Kubus Oak

Kubus Oak was a Bajoran official during the Occupation of Bajor, serving as Secretary of the Bajoran Occupational Government and liaison to the Cardassian Union. His duties included signing off on Cardassian orders for new Bajoran mine laborers. Though the orders were effectively death sentences, Kubus never once refused to authorize them. He rationalized his actions with the belief that the Occupation would have been far worse without him and others in the Occupational Government. Despite these assertions, Kubus spent little time on Bajor itself, owning quarters onboard Terok Nor, where he was familiar with Prylar Bek, who also served as a liaison with the Cooperative Government, representing the Vedek Assembly before his suicide. Kubus Oak was also known to Gul Dukat, the Prefect of Bajor, who once claimed that Oak was his favorite Bajoran, though the Secretary claimed to have had no love for the "arrogant tyrant", though if these assertions were genuine, then he concealed these feelings well.

When the Occupation ended in 2369, Kubus left with the Cardassians and retired on Cardassia Prime. In his absence, he and the other Bajoran collaborators were exiled from Bajor by the Ilvian Proclamation, on which Kubus's name was listed fourth.

In 2370, the aged Kubus arrived at Deep Space 9, hoping to spend his remaining days on Bajor. He was quickly recognized and arrested by Chief of Security Odo. After Major Kira Nerys denied his request to return to Bajor, he contacted Vedek Winn Adami and gave her circumstantial evidence that Vedek Bareil Antos, not Prylar Bek, was the traitor responsible for the Kendra Valley Massacre. Wanting to use the information against Bareil in the upcoming election for kai, Winn granted Kubus sanctuary on Bajor. (DS9: "The Collaborator")

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Background information

Kubus Oak was played by actor Bert Remsen. Kira actress Nana Visitor once remarked that he was "so good" at portraying Kubus. (The Official Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Magazine issue 16, p. 48)

According to the script, the pronunciation for Kubus Oak was "KOO-bus OAK".

The character of Kubus was different in the story idea that Gary Holland pitched to Ira Steven Behr, Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Peter Allan Fields on 1 February 1994. Holland commented, "In my pitch, the Bajoran who later became secretary Kubus Oak, was trying to return to his homeworld, but Kira found out there was more to the man than met the eye. The twist was that Kubus had something to do with murdering Kira's father. But as we went along through the story's twists and turns we would learn that the murderer was one of Kubus' children, for whom he was covering up." Ira Steven Behr suggested that Kubus be a collaborator and the idea of Kira's father having been murdered by Kubus' daughter was dropped. (The Official Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Magazine issue 9; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 147)

Apocrypha

Kubus Oak also appeared in the Star Trek: Terok Nor novels Day of the Vipers, Night of the Wolves and Dawn of the Eagles.

External link

• Kubus Oak at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works