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| - The Cult of the Pah-wraiths was formed after the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor by Bajorans who believed that the Prophets had abandoned them by watching while Bajor was ravaged. Members of the Cult embraced the notion that the Pah-wraiths would bring about the Restoration of Bajor. They identified themselves by wearing red earrings and red armbands. After Dukat released the Pah-wraith into the wormhole, he became "the Master" of the Cult and led some fifty members to the abandoned Cardassian station of Empok Nor, where they founded a colony.
- The members of the cult identified themselves with their use of red earrings and arm bands. For the most part the cult wasn't taken very seriously for some years. However, after the closing of the Bajoran wormhole in December 2374, the cult gained a lot of support from Bajorans who felt forsaken by the Prophets. While they seemed to disperse again after Benjamin Sisko managed to restore the wormhole at least one group took over Empok Nor where they came under the control of Skrain Dukat. (DS9 episodes: "Tears of the Prophets", "Image in the Sand", "Shadows and Symbols", "Covenant")
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| - The members of the cult identified themselves with their use of red earrings and arm bands. For the most part the cult wasn't taken very seriously for some years. However, after the closing of the Bajoran wormhole in December 2374, the cult gained a lot of support from Bajorans who felt forsaken by the Prophets. While they seemed to disperse again after Benjamin Sisko managed to restore the wormhole at least one group took over Empok Nor where they came under the control of Skrain Dukat. (DS9 episodes: "Tears of the Prophets", "Image in the Sand", "Shadows and Symbols", "Covenant") Late in 2375 Kai Winn Adami converted the belief in the Pah-wraiths, though she kept this secret and was never an official member of the cult. (DS9 episodes: "'Til Death Do Us Part", "Strange Bedfellows", "The Changing Face of Evil", "When It Rains...", "What You Leave Behind")
- The Cult of the Pah-wraiths was formed after the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor by Bajorans who believed that the Prophets had abandoned them by watching while Bajor was ravaged. Members of the Cult embraced the notion that the Pah-wraiths would bring about the Restoration of Bajor. They identified themselves by wearing red earrings and red armbands. After Gul Dukat had released a Pah-wraith into the Orb of Contemplation and collapsed the entrance to the Bajoran wormhole, the Cult grew in size and numbers. What was once considered a joke by the Bajoran people soon turned into a phenomenon the likes of which the planet had never seen before, with members of the Cult including Kai Winn Adami at one point. (DS9: "Tears of the Prophets", "The Dogs of War") In early 2375, they were seen chanting in front of the Bajoran temple on Deep Space 9. A member of the group traveled to Earth and attempted to assassinate Captain Benjamin Sisko when he learned that Sisko would embark on a quest to find the Orb of the Emissary. (DS9: "Image in the Sand") This act was not sanctioned by the Cult as a whole, however. After Dukat released the Pah-wraith into the wormhole, he became "the Master" of the Cult and led some fifty members to the abandoned Cardassian station of Empok Nor, where they founded a colony. Later in 2375, Vedek Fala abducted Colonel Kira Nerys from Deep Space 9 at Dukat's orders, and attempted to convert her to the Pah-wraiths. During her time there, a Cultist named Mika gave birth to a half-Cardassian child, which Dukat claimed was a symbol of the covenant between him and his followers. However, Mika's husband, Benyan, and others were unconvinced, and Dukat attempted to have his followers commit mass suicide by ingesting promazine capsules, to keep them from turning against him. Kira, suspicious of Dukat's intentions from the start, exposed Dukat's capsule as a fake and revealed that he had no intention of dying with the rest of the Cultists. Dukat escaped from the station, while his betrayed and disillusioned followers abandoned the Cult and returned with Kira aboard the USS Defiant. However, Fala, devastated by these events, took his capsule and committed suicide before the Defiant arrived. (DS9: "Covenant")
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