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+ | In [[2373]] Tekeny Ghemor visited Kira on Deep Space 9. The reason for this visit was because Kira sent him a proposal in which she asked him to be the leader of a Cardassian Opposition to oppose the Cardassian/[[Dominion]] alliance, but soon she would find out that this was not the real reason why Ghemor visited her. He was welcomed by Kira who wanted his visit treated as that of a head of state, with full access to [[computer]]s, private [[subspace]] com channels etc., as she told [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Jadzia Dax]] and Lieutenant Commander [[Worf]]. Ghemor was pleased to see that she wore the bracelet he gave her, although it was not exactly allowed under the [[Starfleet uniform code|uniform code]], and asked her, if she did not wanted to call him father, to call him Tekeny. |
[[Image:Tekeny-Ghemor-and-Kira-Nerys.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Tekeny and Nerys]] |
[[Image:Tekeny-Ghemor-and-Kira-Nerys.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Tekeny and Nerys]] |
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| − | Kira told him that she asked [[Bajoran Security]] if they had heard anything about Iliana but because she now would have been undercover for more than ten years this would be difficult. Although Kira asked him not to gave up hope he told her that he had to face the facts, he was alone and the closest thing to family he had was Kira. When Ghemor was asked what he |
+ | Kira told him that she had asked [[Bajoran Security]] if they had heard anything about Iliana, but because she now would have been undercover for more than ten years this would be difficult. Although Kira asked him not to gave up hope he told her that he had to face the facts, he was alone and the closest thing to family he had was Kira. When Ghemor was asked what he thought about the proposal she had sent him he had to decline, despite Kira's enthusiasm and arguments that he would be the best person to lead the opposition. He told Kira that he was suffering from [[Yarim Fel Syndrome]], a terminal disease. |
| − | When Kira asked [[Doctor]] [[Julian Bashir]] to check Tekeny Ghemor, he confirmed Yarim Fel Syndrome. The disease already spread throughout his body and Julian could not tell exactly how much time Ghemor had left. He did |
+ | When Kira asked [[Doctor]] [[Julian Bashir]] to check Tekeny Ghemor, he confirmed Yarim Fel Syndrome. The disease had already spread throughout his body and Julian could not tell exactly how much time Ghemor had left. He did tell Ghemor that there were some treatments they could try, like [[Hexadrine therapy]]. |
| − | The next few days Ghemor spend time with Nerys and watched her nursing [[Kirayoshi O'Brien]], [[Miles O'Brien|Miles]] and [[Keiko O'Brien|Keiko]] O' |
+ | The next few days Ghemor spend time with Nerys and watched her nursing [[Kirayoshi O'Brien]], [[Miles O'Brien|Miles]] and [[Keiko O'Brien|Keiko]] O'Brien's son, which almost made him feel like a grandfather himself. He still regarded Kira as close as his own daughter and asked her if she ever thought of having children herself, maybe with [[Shakaar Edon]]. When she reacted suprised Tekeny told her, with a secretive smile, that he had asked some people to tell him if they ever heard things about her. He also told her that she even had a separate section in the [[Cardassian Central Archives]], her feud with [[Kai]] [[Winn Adami|Winn]] had almost became legendary, and that she made a good impression on people and was proud to everything she had accomplished. When Kira told him that [[Gul]] [[Dukat]] had contacted DS9 to ask for his extradition to [[Cardassia]] he was not surprised, as long as he was alive he would pose a risk to Dukat because of his extensive knowledge of Cardassian affairs. Ghemor told Kira about [[Shri-tal]], a Cardassian tradition to pass the secrets from the dying to their family for use against their enemies. Because Ghemor had no more relatives, he plead to her to be his daughter and hear his secrets and use them as she saw fit. |
[[Image:Tekeny-Ghemors-Shri-tal.jpg|200px|thumb|Tekeny's Shri-tal]] |
[[Image:Tekeny-Ghemors-Shri-tal.jpg|200px|thumb|Tekeny's Shri-tal]] |
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+ | In the following days Ghemor's condition worsened and when he started the Hexadrine therapy, Kira cared for him and stood by his sickbed. Although their were times his pain got the better of him he refused stronger medicine because that would probably make him unconscious and he and Kira had a lot to talk about. The Shri-tal started with Gul [[Trepar]], Dukat's most powerful enemy..., at the end of that day Tekeny Ghemor fell into a restless sleep. |
