| The Dominion | |
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| Founded | circa 7600 B.C. |
| Founder | The Founders |
| Homeworld | Founder's home planet, Gamma Quadrant |
| Official language | Dominionese, (see: universal translator) |
| Currency | Isik |
| Affiliation | Vorta Jem'Hadar |
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Pre-contact constituents
The Dominion was created over ten thousand years prior to the events of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine when the persecuted Changelings (a non-humanoid race of shape-shifters) decided that the only way they could defend themselves against the "solids" (as the Changelings call all other races) was by bringing them under their control. Changelings are an alien race from the Star Trek universe Members of this race have the unique ability to Shapeshift. Unwilling, or unable, to trust existing "solids", the Changelings genetically engineered new slave races to be their diplomats and soldiers. Genetic engineering, Recombinant DNA technology, genetic modification/manipulation (GM and gene splicing are terms that apply to the direct In so doing, they became known as the Founders to their new slaves. Changelings are an alien race from the Star Trek universe Members of this race have the unique ability to Shapeshift.
Their main fighting force are shocktroops known as the Jem'Hadar, fanatical super-soldiers who require no sleep or food and whose loyalty is ensured by a genetically pre-programmed addiction to the drug ketracel white, as well as an innate genetic veneration of Changelings and a heavy system of indoctrination that prepares Jem'Hadar for lives of devoted service in the interests of the Changelings. In the fictional Star Trek universe the Jem'Hadar are the Shock troops of the powerful Dominion located in the Gamma Quadrant. In the fictional Star Trek universe the Jem'Hadar are the Shock troops of the powerful Dominion located in the Gamma Quadrant. The Vorta serve as the Founders' cloned intermediaries acting as Dominion administrators, diplomats, command staff, and scientists. Vorta are primarily known for their duplicity and Machiavellian treachery, though they maintain ultimate service to the Dominion. It has been said that the tree-dwelling ancestors of the Vorta once protected a changeling, and they were elevated to their new role in gratitude. Both the Vorta and the Jem'Hadar have been conditioned to see the Founders as living gods.
Other races in the Dominion include the Hunters, the navigators and trackers of the Dominion (a Hunter was supposed to appear on a Dominion ship in the episode "Broken Link" but the idea was dropped so as not to confuse new viewers), and their prey, the Tosk (which are rumored to come from the same 'root' species as the Jem'Hadar). This is a list of sentient species and races from the Fictional universe of Star Trek. "Captive Pursuit" is the sixth episode of the first season of Star Trek Deep Space Nine. These races appeared in the Deep Space Nine Season One episode "Captive Pursuit. "Captive Pursuit" is the sixth episode of the first season of Star Trek Deep Space Nine. " Other Gamma Quadrant races fled their home worlds after being conquered by the Dominion. The Skrreea, for example, flooded Deep Space Nine with refugees after fleeing from their conquered world in the Season Two episode "Sanctuary. "Sanctuary" is an episode of the Television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine, the tenth episode of the second season " Still other races subject to the Dominion provide logistical support: one race manufactures torpedoes for Jem'Hadar ships, another race builds those ships. Only the Vorta and Jem'Hadar have direct contact with the Founders.
The actual organization and operation of the Dominion within their Gamma Quadrant empire has not been widely explored. What little we do know suggests that the Dominion operated like an old fashioned "protection racket" with the Vorta/Jem'Hadar keeping the member worlds in check with a combination of platitudes and violence - in the episode "The Jem'Hadar", Eris explains "The Dominion decides that you have something that they want, and they come and take it, whether by negotiation or by force. A protection racket is an Extortion scheme whereby a powerful entity or individual coerces other less powerful entities or individuals to pay protection money ". By dominating the Solids, the Dominion believes that they are preempting the Solids' natural urge to persecute and kill the Founders. One race was condemned to slow decay and death for refusing the Dominion ("The Quickening"). " The Quickening " is an episode of Star Trek Deep Space Nine, the 23rd episode of the fourth season
First contact and escalation
The first mention of the Dominion is in "Rules of Acquisition" when Quark was seeking 100,000 vats of tulaberry wine. "Rules of Acquisition" is an episode of the Television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine, the seventh episode of the second season Quark, son of Keldar and Ishka, is a Fictional character in the television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine, played by Armin Shimerman There were various vague references to them as a major Gamma Quadrant power throughout Deep Space Nine's second season.
