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TYPE: WARSHIP

LAUNCHED: 24th C

CARDASSIAN LENGTH: 371.88 METERS

KELDON CLASS MAX SPEED: WARP 9.6

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SPECIFICATION
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OPERATED BY: THE CARDASSIAN UNION
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TYPE: WARSHIP

IN OPERATION: 2370s
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Final position
LENGTH: 371.88 METERS

CREW: 500 (APPROX.)

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 SHIP PROFILE

DATA FEED
The propulsion system on most Cardassian vessels
used gas diffusion matter-antimatter engines. On
Keldon-class ships, these engines could maintain
a standard cruising velocity of warp 6 and a top
speed of warp 9.6 for short periods.

ships that Starfleet had its disposal. The introduction

of the Keldon class was the Cardassian’s attempt
to redress the balance.
 The overall outline of the While the two classes were based on the same
Keldon class was similar in
spaceframe and were identical in length at 371.88
shape to the ancient Egyptian
ankh symbol. Like the Galor meters, the Keldon class featured additional
class on which it was based, areas on the top of the main body and around
the hull was a desert yellow the pincer-shaped tail. The extra structure built
color, while the main deflector
on the backbone of the ship meant it could hold
emitted a red glow and amber
lights were set into the leading approximately 200 more personnel, taking its total
edge of the ‘wing’ section. crew to around 500.

ADDED FIREPOWER
This super structure also featured a large spiral-

C
ardassian Keldon-class ships were an wave disruptor on top of it, which supplemented
improved version of the more common at least eight more disruptors found at various
Galor-class vessels. Although the two points around the hull. The Keldon class was
classes looked almost identical, the Keldon also equipped with one large aft disruptor wave
class was faster, more powerful and could cannon, and together these weapons provided
accommodate a larger crew. 360 degrees of coverage.
The Galor class had been in use at least as early The front ‘wings’ or blades housed the warp
as the 2340s when the Federation-Cardassian Wars drive coils and could power the Keldon class
began, while the first Keldon-class ships were not to a top speed of warp 9.6. This was faster than
seen in action until 2371. It had become clear the maximum speed of Galor-class ships of the
during the conflicts with the Federation that the early 2370s, although improvements in warp drive
Galor class was tactically no match for the finest technology soon saw the difference between the
top speed of the two classes become negligible.
Starfleet first became aware of the existence of

CARDASSIAN Keldon-class ships in 2371 during a fraught incident

KELDON CLASS
in which Thomas Riker hijacked the U.S.S. Defiant
NX-74205. Based on intelligence reports from
the Maquis, Tom Riker took the cloaked Defiant
into the heart of Cardassian territory to the Orias

The Keldon class was an updated variant of the Galor

 A Keldon-class ship came under attack when it confronted the
U.S.S. Defiant in the Orias System. Despite being the most powerful
type of ship in the Cardassian fleet, a single Keldon-class vessel
class that featured more weapons and faster engines. was no match for the Defiant and it was quickly disabled when it
was hit by a full spread of quantum torpedoes.

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 SHIP PROFILE KELDON CLASS OVERVIEW SHIP PROFILE

 A transporter accident  With the threat of the

resulted in a duplicate of Dominion becoming ever
Will Riker being created, more serious, Enabran
who became known as Tain took matters into his
Tom Riker. He stole the own hands. He amassed
Defiant and exposed a a fleet comprising of
base where Keldon-class Keldon-class ships and
ships were being built. Romulan Warbirds to
launch a preemptive
strike on the Founders’
 A fleet of Keldon-class
homeworld. He hoped to
ships and Romulan
wipe out the entire
Warbirds fired at the
species before they
Founders’ homeworld.
decided to attack the
They hoped to wipe out
Alpha Quadrant.
the Founders, but it soon
became clear that they
had been led into a trap.