When the next day Doctor Bashir told him that the Hexadrine therapy was not working, Ghemor asked for Kira and told her to ask her questions because he had not much time left. |
When the next day Doctor Bashir told him that the Hexadrine therapy was not working, Ghemor asked for Kira and told her to ask her questions because he had not much time left. |
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| − | Later that day Ghemor was visited by [[Weyoun]] and Gul Dukat who told him that he could spend his last days on Cardassia. Ghemor told Dukat he only had a week to live, maybe less, and that he would not trade his silence for a few days of Cardassian sun. Ghemor was very angry with Dukat because he betrayed the Cardassian people to the Dominion. If he had not done so Ghemor would still be on Cardassia. When Dukat noticed |
+ | Later that day Ghemor was visited by [[Weyoun]] and Gul Dukat who told him that he could spend his last days on Cardassia. Ghemor told Dukat he only had a week to live, maybe less, and that he would not trade his silence for a few days of Cardassian sun. Ghemor was very angry with Dukat because he betrayed had the Cardassian people to the Dominion. If he had not done so Ghemor would still be on Cardassia. When Dukat noticed Ghemor's unwillingness he told him his daughter Iliana was alive and that he knew were to find her. Ghemor wanted to believe him, but although he and Dukat might come to an agreement, he told him that dealing with him meant dealing with the Dominion. Ghemor simply found that price to high. |
| − | In the coming days Ghemor and Kira continued the Shri-tal. The days seemed endlessly, Kira listened and |
+ | In the coming days Ghemor and Kira continued the Shri-tal. The days seemed endlessly, Kira listened and attended to him while he talked. One day Kira got hostile with him and confronted Ghemor with his [[military]] past, the massacre at [[Kiessa monastery]], and accused him of lying to her. Ghemor suspected that Dukat had told her about his past and told Kira that they were hiding weapons which the [[Bajoran Resistance|Resistance]] would use to kill his friends and it was easy to despise [[Bajoran]]s during the war. He told her that they, the Cardassians, were the monsters, not the Bajorans, and regretted ever joining the military and volunteering for duty on Bajor. Tekeny hid the truth from her because he did not wanted her to hate him. An angry and disappointed Kira told him he deserved to be hated and left his quarters. |
| − | After Kira walked out on Ghemor, Doctor Bashir visited her and told her that Ghemors condition deteriorated, he would be dead within the hour. Kira's cold reaction surprised Julian and he told her that Ghemor wanted to see her and that regardless of what Ghemor had done in the past no one deserved to die alone. Kira struggled with her |
+ | After Kira walked out on Ghemor, Doctor Bashir visited her and told her that Ghemors condition had deteriorated, and he would be dead within the hour. Kira's cold reaction surprised Julian and he told her that Ghemor wanted to see her and that regardless of what Ghemor had done in the past no one deserved to die alone. Kira struggled with her conscience; this whole situation reminded her of her real father's death during the occupation of Bajor. She never was able to stand by him on his deathbed, she missed his death by an hour. After some time she knew what she had to do. |
[[Image:Tekeny-Ghemors-grave.jpg|200px|thumb|Tekeny Ghemor's grave]] |
[[Image:Tekeny-Ghemors-grave.jpg|200px|thumb|Tekeny Ghemor's grave]] |
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| − | Ghemor told her he |
+ | Ghemor told her he had not thought she would came to see him when she entered his quarters, ''For a while there neither did I'' she replied. During his last moments, fighting for every second, Ghemor whispered his wife's name, Iliana's, and Kira's and died a few breaths later. |
After Tekeny Ghemor died, Gul Dukat claimed that his remains should be buried on Cardassia but Captain Sisko told him that Ghemor's funeral arrangements already had been taken care of. Major Kira buried Tekeny Ghemor on Bajor right beside her own father. ([[DS9]]: "[[Ties of Blood and Water]]") |
After Tekeny Ghemor died, Gul Dukat claimed that his remains should be buried on Cardassia but Captain Sisko told him that Ghemor's funeral arrangements already had been taken care of. Major Kira buried Tekeny Ghemor on Bajor right beside her own father. ([[DS9]]: "[[Ties of Blood and Water]]") |
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Tekeny Ghemor
Tekeny Ghemor was a Cardassian and had one daughter named Iliana. His wife was an inquisitor at the Central University.
