A Cardassian leader who ran Bajor during the occupation.
Gul Dukat is a Cardassian military leader who appears throughout Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He was the prefect of Bajor during the occupation, and he has a complicated relationship with the Bajorans and with Benjamin Sisko, who now commands the station that was once his own.
Dukat is charming and vain, and he thinks of himself as a benevolent ruler rather than a tyrant. He has a daughter, Ziyal, whom he cares for deeply, and his later alliance with the Dominion leads to the Cardassian Empire's loss of independence. As the series continues, his grip on reality falters, and he turns to the Pah-wraiths, the enemies of the Bajoran Prophets, setting up a final confrontation with Sisko.
Dukat is remembered as one of the franchise's greatest villains, a man whose self-deception and charisma make him both fascinating and frightening.