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of Honor, a warrior is expected to prepare by eating from the station. The costly operation was made possible by direct intervenheart of a sanctified targ before drinking mot'loch from a Grail of tion by the Prophets, who destroyed a large number of Dominion Kahless. Next, the warrior must proclaim his or her battles during ~~ vessels in the wormhole. (“Sacrifice of Angels” [DS9)). Following the past year before enduring such tests as the Ritual of Twenty the end of the Dominion war in 2375, Colonel Kira Nerys assumed Painstiks, combat with a bat’leth master, or a traverse of thesul- command of the station, succeeding Starfleet officer Benjamin fur lagoons of Gorath. B'Elanna Torres reluctantly agreed to Sisko, who had left the linear realm to walk among the Bajoran observe the Day of Honor in 2374 in a holodeck re-creation of the ~~ Prophets. (“What You Leave Behind” [DS9]). Caves of Kahless, but she was unprepared for the demanding nature of the tests. (“Day of Honor" [VGR]). SEE: rokeg blood pie. “Deep Space Nine.” Unpublished science-fiction novella written in 1953 by Earth novelist Benny Russell. “Deep Space Nine” “Day of Honor." Voyager episode #72, Written by Jeri Taylor. was the first in a series of compelling stories of a man named Directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino. No stardate given. Firstaired Benjamin Sisko, who commanded an alien space station on the in 1997. Torres reluctantly observes the Klingon Day of Honor hol- edge of the final frontier. Science-fiction aficionado Darlene iday and later finds herself floating stranded in deep space with ~~ Kursky thought “Deep Space Nine" was the finest story she had Torn Paris, waiting to die when their environmental suits runoutof read since Robert Heinlein's The Puppet Masters. oxygen. In this episode B’Elanna Torres admits that she loves Unfortunately, Russell's publishers feared the fact that the story Tom Paris. GUEST CAST. Alexander Enberg as Vorik; Alan featured a black man as its hero would make it unacceptable to Altshuld as Lumas; Michael A. Krawic as Rahmin; Kevin P. mid-20th-century readers, so the story remained unpublished. Stillwell as Moklor. SEE: Borg; Caatati; Caves of Kahless; (“Far Beyond the Stars” [DS9)). Fortunately, Paramount Pictures Cochrane, Shuttlecraft; Day of Honor; environmental suit; had no such reservations in producing a television series with the Gorath; Grail of Kahless; holodeck and holosuite programs: same title. Day of Honor; Lumas; matter/antimatter reaction chamber; Moklor; mot'loch; Nicoletti, Susan; painstik, Klingon; Paris, defender. Soldier in the Vori military in their war against the Thomas; Rahmin; Ritual of Twenty Painstiks; rokeg blood pie; Kradin. (“Nemesis" [VGR]). security access code; space walk; Starfleet Academy; targ; thorium; Torres, B'Elanna; transwarp. Defiant, U.S.S.* Federation starship assigned to starbase Deep Space 9. The U.S.S. Defiant had a class-7 warp drive pe de Neuf, Mademoiselle. (Jeri Ryan). (“One Little Ship" [DS9]), which was exceptionally powerful. % Persona Imposed upon Seven of Nine while Because of this, it could ionize nebular gases. This rendered the wv under Hirogen neural interface control inthe ship detectable in the Badlands, even when under cloak. | « French Resistance holodeck program. (“Blaze of Glory” [DS9]). In 2373, the crew of the Defiant numMademoiselle de Neuf was a beautiful singer bered about 50 people. The Defiant encountered a temporal 5 in a French tavern who was also amember of anomaly at planet Gaia, creating an alternate timeline in which the underground, fighting against the Nazi the ship was destroyed 200 years in the past, stranding the occupation of her homeland. de Neuf enter- crew in the Gamma Quadrant. Although the timeline was tained audiences at Le Coeur de Lion with excised, members of the Defiant crew did retain memory of the ~ such period songs as “It Can't Be Wrong," incident. (“Children of Time" [DS9]). The Defiant was destroyed o “Moonlight Becomes You,” and “That Old by Breen forces in late 2375, just before the final battles of the . Black Magic.” (“The Killing Game, Parts land Dominion war. (“The Changing Face of Evil" [DS9]). Several oe I" [VGRY]). Mademoiselle de Neuf translates weeks later, when the Defiant-class U.S.S. Sao Paulo was - as “Lady of Nine.” assigned as a replacement to Deep Space 9, Admiral Ross granted special dispensation to Captain Benjamin Sisko to decibel. Unit of measure for comparing sound intensity, One- rename the new ship U.S.S. Defiant. (“The Dogs of War" [DS9)) tenth of a bel. Abbreviated dB. Sound above 140 dB can cause The new Defiant played a pivotal role in the final battle of the pain In the human ear. (“Blaze of Glory” [DS9]), Dominion war. (“What You Leave Behind" [DS9)]).

