ''too'' much about the subject.
* SimpletonVoice: After his first appearance.
* SmarterThanYouLook
* UglyGuyHotWife: Eventually marries [[FanserviceWithASmile Dabo girl]] Leeta.
** Pretty much everyone considers this a CrackPairing in-universe, for varying reasons.
*** By Ferengi standards Rom is considered something of a BrainlessBeauty though.
* UndyingLoyalty: He may not impress on first impressions, but you can trust Rom with your life. Or, as O'Brien learned in "The Assignment", the life of your wife.
* UnusualEars: Like all Ferengi.
* WalkingDisasterArea: An absolute menace on the baseball field, resulting in bat-related injuries for the entire team. (His jersey number is 13)

!!Nog (Aron Eisenberg)

->'''Rom''': You remember my son Nog, don't you? He's the first Ferengi to join Starfleet.\\
'''Zek''': I'll try not to hold that against him.
-->-- "Profit and Lace"

Quark's nephew. Starts out as Jake's [[TheSlacker slacker]] best friend, but then joins Starfleet and becomes a shining example of a straight-up, by-the-book soldier. This occasionally lapses into NewMeat, except that, because Starfleet is only MildlyMilitary, no one finds him the least bit annoying.
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* ArtificialLimbs: After the Siege of AR-558.
* BookDumb: At the beginning of the series he can't read or write in English. Jake teaching him to do so is a big part of their friendship.
* GungHolierThanThou: He is rather ''enthusiastic'' about militaristic behavior, especially for a Ferengi.
* HeroicBSOD: The episode "It's Only a Paper Moon" focuses on the psychological toll that AR-558 took on him--withdrawn, defensive, and unwilling to go back into reality after the trauma of [[spoiler:losing his leg]]. He more or less has [=PTSD=].
* OddFriendship: With Vic in "It's Only a Paper Moon."
** His friendship with Jake Sisko is something that ''both'' their parents initially try to discourage.
* RankUp: He's promoted to ensign before graduating, mainly because they ''really need'' officers. Counting alternate timelines and things that didn't stick, he is actually one of the most promoted characters on the show.
* ShellShockedVeteran: After [[spoiler:losing his leg in the Siege of AR-558]].
* TheScrounger: By the time he joins Starfleet he's an ''expert'' at navigating the "Great Material Continuum," much to Chief O'Brien's bemusement (and relief).
* SpaceCadet
* UnusualEars

!!Leeta (Chase Masterson)
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->'''Leeta''': I ''have'' brains!\\
'''Quark''': Sure you do, honey. That's why I hired you. Now, eat up, and then take those brains back to the dabo wheel where the customers can get a good looong look at them.
-->-- "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?"

A very busty Bajorjan Dabo girl who works at Quark's. Introduced as blatant {{fanservice}}. Bubbly, outgoing, and likable, Leeta was known as a friend to many on the station. In the beginning she was attracted to Dr. Bashir. But eventually Quark's bumbling, awkward, GeniusDitz of a brother Rom, catches her eye. By Season 6 [[spoiler:they would eventually marry.]] In the series finale she becomes [[spoiler:First Lady of Ferenginar after Rom is made Grand Nagus.]]
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* AscendedExtra: She was initially brought in as a vapid, superficial one-off love interest for Dr. Bashir. Fan response was strong, and she would appear in dozens and dozens of subsequent episodes, becoming a fairly prominent secondary character by mid-series.
* BuxomIsBetter: Oh God yes.
* CrackPairing (InUniverse): Everyone is dumbfounded when she dumps Julian Bashir for Rom. Well, Quark and Bashir are, anyway.
** OppositesAttract: She's a gorgeous, charismatic, outgoing, young woman. And he's easygoing, loyal, passive and [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass underestimated.]] They're both ditzy, though.
* ADayInTheLimelight: To a certain extent in the Season 4 episode "Bar Association".
* FanserviceWithASmile: What Dabo girls are.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Sort of. While Leeta is by no means a sex worker, her duties as a Dabo Girl require her to be overly flirtatious, and overtly friendly with her clientele.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Despite Leeta's bubbly, somewhat ditzy demeanor, she is a [[InformedAbility keen observer and seasoned student of sociology.]]
** GoodWithNumbers: A must have skill for any good Dabo Girl.

!!Morn (Mark Allen Shepherd)

->''"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''' (LeaningOnTheFourthWall 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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* ActingForTwo / CastingGag: In "Who Mourns For Morn?", Quark tries to get a customer to sit on Morn's stool after he dies - that customer is Mark Shepherd out of his normal make-up.
* AmusingAlien: They get a lot of mileage out of someone who never actually speaks.
* AscendedExtra: Gets his own episode... and not only does he still not get any dialogue, he's presumed ''dead'' for most of it.
** Allen Shepherd (sans makeup) is finally seen on-camera in this episode, keeping Morn's seat warm. Quark shoos him away, saying [[DevelopmentGag it's just not the same]].
* BizarreAlienBiology: He kept over 100 bricks worth of liquid-latinum in his second stomach for ''over ten years'' with no ill effects, apart from massive hair-loss. He also has at least [[SpareBodyParts four lungs]].
* {{Expy}}: For Norm of ''{{Cheers}}''. His name is even an anagram.
* FakingTheDead: Has to pull this in the above episode due to his checkered past.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Off-screen; described afterwards by Kira, Odo, and Quark. After Quark speculated that a Dominion attack on Deep Space Nine would leave them all dead, Morn hit Quark will a barstool and ran through the Promenade screaming "We're all doomed!" Later, he ran naked into the station's Bajoran shrine and begged the Prophets for protection.
* InformedAbility: Comedic version. He's quite the blabbermouth. You'd never know from watching.
** He's also referred to as the resident BoisterousBruiser on a couple of occasions and apparently has a tremendous singing voice.
** Apparently also a lady's man. See KavorkaMan.
* KavorkaMan: 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.
** He's also there the morning after Dax's bachelorette party
* MommasBoy: 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.
* RunningGag: Everyone always talks about qualities he has or actions he took we never get to see. Such has him being very talkative.
* TheVoiceless: You never actually see him speak.
** He does however laugh. ''[[SuddenlyVoiced Once]]''.

!!Grand Nagus Zek (Wallace Shawn)
->'''Zek''': The Gamma Quadrant, gentlemen -- millions of new worlds at our very doorstep. The potential for Ferengi business expansion is staggering.\\
'''Zek's crony:''' And best of all, no one there has ever heard the name 'Ferengi'!
-->-- "The Nagus"
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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 [[ManBehindTheMan 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.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: He spends one episode hitting on Kira. She's ''almost'' too bewildered to be disgusted.
* DirtyOldMan: Has a healthy libido, similar to most Ferengi.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[ThePrincessBride Vezzini]] as the Pope/Godfather of the Ferengi? Inconceivable!
* HospitalityForHeroes: More or less the reason why he continues to hang out with a bartender and his brother.
* MoneyFetish: Like all Ferengi.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Basically his response when the FCA tries to shoot down his social reform. Overlaps with ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem, because in Ferengi society, those who have the money make the rules.

!!Ishka (Andrea Martin/ Cecily Adams)
->''"Your father might have bought you your first copy of the Rules of Acquisition, but who helped you memorize them?"''
-->-- To Quark, "Family Business"
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* TheConsigliere
* CulturalRebel: A Ferengi woman who earns profit and wears clothes.
* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Gal]]: She has great business sense, far more than her late husband or sons.

!!Liquidator Brunt (Creator/JeffreyCombs)

->''"You are a disease, Quark, a festering tumor on the lobes of Ferengi society; and it's my job to cut you off."''
-->-- "Body Parts"
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* IntimidatingRevenueService
* ObstructiveBureaucrat
* SmugSnake

!!Vic Fontaine (James Darren)

->''"When you sing in as many joints as I have, you become a student of the human heart."''
-->-- "His Way"
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* GlamorousWartimeSinger
* InstantAIJustAddWater
* IntangibleMan
* TheSixties
* TuxedoAndMartini

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Federation & Bajor]]

!!Kai Opaka (Camille Saviola)

* FanNickname: She was referred to as "Deep Space Nun" in Season 1.
* PutOnABus: She was trapped on a prison planet in Season 1.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She isn't dead, but she was quite permanently removed after dying on the planet that allowed resurrection which was ''only'' maintained on the planet.

!!Keiko O'Brien (née Ishikawa) (Rosalind Chao)
Federation civilian and wife of Miles O'Brien.

* TheChick
* ADayInTheLimelight: In the Season 5 episode "The Assignment".
** GrandTheftMe: She experiences this in "The Assignment".
* DemotedToExtra: While she was a fairly prominent secondary character in the first two seasons, as the series progressed , her role was largely diminished. She was even [[PutOnABus Put On A Shuttlecraft]] early in season 3. [[TheBusCameBack The Shuttlecraft Came Back]] the following season.
* HappilyMarried: To Miles.
* HotScientist: A botanist by training. She's unhappy that the station offers little opportunity to pursue her work, until she's able to find a place in a research team on Bajor.
* {{Housewife}}
* OvershadowedByAwesome: While she isn't a bad character, unfortunately but inevitably she gets shoved to the side because of her unadventurousness.
* {{Schoolmarm}}: She establishes a small school on the station that's basically a one-room schoolhouse [[InSPACE in SPACE]].
* SilkHidingSteel: Has demonstrated this in many instances throughout the course of the series. A prime example is the Season 1 finale "In The Hands Of The Prophets" when she absolutely refuses to bow to pressures from Winn that she teach Bajoran spiritual beliefs in her classroom.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Certainly a Japanese proper lady anyway. Slightly westernized though.
* WideEyedIdealist: Which makes Miles rather uncomfortable in ''Looking for Par'mach in all the Wrong Places.'' She has absolutely no idea that he and Kira are starting to fall for each other (against their wills).

!!Vedek/Kai Winn Adami (Louise Fletcher)

Traditionalist Bajoran religious leader who is introduced as generically TheFundamentalist, but develops into a far more complex antagonist for the heroes. Ends up in SinisterMinister 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.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: 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]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time you meet her, she ''blows up a school.''
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]: About five seconds before the end.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest Nurse Ratched]] is now a spiritual leader??
* HolierThanThou: 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.
* ItsAllAboutMe: 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.
* LargeHam: It is very, ''very'' easy to see Louise Fletcher positively ''luxuriating'' in the sheer hamminess of this character.
* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath]]: [[spoiler:Gives Sisko key information immediately before Dukat kills her.]]
* SinisterMinister: She kicks off her first major role 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.
* SpannerInTheWorks: 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]].
* TheUnfavourite: 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 try 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. It plays a good part in her [[spoiler: FaceHeelTurn against them]].
** Of course, her powermongering and HolierThanThou attitude probably has a good deal to do with their rejection of her.
** To be fair, this doesn't mean that Quark is any more favored. They found him so annoying that they nearly de-evolved him. The only thing that kept them from doing it was the prospect of more Ferengi using the Orbs.

!!Vedek Bareil Antos (Philip Anglim)
A serene but quite savvy cleric who aids the Federation, and a leading candidate for Kai. He and Kira fall in love and have a happy relationship [[spoiler:until his death]].

