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Legate Skrain Dukat was an influential 24th century Cardassian military officer, politician, and spiritual leader. The son of famous Cardassian legal prosecutor, Procal Dukat, Dukat first came to prominence as the final military administrator of Bajor during the latter years of the Cardassian occupation of the planet, ruling from the station Terok Nor from 2346 to 2369. After the civilian government withdrew from Bajor, Dukat's political status fell rapidly, but after the Cardassian Coup in 2371, he was able to advantageously position himself as an advisor to the Detapa Council near the outbreak of the Klingon-Cardassian War.

Losing his prestigious position after several of his past marital infidelities were discovered, Dukat once again fought on the front lines of the war against the Klingon invaders. Dukat was able to put himself back on top once more, however, when he secretly negotiated Cardassia's entry into the Gamma Quadrant superpower, the Dominion, in which he would be leader of the Cardassian government. Leading Cardassian forces in the early stages of the conflict with the Federation Klingon, he was able to lead the Dominion re-conquest of Terok Nor. However his fortunes once again fell when the Federation alliance Terok Nor as part of Operation Return and he suffered a mental breakdown following the death of his daughter.

A Federation POW, Dukat fell into the world of Bajoran spirituality, becoming a prominent disciple of the malevolent Pah-Wraiths, the arch-rivals of the Prophets. Following his escape, he secretly worked with the Bajoran Kai Winn Adami to try and release the Pah-Wraiths, but was betrayed by Winn and ultimately defeated by the Prophets' emissary, Benjamin Sisko, following which he was trapped in the Fire Caves alongside the Pah-Wraiths for all eternity.