A Cardassian extremist movement that blamed the Federation for the Union's decline and rejected the civilian government's peace policy, turning to sabotage and assassination against Deep Space 9 in 2372.
The True Way emerges after the civilian Detapa Council takes power on Cardassia. Its members hold the Federation responsible for the Union's economic and political troubles and regard peace with Bajor as a betrayal.
In the Deep Space Nine episode Our Man Bashir the group plants a bomb aboard the runabout Orinoco as it returns from a conference carrying Sisko, Kira, Dax, Worf and O'Brien. An emergency beam-out saves them, but their patterns end up stored in the station's computers and their likenesses in Bashir's spy holosuite programme.
Later the same year, in Crossfire, the True Way threatens the life of the Bajoran First Minister Shakaar during his visit to the station, and a hired assassin sabotages a turbolift carrying him before being caught. The group is not heard of again once Cardassia joins the Dominion.