Captain Benjamin Sisko
Benjamin Sisko grew up in New Orleans as a small child with his father and stepmother. It had been while Ben was still very young that his real mother, Sarah, had left his father. Ben grew up believing his stepmother was actually his mother. His father was a well-known Chef and so Ben spent a great deal of time in his father's restaurant. When he was old enough, Ben applied for Starfleet Academy in San Francisco. After four years he started his career and quickly shot through the ranks.
It was while Benjamin was a Commander aboard the USS Saratoga that the ship was destroyed at the Borg attack at Wolf 359. (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds") Included in the casualties was his wife, Jennifer. Benjamin was left to raise his son, Jake, by himself.
For three years he was assigned to work at Utopia Planitia shipyards on Mars to help rebuild the portions of the fleet that were lost. During this time, he helped do secret work on the Defiant class starship. It's main purpose was to be an anti-Borg defense vessel. He was reassigned to commanding officer of Deep Space Nine when the Cardassians pulled out of their occupation of Bajor.
Ben was not eager to accept the position, and was quickly surprised when he made first contact with a group of aliens living inside a nearby wormhole known to the Bajorans as the 'Prophets.' For being able to speak directly to them, he became a religious figure to the Bajorans, known as The Emissary.
Colonel Kira Nerys
Colonel Kira was once a member of the Bajoran underground while Bajor was still under oppressive occupation by the Cardassians. She led many revolts against them and was responsible for countless atrocities. Her hate for Cardassians has always been strong.
Upon the retreat of the Cardassians from their occupation of Bajor, a new provisional government was established on Bajor to replace the rule of the Cardassians. At that time a Major, the Colonel was sent was sent to the former Cardassian ore-processing station Deep Space Nine, now officially a Federation station. Under direct orders, she was assigned to act as adviser and first officer to the Starfleet commander, Commander Benjamin Sisko.
In the beginning she did not trust the Commander, afraid they too would do to Bajor as the Cardassians did. She was also angry for displaced from Bajor, knowing that her hate for the new Bajoran government might have been cause for assignment.
Lieutenant Commander Worf
Worf, the son of Mogh, was born on the Klingon homeworld, Qo'nos. When he was still very young, both of his parents were killed in a Romulan attack on the Khitomer Outpost. Due to the recent formation of the Federation/Klingon alliance, a Federation rescue party found Worf. Sergey and Helena Rozhenko adopted Worf as their son. He grew up happily on Earth with his foster parents and decided, finally, to apply to Starfleet Academy.
Once out of the Academy, Worf became the flight control officer onboard the USS Enterprise and was promoted to Chief Security Officer when Lieutenant Tasha Yar was killed on an away mission by an alien being. He served for 6 more years on the Enterprise. In that time Worf met his own son, Alexander. Worf had had a brief relationship with Alexander's mother, a half-klingon, half-human Federation ambassador. Worf attempted to raise Alexander on his own but instead sent him to Earth to live with Worf's foster parents.
Several years later, Worf was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and reassigned to Deep Space Nine to serve in a command position. When not Captained by Ben Sisko, Worf is usually in charge of the Defiant on most missions. Since then, he has served admirably for Captain Sisko. He had a brief marriage as well, to Jadzia Dax before she was horribly killed. After the end of the Dominion War, he was reassigned again to work alongside General Martok on Qo'nos.
Odo
The shapeshifter Odo was found adrift by himself in the Denorious Belt in 2356. He was taken back to the then Cardassian-occupied Bajor for Dr. Mora Pol of the Bajoran Institute for Science to research. For quite some time it was unknown what Odo was. It took months of analysis before it was even determined that Odo, who at the time was simply a puddle, was even a lifeform. As time continued he slowly began to harness his shapeshifting abilities and developed thought and communication. He was given the name Odo, which is a root for the Cardassian word for "nothing" because for a time it was unknown if Odo was even a thing.
After being purposefully embarassed in 2363 when Dr. Mora forced Odo to mock the Cardassian neck ridges, Odo left and became for a time a Bajoran deputy. Gul Dukat offered him the chance to solve a mystery onboard the ore-processing station Terok Nor. It was years later that he discovered Colonel Kira was behind the mystery, a murder of a Cardassian official. Odo remained on the station as security officer, although not trusted by the Cardassians.