* DarkAndTroubledPast: He has to abandon his candidacy for Kai for leaking the location of a resistance cell to the Cardasssians during the occupation. [[spoiler:Or so it's claimed.]]
* [[spoiler:EmptyShell: Bashir saves his life after a shuttle accident, but it leaves him as a shadow of his former self.]]
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: Dies while in the final stages of a treaty between Bajor and Cardassia. He survives long enough as an EmptyShell to help Kai Winn finish]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's supportive of the Federation's efforts and advocates against religious extremism, as well as assisting the Federation politically during the Circle's coup. (WordOfGod said this was why they couldn't allow him to become Kai--he wouldn't generate any good conflict to write about in that position.)
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:The source of the above leak was Kai Opaka, who made the SadisticChoice to betray her son's small resistance cell rather than allow a much larger number of Bajorans to be massacred.]]

!!Lt. Commander Michael Eddington (Kenneth Marshall)
->''"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.

* DefectorFromDecadence: How he justifies joining the Maquis.
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]
* ItsPersonal: Eddington accuses Sisko of behaving this way in "For the Uniform."
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* TheMole

!!Kasidy Yates (Penny Johnson)
A freighter captain who is introduced to Ben by Jake in order to set them up on a date. They hit it off quite nicely. Although the

* TheCaptain: Of a Bajoran freighter vessel. She takes that job as seriously as Sisko takes his job.
* GameOfNerds: She is one of the small number of baseball enthusiasts in the 24th century.
* StayInTheKitchen: Sisko pulls strings to get her taken off the active list when she says she intends to continue doing her job despite the war. She is ''very'' unhappy about it and has him undo it.

!!Shakaar Edon (Duncan Regehr)

Leader of the eponymous Shakaar resistance cell during the Cardassian Occupation, and former comrade-in-arms of Major Kira. He became a farmer after the Occupation ended, and was eventually elected as First Minister of Bajor.

* AbsenteeActor: Shakaar is seen in only three episodes, though mentioned many other times. Planned appearances were removed from several scripts due to budgetary reasons or because the script was already too crowded.
* Casanova: Described by Gul Dukat as such to Major Kira. Whether or not this is true is suspect, given Dukat's likely ulterior motives.
* DeterminedHomesteader: His first appearance is a conflict over Kai Winn over some land reclamation devices, which he and his neighbors don't want to give up until they're actually done making the land arable again.
* RomanticFalseLead: For Odo and Major Kira. Probably his most defining characteristic.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: From farmer to First Minister in about a month or so.

!!Joseph Sisko (Brock Peters)
* CoolOldGuy
* GrumpyOldMan: He has his moments.
* SupremeChef: You have to be one if you want customers to go to your restaurant in a century where everyone can efforlessly order everything they want with a replicator.
* WhatTheHellHero: He gives a good one to his son when he's starting to think his own father is a Changeling.
** MoralityChain: Sisko then drops his paranoïa, cools off his head and start investigating on the whole ordeal instead on enforcing martial law and blood checks.

!!Vice Admiral William Ross (Barry Jenner)

A senior Starfleet military commander and Captain Sisko's direct superior during the Dominion War.

* FourStarBadass: Very good at his job, even if he's less-than-thrilled about getting his hand cut open for Klingon ceremonies.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: If he is not the most reasonable Starfleet admiral in the entirety of Trek, then he is certainly the second most. He's not without his foibles, though.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: While on the scent of a Section 31 plot to install its man in the Romulan Council, Bashir is horrified to learn that Ross is the one pulling the strings. When confronted about this, Ross merely quotes, "[[AltumVidetur Inter arma enim silent leges]]." (In time of war, the law falls silent.)
* ThrowItIn: 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)
->''"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.

* BatmanGambit: This is how he manipulates Julian in "Inter Arma Silent Legis." When Julain tries to protect the "[[ExactWords patriotic]]" Senator, Sloan engineers a situation [[spoiler:that will get Julian to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero bring about her arrest]]. Sloan notes that a patriot would put Romulan interests above Federation interests, but Julian equates "patriotic" with "good." ]]
* ManipulativeBastard: He will get Julian to be a Section 31 agent not only whether he likes it or not, but whether he ''knows'' it or not.
* MasterActor: Puts on a convincing show as a paranoid Federation agent recklessly out for revenge.
* MultipleChoicePast: The validity of just about every biographical detail we are given about him is questionable.
* UnreliableNarrator: Inside his own head. When Bashir and O'Brien take a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind, they realize that they can't trust anything they encounter because Sloan is trying to distract and hinder their efforts.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: His character quote just about sums it up.
* [[spoiler:TakingYouWithMe: He tries to do this to Miles and Julian by keeping their consciousnesses inside his brain as he dies. Miles drags them out before they can find out if this actually would have worked]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:It's unclear if he ordered the genocidal Changeling disease, but he's certainly unwilling to let anyone find a cure]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Cardassian Union]]

!!Elim Garak (Andrew Robinson)
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->''"Lately, I've noticed 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 MysteriousPast 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.
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* AlmightyJanitor: This lowly tailor is plugged into more intelligence resources than the whole of Starfleet '''combined'''.
** Well, except Section 31, but he gives them a run for their money.
* AmbiguouslyGay: According to his actor he initially played Garak as being Omnisexual. He behaved rather flirtatiously when he introduced himself to Bashir.
--> '''Garak (to Bashir):''' "As you may also know, I have a clothing shop nearby, so if you should require any apparel or simply wish, as I do, for a bit of enjoyable company now and then, I'm at your disposal, Doctor."
** He later tells the good Doctor to take his rod and eat it, after which Bashir offers him some chocolates.
* ApologeticAttacker: Practically begs for the information he needs, he doesn't want to have to keep torturing [[spoiler: Odo]].
* BewareTheSillyOnes
* BreakTheCutie: Garak's no "Cutie", but he's definitely broken after the Dominion War in the final episode.
-->'''Garak:''' Some would say we got exactly what we deserved. After all, we are not completely innocent here. And I'm not just referring to the occupation of Bajor. Our history is filled with arrogant aggression. We joined the Dominion and betrayed the entire Alpha Quadrant. Yes... we are guilty as charged.\\
'''Bashir:''' But Cardassian people are strong, they will survive. Cardassia will survive...\\
'''Garak:''' ''(hostile, but still grieving)'' Oh please, doctor, spare me [[ShutUpKirk your insufferable Federation optimism!]] Of course it'll survive. But not as the Cardassia ''I'' knew. We had a rich and ancient culture; our art and literature was second to none. And now look at us. So many of our best minds all... gone.
* [[TheButlerDidIt The Tailor Did It]]: Subverted. Everyone important on [=DS9=] knows he is a spy. Still his supposedly lowly position allows him to work more informally then might otherwise be which can be useful when the CommandRoster needs him.
* CatchPhrase: "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'').
* CategoryTraitor: in "Second Skin", Entek thinks Garak is betraying the Obsidian Order by helping Starfleet and the Bajoran Government rescue a Bajoran officer and a Cardassian dissident from the Order's clutches.
* CharacterDevelopment: Garak was originally intended to be an antagonist and {{foil}} to Bashir. However, like Dukat, the writers began exploring more sympathetic sides to the character.
* CheshireCatGrin: Garak is a big smiler, and it always bodes badly for somebody. Interestingly, a frown usually means that he's telling the truth.
* TheChessmaster: To some degree. He even out-minipulates Sisko in the Season 6 episode "In The Pale Moonlight".
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: His desire to engage in this kind of behaviour 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 a acute version that becomes a plot point on several occasions.
* ConsummateLiar: 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 [[SelfProclaimedLiar 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.
--> '''Bashir''': Of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?
--> '''Garak''': My dear Doctor, they're all true.
--> '''Bashir''': Even the lies?
--> '''Garak''': '''*grinning*''' ''Especially'' the lies.
* CrazyPrepared: At one point Garak spots an assassin sent after him and deliberately blows up his own shop so security will protect him. The Crazy Prepared part? Garak builds the bomb with a specific type of pheromone trigger favored by the assassin's species to make the frame sticks. Apparently he had one lying around just in case. Also, ''In the Pale Moonlight'' was one long example of how CrazyPrepared Garak is capable of being.
* CrazyCulturalComparison: Since Cardassian epics often feature GenreSavvy protagonists, Garak mentions he dislikes "Julius Caesar" because he feels that Shakespeare made Caesar look foolish for not realising that Brutus was ''obviously'' plotting to kill him. Given that Caesar is ''supposed'' to be a genius, he believes the play is a Farce more than a Tragedy.
* CulturedBadass: Practically a textbook example of this trope. Is not only highly skilled in the fine art of espionage and manipulation, can also discuss the finer points of Cardassian literature with a refinement matched by no other.
* CuriosityCausesConversion: According to Robinson, Garak is intrigued by Bashir's motiveless compassion for others - something totally alien to Cardassians at this point in their history.
* DeadpanSnarker: After getting beaten by Klingons, Garak tells Bashir that ''he'' got the better end of the deal.
-->'''Bashir''': They broke seven of your transverse ribs and fractured your clavicle.
-->'''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.
* DefectorFromDecadence: What Garak becomes after Dukat invites the Dominion to take control of Cardassia. Believing the Dominion does not have Cardassia's best interests at heart, he throws in his lot with the Federation and combines efforts with Kira and Damar to organise LaResistance. He knows it will destroy the Cardassia he loves (although even he was shocked by just how thoroughly the old Cardassia was destroyed) but he does it anyway.
* {{Determinator}}: It's pointed out by other characters in ''In Purgatory's Shadow'' that Garak isn't the "giving up sort". In ''By Inferno's Light'' he goes on to prove this by defying a chronically debilitating [[{{Claustrophobia}} phobia]] to engineer everyone's escape from a Dominion internment camp. His determination even earns the respect of the ''Klingons''.
* DontCallMeSir: Just [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial "plain, simple Garak!"]].
** [[ExploitedTrope Exploited]], obviously.
* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: The Cardassians may secretly employ him to keep eyes and ears on [=DS9=], but they also seem to have good reasons for making sure he stays ''out'' of Cardassia.
-->'''Kira:''' Don't worry, he's on our side. I think.
* [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Even Morally Ambiguous Spies Have Loved Ones]]: His relationship with Tain is...complicated, but he clearly cares for Ziyal and Mila [[spoiler:(who, according to A Stitch In Time, also happens to be his mother) and he's devasted by their respective deaths.]]
* FaceYourFears: Battling acute claustrophobia to ensure everyone's escape from a Dominion internment camp.
* FakeDefector
-->"You see, I pretend to be their friend... and then I shoot you."
* FakeGuestStar: 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.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: By the series end, all of Garak's old friends in the Order have been rubbed out... either by the Dominion, or by Garak himself. He reacts to each death as though he broke a pencil.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Seems [[Film/DirtyHarry Scorpio]] is helping out the good guys this time.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: "Profit and Loss". When Quark asks Garak why he helped the dissidents escape, Garak uses this excuse, but it's not clear whether Garak's talking about helping the dissidents escape or alluding to the mysterious crime that got him exiled from Cardassia.
* ImplausibleDeniability: It's obvious from the first episode he's in that he has government connections, knowledge of terrorist operations and experience with covert activities, but he insists on denying that he's a spy. Even after Dr Bashir has met the person who recruited him into the Obsidian Order, Garak continues to deny he was ever a member. After the first three years of the show, he does eventually drop the pretence.
-->'''Garak:''' My dear doctor, I am no more a spy than you are a...
-->'''Bashir:''' Doctor?
* ImprobableWeaponUser: He once kills an engineer with a flux coupler.
* JerkassHasAPoint: The concept of sacrificing a few to save many is not lost on him. Sure, he could try a little harder to avert it at times, but the extremeness of the dominion threat makes his hastiness to do so understandable. He's at least willing to sacrifice himself as well.
* KnowledgeBroker: It's one of the reasons why Sisko's team and later the Federation finds him so useful to keep around.
* LastNameBasis: Absolutely everyone on the station calls him "Garak". This is actually a plot-point in ''The Wire''. In ''By Inferno's Light'', when he's muttering to himself, he even calls ''himself'' "Garak". The only two people in the entire show who ever use his first name are Mila and Tain, and even Tain doesn't use his first name all the time.
* MysteriousPast
** MultipleChoicePast: He insists that every version is true - [[EspeciallyZoidberg especially the lies.]]
** The one thing about his past we knew is true is that [[spoiler:Enabran Tain is his father]].
*** [[spoiler: [[WordOfGod Andrew Robinson]] has stated his belief that Mila was Garak's mother]].
* OddFriendship: Initially with Bashir and later with Odo as well. An odd dynamic eventually even begins to form with Worf and O'Brien as well.
* PatrioticFervor: He ''loves'' Cardassia, and speaks highly of its art and culture.
* ProperlyParanoid: PlayedForLaughs sometimes, a plot point that makes him CrazyPrepared at other times. As he points out to Quark, paranoia is something they call people who think they have threats against their life. Garak ''has'' threats against his life.
* RecurringCharacter
* RetiredMonster: A very complicated subversion of the trope. See [[RetiredMonster trope page]] for detail.
* SarcasticConfession: In "Second Skin", used as an excuse to get himself on the bridge because he knows trouble is about to break out that he'll need to get involved in: Odo drags him there for acting suspiciously and he complains it's because the quarters on the ''Defiant'' are making him claustrophobic. No-one believes him. It's another two years before the audience (and characters) learn that he really does suffer from claustrophobia.
* SelfProclaimedLiar: And a legend in his own lifetime.
* ShootTheDog: The go-to guy for this on the station.
--> ''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.''
* StrangeBedfellows: 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 series, there are even signs of a FireForgedFriends beginning to form between Garak and Kira.
* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Improbable military knowledge? He reads a lot! Unusual and fancy engineering equipment? It's a common tailor's tool! Fluency in Klingonese? Overheard it while hemming a woman's dress! Expert ability to rewrite high-class military encryption software and enter in valid codes despite having been in exile for years? Any tailor can do it!
* ThatManIsDead: Claims to be responsible for the death of his best friend, Elim. This is then revealed to actually be Garak's ''first'' name.
* TheExtremistWasRight: "In The Pale Moonlight". Killing a Romulan senator who was stonewalling an alliance with the Federation was indeed extreme, but it was necessary to save the Alpha Quadrant. Besides which, the senator [[AssholeVictim wasn't particularly sympathetic to begin with]].
* TokenHeroicOrc: [[InvertedTrope 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.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Played with, he's more of a token Anti-Villian teammate, and far from unsympathetic.
* TheExile: [[BlatantLies For tax evasion]].
* TricksterMentor: To Dr. Bashir.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: He knows Sisko won't be able to stomach the realities of what it will take to bring the Romulans into the war, so he pulls this on Sisko ensuring the Romulans do indeed enter the war on the Federation's side by virtue of keeping his true plan secret from even Sisko until Sisko (too late) works out what the real plan was.
** WhatTheHellHero: Sisko's realisation of the true plan leads to an aggressive confrontation between the pair. After getting sucker-punched, Garak points out that Sisko knew exactly what kind of man Garak was, therefore Sisko knew (even if only subconsciously) that Garak ''would'' kill to get the job done--as he put it, to "do those things you weren't capable of doing."
* WellDoneSonGuy: It was only on [[spoiler:Tain's]] deathbed that Garak received some recognition.

