Rakhat Blok

Rakhat Blok was the identity assumed by Ravel Dygan in the summer of 2385 when he was infiltrating gang elements in the North Torr district of Capital City on Cardassia Prime. Dygan assumed the Blok identity fully, living for some months in North Torr. 'Blok' was an off-worlder, with a different accent and a working class, military background. He is described as having "the tired and bewildered look shared by many Cardassians of his generation that resulted from the early and savage extermination of a deeply inculcated romanticism about his culture". During the Dominion War, 'Blok' had served on the Romulan Front during the Dominion War, serving as a prisoner-of-war after the war's end. Dygan lived in extreme poverty in North Torr, with a "old woman who muttered constantly under her breath and a male of indeterminate age who stank of kanar and didn’t say a word, but could be heard most nights through the flimsy walls yelling in his sleep about choking, choking, choking." Dygan successfully infiltrated the gang of Velok Dekreny, becoming an enforcer for him. This provided the impoverished Blok with money, food, drink and friends. In return, Blok guarded Dekreny at his gelata bar and beat up opponents of the gang in the area. One night he may have murdered a liberal North Torr protestor. Eventually, Blok was arrested at the Battle for the Heartland. Encountering Arati Mhevet, he used the opportunity to contact his patron, Ambassador Elim Garak.

Dygan would be haunted by the guilt of the acts he committed as Blok, and would confide to Garak and Mhevet - though both resisted hearing what he had done - and later his Enterprise colleague, Aneta Šmrhová.