The Dominion was unknown to the Alpha Quadrant powers until the discovery of the Bajoran wormhole in 2369, which facilitated exploration of the Gamma Quadrant. In the television series Star Trek and its spin-offs Galactic quadrant refers to an area of the Milky Way Galaxy (although it's apparently no longer called Bajorans, a race of Humanoids in the fictional Star Trek universe were introduced in the Next Generation series and played In 2370, Jem'Hadar troops annihilated numerous Bajoran and Federation colonies and ships in the Gamma Quadrant and captured Commander Sisko, as the Dominion demanded the Federation stay on their side of the "anomaly". Benjamin Lafayette Sisko, played by Avery Brooks, is the main character of the Television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine. The lead Federation starship, USS Odyssey, was destroyed by a kamikaze attack, as the Dominion also demonstrated an alarming ability to penetrate Federation shielding. ( is a word of Japanese origin which in English usually refers to the Suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against As a result of this incident the Federation pulled the Defiant out of storage, complete with a Romulan cloaking device, and began preparations for a drastic increase in Deep Space Nine's defensive capabilities. The USS Defiant (NX-74205 is a fictional Starship in the television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine (DS9 and the Feature film Romulans are an alien species in the Star Trek universe that are related to the Vulcans and are at war or in an uneasy truce with the United Federation of The Space station Deep Space Nine ( DS9) is the main setting of the Science fiction Television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine
A Federation mission the next year to find and make peace with the Founders ended disastrously, when the peace expedition was captured and subject to hallucinogenic manipulation to test the willingness of the Federation to appease the Dominion. As a result of this incident, it was discovered that the reclusive Founders of the organization (previously unseen) were the Changelings. The Changelings justified their actions by the need to protect their species against persecution by Solids, and also spoke of a duty and inclination to "impose order on a chaotic universe. "
As a result of the continued Dominion threat, numerous Alpha Quadrant powers acted with increased preparations and paranoia, one expression of which was the Romulan attempt to collapse the wormhole forcibly. Notably, despite the Dominion's warnings, the Federation continued to chart the Gamma Quadrant. Founders began infiltrating the Alpha Quadrant, even wreaking havoc on Earth itself. EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001 In 2371, the combined intelligence organizations of the Cardassian Union and Romulan Star Empire attempted a strike into the Gamma Quadrant with a cloaked fleet, seeking to destroy the Founder's home planet and cripple the Dominion. Due to intensive Changeling manipulation, this attack force was ambushed while assaulting an abandoned planet that was believed to be the supposed Founder homeworld, and was completely crushed. We later find out that the main advocate of attacking the Dominion was actually a changeling infiltrator. This failure severely weakened the Cardassians and Romulans and paved the way for Dominion intrusion into the Alpha Quadrant.
The quadrant was plunged into conflict when the Klingon Empire accused the Cardassian Union of being under the control of the Founders. Klingons ( Klingon: tlhIngan; Pronunciation /ˈt͡ɬɪŋɑn/ are a warrior race in the fictional Star Trek universe Cardassians are a spacefaring race in the fictional Star Trek universe When the Federation condemned the Klingon attack on Cardassia, Gowron banished Federation citizens from Klingon space, recalled their ambassadors and withdrew from the Khitomer Accords. Gowron was a Fictional character of the Star Trek universe. He was played by Robert O'Reilly and featured in the TV series The following is a list of treaties in the Star Trek Fictional universe. The Federation and Cardassians fought months of armed combat against the Klingons. It was later revealed by Benjamin Sisko, Worf, Miles O'Brien and Odo that it was the Klingons themselves who unknowingly had a Changeling in their midst, pretending to be General Martok. Benjamin Lafayette Sisko, played by Avery Brooks, is the main character of the Television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Worf, played by Michael Dorn, is a Main character in both Star Trek The Next Generation and Star Trek Deep Space Nine Miles Edward O'Brien, played by Colm Meaney, is a main character in Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Odo, played by René Auberjonois, is a main character on the science fiction television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Martok is a recurring character in Star Trek Deep Space Nine, played by actor J Gowron rejoined the Khitomer accords and joined to fight the Dominion. The final year of the war featured further alliances, with the Romulans ending their neutrality and opposing the Dominion, while the Breen allied with the Dominion. Romulans are an alien species in the Star Trek universe that are related to the Vulcans and are at war or in an uneasy truce with the United Federation of The Breen are a fictional extraterrestrial species in the Star Trek Science fiction franchise
Dominion War (2373-2375)
- See main article: Dominion War
The Dominion gained a foothold in the Alpha Quadrant when Gul Dukat announced that the Cardassian Union was joining the Dominion in 2373. In the Fictional Star Trek universe the Dominion War was a war between the Dominion, Cardassian Union and the Breen Confederacy Open hostilities began a few months later when the Federation mined the wormhole to prevent further Dominion ships from arriving. In response, the Dominion attacked and occupied Deep Space Nine, while a Federation and Klingon task force invaded and destroyed a Dominion shipyard. The Allies suffered brutal losses for over three months, until Captain Sisko organized a task force to retake Deep Space Nine. Forced to move early because of intelligence that the Dominion was on the verge of taking down the minefield, the Federation departed before a full force could be assembled and found themselves blocked and severely outnumbered by a Dominion-Cardassian fleet. After hours of bloody fighting Dominion ships were outflanked by the arrival of a large Klingon fleet, which won the running battle and allowed the Defiant to break through to Deep Space Nine. By the time it had arrived the minefield had been deactivated, but Dominion reinforcements were destroyed in transit by the wormhole aliens known as the Prophets at Sisko's request, in exchange for a price. In the fictional Star Trek universe the Prophets, also known as Wormhole Aliens, are non-corporeal beings who inhabit the artificially constructed Bajoran wormhole As a consequence of this military loss, the Dominion fleets withdrew to Cardassian territory. Deep Space Nine continued to be in Federation hands for the duration of the war.