!!Gul Dukat (Marc Alaimo)
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->''"You and I on the same side? It never seemed quite... right - did it?"''
-->-- "By Inferno's Light"

Possibly the finest magnificent bastard the franchise has seen, and eventual BigBad. Wavered between KickTheDog and PetTheDog 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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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Kira. Initially PlayedForLaughs[[hottip:*:to Nana Visitor's chagrin, thanks to the UnfortunateImplications]], but then played much more darkly.
* AffablyEvil: At first, anyways; Dukat can be quite charming when he wants to be.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Dukat's career peaked as prefect of Bajor, and since then he's been irking out an existence as a public servant and bureaucrat. Knowing full well how far someone can rise in wartime, he restyles himself as a sort of Che Guevara and mounts a guerrilla war on the Dominion -- but his followers (minus Damar) fail to materialize. He could be considered a dark counterpart to Worf, as both men spend an enormous amount of time trying to patch up their reputation back home, and failing.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Sealed away in the Fire Caves with the Pah-Wraiths... ''forever'']].
* AntiVillain: Considered by some fans to fit this trope. Dukat's behavior in Season 7 was a deliberate move by the writers to avert that.
* BigBad
* CryForTheDevil: When [[spoiler:Ziyal dies in his arms]]. Even Sisko felt bad for him.
* DarkMessiah: When he decides to throw in with the Pah-Wraiths. Although he's still scheming, his belief in them seems sincere.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In ''Waltz'', Dukat starts behaving a lot like [[TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]].
* EasilyForgiven: Ziyal shrugging off her father's attempt to murder her. What this says about Cardassian culture, [[CrapsackWorld one can only speculate]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He genuinely cares for his illegitimate daughter, Ziyal, and her death drives him over the edge.
** It's strongly hinted that losing Ziyal made him lose his one MoralityPet and went from WellIntentionedExtremist to evil.
** In "Defiant," Dukat remarks he was supposed to take his son Mekor to a fair, but can't because of the current crisis. Sisko's attempt to tell him that Mekor will understand one day doesn't work.
--->"When my son looks back on this day, the only thing he'll remember is that a Federation officer, on a Federation ship invaded his home, and kept his father away from him on his eleventh birthday, and he won't look back with understanding. He'll look back with hatred, and that's sad."
* EvilCounterpart: As a career officer with his own kids to worry about and, later as the Emissary to the Pah-Wraiths.
* EvilIsPetty: His rant against Bajorans in ''Waltz'' includes this rather revealing comment: "Of course I hated them! I hated everything ''about'' them. Their smug superiority and their stiff-necked obstinacy. [[FantasticRacism Their earrings, and their broken wrinkled noses!]]"
* EvilVirtues: He's a decent Captain, and inspires loyalty in the men who serve under him. In fact, we never see him harm another Cardassian (not even Garak can make that claim -- he kills them by the truckload). Hilariously, this indirectly results in the Founders' defeat; see "Nice Job Fixing It, Villain" below.
* FamilyValuesVillain
* FriendlyEnemy: He likes to consider himself as this to Sisko and allies with the station at several times. The feeling isn't mutual.
* HeelFaceTurn: When he captained the one-ship Cardassian resistance to the Klingon invasion and occupation.
** FaceHeelTurn: When he [[spoiler: then sold out his people to the Dominion, both to finally defeat the Klingons and also to get the level of personal power he felt he deserved]].
* HeelRealization: He actually embraces it, and becomes a much less complex villain afterwards. "[[MotiveRant Exactly!]] I should have '''[[MilkingTheGiantCow killed them all!]]'''"
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Dukat can't comphrehend that Kira doesn't return his feelings. After all, he managed to woo her mother, turning her into one of his comfort women.
* IRejectYourReality: Gul Dukat is so stubborn and full of himself that every time something doesn't go his way, his mind rewrites the memory of said event into something more favorable.
-->'''Kira:''' Are you really so deluded that you actually believe that we're gonna have some kind of intimate relationship?\\
'''Dukat''': We already do.
* InsaneAdmiral: Briefly promoted to Legate, the Cardassian equivalent of Admiral. Dukat requested to be bumped back down to Gul (despite [[JustTheFirstCitizen reigning as de facto dictator of his homeworld]]), apparently as a gesture of modesty. Might also be a snub at his superiors for ignoring his abilities for so long.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He talks a good game about patriotism -- but Dukat blows with the prevailing wind. Starfleet, the Bajoran militia, Klingons, the Dominion, Pah Wraiths... he'll back anybody if it gets him back in a seat of power again. His inaugural address to the Cardassian people rings especially hollow considering this.
-->'''Dukat:''' You should see [[OurFounder the monument they're erecting in my honor]] at the gateway to the Imperial Plaza.\\
'''Sisko:''' Is that why you sold out your people to the Dominion? For a '''monument'''?!
* JerkassDissonance: This became a problem. Eventually, even the actor got in on the act; Marc Alaimo believed that Dukat was [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood generally a nice guy]], and was saddened when he had to punch an old guy in Season 7.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: At which point the writers threw up their hands and said, "Fine! He's Hitler."
* KavorkaMan: During the occupation, Dukat's mission in life was to have sex with everything on, or in orbit of, Bajor. His taste for Bajoran women is undiminished in the present.
* KickedUpstairs: At the start of the series. It's his frustration at his inability to fix this that drives Dukat toward the Dominion.
* MadnessMantra: After [[spoiler: Ziyal's death]], Dukat is reduced to literally being ''dragged out of Sisko's office'' while whimperingly repeating "I forgive you...I forgive you..."
* MagicPlasticSurgery: While masquerading as "Anjohl Tennan", a Bajoran farmer.
* AMillionIsAStatistic: Listening to him prattle on and on about the great sacrifices he's made for the Bajoran people, tossing out death statistics like they're nothing compared to his own hardships. Notably, he never actually killed a Bajoran himself; he just rubber-stamped atrocities.
-->'''Dukat:''' Have you ever seen a dead man before?\\
'''Odo:''' Yes. In your mines.\\
'''Dukat''': ''(dismissively)'' Oh, those are casualties.
* MoralityChain: Ziyal's death is the tipping point for his madness.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Dukat and Damar meet for the last time in Season Seven, with Damar supplying false [=IDs=] and passports. Before he leaves, Dukat sternly tells Damar to kick the bottle and stand up to Weyoun, as he is the leader of the Cardassian people. Damar takes this advice to heart and topples the Dominion's control over his world. Somewhat inverted, as Dukat had severed ties with the Dominion and was happy to throw Weyoun under a bus. Still, Dukat deserves credit for helping to win the Dominion War, which is pretty ironic.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: Dukat fully intended to sever ties with Weyoun once the Federation was in his grasp. Weyoun was likely thinking along similar lines.
-->'''Damar''': I'd like to toss that smug little Vorta [[ThrownOutTheAirlock out the nearest airlock]]. And his Founder with him.\\
'''Dukat''': Now, now, Damar, that's no way to talk about our valued allies. [[BaitAndSwitchComment Not until this war is over, anyway]].
* NoNameGiven: 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 WordOfGod that this is a title (like Ph.D., M.D., or R.N.).
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: As a [[TheHeavy heavy]], he's ineffectual and often comical. He's not so funny anymore after he emerges from secret talks with the Dominion.
* OffingTheOffspring: Dukat intends to do this to Ziyal in "Indiscretion" so that no one back home learns what he's done. He can't go through with it, though.
* OminousFloatingSpaceship: Deep Space Nine (né Terok Nor) served as his personal castle, labor camp, and harem during the occupation. Bajorans had to glimpse its menacing shape every time they looked up in the sky.
* TheQuisling: For Dukat, a few months of being a lowly guerrilla fighter made a pact with The Dominion look attractive.
** Prior to that, when the Cardassian people successfully overthrew their old government, Dukat quickly sided with them against his old bosses.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Before he signs an alliance with the Dominion, turning his back on the Federation forever. He was actually the equivalent of Admiral Ross back in his day (albeit a CommanderContrarian version), even bordering on TokenEvilTeammate when things got rough.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler: When possessed by a Pai Wraith.]]
* {{Resenter}}: Like Sisko, Dukat too once presided over Bajor as an outsider. The difference is that Dukat was reviled, whereas the Bajorans embraced Sisko as their spiritual idol. Ouch.
** Of course, the fact that Dukat presided over a brutal occupation while the Federation was there at Bajor's request has something to do with it.
* SanitySlippage
* SaveTheVillain: About a half-dozen times, before ''and'' after he went batty.
-->'''Sisko:''' Don't remind me.
* SecretOtherFamily: He officially had a wife and seven children. Tora Naprem and their daughter Tora Ziyal was his SecretOtherFamily for years until the ship they'd been travelling on was discovered six years after being declared missing. Naprem had died in the crash, but when he took his surviving half-Bajoran daughter back to Cardassia, it caused ructions.
* SinisterMinister: As leader of the Pai-Wraith cult.
* SmugSnake: He thinks he has what it takes to take over the Dominion--the one run by a 10,000-year-strong collective of Changelings with an army of literally worshipful, genetically engineered super-soldiers and super-slimy-diplomats.
* {{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.]]
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Manages to re-take Deep Space Nine with Jem'Hadar help.
-->'''Dukat:''' A few days ago I swore all Cardassia lost will be regained. That space station you're so found of? ...Was built by Cardassia.\\
'''Sisko:''' Funny! I thought it was built by Bajoran slave labor.
** Amusingly, Dukat even takes over the CaptainsLog.
* VillainousBreakdown: In "Sacrifice of Angels," Dukat loses it when Dominion reinforcements don't emerge from the wormhole, forcing a retreat from an advancing Federation/Klingon fleet. It gets even worse when [[spoiler:Ziyal is fatally shot in front of him]].
-->"Victory was within our grasp! ... Bajor... The Federation... The Alpha Quadrant! All lost."
* VisionaryVillain: 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. WordOfGod says that Dukat's deep-seated hate for the Bajorans is rooted in the fact that they refused to love him.
-->"They thought I was their ''enemy''? They don't know what it is to be my enemy. But they will."
* UngratefulBastard: Which is LampShaded when Dax makes a bet with Sisko that Dukat will start complaining before thanking Sisko for rescuing him from Klingons. Sisko loses.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Kai Winn.
* WeWillMeetAgain: He goes underground following the events of "Waltz", vowing revenge against Bajor and Sisko. He becoming an archeologist in the interim, learning all he can about the Pah-Wraiths.
* WickedCultured
* WorthyOpponent: Even as enemies, Dukat holds Sisko in high esteem and even craves his approval.
* WouldHurtAChild: Spends an episode scouring the desert for his illegitimate, mixed-race daughter - so he can kill her, thereby erasing any evidence of his private habits. Luckily, Kira talks him out of it.
* YouTalkTooMuch: Even the Dominion grew weary of his yapping.
-->'''Gul Dukat''': War is such thirsty work. Don't you agree?\\
'''Weyoun''': Perhaps if you didn't talk so much, your throat wouldn't get so dry.
* YoureInsane: Everyone dismisses him as a sad crackpot when he espouses the doctrine of the Pai-Wraiths. Dukat is unbowed, knowing he'll wipe those smirks off their faces soon enough.