 The Keldon class was system, where it was believed the Cardassians a truce was arrived at in which Tom agreed to Romulans. The cloaked fleet was able to make
almost indistinguishable were building a fleet of warships. surrender in return for the Defiant’s sensor logs on its way uncontested all the way to the Founders’ DATA FEED
from the older Galor
It transpired that the Maquis’ information was the secretive Obsidian Order’s base on Orias III, homeworld in the Omarion Nebula before The Obsidian Order, under
class. The most obvious
the direction of its former
way to tell them apart correct, or at least partially correct. A secret fleet something Gul Dukat was keen to learn about. decloaking and opening fire from orbit.
leader Enabran Tain [pictured],
was that the Keldon was being built, but it was not the Cardassian The joint fleet launched a massive
class featured an extra covertly assembled a fleet of
military who were responsible, but the Obsidian ATTACK ON THE FOUNDERS bombardment, and the first barrage destroyed Keldon-class ships on Orias III.
coffin-shaped structure
built on top of its Order – Cardassia’s intelligence agency. Later the same year, it became apparent just thirty percent of the planetary crust, but there was Tain’s plan was to use these
backbone. The other The Defiant engaged with two Keldon-class ships what the Obsidian Order were up to on Orias III. no reduction in lifeform readings. It was at this point vessels in conjunction with the
major difference was in which one Cardassian ship’s port nacelle was hit, They had continued unabated to built a fleet of that the fleet realized the Founders knew about Tal Shiar’s Warbirds to destroy
at the rear where an the Founders’ homeworld. The
while the other one was battered by a full spread Keldon-class ships, not in preparation to take on the attack and had deserted the planet.
additional structure attack failed largely due to a
was built below its of quantum torpedoes, which took its defense the Maquis, but to invade the Gamma Quadrant. As orders for the joint Cardassian-Romulan
Changeling infiltrator, who had
pincer-shaped tail. systems and main power off-line. The Defiant was They had formed an alliance with the Romulan fleet came in to retreat, 150 Jem’Hadar fighters taken the place of Tal Shiar
also hit, but its shields held firm. intelligence service, the Tal Shiar, to amass a joint emerged out of the nearby Omarion Nebula with officer Colonel Lovok, and
At this point, three more Keldon-class vessels fleet in order to destroy the Founders’ homeworld. weapons blazing. The joint fleet had walked into the entire fleet was destroyed.
appeared and it was evident that the Defiant There were dozens of Keldon-class ships in an ambush and the Jem’Hadar’s phased polaron This venture ultimately wiped
out the Obsidian Order and it
would soon be overwhelmed. Fortunately, before the invasion fleet and they were all fitted with weaponry destroyed the Keldon-class ships with
ceased to exist.
Tom Riker decided to go out in a blaze of glory, cloaking devices, presumably supplied by the relative ease, along with the Romulan Warbirds.

6 KELDON CLASS OVERVIEW 7

 SHIP PROFILE KELDON CLASS PLAN VIEWS

Navigational deflector

BATTLE OF THE OMARION NEBULA

Disruptor
The Obsidian Order were the internal security
police of the Cardassian Union and most of
the population greatly feared them. One thing
that did allow people to sleep a little easier
was that under the Cardassian constitution,
the Obsidian Order were prevented from
Main bridge
possessing any military hardware.
Despite this, Enabran Tain managed to
build a whole fleet of Keldon-class ships in
the Orias system without being stopped. He Cargo loading door
masterminded a plan along with the Romulan
Tal Shiar to destroy the Founders’ homeworld.
The Cardassian Central Command and the
Romulan Senate claimed not to have any
knowledge of his mission, even after Tom Riker
exposed the secret Cardassian ship-building
JOINT FLEET
base on Orias III. It seemed that the respective
The fleet that attacked the
Cardassian and Romulan governments were Founders’ homeworld
waiting to see if the rogue mission was a in 2371 consisted of
success or not before denouncing it. 15 Keldon-class ships
and five Romulan
The plan ended up being a complete failure Warbirds. All the ships
largely because the lead Tal Shiar officer, were manned by either
Colonel Lovok, had been replaced by a Cardassian or Romulan
combat veterans.
Changeling infiltrator. He was able to pass on
every aspect of the invasion to the Founders, Navigation light
who evacuated their homeworld and had a Dorsal sensor palette ONLY NAMED SHIP
huge fleet Jem’Hadar fighters ready to destroy Warp engine The only Keldon-class
ship that was named in
them. The venture wiped out the Obsidian
a STAR TREK episode
Order altogether, and Keldon-class vessels was the Koranak. It was
were never seen in operation again. destroyed, along with the
rest of the fleet, by the
Jem’Hadar at the battle
of the Omarion Nebula.
Spiral-wave disruptor Disruptor
Main bridge
SECRET LIFE
Enabran Tain was the
father of Elim Garak, a
former Obsidian Order spy
who worked as a tailor
on Deep Space 9. Tain
never publicly admitted
that Garak was his son.
Tain was believed killed
during the invasion of the
 The Keldon-class ships of the Obsidan Order and the Warbirds of Aft disruptor Founders’ homeworld,
the Tal Shiar became sitting ducks after a huge swarm of Jem’Hadar but he was actually
fighters overwhelmed them in orbit of the Founders’ homeworld. captured and detained at
Internment Camp 371.