Ghemor started his career in the Cardassian military at the age of nineteen. Six months later he volunteered for duty on Bajor during the period which later would be known as the Occupation of Bajor. The unit in which he served, comprising four hundred soldiers in total, took part in the destruction of the Kiessa monastery. Seventeen monks, who were suspected of hiding weapons for the Bajoran Resistance, died in the attack.
After his military career he married and had a daughter named Iliana.
Ghemor wanted his daughter to be an artist, but instead she chose to serve the Obsidian Order, a step he and his wife disapproved of. When Iliana accepted a deep undercover mission on Bajor, for which she needed to undergo surgery to pose as a Bajoran, they never saw her again.
Tekeny Ghemor became a legate in the Cardassian Central Command but his dislike for it grew, because he believed that the Central Command had too much power over the lives of the Cardassian people. He got more and more involved with the Cardassian dissident movement and eventually became one of their leaders.
The Obsidian Order became suspicious of Ghemor's political views and in 2371 staged a ruse to prove their suspicions by kidnapping Major Kira Nerys of the Bajoran Militia, who was surgically altered to look like his lost daughter Iliana. Although Kira told Tekeny several times that she was not his daughter, he was convinced that she was. Corbin Entek, an Obsidian Order operative, told him it took time to get Iliana's Cardassian memories back. Ghemor had no reason to mistrust him and because he was a member of the Central Command, he believed that even an Order operative would not dare to touch him.
Ghemor was so convinced that Kira was his daughter, that he gave her the bracelet which had belonged to Iliana's mother. When Entek threatened to take Kira to the Order's headquarters for further interrogation, Ghemor acted quickly and told Kira that he would get her off Cardassia Prime. When Underground member Ari arrived to take her away, they were surprised by Entek and two of his aides and it became clear that the entire situation was about exposing Ghemor as a leader of the Underground. Fortunately, they were rescued by Commander Sisko, Odo, and Elim Garak, who had investigated Kira's disappearance from Deep Space 9.
After Ghemor had fled Cardassia, he was determined to find his real daughter. Before he left to live among the Mathenites, whose government had offered him sanctuary, he told Kira that until he found Iliana, she was the closest thing to family that he had. (DS9: "Second Skin")
In 2373 Tekeny Ghemor visited Kira on Deep Space 9. The reason for this visit was because Kira sent him a proposal in which she asked him to be the leader of a Cardassian Opposition to oppose the Cardassian/Dominion alliance, but soon she would find out that this was not the real reason why Ghemor visited her. He was welcomed by Kira who wanted his visit treated as that of a head of state, with full access to computers, private subspace com channels etc., as she told Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax and Lieutenant Commander Worf. Ghemor was pleased to see that she wore the bracelet he gave her, although it was not exactly allowed under the uniform code, and asked her, if she did not wanted to call him father, to call him Tekeny.
Tekeny and Nerys
Kira told him that she had asked Bajoran Security if they had heard anything about Iliana, but because she now would have been undercover for more than ten years this would be difficult. Although Kira asked him not to gave up hope he told her that he had to face the facts, he was alone and the closest thing to family he had was Kira. When Ghemor was asked what he thought about the proposal she had sent him he had to decline, despite Kira's enthusiasm and arguments that he would be the best person to lead the opposition. He told Kira that he was suffering from Yarim Fel Syndrome, a terminal disease.
When Kira asked Doctor Julian Bashir to check Tekeny Ghemor, he confirmed Yarim Fel Syndrome. The disease had already spread throughout his body and Julian could not tell exactly how much time Ghemor had left. He did tell Ghemor that there were some treatments they could try, like Hexadrine therapy.