!!Damar (Casey Biggs)
-> ''"I'd like to toss that smug little Vorta [[ThrownOutTheAirlock out the nearest airlock]]. And his Founder with him."''
-->-- "Sacrifice of Angels"

Dukat's [[TheDragon 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 going [[OmnicidalManiac 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 LaResistance on Cardassia [[spoiler: and ended up getting killed for his trouble]].

* TheAlcoholic: In many appearances, he often is seen drinking a ''lot'' of Kanar. This nearly backfires on him during the occupation of [=DS9=], when Quark gets him to spill classified information while drunk.
** This later morphs into DrowningMySorrows, where he drinks to cope with being powerless to Dominion whims.
* AscendedExtra: Damar was originally just a crewmember on Dukat's ship. Biggs originally thought he was just a glorified extra in his first episode.
* TheAtoner
* BlindObedience: As an officer under Dukat.
* CharacterDevelopment: Perhaps the single most extreme example in all of ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
* EasilyForgiven: Played straight and subverted with [[spoiler:his murder of Ziyal]]. Dukat does, because he rationalizes it as being all Sisko's fault in the first place. Subverted with Kira, who doesn't, and Garak, who never mentions it, but circumstances require they all work together anyway. WordOfGod admitted that Kira and Garak's actors both wanted an episode where the three of them addressed the issue but the writers dismissed it because they were afraid Damar couldn't be redeemed to the audience if they did.
* [[spoiler: [[KilledMidSentence Died Mid-Sentence]] Damar died trying to give a rallying speech to his troops. WordOfGod 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.]]
* HeelFaceTurn
* [[spoiler:LaResistance: After the Dominion starts treating Cardassia like an expendable resource, Damar decides to rebel against them]].
* MookLieutenant: To Dukat until...
* MookPromotion: Becomes the leader of Cardassia after Dukat goes nuts.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: With Weyoun. It's hinted that Damar tried bumping him off via a "[[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident transporter accident]]". Vorta being what they are, though, it didn't take.
* RageAgainstTheReflection: While DrowningHisSorrows after a particularly sore meeting with Weyoun, Damar catches sight of a mirror and tosses his drink at it.
* RageWithinTheMachine: Before officially forming the Cardassian Resistance and separating from the Dominion.

!!Tora Ziyal (Cyia Batten/ Tracy Middendorf/ Melanie Smith)
-> ''"The Institute is having an exhibition of new artists next month and he might want to include my work. It's a chance to show that Bajorans and Cardassians look at the universe the same way. That's what I want to do with my work: bring people together."''

Dukat's daughter by his Bajoran mistress, Tora Naprem. Despite her lineage, she is largely sane, and well-liked by most of the station's inhabitants.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Garak.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Her relationship with Garak.
* MissingMom: Her mother died when the ship they were travelling in crashed on a Breen-controlled planet.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: A tragic inversion - [[spoiler: her death]] drives Dukat mad.
* MoralityPet: Is this for Dukat. [[spoiler:Ultimately, this ends ''badly''.]]
* NonhumanHumanoidHybrid: Half-Cardassian, half-Bajoran.
* TheOtherDarrin: Her actress was changed three times. The third time was partly because they wanted someone older-looking so that her relationship with Garak wouldn't be too creepy.
* UnlockingTheTalent: 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. [[spoiler:And then she's murdered]].

!!Enabran Tain (Paul Dooley)
-> ''"I think you'll find that when I have something to say, you won't have any trouble understanding it."''

Head of the Obsidian Order for 20 years, he became the only head in history to ever survive long enough to actually retire. He was Garak's mentor [[spoiler: and father]] and also directly responsible for exiling him from Cardassia. He comes out of retirement to lead a joint Obsidian Order/Tal Shiar task force in an attack on the Founders homeworld, believing it to too great a threat to the Alpha Quadrant to ignore. [[spoiler: The fleet is ambushed by the Founders and Tain eventually dies in a Dominion internment camp, although not before successfully getting a coded message to Garak that sets off a chain of events leading to the discovery of a Changeling infiltrator on the station and the rescue of several important Dominion prisoners, including General Martok.]]

* AbusiveParents: He may have had his son’s loyalty, but it’s not because his son viewed him as a very good father. Far from it, in fact.
* TheDreaded: He was one of the most feared men in the whole of Cardassia.
* EasilyForgiven: Despite exiling Garak and attempting to assassinate him, Garak still forgave him.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He was an appalling father but he was also very proud of his son. Not that he was willing to admit it until his dying breath, however.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Tain was a ruthless, unforgiving monster but even he knew the Dominion was bad news and had to be stopped at any cost.
* FollowInMyFootsteps: He raised Garak to be a mirror image of himself, although it didn't work out quite as either of them had envisaged it would. [[spoiler: Garak initially allowed it but indicates to Bashir that he has come to regret it.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: His cleverness is commented on by General Martok when explaining how Tain was able convert a life-support system into a communications console to contact Deep Space Nine.
* IHaveNoSon: Or, "You're not my son!", in this case. [[spoiler: Even when Tain was on his deathbed, Garak had to fight tooth-and-nail for reconciliation.]]
* KnowledgeBroker: He calls it "keeping updated on current affairs."
* NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat: He was seemingly killed when his ship exploded in "The Die is Cast." But Garak had his doubts.
-->"Enabran Tain was head of the Obsidian Order for twenty years. If he can survive ''that'', he can survive anything."
* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: Even in retirement he stays on top of everything, right down to knowing when people have made impulsive, last minute decisions to visit him and what their favourite drinks are. In the end, he comes out of retirement to head a joint Obsidian Order/Tal Shiar task force intent on destroying the Dominion before the Dominion can destroy the Alpha Quadrant. It does not end well. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he didn't realise his second-in-command (the Tal Shiar leader) was actually a disguised Founder who had instigated the entire task force with the intention of wiping out both organisations as a prelude to invasion. When Tain realises what's happened, it's too late, and he observes to Garak that he's clearly lost his touch because he'd never have been deceived prior to his retirement.]]
* [[spoiler:OffingTheOffspring: His plan to return from retirement included assassinating the six men that knew too much about him just in case any of them ever decided to use their knowledge against him. The only one who survived the assassination attempt was his own son, who turned out to be more CrazyPrepared than Tain had anticipated.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: It enabled him to remain head of the Obsidian Order for 20 years and become the first head to ever survive long enough to retire. Eventually subverted: retirement dulled his wits just enough for a Changeling to out-gambit him with disastrous consequences for both Cardassia and Romulus and, eventually, the Alpha Quadrant itself.
* RetiredMonster
* SoProudOfYou: He admitted it only with his dying breath.
* TheSpymaster

!! Mila (Julianna [=McCarthy=])
-> ''"I may not be a very good cook, but I knew how to keep a secret."''

Enabran Tain's housekeeper for over thirty years, Mila all but brought up Garak as her own and is deeply devoted to both men.