Cargo loading door

8 KELDON CLASS PLAN VIEWS

 DESIGNING THE SHIP

KELDON CLASS

T
he Galor-class studio model was modified by but left it up to his design sense and craftsmanship
Tony Meininger at his workshop, Brazil- to carry out the changes. He seamlessly added
Fabrication & Design in Glendale, California to a fin under the forked tail at the rear, and a large
turn it into the Keldon class. Meininger was given module on top of the backbone of the ship. Both
some simple verbal instructions by the visual these elements were removable, so it could be
effects department as to what they were after, returned undamaged to its original state.

KELDON CLASS VS GALOR CLASS

COMPARISION
 Rick Sternbach used ancient Egyptian
architecture for inspiration when designing the
Galor class because the Cardassians were like the
pharaohs to the Bajoran slaves. Sternbach was
not involved in the creation of the Keldon class,
as this was left to model maker Tony Meininger.

GALOR CLASS

T
he original Galor-class ship was designed by other elements came from Egyptian culture, such
senior illustrator Rick Sternbach during the fourth as using tiny pyramids for the disruptors. The studio
season of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. The model was built by Ed Miarecki and Tom Hudson
inspiration for the design was based around the at their model shop called Science Fiction Model-
shape of the ancient Egyptian ankh, and many making Associates (SFMA) in just three weeks.

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 THE DOMINION ARC

“When you really think about the Romans, they u The writers started to
were better than a lot of the people around them, think about a worthy foe
for the Federation during
but they were pretty bad,” said Wolfe. “It was a
the latter stages of the
fascistic system, and they had no defined way of first season of DEEP
determining who their ruler was, except military SPACE NINE. They came
power. I would not want to live in the Roman up with the Dominion,
which was controlled by
Empire. It worked as a good model for us.”
the Founders, policed
by the Jem’Hadar and
PLAY IT BY EAR administered by the
Vorta. At first, they did
While a broad outline, with the Dominion as the
not know which species
main antagonists had been decided on, the nitty would be the Founders,
gritty of how it would be played out was really only but they decided that the
accomplished as the episodes were written. Jem’Hadar would be the
ultimate soldiers, who
“Everybody thought we had this great master
only cared about winning.
plan, but we were inventing it as we went along,”
said Ira Steven Behr. “It looked from the outside like
we always knew what we were going to do and
when we were going to get there. We never did,
we really were flying by the seat of our pants. We
had some plans, but the plans kept changing and
things kept coming up that forced us to
re-evaluate and re-focus our energies.”
The writers decided that the Founders would be

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE

the leaders of the Dominion, but at first they hadn’t
decided what kind of species they would be.
Instead, they concentrated on the Vorta and the

THE DOMINION ARC

Jem’Hadar. “The Vorta were the merchants,” said
Wolfe. “They had that telekinetic blast ability
[which we only ever saw in one episode, ‘The
Jem’Hadar’]. They were supposed to be kind
of sexy, and ingratiating, and a little oily.”
Even at this early stage, the writers determined
The Dominion War, and the lead up to it, was STAR TREK’s first truly that the Founders had genetically engineered
u The Vorta were
serialized storytelling, and it broke new ground for the franchise. both the Vorta and the Jem’Hadar. “I think, to the administrators,
a certain extent, the Vorta’s ability to pull the wool negotiators, politicians

