Damar Damar was a male Cardassian soldier and military leader in the 24th century Cardassian Union . He served under Gul Dukat and succeeded him as its leader under the Dominion . Fed up with being the Dominion ' s puppet and sacrificing the lives of millions of Cardassians for their cause , Damar eventually rose up and led the Cardassian Rebellion against the Dominion . He had a family including a wife and children , who were killed for his actions . Career . Dukat ' s right hand . In 2372 , Glinn Damar was a relatively unremarkable officer serving under Gul Dukat aboard the freighter " Groumall " , after Dukat was demoted for rescuing his illegitimate half - Bajoran daughter Tora Ziyal from Dozaria . He and the rest of the " Groumall " crew were transported aboard a Klingon Bird - of - Prey commandeered by Dukat and Kira Nerys . Damar , who saw Dukat as a sort of mentor , joined him as they fought a one - ship war against the Klingon s for more than a year . However , unlike his mentor , Damar was a by - the - book soldier , who had little talent for intrigue or subtlety . An ardent Cardassian nationalist , Damar harbored a deep dislike for the Bajoran s . ( ) Damar continued to serve as Dukat ' s adjutant as Dukat negotiated the entry of the Cardassian Union into the Dominion in 2373 , a move Damar supported as he expected it would restore Cardassia to its rightful place as a major power . He participated in the assault force that captured the Federation starbase Deep Space 9 ( renamed Terok Nor ) at the end of that year , though he was disappointed that the Dominion ' s non - aggression pact with Bajor prevented them from going on to reclaim the planet . Always distrustful of the Jem ' Hadar and the Dominion in general , Damar submitted a secret memorandum to Dukat suggesting that they poison the last stocks of ketracel - white if new supplies could not be secured . " Somehow " this memorandum was " lost " and subsequently found by the Jem ' Hadar , inciting a fight in Quark ' s . ( ) A few days later , Damar regained Dukat ' s favor and was promoted to the rank of gul for developing a way to neutralize the self - replicating mine s blockading the Bajoran wormhole , using the station ' s deflector . However , he inadvertently disclosed this fact to station resistance elements during a moment of drunken camaraderie with Quark . Shortly after , he substituted for Odo in station security after the arrival of the Female Changeling on the station , and was responsible for arresting Rom for attempting to sabotage the station ' s deflector . Meanwhile , Damar continued to update Quark on the status of their efforts to deactivate the minefield . This information eventually reached Starfleet , where it hastened their launch of Operation Return . ( ) As a Federation fleet prepared to move against the station , Dukat ordered Damar to convince Ziyal to speak with him after the two had an argument . Damar ' s effort ended badly , since he already resented Ziyal for Dukat ' s continued concern for her in spite of her defiant attitude . When the Dominion reinforcements disappeared inside the wormhole and the station was in danger of being retaken by Starfleet and Klingon forces , Damar killed Ziyal after learning she had aided the station resistance in sabotaging Terok Nor ' s weapons array . However , this had the opposite effect than what he had hoped , since Dukat refused to leave his daughter ' s body . Damar ended up fleeing the station with the rest of the Dominion forces without him . ( ) It was later revealed that Damar was consumed with guilt over his murder of Ziyal and had trouble sleeping because of it . ( ) Leader of Cardassia . Following Dukat ' s nervous breakdown and subsequent capture , Damar became the " de facto " head of Cardassia under Dominion rule . However , whereas Dukat was able to assert himself on an equal standing with Weyoun , Damar possessed neither Dukat ' s force of character nor his military genius . As a result , in the aftermath of their recent defeat Damar became little more than a figurehead for Weyoun . Shortly after Operation Return , Weyoun compelled Damar to call for peace talks with the Federation . The talks were a ploy to gain possession to the Kabrel system , needed for their war efforts , but despite realizing this fact the Federation chose to agree to their proposal in order to gain a respite . ( ) Even though he was promoted to legate , Damar ' s authority within the Dominion diminished even further as the war dragged on into stalemate and he found Weyoun increasingly blaming him and the Cardassians for their failure to achieve victory . As Damar found himself powerless while the Cardassians gradually became a subjugated people in their own land , he began turning to kanar and dalliances with women as a way of forgetting his troubles . Unexpectedly in late 2375 , Damar was visited by Dukat , his old mentor and friend . Damar arranged for Dukat to be surgically altered into a Bajoran , though he was unaware of Dukat ' s plans . Before he left , Dukat reminded Damar that the man who had boldly fought the Klingons by his side was still there , and that Damar could be that man again . ( ) Rebellion against the Dominion . A few days later , Damar ' s situation worsened when he was forced to sign the Dominion ' s new alliance with the Breen Confederacy , which promised unspecified Cardassian territorial concessions to the Breen . He also realized that the Dominion , led by the Female Changeling , took a rather casual approach to the increasing death - toll on the side of the Cardassians which had reached the millions . As a further humiliation , Weyoun ordered that Damar submit his tactical suggestions to the Breen general Thot Gor . With his hatred of the Dominion and his disgust with himself reaching a boiling point , Damar finally decided to take action . He helped Worf and Ezri Dax escape Cardassia Prime , and began planning a rebellion with his long - time friend Gul Rusot . ( ) With Rusot and a few trusted military commanders , Damar planned a surprise assault on the Dominion cloning facility on Rondac III , which Weyoun speculated was to prevent any further Weyoun clone s from being created . He made his move after the allied forces ' defeat at the Second Battle of Chin ' toka , declaring his objective to free the Cardassian people from the Dominion . After the attack , Damar went into hiding in one of his rebel bases . He was replaced on Cardassia by Legate Broca . Recognizing that he and his former enemies now had a common cause , Damar requested aid from the Federation and was joined by Kira Nerys , Odo , and Elim Garak . Despite his and many of his troops ' misgivings about working with a former member of the Bajoran Resistance , Damar recognized the value of Kira ' s knowledge of organizing resistance cells and followed her advice the best he could . Eventually , this caused him to kill Rusot , who could not come to terms with Kira ' s race and nationality and that she was put in charge . ( ) Unfortunately , despite some early successes , Damar ' s rebellion quickly received a nearly fatal blow by the Dominion . He , Kira , and Garak became trapped on Cardassia Prime , while the organized resistance was wiped out . Taking up shelter inside Garak ' s childhood home , they realized that Damar had risen to legendary status amongst the downtrodden Cardassian population . This allowed them to spark a planet - wide popular uprising , by making Damar into the " hero " who the Dominion had failed to kill . The Dominion responded to the insurrection by annihilating Lakarian City , which only served to add even more fuel to the rebellion . The extermination of the citizens of Lakarian City was the last straw : it turned the Cardassian military against the Dominion and caused the Cardassian fleet to defect during the Battle of Cardassia . In the last days of the war , Damar was killed while leading an assault on Dominion Headquarters . Damar ' s last orders were to keep fighting , but he died mid - sentence . His death made him a martyr for the cause of Cardassian liberation , and both Elim Garak and Kira Nerys honored his final order by taking Dominion Headquarters , killing Weyoun and apprehending the Female Changeling . ( ) Family . Damar had a wife and a son . Though he was known to entertain at least one mistress after becoming the head of the Cardassian government , he nevertheless cared about both of them deeply . He sent his family into hiding as he began his rebellion , but the Female Changeling ordered them found and executed . This heinous act further fueled Damar ' s anger towards the Dominion . ( ) Holograms . Damar had been holographically duplicated at least twice : Appendices . Background information . According to the script for " Apocalypse Rising " , Damar ' s name was pronounced as " dah - MAR " . " " Damar was played by Casey Biggs . The part was written , in " Return to Grace " , as deceptively simple . " " When I went to read for the role , " " Biggs recalled , " " I thought to myself , ' What ' s the big deal ? They could have gotten one of the extras to play this part . " " Much to the delight of " Return to Grace " Director Jonathan West , Biggs accepted the role despite it seeming minimalist . ( " " , pp . 308 & 309 ) Jonathan West made Casey Biggs aware that Damar would have more to do in the future . " " I guess the writers had this whole arc planned in their heads , " " reckoned Biggs , " " because the first day of the shoot , Jonathan West came up to me and said , ' I don ' t want you to get nervous or anything , but they have big plans for this character . ' I said , ' Why did you have to tell me this right " now " – just before my first shot , my first day in all this makeup ! " " ( " " , pp . 308 - 309 ) Through West ' s directing of " Return to Grace " , he proceeded to reaffirm the importance of the Damar character . " " I gave him close - ups , " " said West , " " and took the time to get reactions from him , almost as if , from the audience ' s point of view , he was registering the value judgments on what was going on . " " ( " " , p . 309 ) After completing work on DS9 Season 6 , Weyoun actor Jeffrey Combs theorized , " " I suspect that at some point Damar will be enamored by Dukat ' s return . " " Combs went to speculate that , together with Dukat , Damar would turn against Weyoun . ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 30 , No . 9 / 10 , p . 69 ) Indeed , Dukat and Damar ' s final conversation may have sown the seeds that to Damar forming a rebellion against the Dominion . Tom Bergeron once joked that his character D ' Marr was connected to Damar " through an interspecies marriage or something . " ( ) Apocrypha . Novels . In Andrew Robinson ' s novel " A Stitch in Time " , Damar ' s first name is given as " Corat " . The same novel mentions that Damar was buried in the capital city of Cardassia , in the Tarlak sector of the city . The name is also used in the " " novel miniseries . It was revealed in the " Star Trek : Terok Nor " novel " Night of the Wolves " that Damar was assigned to Terok Nor as a third tier gil , the lowest commissioned rank in the Cardassian military , shortly after the station became operational in 2346 . Almost immediately after his arrival , Dukat made him his assistant . At the time , he was engaged to Veja Ketan , a member of the Cardassian Information Service and a close friend of Natima Lang . However , Damar left her in 2348 after Veja suffered an accident which rendered her unable to conceive children . Shortly afterwards , he was reassigned to the Federation - Cardassian border . Thrax Sa ' kat succeeded him as Dukat ' s assistant before being appointed chief of security in 2353 . The " " novel " Brinkmanship " mentions a starship called the " Legate Damar " . In the alternate future seen in the " Deep Space Nine " book trilogy " " , Damar was killed when a Grigari fleet commanded by Kai Weyoun bombarded Cardassia Prime . His mirror universe counterpart is depicted as a prominent legate in the Cardassian Guard who was serving as the Cardassian Central Command ' s observer to the Klingon High Council in 2372 in the short story " Family Matters " pointed in the anthology " Shards and Shadows " . He eventually ascends to the position of Supreme Legate of the Central Command after killing Dukat in 2377 , as depicted in " Rise Like Lions " . Video games . In the video game " " , a Cardassian starship class is named after Damar , perhaps as a mark of respect for his service to the Cardassian people .