* FirstNameBasis: Her surname is never revealed in the show.
* KindlyHousekeeper: Despite the person she works for and the life that entails, she's gentle, motherly and loyal.
* OldRetainer: She'd been Tain's housekeeper and confidente for over thirty years. She knew his business and kept his secrets. When he disappeared unexpectedly, she forced Garak to promise to do anything to help Tain, even though she knew the rift that existed between them. Even after Tain's death, she continued to live in and maintain his house.
* ParentalSubstitute: The show makes it clear she raised Garak while he was growing up in Tain's household but doesn't claim she's his actual mother. [[spoiler: Andrew Robinson's non-canon novel of Garak's back history does, however, choose to make her his real mother.]]
* SecretKeeper: She knew for decades that Tain had a son and who that son was, but she kept her mouth shut until long after Tain was dead. She also knew more about Tain than almost anyone else. When Tain killed off five of the six operatives who knew too much about him, he told the lone survivor of his assassination attempt (Garak) that he was thinking of also killing Mila because of how much she knew about him. Garak did point out that she had more than proved her loyalty by now.
* ServileSnarker: She may be a loyal servant but she's more than willing to stick her oar in, voice her opinion and is very free with pointing out the flaws in Garak's personality. In fact, serving the rebelling leader of Cardassia, one of the most dangerous secret agents in the entire Union and one of the most competent terrorist-trained Bajoran colonels, doesn't cow her at all. When she finds them lying around the basement in a fit of depression at how dismally their resistance attempt has failed, she snarks the lot of them for giving up so easily.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Klingon Empire]]
!!General Martok (J. G. Hertzler)

Another ProudWarriorRaceGuy, but unlike Worf, Martok has lived in the Klingon Empire all his life, and thus a more authentic representative of the culture. He was the chief military commander of the Klingon Empire and was usually seen right next to Chancellor Gowron. Arguably the Klingons' most ReasonableAuthorityFigure (if not the ''only'' one) since Chancellor Gorkon of Film/{{Star Trek VI|The Undiscovered Country}}.

* BerserkButton: Kor (see SelfMadeMan). When Worf tries to talk to him about it, Martok warns him to shut up before Martok "forgets that [they] are brothers."
* CowardlyLion: His experiences in the Jem'Hadar prison camp left him more shaken than initially thought. On his first command afterwards, he passes up opportunities for victories and his crew starts to consider him a coward. Worf manages to find a way to restore Martok's confidence, unsurprisingly.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: He gives an excellent demonstration of the differences between human and Klingon in the finale. [[spoiler:When Sisko and Ross refuse to drink a toast over Cardassian corpses in burning rubble, he shakes his head over their sentimentality and swings from the bottle with obvious enjoyment]].
* EyepatchOfPower: Except he doesn't actually wear an eyepatch.
* FireForgedFriends: With Worf.
* FourStarBadass
* HappilyMarried: He seems a bit of a HenpeckedHusband, 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.
--> "Magnificent, isn't she."
* HeroOfAnotherStory
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: He follows Gowron's increasingly bad orders in Season 7 without question, despite the embarrassing defeats and rising death count. He later learns that Gowron is setting him up to fail, and he still follows orders.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: It's noticable that Martok is one of the few Klingons that Worf encounters who ''never'' tosses his Federation upbringing in his face.
* ReluctantRuler: Martok ''really'' didn't want to become [[spoiler:the Chancellor of the Klingon Empire and tried his best to avoid it. In the end, he accepts the position with great reluctance solely because he has no choice in the matter]].
* ScarsAreForever: Subverted. He refuses a prosthetic eye when its offered, wearing the scars as a badge of honour from having recieved them in battle with a Jem'hadar. Its also possible he knows that they make him even more intimidating to his opponents.
* SelfMadeMan: Blacklisted by Kor, a noble who feels his lineage was unacceptable. Serves as civilian auxiliary, wins promotion for heroism and then claws his way up to flag rank. In other words, he is a {{Badass}} even by Klingon standards.
* UndyingLoyalty: In "Tacking Into the Wind," Gowron is DrivenByEnvy that Martok will parlay his war success into a political grab back home. The thought never once entered Martok's mind. When Worf tells him that's what Gowron is up to, Martok completely rejects opposing him, saying he is just a loyal soldier.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Martok hates Kor not just because he was rejected as an officer, but also because by the time Martok achieved promotion on his own merits his father had died.
** He also has this with Kor. He is so glad to rub his SelfMadeMan success in Kor's face, but Kor didn't even remember rejecting his application in the first place.

!!Kor (John Colicos)

Legendary Klingon warrior, ''Dahar Master'' (A rank for legendary Klingon Warriors) and former enemy of a certain equally-legendary [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries 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.

* TheAlcoholic
* BloodKnight
* BlueBlood: The source of the quarrel between Martok and Kor. Kor didn't believe a commoner had any place as an officer.
* BoisterousBruiser
* [[MasterSwordsman Master Bat'leth-man]]
* MythologyGag: Jadzia and Worf both regard Kor highly, as the quintessential noble Klingon, compared to the current Klingon society who is rather lacking in honor. Kor was the first major, named Klingon seen on TOS, and his Genghis Khan-inspired look would serve as the basis of all future Klingons on TOS. He is the quintessential Klingon in more ways than one.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Takes on a number of Jem'Hadr ships in one little Bird-of-Prey as a HeroicSacrifice.
* GrumpyOldMan
* OldMaster
* RoleReprisal: John Colicos portrayed Kor in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' and returned to portray Kor in Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine.
* NoHeroToHisValet: Martok despised him because Kor refused to allow him into military service because Martok was low-born. After being blackballed by a Dahar master, Martok was only able to get into the military by signing up as a civilian auxiliary and proving himself in battle.
* ShroudedInMyth
* [[HeroOfAnotherStory Villain Of Another Story]] : Rival of Kirk's in TOS.
* WarriorHeaven: Promises Worf that he will say hi to Jadzia when he [[SuicideMission gets to Sto-vo-kor]].
* WartsAndAll: Reliving his glory days (literally, his senility made him believe he was in the middle of a battle with the Federation while attacking a Dominion supply base) cost a large number of troops and several ships on what was supposed to be a simple raiding mission. [[BrokenPedestal The crew quickly realizes that his best days are behind him]] and start to shun him. But a fellow old warrior reminds him of who he used to be, and he makes a HeroicSacrifice [[YouShallNotPass keeping the Dominion ships at bay.]]
* YouShallNotPass: Dies holding the rear guard for the Klingon fleet.

!!Koloth (William Campbell) and Kang (Michael Ansara)
Peers of Kor and fellow ''Dahar Masters'', also ex-enemies of Kirk and friends of Dax. Kang is the de-facto leader of the old trio, while Koloth is more the brains of the three.

* BadassBoast: Koloth to Odo
-->'''Odo:''' How did you get in here?
-->'''Koloth:''' I am Koloth.
-->'''Odo:''' That doesn't answer my question.
-->'''Koloth:''' Yes, it does.
* BlingOfWar: Koloth always wears his full Klingon dress uniform, covered in many, many decorations.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome
* GrumpyOldMan
* OldMaster
* RoleReprisal
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Son]]: All three old warriors lost a son to the Albino, and swore a blood oath to get revenge.

!!Gowron (Robert O'Reilly)

Chancellor of the Klingon Empire.

* {{Antivillain}}: Generally villainous, but not without redeeming characteristics.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's on the flagship of the invasion force to Cardassia and doesn't back away from duels to the death.
* CorruptPolitician: Ezri singles him out as an example of what's wrong with the Klingon Empire.
* [[spoiler:DeathEqualsRedemption: Ultimately, despite his callous actions and cavalier attitude to the lives of his men, Gowron dies an honourable death in combat, meaning his people remember him as a brave warrior.]]
* DrivenByEnvy: His undoing. He gets jealous of the attention and glory heaped on general Martok in the Dominion War, and pushes him aside to take command and that glory for himself. Disaster ensues.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Once he sees how popular Martok is getting, he's willing to throw away any semblance of strategy at a point when the Klingons are literally the only people able to fight the Dominion.
* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath: Worf kills him because he abuses his position as Chancellor; the only reason he got the job in the first place was because Worf killed his corrupt rival during the election.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Played with. He is corrupt and reckless, but also smart and cunning, and can give sound judgements in disputes between houses. Tends to be more reasonable when his own ambition and self-interest aren't on the line. Nor is he a coward, being willing to face Worf in a duel to the death with the Empire at stake.
* TheUriahGambit: He pulls this on Martok, fearing that the general's skill and growing popularity will be a threat. Gowron orders him on impossible missions with the intention that he will either get killed, or that his repeated, inevitable losses will disgrace him.

!!Grilka (Mary Kay Adams)

Klingon noblewoman in ''The House of Quark'' and ''Looking for Par'mach in all the Wrong Places''. Abducted and married Quark to save time while she gets a dispensation to rule as a female. Meets him again in ''Looking for Par'mach''

* [[AbductionIsLove Abduction Is Friendship]]: To Quark, as abductor rather then abductee.
* AmicablyDivorced: To Quark
* ArrangedMarriage: To Quark
* BotheringByTheBook: Klingon law doesn't ''quite'' say a Ferengi can't rule a Klingon house.
* InterspeciesRomance: In Looking for Par'Mach
* IronLady
* LadyOfWar

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Dominion]]

!!The Female Changeling (Salome Jens)
->'''Odo:''' Being an "outsider" isn't so bad. It gives one a unique perspective. It's a pity you've forgotten that.\\
'''Female Changeling:''' Then perhaps one day [[TroubleEntendre I'll come visit you]]. The Alpha Quadrant seems wracked with chaos. It could use some order.
-->-- "The Search, pt. 2"

Ostensibly the leader of the Dominion, the public face of the Founders, and Weyoun's boss. She straddled the line between ReasonableAuthorityFigure and evil, and would have been the BigBad of the series had Dukat not gone crazy.