S
p The Dominion War, TAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE in many ways serialization by introducing the Dominion – the over people’s eyes was due to a bit of genetic and scientists of the
which featured epic Dominion because the
was ahead of its time. It was darker and vast empire that controlled the Gamma Quadrant. engineering,” said Wolfe. “On the other hand it
space battles between Founders did not consider
grittier than previous incarnations of the “Politically the Dominion was modeled after the was training, but I thought if they did have any kind these matters worthy of
the Jem’Hadar and the
Cardassians against the franchise, and featured morally ambiguous Roman Empire,” said writer and producer Robert of psychic ability it was looking at someone and their attention. At least
Federation and its Allies, one Vorta, Eris, had
characters. Most of all, though, it introduced Hewitt Wolfe. “That was their policy: you can be knowing what they wanted, and what their
was the culmination of the ability to generate
a more serialized approach to storytelling, with an ally of the Roman Empire and keep your own motivations were. They could then turn around a powerful blast of
a story arc that had begun
five years earlier. The the Dominion arc at its heart. identity, but you pay us taxes and we protect you. and exploit those things.” telekinetic energy that
writers always knew that Executive producer and showrunner Ira Steven Or, if you don’t, we’ll send in the 10th Legion and Wolfe said that the writing staff wanted to could knock a humanoid
they ultimately wanted off his feet. The Vorta
Behr felt early on in the show’s run that standalone you’ll be a province of the Roman Empire.” address genetic engineering because they felt it
to feature a vast conflict and the Jem’Hadar were
episodes were not the way to go. He and the rest It may seem strange to link the Dominion with was something STAR TREK had largely ignored, and both subject to genetic
between major powers,
but they invented the story of the writers believed a new approach was a culture as impressive as ancient Rome. After all, added that it would be a very real problem for engineering, as it was an
of how they reached the needed to make it a success. the Romans gave us many things that are still in use humanity in the near future. “I think it’s an issue for issue the writers wanted
war as they went along. to explore.
By the end of Season One, the writers had today. But, as Wolfe pointed out, it’s easy to look at us as a species,” said Wolfe. “What does it mean to
already formulated a plan to experiment with the Romans through rose-colored spectacles. be human, and how much tweaking and fiddling

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 BEHIND THE SCENES THE DOMINION ARC

