Weyoun's History
Weyoun is the name of a series of Vorta supervisors, diplomats, and administrators in the service of the Dominion during the late 24th century. Like all Vorta, Weyoun was cloned; at least eight copies were known to exist, five of which were encountered by the Federation.
Weyoun 4 was the first encountered by the Federation in 2372 as the supervisor of a Jem'Hadar attack ship and its crew of Jem'Hadar, led by Omet'iklan. After his ship was attacked by a group of renegade Jem'Hadar, Weyoun chose to recruit the assistance of Captain Benjamin Sisko in quelling the rebellion. Weyoun withheld crucial information from Omet'iklan about the rebels' fortress: an Iconian gateway on Vandros IV. However, the Jem'Hadar under Weyoun's supervision remained loyal to the Founders and successfully completed the mission of eradicating the Jem'Hadar rebellion. Following the battle, Omet'iklan killed Weyoun for questioning his loyalty to the Dominion.
Weyoun 5 was the Vorta activated in 2373 who was assigned as the Dominion liaison and adviser to Gul Dukat, the dictator of the newly Dominion-annexed Cardassian Union. Although there were frequent disagreements concerning overall policy, Weyoun believed that he had developed a good working relationship with Dukat in the short time they had worked together.
Weyoun made a special visit to Deep Space 9 around stardate 50900 to negotiate a nonaggression pact with Kai Winn Adami and Bajor. During these negotiations, Weyoun became convinced that Jake Sisko and Nog were conspiring against him, not realizing that the two boys were simply conducting business with Doctor Elias Giger, a Human scientist seeking to discover the secret of immortality. Weyoun took an interest in Giger's cellular regeneration and entertainment chamber and its underlying principles of "creative genetics."
Just prior to the beginning of the Dominion War, Weyoun issued an ultimatum to Captain Sisko, demanding that the Federation remove the minefield they had started laying at the mouth of the Bajoran wormhole. Sisko refused, and Weyoun, along with Dukat, led an assault fleet to capture the station by force.
In 2374, during the Dominion occupation of DS9, then known again as Terok Nor, Weyoun and Dukat formed the Ruling Council to manage station affairs. Weyoun offered Odo, whom he still revered as one of the Founders, a position on the Council, which Odo eventually accepted. When the Female Changeling arrived on the station a few months later, Weyoun observed that she had done a good job "neutralizing" Odo as a threat, not realizing the Founders' interest in Odo was for his own sake.
Weyoun returned to Cardassia Prime following the recapture of DS9 by the Federation. Because of Gul Dukat's failure and descent into madness, Weyoun appointed Damar to be the new leader of the Cardassian Union. Over the next few months, he took a more forceful approach with Damar, ordering him to initiate peace talks with the Federation in order to arrange the acquisition of the Kabrel system without the Federation's knowledge of its significance. However, the plan failed when the Federation determined why the Dominion wanted Kabrel: to harvest tri-nucleic fungi that could be used to manufacture ketracel-white for the Jem'Hadar.
Early in 2375, Weyoun 5 was killed in a suspicious transporter accident. The cause of the accident was never found, but it was suspected that it had been arranged by Damar.
Weyoun 6 was activated shortly after Weyoun 5's demise. This new clone proved to be "defective," in that he strongly felt that the Dominion's war against the Alpha Quadrant was a mistake. However, he still maintained his loyalty to the Founders, and therefore contacted Odo, under the guise of Gul Russol, and requested a meeting so he could announce his intentions to defect to the Federation.
Aboard the runabout USS Rio Grande en route back to Deep Space 9, Weyoun 6 explained to Odo not only how he wanted to prevent further conflict, but also how the Great Link had been afflicted by a wasting disease that was slowly killing all Founders, except for Odo. When the runabout was located by his replacement, Weyoun 6 activated his termination implant so Weyoun 7 would call off his attacks, thus saving Odo. The "defective" clone died in peace, with a blessing from one of his gods.