* BiggerBad
* BitchInSheepsClothing: When she first appears in "The Search", she comes across as a wise, serene mentor who is pleased that Odo has returned to his people. She and the other Founders are later revealed to be the leaders of the tyrannical Dominion. Throughout the series, she demonstrates the malevolence behind her gentle facade.
* BodyHorror: The Synthetic virus cooked up by Section 31. Visually, the symptoms are similar to when a Changeling gets stuck in one shape for too long; they begin to rot away. In this case, it takes a lot longer (Odo was denied the ability to shapeshift a few times, and was expected to perish within 24 hours). Initially, the Female Changeling can rejuvenate her skin in private, but over time the damage becomes irreparable.
** Worse yet when the Space-AIDS starts kicking in the kaposi's sarcomas start growing out of her "clothes", seeing as how they're just another part of the humanoid form she shapeshifted into.
* DefinitelyJustACold: After Odo unwittingly acts as carrier to [[{{FinalSolution}} a virus cooked up by Section 31]]. The Female Changeling does her best to disguise her symptoms, but eventually starts to visibly rot away.
* DissonantSerenity: She almost never gets angry, but when she does, oh God, watch out.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: The Changeling race serves as this for her. At the end of the series, she calls off the Dominion offensive and surrenders in exchange for Odo curing the others Changelings of the Section 31 virus.]]
* [[EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep Everybody Calls Her Founder]] / NoNameGiven: The Founders have no need for names, so [[ShapedLikeItself Everybody Calls Her Founder]].
-->'''Odo:''' You haven't told me your name.\\
'''Female Changeling:''' What use would I have for a name?\\
'''Odo:''' To differentiate yourself from the others.\\
'''Female Changeling:''' I don't.
* EvilMentor: To Odo. In "The Search", she teaches him about the history of the Changeling race and helps him hone his shapeshifting skills. When Odo discovers that she and the other Founders lead the tyrannical Dominion, he leaves her. Later, during the occupation of Deep Space Nine, she teaches him more about his people and [[GRatedSex links with him]].
* FantasticRacism: Takes a dim view of solids.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As Dominion forces depart from Deep Space Nine in "Sacrifice of Angels," she accurately predicts that [[spoiler: Odo will return to the Great Link someday.]]
--> '''Weyoun:''' What about Odo? Is he coming with us?
--> '''Female Changeling:''' No ... but he will join us one day. It's only a matter of time.
** In "The Search, Part II", she accurately predicts that Odo will long to return to the Great Link (a longing that he admits under torture later in the series).
--> '''Female Changeling:''' We will miss you Odo, but you will miss us even more.
** In "Favor the Bold", she tells Weyoun that returning Odo to the Great Link means more to the Founders than securing the Alpha Quadrant. [[spoiler: This is proven in the series finale when the Female Changeling makes a deal with Odo: she gives herself up to the Federation to be put on trial for the Dominion's war crimes against Cardassia and the entire Alpha Quadrant and Odo returns to the Great Link.]]
* GRatedSex: The linking scenes between Odo and the Female Changeling in "The Search", "Behind the Lines" and "Favor the Bold" have the feel of love scenes. In ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion,'' [[WordOfGod Director LeVar Burton]] confirmed that they were straight-up love scenes.
* IAmLegion: Played with. It might have a little something to do with her megalomania, but she often blurs the line between being a simple representative for the Great Link and being the embodiment of it. Her [[{{Koan}} koan-like]] words in "Behind the Lines" suggest this.
--> '''Odo:''' When you return to The Link, what will become of the entity I'm talking to right now?
--> '''Female Changeling:''' The drop becomes the ocean.
--> '''Odo:''' And if you choose to take solid form again?
--> '''Female Changeling:''' The ocean becomes a drop.
* ManipulativeBastard
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Being a Changeling, she's stronger than she looks. In "What You Leave Behind," she grabs Broca by the throat and [[NeckLift lift him off his feet]] when he tells her that civilians have disrupted the power supply.
* PetTheDog: When she admits that she trusts Weyoun.
* PinkMeansFeminine
* ThePowerOfHate / [[{{He Who Fights Monsters}} She Who Fights Monsters]]: Played with. Her irrational loathing toward solids can be allegedly traced in part to persecution that Changelings endured from solids in the distant past. Except that there are serious hints throughout the series that the persecution of the changelings didn't happen until long '''after''' they started their dominion conquest. Indeed, one race is known to have eradicated changelings from their world mere centuries ago, when the Dominion itself has existed for over 10000 years.
* [[spoiler: SaveTheVillain: When Odo cures her of a deadly disease afflicting the Changelings.]]
* ShapeshiftingSquick: She and Odo have sexual relations in their humanoid forms during the occupation of Deep Space Nine. Their body language and dialogue afterwards indicates that it was unsatisfying for both partners. She insists that sex pales in comparison to immersion in the Great Link, probably to dissuade him from seeing Kira.
* TheTrickster: A malevolent example, especially when she impersonates Kira in "Heart of Stone."
* TheVamp: To Odo. We learn in "Favor the Bold" that her seduction of Odo isn't just about neutralizing an opponent, but about bringing a fellow Changeling home.
--> '''Female Changeling (to Weyoun):''' Neutralize Odo? Is that why you think I'm here? Odo is a changeling. Bringing him home, returning him to the Great Link means more to us than the Alpha Quadrant itself. Is that clear?
** Despite being a fairly straightforward example of {{the vamp}}, she defies several of the stereotypes associated with the trope: she takes on the appearance of an older woman, she is not conventionally attractive, and her dress and demeanor are relatively chaste.
* WhamLine: "The Changelings are the Dominion."
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: She was on Cardassia when the Federation mined the wormhole entrance, leaving her cut off from the Great Link. And by the time the mines came down, the Federation retook DS9.

!!Weyoun (Creator/JeffreyCombs)
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->''Hah! Overconfidence - the hallmark of the Weyouns.''
-->-- '''Damar''', "Strange Bedfellows"

The most visible member of the Vorta race on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', he became an antagonistic foil to Sisko after the beginning of the Dominion War. A SmugSnake ''par excellence''. Had a tendency to get [[TheyKilledKenny killed]] a ''lot'', but luckily for him the [[ExpendableClone Vorta]] were genetically engineered in such a way that this wasn't that big of a big deal.
----
* ActingForTwo: Jeffrey Combs also played the recurring Ferengi Administrator Brunt.
* AffablyEvil: Comes with his job. Also the others of his species (the Vorta), who are the Founders' "carrot" race (with the [[SuperSoldier Jem'Hadar]] as the "stick"), but Weyoun is the finest of them. Genetically engineered to be efficient, evil, and oh so polite. Played for laughs, as Sisko grows increasingly incensed with Weyoun's habit of acting as though they're buddies.
-->'''Weyoun:''' How delightful! [[InsultBackfire You feel comfortable enough around me to make jokes!]] I'm so pleased to see our relationship evolving beyond the stale adversarial stage--\\
'''Sisko''': No, it's ''not''. But before you twist that into a compliment, let me be blunt: I don't like the Dominion, I don't like what it stands for and I don't like '''you'''!
** Good lord, even ''Kai Winn'' thinks he's a tiresome douchebag!
** Although he is specifically designed to be polite and persuasive, most characters (especially some of the Cardassians, who are supposedly ''on the same side'') find him intensely irritating.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Ingratiating, deceptive snake? Or loyal, selfless Founder dog? One alternative interpretation isn't so much as who he is or what he does, but how he's seen. When you take into consideration that he (along with all the Vorta) is a family-less clone who was never born and had no childhood, but instead was callously created by the Founders with the express purpose of serving them, it's actually kind of heartbreaking. In universe, absolutely nobody likes Weyoun. And he doesn't even seem to be all that aware of this. He's also commented about his lack of aesthetics, stating that no Vorta has any sense of art because the Founders didn't think it was important for them to have it. Still, he has said wistfully, it would be nice to carry a tune... the Vorta (with Weyoun being the most extreme example) would do anything for the Founders, and the Founders are quite apathetic most of the time.
** The closest anyone ever gets to admitting friendship for Weyoun is when the Female Changeling calls him a trusted and loyal adviser. The look of sheer rapture on his face is almost heartbreaking in its sincerity.
*** She also [[spoiler:seems to be somewhat saddened by Weyoun's final death, as the destruction of the cloning facility means she can't bring him back anymore]].
* AppealToVanity: Susceptible to this brand of advertising. Just look at the Cellular Regeneration and Entertainment Chamber!
** When he first met Sisko, he tried bribing him with the prospect of becoming Federation President. Or, heck, why not think big? ''Emperor!''
* AscendedExtra: 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.
* BandwagonTechnique: One of the arguments he uses when trying to persuade people over to the dark side- I mean, the Dominion.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Extremely diplomatic in general, but just listen to him threatening Jake and Nog in "In the Cards" and you'll see how dead serious he can get. Not to mention he's a high ranking commander in the Dominion.
* TheChessMaster: Oh, my god.
* CombatPragmatist: Of the more strategic type than actual throw-downs, but... yep.
* TheDragon: The Female Changeling's paranoia is so all-encompassing that she considers Weyoun "the only solid I ever trusted." Presumably, she refuse to put her life in the hands of most Vorta, to say nothing of Jem'Hadar.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Like all Vorta. This appearance is standard for all Vorta as they are a genetically engineered species.
* EvilVirtues: Hard work, Loyalty, Patience, Responsibility, Selflessness...
** Temperance too. Though it is not clear that counts for a creature bred to have almost no fleshly desires anyway.
* ExpendableClone: To his chagrin. It got to the point where Damar chuckles heartily whenever a new Weyoun strolls into his office. It's implied that Damar has bumped off a few clones himself, out of annoyance.
-->'''Weyoun''': I'm glad to see you find the death of my predecessor so amusing.\\
'''Damar''': Oh, you ''misjudge'' me. I miss him deeply. Here, [[ForgottenFallenFriend let's drink to Weyoun 7!]]
* FashionableAsymmetry: Weyoun's 'tunic'. The material resembles brown leather, with a floral pattern on his left sleeve and torso.
** Which is an odd fasion choice, considering the Founders' obsession with order and Weyoun's need to serve the Founders in all things.
* GenreSavvy
* IdTellYouButThenIdHaveToKillYou: A scene between Weyoun, Damar, and Damar's lady friend, in the Important War Room.
--> '''Weyoun''': I have news.\\
'''Damar''': Well?\\
'''Weyoun''': Your ''friend'' doesn't want to hear this.\\
'''Damar''': And why doesn't my friend want to hear this?\\
'''Weyoun''': Because if she did, I would be forced to have her executed.\\
''[She leaves.]''\\
'''Weyoun''': [[SarcasmMode What a pleasant woman.]]
* OutOfContinues: Once Damar blows up his cloning facilities. Oops.
* PetTheDog: Well, he ''did'' let Nog and Jake have the Willie Mays card.
** Also pet himself by the Female Changeling, who acknowledges him as "the only solid [she] ever trusted."
* TheProfiler: According to Weyoun, Sisko's psychological profile is required reading for all Vorta. [[EvilCannotComprehendGood Not that it did much good]].
* ProperlyParanoid
* PurpleEyes: Another standard Vorta trait, their vision is weaker than most other humanoids. As they were genetically engineered by the Changelings, this may have been intentional.
* ShinyNewAustralia: Subverted - Weyoun had been looking forward to hoisting his flag over Starfleet Headquarters (as the ultimate revenge for all those times Sisko snubbed him), but his boss changed her mind and promised it to the Breen. Pop! That's the sound of a deflating ego.
-->"Apparently, uhh, I was under the mistaken impression that all Federation territories would fall under ''my'' jurisdiction, including Earth..."
* SycophanticServant
* SissyVillain
* SmugSnake: To a tee.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The Dominion probably noted that their diplomats are often victims of this, so they engineered them to be immune to most poisons. Weyoun [[PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo takes a swig from one]] to prove his point.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Dukat, and later (even more hilariously) Damar.
* TheThirtySixStratagems: Required reading for all higher ranked Vorta, along with Sisko's psychological profile.
* TooDumbToLive: 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.
** It's possible that between his intense loyalty to the Founders and his knowledge that they'll clone him, he simply has no sense of self-preservation.
* UndyingLoyalty: Even by Dominion standards.
* TheUnfettered: 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.
* VillainsOutShopping: 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, making it extra creepy to some, yet creepily cute to others. There's also a clip from the final montage of the episode "In The Cards", showing Weyoun thoroughly enjoying the crack-pot "Cellular Regeneration And Entertainment Chamber."
* WeHaveReserves: This is what ultimately causes Damar to defect. It's not enough that Cardassian troops are being fed into the Dominion's meat grinder, or that Dominion troops now occupy all of Cardassia. Now Weyoun is auctioning off Cardassian territories to the Breen in exchange for their help.
-->'''Weyoun''': We need the Breen to win this war. When it's over, there will be more than enough territories available to compensate Cardassia for the loss of a few minor planets.\\
'''Damar''': ''(outraged)'' There're no "'''minor'''" planets in the Cardassian Union!
* YouAreNumberSix / LegacyCharacter: He was Weyoun 8 at the time when his cloning facility was destroyed.
* YourFavorite: When a holo-image of Weyoun says to Bashir, "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.

