== Cardassian ==
An alien race physically charactorised by gray skin with black hair & ridges down their neck & shoulders & a spoon shaped structure on their fore heads. A very milliteristic race. Their legal system mimicks that of communist China where the accused is assumed guilty & the trial serves to show the defendants guilt rather then giving them a chance defend against the charges. This is used (as on Earth today in China) to reinforce the suprimacy of the state. Cardassian crime novels are found boring by most earth standards since everyone did it, the mystery is to figure how everyone is guilty. In this vein Cardassians Agatha Christie novels such as "Ten Little Indians" & "Murder on the Orient Express" where everyone in the story was involved in the murders.
- *Cardasians had their own secret police called the Obcidian Order which were used to intimidate the citizins of Cardassia into obedience & to harras, abuse & arrest any individual thought guilty (usually innocent) of criticising the state or it's policies. - *The Cardassians conquered & enslaved many worlds, most promanently Bajor. They built the Federation space station Deep Space Nine (which the Cardassians called Terak Nor) as a slave labor facility where Bajoran slaves processed or for Cardassian use
== Bajoran ==
A humanoid race physically charactorized by small ridges on their noses. Male Bajorans usually have their hair slicked back. During pregnancy, Bajoran women suffer from uncontrollable bouts of sneezing rather than morning sickness. Bajoran women gestate for five months, as opposed to the nine months of human women, due to high vascularization between the fetus and the mother. During childbirth they must be extremely relaxed, and they feel little or no pain during the process.
Bajorans are a very religious race (one of the few in Star Trek). Centering around the Orbs—objects of an alien origin believed to have been sent by the Prophets They believe the wormhole situated near their planet of Bajor is the home of their Gods whom they refer as the Prophets & that Cpt. Benjamin Sisko is their Emmissery. Their religion, centering around the Orbs—objects of an alien origin believed to have been sent by the Prophets ( called The Way of the Prophets) is orginized much like the Catholic church with a female leader called the Kai (similar to the Pope) at the head of their chruch who has a great deal of influence over the Bajoran Provisional Government but no real power.& Vedeks (Cardinal or Bishop often male), Mylar (priesr minister)& Prylar (Monk). Their also a Vedek Assembly (Like the College of Cardinals). They were once enslaved by the Cardassians & forced into labor camps like Terak Nor (now DS9) to process ore for Cardassian use. Many of them revolted & formed a revolutionary group to fight Cardassian oppression much like the French resistance during WWII, many of whom remain actively hostile to Cardassia.
Some well known Bajorans are Colonel Kyra Nerys, Ensign Ro Laren, Li Nalas,Tora Ziyal(half Cardassian),Kai Opaka Sulan & Kai Winn Adami
== Founder ==
A race of shape shifters located in a region of space known as the Gamma Quadrant. The Founders genetically engenered most of the other races in the Gamma Quadrant who call them the Founders & as such are worshipped by many of them as gods. When the Federation firts ventured into the Gamma Quadrant through the wormhole starting a war between the Federation & most inhabitants of the Alpha Quadrant & the Founders & their creations.
The most well known of this species Deep Space Nine's cheif of security Odo.
The main Borg type of ship is a massive cube from which they attack other ships and take the crew captive, turning them into Borg drones.
They announce themselves with the phrase "resistance is futile", which has entered popular culture.
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