Writer Rene Echevarria did not think the episode did enough to develop the Bajoran characters, to show the cult members point of view and what they were getting out of the experience. Kira ponders the meaning of Fala's last words and acknowledges that Dukat may truly believe in what he was doing, making him more dangerous than ever. The starship Defiant arrives and takes Kira and the cultists back to Deep Space Nine. Dukat beams out, and Fala takes a pill and swallows it, explaining his decision with the word "faith". With this revelation, the Bajorans turn against him. ![]() Dukat scrambles to find his pill amongst the others Kira accuses him of using a placebo, having no intention of dying himself. She knocks Dukat's pill out of his hand and onto the floor with other pills. Kira is locked in her quarters, but escapes just in time to reach the suicide ceremony. Dukat calls the incident an "accident", but prays to the Pah-wraiths, concerned that his followers will discover what he has done.ĭukat decides to have the Bajoran believers commit mass suicide, using pills that will reduce the body to dust. Dukat opens an airlock, attempting to blow Mika out into space but Mika survives, and the doctor reports that she is likely to recover from her injuries. Mika tells Dukat she is not sure she can lie to Benyan about the child's true parentage. Kira is immediately certain that Dukat is in fact the biological father of the child, and plants a seed of doubt with Benyan by asking him if Mika and Dukat had spent time alone together. When the baby turns out to be half-Cardassian, Dukat improvises a speech in which he calls the baby a "miracle" from the Pah-wraiths, a sign approving their faith in Dukat. Mika is pregnant, and the station's populace eagerly awaits the first child to be born into the cult. The Bajorans' faith in Dukat is so strong that when Kira threatens to kill Dukat with a phaser, many of them place themselves in Kira's line of fire.įala introduces Kira to cult members Mika and her husband Benyan. He gives her a gift that turns out to be a transponder that beams her to Empok Nor, a formerly abandoned Cardassian space station.Įmpok Nor is now inhabited by 50 Bajorans who believe that the Pah-wraiths are the true Prophets of Bajor the leader of their cult is none other than Dukat. Kira is visited by Fala, a Bajoran cleric who taught her when she was a child. ![]() ![]() In this episode, the Bajoran Colonel Kira Nerys contends with a cult led by Gul Dukat, the Cardassian former prefect of the occupation of Bajor, worshipping the Pah-wraiths, evil counterparts of the Prophets. The station is adjacent to a wormhole that is home to powerful alien beings worshiped by the Bajorans as the "Prophets". ![]() Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the crew of the space station Deep Space Nine near the planet Bajor, as the Bajorans recover from a decades-long occupation by the imperialistic Cardassians. This episode first aired the week of November 23, 1998. " Covenant" is the 159th episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the ninth episode of the seventh season. 9th episode of the 7th season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine " Covenant"
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