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| In the fictional ] universe, the '''Dominion''' is a ] state, consisting of many different races. They are commanded by ], who are ]s. The main fighting force of the Dominion are the ], genetically engineered super-soldiers who require no sleep or food, but who are kept bound to their Dominion masters by an addiction to the drug ]. The ] act as administrators and liasons to other races. The ] are the designated navigators and trackers of the Dominion; another race, the ], are bred to be continually tracked and hunted all their lives as practice for the Hunters (the Tosk are apparently engineered from the same original species as are the ]). The Dominion waged ] on the ] and its allies in the 24th century. | |||
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| ==First Contact and the Growth of Hostilities== | |||
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| The Dominion was unknown to the ] powers until the discovery of the Bajoran wormhole in 2369, which facilitated exploration of the Gamma Quadrant. In 2370 Jem'Hadar troops annihilated a Bajoran colony in the Gamma Quadrant and captured Commander ] of the space station ]. The lead Federation rescue ship, USS ''Odyssey'', was destroyed by a kamikaze attack, as the Dominion demanded that Federation explorers stay out of their end of the galaxy. (DS9, "The Jem'Hadar") | |||
| A Federation mission the next year to find and make peace with the Founders ended disastrously. Founders began infiltrating the Alpha Quadrant, even wreaking havoc on ] itself. The quadrant was plunged into conflict when the ] accused the ] of being under the control of the Founders. When the Federation comdemned the Klingons attack on Cardassia, Gowron abolished Federation citizens from Klingon space, recalled their ambassadors and withdrew from the Khitomer accords. The Federation and Cardassians fought months of armed combat against the Klingons. It was later revealed that it was the Klingons themselves who unknowingly had a Changeling in their midst. | |||
| ==The Dominion War (2373-2375)== | |||
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| The Dominion gained a foothold in the Alpha Quadrant when ] announced that the Cardassian Union was joining the Dominion in 2373. Open hostilities began a few months later when the Dominion attacked and occupied Deep Space Nine, at the mouth of the Bajoran wormhole, while Federation and Klingon allied forces invaded and destroyed a Dominion shipyard. The Allies suffered brutal losses for over four months, until Captain Sisko organized a task force to retake Deep Space Nine. A Dominion fleet intercepted the task force just outside of Bajoran space, but it was flanked in a spectacular battle, one of the largest in the Federation's history. After the major upset of the Allied victory at Bajor, along with the destruction of a force of 2800 Dominion ships due to the intervention of the wormhole aliens known as the Prophets of Bajor, the war ground on for over a year with neither side gaining a clear advantage. The ] Star Empire entered the war on the side of the Allies in 2374. | |||
| Late in the war, the mysterious race known as the ] joined forces with the Dominion, and launched a devastating attack against ] Headquarters on Earth. (DS9, "The Changing Face of Evil") | |||
| A Cardassian rebellion against Dominion rule formed shortly thereafter under the leadership of Legate Damar, Dukat's successor. The Dominion was finally defeated when, during a final Allied onslaught on Dominion forces in orbit around ], the Cardassian ships switched sides and aided the Allied fleet. The Dominion, before surrendering, launched a genocidal assault on the Cardassian people in retaliation, killing over 800 million Cardassians. (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 ], who deliberately infected ] with it, in the expectation that he would pass it through the ]. After the end of hostilities, the Founders were cured. | |||
| ==External links== | |||
| * at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek WikiWiki. | |||
| * Full synopses for Dominion related episodes of DS9 at The Great Link website. | |||
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