( DS9: " Emissary") The Enterprise returned to DS9 several weeks later to help repair the Bajoran aqueduct systems that had been damaged during the Occupation. The Enterprise also offloaded three runabouts and after that, departed for the Lapolis system. The USS Enterprise-D was the first Starfleet ship to dock at the station in 2369, when it transported the majority of the station's Starfleet crew to take up their posts. Over time, several starships docked at the station for various reasons. The station quickly became an important facility for Starfleet. In particular, Sisko convinced Quark, owner of Quark's Bar, Grill, Gaming House and Holosuite Arcade, the largest establishment on the Promenade, to maintain his business on-station as an example for others, as well as to become a community leader and eventually chairman of the Promenade Merchants' Association. Because almost all of the shops were owned by non-Bajorans, Sisko hoped to convince many of them to stay to help build a trade network through Bajoran space. The Cardassians had allowed a small number of businesses and entertainment facilities to operate in the central, multi-level market area called the Promenade. ( DS9: " Emissary", " Homefront")Īs station commander, one of the most important facets of the station Sisko sought to develop was commerce.
The station was renamed "Deep Space 9", and Benjamin Sisko was appointed as commander, at Admiral Leyton's recommendation. A representative of the Bajoran Militia would serve as the station's first officer and as liaison to the Bajoran government. A complex arrangement was established in which a Starfleet officer would have overall authority in running the station, while the station remained sovereign Bajoran territory. The USS Voyager docked at Deep Space 9 in 2371įollowing the Cardassian withdrawal, the Bajoran Provisional Government petitioned for Federation membership, and also for Starfleet assistance in repairing and maintaining Terok Nor. The USS Enterprise-D at Deep Space 9 in 2369 In the non-canon Millennium book series, however, it is revealed that the self-destruct system was actually shut down by Garak, who had recently returned from a brief trip six years into the future where he had been given a memory node containing Dukat's command codes, which he used to shut the self-destruct down before erasing his memory of that future. Before departing, however, Cardassian soldiers rampaged across the station, removing or destroying a large portion of the station's equipment and killing several shop owners.
Unable to move the station across interstellar distances, they left the outpost in its high orbit. In 2369, the Cardassians decided to withdraw from Bajor after fifty years of occupation. Odo, a shapeshifter discovered on a derelict ship near Bajor some years before, had ties to both the Cardassians and the Bajorans on the station. In 2365, Dukat took the unusual step of appointing a non-Cardassian as the chief of security aboard Terok Nor.
( DS9: " A Man Alone", " Ties of Blood and Water") ( DS9: " Civil Defense") Like the planet it orbited, the station operated on a twenty-six hour day. In one of his recorded messages for the counter-insurgency program installed on the station, Dukat described Terok Nor as being "a paradise" compared to Bajor. The station also served as a command post from which the Cardassian Prefect of Bajor, most notably Gul Dukat, oversaw the military aspects of the Occupation. ( DS9: " Sanctuary", " Civil Defense", " Things Past")Ī briefing on the construction history of Deep Space 9 in Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 15, pp. 31-31, suggests it was built over the course of 2.7 years starting in 2351, from the core out, primarily of materials found in the Bajoran system along with some metals mined from the asteroids in the Cardassian system. ( DS9: " Babel", " Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night", " Civil Defense") Therefore, Terok Nor had extensive ore refining and transport facilities that occupied the large docking pylon structures and was built to accommodate up to seven thousand humanoid-sized people as well as process up to twenty thousand tons of ore a day.
( DS9: " Cardassians", " A Time to Stand", " Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night") Constructed between 23, its original purpose was to serve as a refinery for uridium ore that was mined from Bajor's surface, a process carried out in temperatures as high as 55 ° Celsius. Terok Nor was the station's original Cardassian designation.
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