When the Federation gained the station Odo was very uncomfortable. For a time he had difficulty seeing eye-to-eye with Captain Benjamin Sisko. On several occassions he threatened resignation after down right suspicious Starfleet actions. In his time on the station, Odo discovered that his true home was within the Great Link in the Gamma Quadrant. After the Dominion War he chose to return to his home to live with others of his kind.
Chief Miles O'Brien
Miles O'Brien grew up on Earth in Ireland. During his early life he proved to be a wiz at all things mechanical, and so joined the Academy, taking advanced engineering. Once out of the Academy he served aboard the USS Rutledge under Captain Benjamin Maxwell. It was after the Setlik III massacre that O'Brien was transfered to the USS Enterprise.
Onboard the Enterprise he started as bridge conn officer before being promoted to Chief Transportor Specialist. It was on this assignment that he met biologist Keiko Ishikawa. They married after several years and had a daughter, Molly. He was then transfered to Deep Space Nine where he has served the last seven years as Chief Operations Officer.
Doctor Julian Bashir
Julian Bashir grew up unsure of his true want in life, but when he was ten his family was living on Invernia II when a massive ionic storm killed a native girl of about the age of Julian. He felt a need to study medicine from that point. Through this devotion he was forced to fight a fear of doctors after his parents had had him genetically enhanced several years earlier, a practice which is outlawed in the Federation. He also considered a tennis career for a short time, but these plans fizzled very quickly.
Julian chose a life in Starfleet over a position as Chief of Surgery in Paris. He also gave up a relationship with the ballerina Palis Delon. His academy medical school years were very active, having been a star on the Academy Medical School Racquetball team. His senior year the team won the championship. Julian himself contributed to the victory, beating a Vulcan on the other team.
Julian finished second in his class after a small messup on a trick question placed on his final exam. Despite the slip up, Julian was a bit unhappy with being second, but was still able to recieve the position he was hoping for, a chance to practice medicine on the frontier. Julian was assigned to Deep Space Nine as Chief Medical Officer right outof the Academy.
Lieutenant Ezri Dax
Ezri grew up on the planet New Sydney. Her family owned a large mining corporation. Ezri left her home and decided to become a part of Starfleet, a move which disgusted most of her family. She choose the path of a counsellor and graduated the Academy, but early on in her career, after Jadzia Dax was killed, she was the only Trill near enough to be joined with the Dax symbiont when the symbiont took a turn for the worse out of a host. She suddenly found herself joined with a symbiont over 300 years old.
Ezri never recieved the training or even expected to one day be joined with a symbiont. The program to become a joined Trill involves constant and tiring training. Ezri was unable to cope with the flood of memories that were entirely not hers. Despite this, she chose to make a decision that went against everything Trill symbiont training said, simply because she had not undergone Trill symbiont training, she elected to remain on DS9, in the same place of a former host.
Ensign Nog
Nog moved with his father, Rom, to DS9 in 2369 when his father went bankrupt. He lived with his uncle, Quark. Nog was captured by Odo after stealing from the assay office on Deep Space 9's Promenade. Nog became friends with Jake Sisko. Neither father of the boys especially enjoyed the boys relationship, both feeling they were bad influences on the other.
When Nog's father, Rom, chose not to allow Nog to attend school with the other children, Jake taught Nog how to read. An act which nearly got Jake in trouble before his father discovered that Jake was teaching Nog. When Nog was old enough, he underwent the Ferengi Attainment Ceremony, asking Benjamin Sisko to be his role model.
To the amazement of all following the ceremony, he again asked Captain Sisko to recommend him for entrance into Starfleet Academy, which in doing so made him the first Ferengi in Starfleet. He studied agresssively for the entrance exams, much to the argument of his uncle, Quark.
After several years at the Academy Nog was moved to the advancement program, placing him back on the station as troubles with the Dominion began building. When war struck, he continued to serve, and just prior to the retaking of DS9 in 2373, was promoted to Ensign.
Quark
Quark grew up on Ferenginar in his early years with his brother Rom. Like all Ferengi he moved into business as soon as he became old enough. Despite the urges of his father, Keldar, Quark left home to begin his own life.
