- This article is about the space station. You may be looking for the episode, "Empok Nor (episode)".
- For the mirror universe counterpart, see Empok Nor (mirror).
Empok Nor was a Cardassian Nor-class space station, located in the Trivas system. The Cardassians finally abandoned the station in 2372, and left booby-traps behind to protect the station from non-Cardassians. The deadliest booby-trap was a trio of Cardassians from the First Order that had been subjected to psychotropic drugs and left behind in stasis.
When an engineering team from Deep Space 9 arrived aboard the station in late 2373 to salvage for spare parts, the surviving two Cardassian soldiers emerged from stasis and proceeded to kill three members of the Starfleet team, before eventually being killed themselves by the remaining members. A fourth member of the team was killed by Elim Garak, who had also been exposed to the drug, but he was stopped by Chief Miles O'Brien. (DS9 episode: "Empok Nor")
In 2374, Empok Nor was the location of a prisoner exchange between the Dominion and a group of Ferengi, led by Quark. (DS9 episode: "The Magnificent Ferengi")
In 2375, Skrain Dukat brought fifty members of the Cult of the Pah-Wraiths to the abandoned station and established a community, which placed Dukat as their leader. In an attempt to convert Colonel Kira Nerys, Dukat had her kidnapped and brought to the station. Thankfully, Dukat's plan for a mass suicide resulted in failure when the member's turned against their leader's control, and he was forced to abandon the station. The other cult members returned to Bajor aboard the USS Defiant. (DS9 episode: "Covenant")
In 2376, Lieutenant Nog of Deep Space 9 and the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team from the USS da Vinci arrived on the station with plans to extract the station's fusion core and transport it to DS9 as a replacement for its destroyed fusion core. Unfortunately, the plan had to be abandoned when an Androssi salvage team was discovered to be at work on the station. After some heavy fighting, the team were able to gain control of the station, but damage to the core meant that it couldn't be extracted.
Instead of admitting defeat, Nog hatched an ingenious plan to tow Empok Nor to the Bajoran system so that the core itself wouldn't have the stresses of being towed at warp speed. After gaining the support of a number of starships, the plan proved successful and Empok Nor was towed into the system next to its sister station. As well as having a new fusion core, DS9 had a massive supply of replacement parts just next door. Following the successful transplant of the core to Deep Space Nine, Empok Nor was moved into orbit around Cajara, the seventh planet in the Bajoran system. (SCE episode: "Cold Fusion"; DS9 novel: Abyss)
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References
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Star Trek: Corps of Engineers
See also
Connections
- Empok Nor article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.