The next few days Ghemor spend time with Nerys and watched her nursing Kirayoshi O'Brien, Miles and Keiko O'Brien's son, which almost made him feel like a grandfather himself. He still regarded Kira as close as his own daughter and asked her if she ever thought of having children herself, maybe with Shakaar Edon. When she reacted suprised Tekeny told her, with a secretive smile, that he had asked some people to tell him if they ever heard things about her. He also told her that she even had a separate section in the Cardassian Central Archives, her feud with Kai Winn had almost became legendary, and that she made a good impression on people and was proud to everything she had accomplished. When Kira told him that Gul Dukat had contacted DS9 to ask for his extradition to Cardassia he was not surprised, as long as he was alive he would pose a risk to Dukat because of his extensive knowledge of Cardassian affairs. Ghemor told Kira about Shri-tal, a Cardassian tradition to pass the secrets from the dying to their family for use against their enemies. Because Ghemor had no more relatives, he plead to her to be his daughter and hear his secrets and use them as she saw fit.
Tekeny's Shri-tal
In the following days Ghemor's condition worsened and when he started the Hexadrine therapy, Kira cared for him and stood by his sickbed. Although their were times his pain got the better of him he refused stronger medicine because that would probably make him unconscious and he and Kira had a lot to talk about. The Shri-tal started with Gul Trepar, Dukat's most powerful enemy..., at the end of that day Tekeny Ghemor fell into a restless sleep.
When the next day Doctor Bashir told him that the Hexadrine therapy was not working, Ghemor asked for Kira and told her to ask her questions because he had not much time left.
Later that day Ghemor was visited by Weyoun and Gul Dukat who told him that he could spend his last days on Cardassia. Ghemor told Dukat he only had a week to live, maybe less, and that he would not trade his silence for a few days of Cardassian sun. Ghemor was very angry with Dukat because he betrayed had the Cardassian people to the Dominion. If he had not done so Ghemor would still be on Cardassia. When Dukat noticed Ghemor's unwillingness he told him his daughter Iliana was alive and that he knew were to find her. Ghemor wanted to believe him, but although he and Dukat might come to an agreement, he told him that dealing with him meant dealing with the Dominion. Ghemor simply found that price to high.
In the coming days Ghemor and Kira continued the Shri-tal. The days seemed endlessly, Kira listened and attended to him while he talked. One day Kira got hostile with him and confronted Ghemor with his military past, the massacre at Kiessa monastery, and accused him of lying to her. Ghemor suspected that Dukat had told her about his past and told Kira that they were hiding weapons which the Resistance would use to kill his friends and it was easy to despise Bajorans during the war. He told her that they, the Cardassians, were the monsters, not the Bajorans, and regretted ever joining the military and volunteering for duty on Bajor. Tekeny hid the truth from her because he did not wanted her to hate him. An angry and disappointed Kira told him he deserved to be hated and left his quarters.
After Kira walked out on Ghemor, Doctor Bashir visited her and told her that Ghemors condition had deteriorated, and he would be dead within the hour. Kira's cold reaction surprised Julian and he told her that Ghemor wanted to see her and that regardless of what Ghemor had done in the past no one deserved to die alone. Kira struggled with her conscience; this whole situation reminded her of her real father's death during the occupation of Bajor. She never was able to stand by him on his deathbed, she missed his death by an hour. After some time she knew what she had to do.
Tekeny Ghemor's grave
Ghemor told her he had not thought she would came to see him when she entered his quarters, For a while there neither did I she replied. During his last moments, fighting for every second, Ghemor whispered his wife's name, Iliana's, and Kira's and died a few breaths later.
After Tekeny Ghemor died, Gul Dukat claimed that his remains should be buried on Cardassia but Captain Sisko told him that Ghemor's funeral arrangements already had been taken care of. Major Kira buried Tekeny Ghemor on Bajor right beside her own father. (DS9: "Ties of Blood and Water")
- Tekeny Ghemor was played by actor Lawrence Pressman.