Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (S07E19): Strange Bedfellows Summary

Strange Bedfellows Summary

A generous offer has been made by the Dominion to the Breen Confederacy. With a new alliance about to be created, the Dominion's leaders, the Founders, are confident that the new treaty between the two great empires will bring an end to the Federation once and for all. However, Legate Damar is not very happy with the arrangement. While he is the leader of Cardassia, his rank is merely ceremonial. The Dominion really controls the Cardassian Union, and Damar cannot see anything good about this new treaty.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Show Summary

When the Cardassian occupation of Bajor ended in 2369, the mining space station Terok Nor was left abandoned, its systems ripped out. By invitation of the Bajoran provisional government, Starfleet stepped in to oversee the rebuilding and day-to-day operations of the newly christened Deep Space Nine.

The years of Starfleet's nonintervention into Cardassian matters, however, had taken its toll on relations with the Bajorans. Consequently, Starfleet's position was a tenuous one; many Bajorans, suspicious and hostile as a result of decades of Cardassian oppression and brutality, did not greet the Federation's presence with open arms. The Federation's assistance is put to the test as DS9 becomes a center of travel and commerce that stretches into the Gamma Quadrant.