villains. As it turned out, they needn’t have worried. the shapeshifters good reasons for forming an
“We sat down with Michael and he said, ‘You know oppressive empire. “It made sense, because we’d
what? The Founders should be the shapeshifters,’” already set up that Odo’s people were oppressed,
explained Wolfe. “And we said, ‘That was pretty and that a lot of bad things had happened to
much what we intended, but we didn’t know them thousands of years ago,” said Wolfe. “It
whether you’d go for it.’ He said, ‘Yeah, of course, made sense to make them the puppet-masters of
they have to be.’ We thought we’d do that at the the Dominion, because they had the most logical
beginning of Season Four, but he said, ‘It’s too reasons for creating something like that.
good, you can’t wait that long. You’ve got to do “We always believed that the Dominion had
it right away.’ So that’s why we revealed it at the excellent reasons for doing the things they did, and
beginning of Season Three in ‘The Search, Part I.’” that they were, to a certain extent, sympathetic.
They believed that the universe was inherently a
NO ILLUSIONS horrible, chaotic place, and they really did think
Wolfe explained that there were several good that once they’d taken everything over it would all
reasons for making the shapeshifters the Founders; be worth it. They believed they were the heroes of
most significantly it would have an enormous the story, and the best villains always believed that
impact on one of their cast regulars. “The main they are the heroes.
motivation was because we knew it would really
p The Jem’Hadar were kept in check by their addiction to ketracel-white, which p The writers wanted to make the Changelings the leaders of the Dominion. This had be a good way to torture Odo, and we couldn’t SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION
was rationed to them by the Vorta. This was designed to ensure their loyalty. far reaching implications for Odo, who up until then had no idea where he was from.
resist that,” said Wolfe. “We loved to make our Because the writers knew that the Dominion were
characters go through hell. If Odo was going to going to play such an important role in the series,
with the original blueprints can we do and still Jem’Hadar were totally immune to the Vorta’s find his people, the first thing you’d think was that they made them as powerful as possible; their
maintain our humanity? I think that’s going to be charms, so, if the Vorta ever tried to take over, the they would be really wonderful and he’d be really technology was superior to the Federation’s, and
one of the biggest issues in the near future.” Jem’Hadar would kill them all,” said Wolfe. “And if happy. What if you started searching for your they had incredible resources. Wolfe said that in
The writers had no conception of what the Vorta the Jem’Hadar ever got out of hand, the Vorta long-lost father you’d never met before, and it their early discussions they didn’t bother to work
were like before the Founders altered their DNA. would cut off the supply of white and the turned out he was some Nazi war criminal?” out how Starfleet would ultimately defeat them,
“We didn’t know what the Vorta started out as,” Jem’Hadar would die. They were checks and The writers had dropped a few hints about Odo’s but they did build in a few weaknesses.
said Wolfe. “I think eventually we said they’d been balances against each other. I think we even said people before they made this decision. Wolfe said “What we said at one point, and I don’t know if
squirrels! The Vorta weren’t even sentient before that there had been several Jem’Hadar rebellions although they hadn’t planned it they had given it ever got onto the air, was that the Dominion had
the Founders got a hold of them, which I thought in the history of the Dominion, and they had all
was pretty funny.” been put down. It was pretty close to what
actually made it to the screen.”
BODY ARMOR
Originally, the version of the Jem’Hadar that DOMINION LEADERS
the writers conceived was quite different to the A significant change to the writers’ plans
lizard-skinned creatures we saw on screen. “What happened when they decided who the Founders
I actually envisaged were creatures that would should be. “We thought, ‘This is going to be a
wear no clothing, because they would have armor mystery and we’ll figure out who they are at some
plating over their entire bodies,” said Wolfe. “It was point down the road,’” said Wolfe. “But I think after
organic armor plating that would actually absorb a couple of weeks of talking about it we pretty
or reflect phaser fire, because it had some kind of much landed on the fact that the Founders had to
internal crystalline structure. If they wanted to have be the shapeshifters. It just worked so nicely that
a holster or something like that they would just Odo was the lost prince and potentially could be
weld it on to their bodies.” the leader of this entire evil empire.”
Giving the Vorta control of the ketracel-white The writing staff weren’t sure whether they would
was part of a plan to give the Dominion an internal be able to sell this idea to their boss, Michael Piller.
structure that would prevent anyone from He had played a major role in creating Odo and
overthrowing the Founders. “The idea was that establishing his backstory, and they thought he p At first Odo was delighted to find others like him, and although he was torn, he p The writers really made Odo suffer, particularly when they had him become the first
the structure was set up in such a way that the might object to the idea that Odo’s people were ultimately rejected his people because of their fascistic beliefs towards ‘solids.’ Changeling to harm another when he killed a shapeshifter in ‘The Adversary.’

14 THE DOMINION ARC 15

 BEHIND THE SCENES THE DOMINION ARC

u War with the

Federation looked  The Dominion War
inevitable when scores eventually broke out at
of Dominion ships the end of the fifth season
emerged from the Bajoran in ‘Call to Arms.’ The war
wormhole into the Alpha continued over the final
Quadrant in the episode two seasons of DEEP
‘By Inferno's Light.’ The SPACE NINE in which the
same episode also had Cardassians fought
Gul Dukat announcing alongside the Dominion.
that Cardassia had joined The writers made sure
the Dominion. that they addressed the
true tragic cost of war,
something that had not
really been done on
STAR TREK before.