Upon the discovery of the Bajoran Wormhole after the Federation seizure of Terok Nor, Quark became a prominent Ferengi, taking advantage of the many new aliens from the Gamma Quadrant to promote his business, Quark's Place. Quark's Place is a bar on DS9's promenade which sees many new aliens. He enjoys the thrill of gambling, loving to put a Ferengi's goal in life, profits, on the line. He owns several Dabo games which are very popular amoung his visitors. Another favourite are the stations only holosuites, giving Quark a monopoly on the stations pleasure holo-emitters.
When Quark had reached the age allowing him to leave home, he became an apprentice to a Ferengi Sub-Nagus. His road to the fast-paced life quickly fizzled out when he slept with the Sub-Nagus' sister, quickly pushing him out of the life that had just been within his reach. His life moved to a Ferengi freighter, a dismal service which lasted eight years as the ship's cook.
By the 2360's he had started up his own bar/restaurant on the Cardassian ore-processing station Terok Nor. He was involved in a string of black market activities almost from the beginning. The main focus was his secret selling of food to the Bajorans at slightly inflated prices. The leader of the station, Gul Dukat, for all the correct reasons suspected Quark was involved in something, as well as the security officer, Odo. But they were never able to prove it.
When the Cardassians left the station Quark considered leaving too. But after the arrival of the Federation Quark decided to keep the bar, which proved to be a wise move after the discovery of the wormhole.
Elim Garak
Elim Garak, the 'plain and simple tailor' of Deep Space Nine, is the only Cardassian still onboard the station. A former member of the Obsidian Order, Garak was responsible for many homicidal acts to exterminate criminals and protect Cardassia. When the Cardassians had abandoned the station, Garak had been left behind, exiled from his world. He had had many run-ins with several Cardassians. including Guls Toran and Dukat, who Garak was responsible for interefering in both of their lives.
Garak also had battered relations with has father, Tain after Garak betrayed him. An assassination attempt made by Tain in his rise to power on Garak failed, and Garak was the only person to survive who held information hurtful to Tain. Allying with the Romulan Tal Shiar, Tain leading his own Obsidian Order forces assaulted what was believed to be the Founder Homeworld in 2371.
In 2373, Garak was taken prisoner by Dominion forces and placed in a Dominion mining facility. It was there he discovered his father was still alive, but the two could not come to forgiveness and Tain died. When the Cardassians forged an alliance with the Dominion, Garak was not released like the other Cardassians, proving his exile was still in effect. He was still able to escape.
In 2375, when the Federation Alliance finally retook Cardassia, Garak stayed on the planet after Federation forces left, choosing to help in rebuilding the once powerful empire, now that his exile was finally over.
Jake Sisko
Jake's mother died when he was only 11 in the battle at Wolf 359. His father was able to rescue him only moments before the ship, the Saratoga, was destroyed. For three years he lived on Mars with his dad while he worked at the Utopia Planitia shipyards. Jake did not enjoy being plucked from Mars to move to the damaged Deep Space Nine. He quickly made a friendship with the young Ferengi Nog, spending most of his free time with him. In 2369 Nog and Jake both joined Keiko O'Brien's new school. There we few children permanately aboard the station and so they were grouped together into one class. It was thajnks to Jake that Nog learned how to read. When the school closed in 2371 Nog and Jake were the last two students.
To the surprise of absolutely everyone, Nog applied for Starfleet Academy. Jake was surprised as anyone, but their relationship was on the verge of splitting before Captain Sisko acknowledged he was wrong about the friendship between the two.
Jake chose not to follow in Nog's and his father's footsteps. Instead of applying for the Academy, he instead became a writer. Although dissappointed, Benjamin Sisko fully supported his son's decision. Keiko helped him to secure a scholarship with the Pennington School of new Zealand, but after a visit in 2371 never talked about the school again.
Jake spent much of his free time in one of Quark's holosuites playing the old Earth game Baseball. Being a master pitcher he has played against his father in many matches. With Nog he focused a large portion of his time to school, playing cards, and dom-jot. The two even built the Noh-Jay consortium after using extra Cardassian yamok sauce owned by Quark to buy a large supply of stem bolts, which the two then used to buy a very profitable plot of land on Bajor.