!!!Weyoun 6

->'''Odo''': Has it ever occurred to you that the reason you believe the Founders are gods is because that's what they want you to believe? That they built it into your genetic code?\\
'''Weyoun 6''': [[TooDumbToFool Of course they did.]] That's what gods do. After all, why be a god if there's no one to worship you?
-->-- "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River"
* CameBackWrong / CloningBlues: By Dominion standards, anyway. Weyoun 6, who was considered "defective" after he questioned the plan to invade the Alpha Quadrant and decided to defect. Despite being bred to be loyal and serve the Founders, Weyoun 6 realises that both could still apply if he served ''[[LoopholeAbuse Odo]]'', who just happens to be allied with the Federation. Unfortunately, he was killed shortly after by his replacement, Weyoun 7.
* DefectorFromDecadence
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Odo's arms, specifically.
* GoOutWithASmile: Because one of his gods was smiling and blessing him.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[DrivenToSuicide Activated his termination implant]] to save Odo from the attacking Jem'Hadar ship.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Subverted. He saw himself as loyal to the Founders and the Dominion as a whole, but he just couldn't support the war, seeing it as both immoral and ultimately counter to the Dominion's best interests.
* OfferedTheCrown: Asks Odo to come take over the Dominion and reform it after the Founders die. Odo never gives him a definitive answer, but [[spoiler:the Founders don't die at the end, and Odo does wind up joining them and trying to reform them]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath
* TalkingToHimself: Jeffery Combs plays Weyouns 6 and 7 in the same episode. They never meet face-to-face, but they do speak to one another over a subspace transmission.
* WhiteSheep

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Mirror Universe]]

The Mirror Universe is a parallel world to the standard Star Trek universe, where the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance has enslaved the Terrans. Deep Space Nine's counterpart, Terok Nor, is a seat of power for the Alliance in the Bajoran sector and an ore processing facility ruled by Intendant Kira. Characters in the Mirror Universe resemble their standard universe counterparts but have radically different, often opposite character traits. The Mirror Universe is seen or referenced in "Crossover," "Through the Looking Glass," "Shattered Mirror," "Resurrection," and "The Emperor's New Cloak."

!!General Mirror Universe Tropes

* AlternateSelf
* CrapsackWorld
* DidntSeeThatComing: Terok Nor's leaders would have realized that a slave revolt was imminent if they'd actually ''paid attention'' to what was going on around them. Several slave escapes combined with the growing frustration among the Terrans should have tipped them off. However, Intendant Kira was too absorbed in power and sensual indulgences, Gul Garak was too absorbed in trying to eliminate Intendant Kira, and Mirror!Odo was too absorbed in indulging his sadism to notice.
* EvilCounterpart: Played with. Some of the Mirror Universe counterparts are evil and depraved. Others, while flawed, are not evil per se.
* FantasticRacism: Several Non-Terran characters exhibit this toward the Terran slaves.
* GoodColorsEvilColors: Several of the Mirror Universe characters, such as Intendant Kira and Mirror!Odo, wear black.
* KilledOffForReal / AnyoneCanDie: Given that this does not affect the main universe's characters, it happens often: [[spoiler:the mirror versions of Sisko, Odo, Dax, Quark, Rom, Nog, Garak and Vic Fontaine all die. This becomes a key plot point when the "real" Benjamin Sisko is abducted to stand in for his mirror counterpart.]]
** Notably averted for prime-universe's usual ButtMonkey, O'Brien.
* MadeASlave / SlaveRace: Terrans.
* MirrorUniverse
* SlaveRevolt: The Terrans eventually revolt against the Alliance and wage an ongoing resistance.
* WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture


!!!Intendant Kira

The chief authority of the Terok Nor station, whom Kira encounters in "Crossover." Intendant Kira is one of the series' longest-running villains.

* WomanInBlack / DarkIsEvil
* DepravedBisexual
** AnythingThatMoves
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She genuinely loved Mirror Sisko.
** Her comments after Mirror!Odo's death suggest that she cared about him, or at least respected him as a colleague.
* KarmaHoudini
* MoodSwinger
* {{Narcissist}}: What else do you call someone who literally falls in love with herself?
* ScrewYourself: She wants to screw regular Kira at least, but it doesn't actually happen.
* ShadowArchetype: Intendant Kira is who Kira Nerys might have become had she lived as an oppressor and not one of the oppressed.
** One can draw parallels between Intendant Kira and standard universe Gul Dukat, whom standard universe Kira despises. For instance, both take lovers from the groups they oppress (Bajoran "comfort women" for Dukat; Mirror!Sisko for Intendant Kira). Also, both condescendingly see themselves as kinder to those they oppress than their colleagues.

!!!Gul Garak

Second-in-command at Terok Nor under Intendant Kira.

* [[spoiler: AssholeVictim]]
* ContinuityNod: "I do admire a well-tailored gown."
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: He threatens to have Bashir killed if Kira doesn't assist him in a plot to eliminate Intendant Kira.
* [[spoiler:HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Mirror!Ezri injects him with the agonizing instant-death virus he was threatening Quark and Rom with]].
* MakeAnExampleOfThem
* SmugSnake: He's more or less a CardCarryingVillain who is too obsessed with taking Kira's job to be competent. Quark and Rom mock him for being nowhere ''near'' as good as the Garak they know.
* TheSociopath
* TheStarscream

!!!Regent Worf

Intendant Kira's boss. A high ranking member of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance.

* AxCrazy: He's prone to fits of violent rage.
* BadBoss: At one point, he kills a subordinate just to test out a spiked gauntlet. Judging from everyone's lack of reaction, it's a fairly regular occurrence for the Regent.
* BiggerBad: As the Intendant's boss, he's supposedly the true villain of the mirror universe episodes. However, the Intendant is almost always the greater threat.
* VillainsOutShopping: At one point, he is shown enjoying Zek's snuff.

!!!"Smiley" O'Brien

A Terran slave who was one of the first to join Mirror!Sisko's rebellion. Following Mirror!Sisko's death, Smiley took over as the rebellion's leader.

* AntiHero: He's a nice guy by Mirror Universe standards, but he's not above kidnapping people to force them to help him.
* BigGood: After taking over the rebellion.
* IronicNickname: Mirror!Sisko named him "Smiley" because he hardly ever smiled back when he was a slave.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's just as level headed as his normal universe counterpart, so he becomes this once he becomes the rebellion's leader.

!!!Mirror!Odo

A brutal slave overseer who supervises the ore processing operations of Terok Nor.

* AssholeVictim
* TheBully: He takes perverse delight in taunting and physically abusing Bashir.
* ControlFreak: He's a sadistic overseer who imposes his "Rules of Obedience" on the slaves, so he's got some serious control issues. One of his "Rules of Obedience" even [[NoSenseOfHumor forbids joking]].
* InformedAbility: Intendant Kira praised his ability to run an efficient ore processing operation and maintain order among the slaves. However, he allowed a thorium containment unit to go unrepaired, despite Mirror!O'Brien's warning, resulting in a catastrophic thorium leak. Furthermore, at least three Terran slaves escaped under his watch. Finally, he assigned Bashir to a task for which Bashir was physically unsuited, as Mirror!Odo lampshaded later in the episode.
* KilledOffForReal
* LaserGuidedKarma
* LudicrousGibs: When Bashir shoots him with a phaser during the Terran slave uprising, Mirror!Odo messily explodes.
* PsychoticSmirk: As seen [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Odo_Mirror02.jpg here]].
* ShadowArchetype: Mirror!Odo is who Odo might have become if his deep-seated need for order were not restrained by empathy or morality.

!!!Mirror!Sisko

A Terran favored by Intendant Kira who commands a raiding ship on behalf of the Alliance. He later turns on his oppressors.

* TheDogBitesBack
* DeadPersonImpersonation: After Mirror!Sisko dies, Mirror!O'Brien brings standard universe Sisko into the Mirror Universe to impersonate him.
* [[BeautifulSlaveGirl Handsome Slave Boy]]: Intendant Kira takes him as her lover. Being a slave, Mirror!Sisko wasn't in any position to refuse, however.
* HappinessInSlavery: Subverted. While he appears happy on the surface, he admits to standard universe Kira that he's merely made the best of a bad life for himself.
* HeelFaceTurn
* KilledOffForReal
* SlaveLiberation
* SuddenPrincipledStand
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Even after starting the rebellion, he retains his thuggish demeanor. Smiley remarks that this would have caused trouble if he had lived longer.

!!!Mirror!Jennifer Sisko

The estranged wife of Captain Sisko. A Terran scientist working with the Alliance.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Normal!Sisko convinces her to switch sides.]]
* TheQuisling: A sympathetic version. She's working with the Alliance because she does not trust her husband's motives in starting the rebellion.
* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath]]: In "Shattered Mirror", [[spoiler:after manipulating Jake into coming to the Mirror Universe and blackmailing Benjamin into a making a Defiant for the rebellion, she sacrifices herself to protect Jake from the Intendant.]]
* WorkingWithTheEx: Defied. She is working with the Alliance because she refuses to do this.

!!!Mirror!Bareil Antos

A Bajoran criminal who comes to the normal universe seeking asylum.

* HeelFaithTurn: [[spoiler:An orb experience convinces him to turn against the Intendant.]]
* LovableRogue: He may be a criminal, but he still has the charm of the normal universe's Bareil.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:He is working with the Intendant to steal the Orb of Contemplation.]]
* OutlawCouple: With [[spoiler:Intendant Kira]].

!!!Mirror!Ezri

An unjoined Trill who works for anyone who will pay her.

* ActionGirl: She's considerably more dangerous than her normal universe counterpart.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After the Intendant kills Mirror!Brunt, she betrays her and saves the Ferengi.]]
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: She's a true mercenary, which has not endeared her to the rebellion. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out she's working for her lover, the Intendant.]]

!!!Mirror!Bashir

A violent Terran member of the rebellion.

* NumberTwo: By "The Emperor's New Cloak", he has become this to Smiley.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Out of all the member of the rebellion, he tends to favor the most brutal answers to problems.

!!!Mirror!Jadzia

A Trill member of the rebellion and Mirror!Sisko's mistress.

* ActionGirl: It's implied that she's just as capable of kicking ass as her normal universe counterpart.
* DroppedABridgeOnHer: She's killed off between Mirror Universe episodes.
* McLeaned: She was killed off because Terry Farrel left the show.

!!!Mirror!Quark

A subversive bartender on Terok Nor.

* ArrestedForHeroism: He's beaten and executed for helping Terran slaves escape from Terok Nor.
* TheBartender: Like standard universe Quark, he runs a bar aboard Terok Nor.
* EvilCounterpart: Inverted. He's much like Quark, except that he embodies more courage and compassion by quietly trying to help the slaves.
* SlaveLiberation

!!!Mirror!Rom

Quark's brother and a member of the rebellion.

* [[spoiler:DeadGuyOnDisplay]]: His ultimate fate.
* FakeDefector: [[spoiler:He pretends to rat out Sisko and Smiley to the Intendant so he can get an escape ship for them. Unfortunately, Gul Garak sees through this.]]

!!!Mirror!Nog

Rom's unscrupulous son.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Unlike most Ferengi, he's pretty good in a fight.
* {{Jerkass}}: In addition to being quite abrasive, he has no issue with the Alliance killing his family, as it allows him to inherit the bar.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:The Intendant kills him after he mentions that he's the only one who knows she's escaped.]]

!!!Mirror!Brunt

Mirror!Ezri's partner in crime.