Decker. Engineer assigned to Deep Space 9 in 2373. (“In the Degora Street. Thoroughfare located in the industrial district on Cards" [DS9)). planet Farius Prime. (“Honor Among Thieves” (DS9]).

Decos Prime. Planet. In 2375, Decos Prime was the site of a — Dejaren. (Leland Orser). A holographic Federation base. (“Treachery, Faith, and the Great River" [DS9]). technician aboard a Serosian starship. Dell Designated as an HD-25 isomorphic Deep Space 9.* Space station formerly known as Terok Nor. Deep \ projection, Dejaren was assigned to perSpace 9 was constructed in 2346. (“Wrongs Darker Than Death or — - i form hazardous tasks such as cleaning Night" [DS9)). The earlier editions of this encyclopedia (as well as \ = the reactor core and ejecting antimatter the Star Trek Chronology) gave the date for the station's construc- Y [4 waste. Over time Dejaren began to expetion as 2351, as inferred from “Babel” (DS9), but “Wrongs Darker rience a serious malfunction of his perThan Death or Night" (DS9) clearly established the date as 2346. sonality subroutines. He began to hate organic life-forms, The station operated on a 26-hour-day cycle. (“Ties of Blood and becoming violently deranged. Around stardate 51186 he killed Water” [DS9)). Late in 2373, the station once again became afocus the vessel's six crew members. After experiencing problems in of the escalating conflict with the Dominion. Benjamin Sisko, fear- his holographic projection systems, he sent a distress call. U.S.S. ful that the Dominion was about to send a massive invasion fleetto Voyager personnel Torres and the Doctor responded to the call, the Alpha Quadrant, ordered the Bajoran wormhole to be blockad- but were forced to destroy Dejaren when he attacked both ed with thousands of self-replicating mines. Shortly thereafter, Voyager crew members. (*Revulsion” [VGRY). Leland Orser previthe Bajoran Chamber of Ministers, acting on advice from Sisko (as ously played Gai in “Sanctuary” (DS9) and Colonel Lovok in “The the Emissary to the Prophets), voted to sign a nonaggression pact Die is Cast” (DSS). with the Dominion. This forced the Bajoran government to expel all Starfleet personnel from Deep Space 9 and to turn the station to Dell. Starfleet crew member assigned to the U.S.S. Voyager. In Dominion and Cardassian control. (“Call to Arms" [DS9]). The 2374, when Captain Janeway enlisted the ship's crew to help occupying forces focused on disabling the minefield so that carry out the Omega Directive, Dell was assigned the task of Dominion reinforcements could be sent to the Alpha Quadrant recalibrating the ionic pressure seals of a harmonic resonance through the Bajoran wormhole. The minefield remained active long chamber. For the project, Seven of Nine designated Dell as enough for a Starfleet task force, commanded by Captain “Three of Ten." (“The Omega Directive” [VGR]) Benjamin Sisko, to break through Dominion lines and retake the