When the Vorta clone Weyoun 7 was activated, he ordered a massive search to prevent Weyoun 6 from defecting to the Federation. Weyoun 7 was contacted by his predecessor so he could witness Weyoun 6 voluntarily activate his termination implant, thus removing the reason the Jem'Hadar were attacking Odo's runabout. Once this was done, Weyoun 7 called off the attack and wished Odo "a safe and pleasant journey back to DS9."
By late 2375, Weyoun 7 was in charge of a massive research project to find a cure for the Founders' disease. He also supported the Female Changeling in her negotiations to arrange the alliance between the Dominion and the Breen Confederacy.
While attending to the transfer of two captured Starfleet officers, Worf and Ezri Dax, from a Breen ship to Dominion custody, he mentioned that he wished them to be held in a cell together due to his desire to see them "comfort each other" sexually. During a later meeting with the captured Worf and Dax, he tried to goad Dax into cooperating with a further interrogation by referencing her feelings for Bashir – to which Worf responded by abruptly breaking his neck, killing Weyoun 7 instantly.
Damar, who was escorting Weyoun, reacted only by stopping his guards from taking action against Worf and then bursting into laughter, amused by both the meaninglessness of killing a Weyoun (as another clone would quickly take his place) and that Worf missed the opportunity to kill Damar instead, a far more valuable target.
Weyoun 8 was activated shortly after the death of Weyoun 7, and continued to oversee the war effort for the Dominion. He was initially unaware, however, that Damar had decided to turn against the Dominion and had arranged for Worf and Ezri Dax to escape. Soon after, Damar publicly denounced the Dominion alliance and announced the first strike by the newly-formed Cardassian Liberation Front against the Dominion's primary cloning facility on Rondac III. With no means to clone Weyoun again until those facilities were rebuilt, Weyoun 8 was possibly the last of the Weyouns. He immediately concluded that was precisely the reason Damar had chosen Rondac as a target.
Weyoun ensured that Damar and his supporters paid dearly for this attack. Acting on the Female Changeling's orders, Weyoun had Dominion forces hunt down and execute Damar's wife and children. Despite some initial victories under the guidance of Kira Nerys, Weyoun's forces successfully waged a devastating counter-strike against the resistance, successfully destroying all eighteen rebel bases, as well as wiping out the sympathetic forces of Legate Goris and Gul Seltan with the help of collaborator Gul Revok. Having assumed Damar to have died in the attack, Weyoun publicly announced the defeat of the rebellion and the death of Damar. Much of the civilian population, however, having become disillusioned with Dominion rule themselves, were skeptical of Weyoun's claims. Indeed, Damar reemerged shortly thereafter and began rallying the people against the Dominion.
After Damar's followers successfully sabotaged the planet's power systems, causing a planet-wide blackout, Weyoun proposed retaliation against the Cardassian population themselves, with the Female Changeling's approval. Weyoun then ordered the destruction of Lakarian City and its entire population of two million people, announcing its destruction on a planet-wide broadcast. Rather than forcing the Cardassians into submission, this act only motivated Damar to lead his remaining forces in an attack on Dominion Headquarters, as well as causing the Cardassian fleet, then engaging the Federation Alliance forces in the Battle of Cardassia, to switch sides against the Jem'Hadar and Breen fleets.
Enraged by this betrayal, the Female Changeling ordered Weyoun to begin exterminating the entire Cardassian population. This act of genocide led to the death of over eight hundred million Cardassians before it was halted.
With the Jem'Hadar and Breen forces having been driven back to Cardassia Prime, Dominion Headquarters was stormed by Damar's forces. Though Damar himself was killed in the assault, Elim Garak, Kira, and Ekoor reached the main control room, capturing the Female Changeling. Weyoun, upon hearing of Damar's death, mocked him and the devastation of Cardassia, prompting Garak to shoot and kill Weyoun. After the clone died, the Female Changeling mourned him to Garak, who had fired the fatal shot: "I wish you hadn't done that. That was Weyoun's last clone." Garak unapologetically replied "I was hoping you'd say that."
