Cult of the Pah - wraiths The Cult of the Pah - wraiths was a group of Bajoran s who worshipped the Pah - wraith s rather than the Prophet s . History . 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 - wraith s 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 . ( ) 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 . ( ) 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 . However , Fala , devastated by these events , took his capsule and committed suicide before the " Defiant " arrived . ( ) Appendices . Background information . During the development of , the idea of a group of Bajoran Pah - wraith cultists being led by Dukat was conceptually preceded by a new race of aliens being led by him . The notion of Dukat ' s followers being the Cult of the Pah - wraiths was thought up by René Echevarria ( who was credited with writing the installment ) and all the rest of the show ' s writing staff found it an agreeable concept . ( " " , p . 632 ) However , Echevarria was ultimately dissatisfied with how the cult is portrayed in " Covenant " . " " I don ' t think we quite invested enough in the cultists , or saw what they were getting out of it , " " he stated . " " I don ' t think the Bajorans came off three - dimensionally enough . You can infer many things about where these people are coming from , but it was hard to sell that they were broken in some way . " " ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 32 , Nos . 4 / 5 , p . 50 ) Apocrypha . In " Star Trek Online " , Mika ' s daughter ( named Cerin Teresa ) attempts to complete Dukat ' s goal of freeing the Pah - wraiths from the Fire Caves with the help of numerous Cardassian cultists .