u Colonel Lovek of always figured with the Dominion is that they only episode ‘The Ship’ was a conscious effort to Later, the writers decided that the Cardassians
the Romulan Tal Shiar fought to win, and they would plan these things address it. The whole notion of war – what it means should join the Dominion as they wanted to show
had been replaced by a
out a long, long time in advance.” and the price of it – was something we always what happened to a species that the viewers were
Changeling imposter. He
was able to forewarn the wanted to resonate in our series. Too often there’s familiar with when they joined this dysfunctional
Founders of an invasion CHANGELING INFILTRATOR an element of how cool war is, especially, when it family. “We thought the Cardassians should join the
orchestrated by Enabran It was also established in ‘Heart of Stone’ that the features fighting starships and it’s kind of exciting. Dominion, and then we’d see what it was like to
Tain of the Obsidian
Founders could assume a convincing humanoid be a member of the Dominion from the inside,”
Order. The Jem’Hadar
destroyed the Cardassian- form and this set up an element of paranoia COST OF WAR said Wolfe. “We’d have characters we knew being
Romulan fleet, and the among the Alpha Quadrant races. This had far “That episode was the first time where the captain part of the Dominion, and that would be a cool
Dominion felt that they reaching ramifications in ‘The Die is Cast’ when of a starship reflects on the cost of all this,” way to show the cost of this fascistic structure.”
now only had to worry
about the Federation and
a Founder posed as Colonel Lovok, a member of continued Beimler. “Captain Kirk would lose red
the Klingons. the Romulan Tal Shiar. He was able to forewarn the shirts left and right every time he beamed down to FUNDAMENTAL MESSAGE
Founders of an impending invasion by a joint a planet. We’d never really addressed that issue And in the end it was the Cardassian rebellion that
Obsidian Order/Tal Shiar fleet. The Jem’Hadar were before. This was the time. Sisko’s speech at the end forced the Dominion to abandon its assault on the
ready for them, and completely wiped them out. where he actually contemplates the cost of this Alpha Quadrant, which as Wolfe pointed out
Following this, Lovok said, “After today, the only war was an important element.” reinforced STAR TREK’s central message that, in
been planning to go to war with the Federation for real threat to us from the Alpha Quadrant are the order to prosper, a society must respect
100 years, and they were slowly preparing,” said Klingons and the Federation. And I doubt that individuality and cultural diversity. “The Founders
 When the
Wolfe. “They were expecting to meet the either of them will be a threat for much longer.” may have meant well, and they may have Cardassians joined the
Federation’s borders in 200 years, but Sisko going This comment led the writers to amp up the danger calculated that, by creating the Dominion and Dominion, we got to
through the wormhole blew all their plans out of from the Founders by having them manipulate fighting all these wars, ultimately they may save see the effect it had on
Gul Dukat. At first, he
the water, and they had to fight the Federation a war between the Klingons and the Federation trillions of lives once they got the whole Galaxy
believed it would
200 years before they were ready. in the fourth season. under their heel and everyone was behaving benefit him and his
“That was why they were pushing so hard to get Ultimately, this led all led to war with the exactly the way they are supposed to. But the people, but it soon
everyone to leave; they were trying to get the Dominion, something writer and producer Hans became apparent he
ends obviously didn’t justify the means, and that
had made a deal with
original timetable back. They were saying, ‘Go Beimler felt they had to tackle. “I was a big fan of was part of the message. If the means of the devil as he lost his
away and leave us alone, we don’t want you the war,” said Beimler. “I felt it gave us a context. government were oppression, it didn’t matter what power, his position and
here.’ But their real motivation was ‘Go away and I thought it allowed us to tell certain stories that your intentions were; eventually the people who his sanity..
leave us alone for 200 years, and then we’ll be hadn’t really been done in the STAR TREK universe. were oppressed wouldn’t be happy, and the
able to kick your asses.’ One of the things we We knew the war was coming. I think that the oppressors wouldn’t be happy either.”

16 THE DOMINION ARC

 APPEARANCES ROMULAN
KELDON WARBIRD
CLASS
NCC-1701-D
COMING IN ISSUE 137
ON SCREEN TRIVIA XINDI-PRIMATE
STARSHIP
Korinas, the operative from the Obsidian
Order in the STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
episode ‘Defiant,’ was played by Tricia
O’Neil. Her most notable STAR TREK role
was as Captain Rachel Garrett [pictured
below], who commanded the U.S.S.
Enterprise NCC-1701-C in THE NEXT
EVERY
Inside your magazine
GENERATION episode ‘Yesterday’s
TWO WEEKS In-depth profile of the Xindi-Primate
Enterprise.’ O’Neil also played the Klingon AT YOUR
scientist Kurak in THE NEXT GENERATION RETAILER Starship, a 22nd-century cruiser that
episode ‘Suspicions.’ was used by the primate subset
species of the Xindi race

Illustrator John Eaves discusses his

design of the Xindi-Primate Starship

The writers and producers of STAR TREK:

ENTERPRISE look back on the third
season and talk about the Xindi

The DEEP SPACE NINE episode ‘The Die is

FIRST APPEARANCE:

TV APPEARANCE:
‘DEFIANT’ (DS9)

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE

Cast’ featured the largest on-screen ship
battle in STAR TREK history up to that point.
Motion control photography and studio
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