After this action the war's intensity diminished, and for a time peace negotiations were seriously discussed. Eventually the Dominion went on the offensive again, capturing Betazed in a surprise assault. In the fictional Star Trek universe Betazoids are a sentient humanoid species from the Planet Betazed, a member of the United Federation Threatened with Dominion penetration into the inner sphere of the Federation the Alliance forces were at a disadvantage, but were saved when the Romulan Star Empire entered the war on their side in response to an alleged but faked Dominion plan of assaulting the Empire that Sisko and Garak created. With the three main Alpha Quadrant forces fighting against them the Dominion was forced back, with the Alliance even seizing the Cardassian planet of Chin'toka.
Late in the war, the mysterious race known as the Breen joined forces with the Dominion, and launched a devastating attack against Starfleet Headquarters on Earth (DS9, "The Changing Face of Evil"). The Breen are a fictional extraterrestrial species in the Star Trek Science fiction franchise This article describes the Starfleet organization in the Star Trek universe for other uses see Starfleet (disambiguation In the Fictional universe " The Changing Face of Evil " is an episode from the seventh season of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Even more disheartening was their use of a unique energy draining device that drained their enemies' entire energy supply, leaving them defenseless. Originally, only Klingon ships were immune to the effects of the Breen weapon. Late in the war, Kira, acting with the Cardassian Rebellion, stole a Breen weapon and delivered it to the alliance for reverse engineering.
A Cardassian rebellion against Dominion rule formed shortly thereafter under the leadership of Legate Damar, Dukat's successor. Damar was a recurring character in the Science fiction television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine, played by Casey Biggs. His most successful attack, which disabled the planetary power grid on Cardassia, was met with brutal Dominion reprisal in the annihilation of a Cardassian city and all its inhabitants. When word of that atrocity reached the Dominion fleet, in the middle of a fierce battle with Allied forces, the Cardassian ships switched sides and aided the Allied fleet. Dominion ships retreated to Cardassia and, on the Founder's orders, launched a genocidal assault on the Cardassian people, ultimately killing over 800 million Cardassians in a matter of hours. Odo was able to convince the Founder to surrender, thus sparing the Allies crippling losses and preventing the entire Cardassian race from being exterminated. (DS9, "What You Leave Behind")
The Founders themselves were nearly wiped out by a plague, which was revealed to be a biological weapon engineered by agents of the clandestine Federation agency Section 31, who deliberately infected Odo with it, in the expectation that he would pass it through the Great Link. What You Leave Behind is the Series finale of the television show Star Trek Deep Space Nine. In the Star Trek Fictional universe, Section 31 is the name of an unofficial intelligence and defense organization Odo, played by René Auberjonois, is a main character on the science fiction television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Changelings are an alien race from the Star Trek universe Members of this race have the unique ability to Shapeshift. After the end of hostilities, the Founders were cured when Odo shared the cure with the Female Shapeshifter. The Female Changeling (also known as the Founder Leader in spin-off texts no actual name for her is ever given played by Salome Jens, is a Fictional character Odo went home with all of the Founders and joined the Great Link in order to teach his people about the Solids and hopefully cure their xenophobia. Changelings are an alien race from the Star Trek universe Members of this race have the unique ability to Shapeshift. Xenophobia is an intense and/or irrational dislike and sometimes fear of people from other countries
After the War
The state of the Dominion as a political entity at the conclusion of the war has never been discussed in Star Trek canon. This article is not about Literary canons of influential works of fiction but about the concept of a canon which defines the world of a particular fictional series The terms of the final treaty ending the war were never shown. At the conclusion of the war it is assumed that the Dominion still held vast territories in the Gamma Quadrant.
External links
- Dominion article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
- The Dominion Arc Full synopses for Dominion related episodes of DS9 at The Great Link website. Memory Alpha (often abbreviated to MA) is a Wiki that is an encyclopedic reference for topics related to the Star Trek fictional universe A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content using a simplified Markup language.
- Dominion Ships: Images, info, specifications. (Spanish only. )
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