* IncompatibleOrientation: He's in love with Mirror!Ezri, who, in Brunt's words is "very selective when it comes to men." Brunt has long since accepted it though.
* MoralityPet: To Mirror!Ezri. [[spoiler:His death at the hands of the Intendant convinces her to pull a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* NiceGuy: In a jarring contrast to his [[SmugSnake normal universe counterpart]], Mirror!Brunt is quite possibly the nicest person in the Mirror Universe.

!!!Mirror!Tuvok

A Vulcan member of the resistance.

* TheCameo: His normal universe counterpart is the tactical officer on [[Series/StarTrekVoyager the U.S.S. Voyager.]]

!!!Mirror!Vic

One of Mirror!Ezri's minions. Unlike his normal universe counterpart. Mirror!Vic is not a hologram.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: He is killed by Mirror!Bashir shortly after his first appearance, mostly so Rom will realize how different the Mirror!Universe is.

!!!Mirror!Leeta

A Bajoran living on Terek Nor.

* ShipTease: She and Mirror!Ezri were last seen flirting with one another.

[[/folder]]


[[folder: Others]]
!!The Dax Symbiont:
!!!Lela Dax

The Dax Symbiont's first host. A famous politician.

* IronLady
!!!Tobin Dax:

The Dax Symbiont's second host. A nervous engineer.

* AdultChild
* NotGoodWithPeople
!!!Emony Dax:

The Dax Symbiont's third host. A skilled gymnast.

* TheMcCoy

!!!Audrid Dax

The Dax Symbiont's fourth host. A politician and a loving mother.

* TeamMom: although Dax's hosts have a total of nine children (as a mother three times and a father once), Jadzia usually attributes her maternal instincts to Audrid.

!!!Torias Dax

The Dax Symbiont's fifth host. A carefree pilot who died in a shuttle accident shortly after being joined.

* AcePilot
* BigEater
* InHarmsWay
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Torias died less than a year after being joined.

!!!Joran Dax (Jeff Magnus [=McBride=], Leigh J. [=McCloskey=])

The Dax Symbiont's sixth host. A foul-tempered musician who accidentally wound up with the Dax Symbiont after Torias' death. After Joran killed a few people, the Dax Symbiont was removed from him, resulting in his death. The Dax Symbiont's memories of Joran were subsequently suppressed.

* BlondGuysAreEvil
* CreepyMonotone
* GollumMadeMeDoIt: The black sheep of the Dax family, so to speak. Unfortunately, he's still floating around inside Dax's genetic makeup, somewhere.
* HannibalLecture
* MadArtist / WickedCultured: He could have been a great concert pianist, but had latent psychopathic tendencies.
* TheOtherDarrin

!!!Curzon Dax (Frank Owen Smith)

The Dax Symbiont's seventh host. An ambassador and ladies man, as well as an old friend of Sisko's.

* CoolOldGuy
* DirtyOldMan
* DrillSergeantNasty: Dax is infamous in the Trill Initiate Programme for having broken more initiates than any other Joined Trill. Initiates regard being assigned to Dax as a virtual death sentence that will kiss their chances of Joining goodbye forever. This caused Jadzia no end of problems when it came her turn to mentor, as '''she herself'' was bullied (and washed out of the Initiate Programme) by a Dax (Curzon).
* TheObiWan: To Sisko, whom he's been mentoring since Starfleet Academy if not earlier.

!!!Verad Dax (John Glover)

A trill who was passed over for receiving the Dax Symbiont, an event that ruined his life. He takes over Deep Space Nine during "Invasive Procedures" so he can take Dax from Jadzia.

* FriendlyEnemy
* GrandTheftMe
* NotSoHarmlessVillain

!!!Yedrin Dax (Gary Frank)

A host of the Dax Symbiont from the alternate timeline seen in "Children of Time".

* FutureMeScaresMe / IHatePastMe
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Laas (J.G. Hertzler)

->"They ''tolerate'' you, Odo, because you emulate them. What higher flattery is there? I, who can be anything, choose to be like you?"
-->-- "Chimera"

From the episode "Chimera". Like Odo, Laas is one of the hundred Changelings sent out into space as infants to learn about non-Changeling races. Laas landed on Varala and spent years amongs its people and fauna.

* ActingForTwo: J.G. Hertzler also played Martok.
* {{Animorphism}}: On Varala, he once assumed the form of a volg and traveled with the herd.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: He uses his shapeshifting ability to travel in space.
* FantasticRacism: He is distrustful of non-Changelings. His comments about Odo to Ezri and Bashir reveal his attitudes about humanoids.
--> '''Laas:''' You've convinced him that he is as limited as you are.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Subverted. While he assumes humanoid form when interacting with other characters, it is not necessarily for their benefit. He has no qualms about assuming other forms (i.e., fog) that make Deep Space Nine residents uncomfortable.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: He prefers animals to humanoids.
--> '''Laas:''' The truth is, I prefer the so-called primitive lifeforms. They exist as they were meant to, by following their instincts. No words to get in the way, no lies, no deceptions.
* HeroOfAnotherStory
* JerkAss: He's fine (some of the time) when interacting with Odo, but he is openly hostile towards Odo's "monoform" friends and seems to enjoy unnerving the station population by shapeshifting around them.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While he's ''not'' tactful about it, Laas does bring up legitimate concerns about [[InterspeciesRomance Odo and Kira's relationship]]. For example, he reminds Odo that Changelings cannot reproduce with humanoids, which ruptured Laas' relationship with his former Varalan mate. Also, he warns Odo that if he remains with Kira, he will watch her grow old and die because of Changelings' long lifespans.
** Despite Odo's outward rejection of the Dominion, Laas observes that it is [[MoralityChain Kira]], not duty or morality, that prevents Odo from reuniting with the Changeling Founders.
--> '''Laas:''' Odo, we linked. I know the truth. You stayed here because of Kira. If it weren't for her, you would be with our people. War or no war, you would be a Founder!
* MeaningfulName: "Laas" means "changeable" in Varalan.
* RaisedByNatives: He's a Changeling who lived among Varalans, even taking a Varalan mate for a time.
* SuperSmoke: He transforms into a fog aboard the station, to the alarm of several observers.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting
* [[{{Walking the Earth}} Walking the Stars]]: He travels through space trying to locate other Changelings who were sent out as infants like himself.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: WordOfGod says he probably succumbed to the Founders' illness after linking with Odo. However, there wasn't enough time to wrap up this thread.

!!Tosk
--> ''I am Tosk: The Hunted.''

From episode ''Captive Pursuit.'' Member of a race bred by aliens to be hunted in ritual BloodSport determined to play his assigned role for the honor of his race. Teddy bear like, but not to be messed with.

* AllThereInTheManual: According to the ''Star Trek Deep Space Nine Companion'', those that breed the Tosk also breed the Jem'Hadar. In a WhatCouldHaveBeen moment, the Hunters were going to be revealed as Dominion members, the Tosk apparently being their "reward" for loyal service. The fact that Tosk has similar, but slightly lesser, abilities to the Jem'Hadar (for example, Tosk needs very little sleep while the Jem'Hadar need none at all, and both have the [[{{Invisibility}} shroud ability]]) makes this something that many fans had guessed on their own.
* AmusingAlien
* BadassAdorable
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* HappinessInSlavery
* HeyItsThatGuy: Tosk was played by Scott [=MacDonald=], who later played Dolim in the third season of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''.
* HonorBeforeReason: Even facing the prospect of public ridicule and humiliation when he was brought back alive, he refuses to betray his identity as a Tosk and run away.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: The Hunted are specifically bred just to be this. Their life purpose is to run and evade their captors for as long as possible. The ultimate honor is to be killed, and any Tosk who is easily captured is sent back to their home planet to be put on display and used as an example of the ultimate disgrace.
* NoSenseOfHumor
* [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Big Game Race Guy]]
* SlaveRace
* [[SuperSoldier Super Game]]
* WarriorPoet
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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette

* GoodWithNumbers: He's able to do very complex calculations in his head.

A mix of AntiHero and TedBaxter (there were lots of {{Ted Baxter Close Up}}s featuring Quark). Being a Ferengi meant he was a member of a PlanetOfHats of ultra-ruthless, ludicrously sexist capitalists. His brother Rom and his nephew Nog started out as the TooDumbToLive-type, but it turned out they were just hiding behind these images too.

* CowardlyLion

!!Liquidator Brunt (JeffreyCombs)

!!Weyoun (JeffreyCombs)

* FanServicePack: Siddig enjoyed playing such an anti-TV dork, but the viewers didn't share his affection. Various moves were made to make the character into a suave Bond-type, but the actor fought against it. Could be considered an AvertedTrope, depending on your opinion.

* AgentPeacock: He is, by his own admission, a pretty good tailor. Add to that his unsubtle pass at Bashir (in his first episode, no less) and frequent complaining about tacky decorating or outfits he's forced to wear.

* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath]]: In "Shattered Mirror", [[spoiler:after manipulating Jake into coming to the Mirror Universe and blackmailing Benjamin into a Defiant for the rebellion, she sacrifices herself to protect Jake from the Intendant.]]

* TheQuisling: For Dukat, a few months of being a lowly guerrilla fighter made a pact with The Dominion look attractive.

-->'''Bashir:''' "octor?

--> '''Bashir''': "Of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?"
--> '''Garak''': "My dear Doctor, they're all true."
--> '''Bashir''': "Even the lies?"
--> '''Garak''': "''Especially'' the lies."

-->'''Garak:''' "My dear doctor, I am no more a spy than you are a..."
-->'''Bashir:''' "Doctor?"

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. For the hosts of the Dax symbiont beyond Jadzia and Ezri, see the "Others" folder.

* FantasticCasteSystem: According to the old Bajoran caste system, she was supposed to be an artist. The castes were abandoned during the occupation, but her parents were still apparently disappointed and embarrassed that she never showed any artistic talent.

CameBackWrong / CloningBlues: By Dominion standards, anyway. Weyoun 6, who was considered "defective" after he questioned the plan to invade the Alpha Quadrant and decided to defect. Despite being bred to be loyal and serve the Founders, Weyoun 6 realises that both could still apply if he served ''[[LoopholeAbuse Odo]]'', who just happens to be allied with the Federation. Unfortunately, he was killed shortly after by his replacement, Weyoun 7.

* CameBackWrong: By Dominion standards.

Functions as TheSpock initially, later becoming TheJudge. Served as Chief of security (affectionately referred to as "[[RedBaron Constable]]") of Deep Space Nine, having occupied that position even during the Cardassian Occupation. A [[VoluntaryShapeshifting 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 leaders of the Dominion and thus the enemy]], which doesn't really help with the angst one bit. During the series, it's revealed that Odo's name is a shortened form of a Cardassian term, ''odo'ital'' ("nothing", a mistranslation of the Bajoran "unknown sample"), that the Cardassian overseers gave him during the Occupation.

* [[spoiler: MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: The Founders protest ''far'' too much]].

* CameBackWrong / CloningBlues: Weyoun 6, who was considered "defective" after he questioned the plan to invade the Alpha Quadrant and decided to defect. Despite being bred to be loyal and serve the Founders, Weyoun 6 realises that both could still apply if he served ''[[LoopholeAbuse Odo]]'', who just happens to be allied with the Federation. Unfortunately, he was killed shortly after by his replacement, Weyoun 7.

!!General Dominion Tropes