Around that time, Data's former captain, Jean-Luc Picard, had arrived on Coppelius aboard La Sirena to warn that the Zhat Vash, a group of Romulan anti-synth fanatics, were en route with an invasion fleet to destroy them. ( PIC: " Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1")īy 2399, Soong had resumed Maddox's research on transferring sentience into an artificial body called a golem, claiming a "sense of urgency". Additionally, Soong had created synthetic butterflies simply because he had missed seeing them. He also created and owned an artificial lifeform that appeared as a cat named Spot II, based on Data's cat Spot. While Maddox left to set up his own lab, Soong remained behind on Coppelius with the community of androids that he and Maddox had helped create, acting as a surrogate "father" to them.
Soong, however, believed it would result in unwanted attention, and would lead to their sanctuary being discovered. However, Maddox was convinced that the Federation and other forces were actually responsible for the attack on Mars, and so he created the twin androids Soji and Dahj Asha (through fractal neuronic cloning, based on a positronic neuron recovered from Data and memory fully reconstructed by his Human brother) to discover the truth. Bruce Maddox set up a laboratory on Coppelius, the fourth planet of the Ghulion system, where they continued their work despite the synth ban. This was a binary system with a M-class star and K-class star.After the ban on artificial lifeforms following the Attack on Mars in 2385, Soong and Dr. The Zakdorn were triumphant and Curzon revealed he had placed a bet on their victory.Īccording to Star Trek: Star Charts ("United Federation of Planets II") and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), there was a star system named Zakdorn, which might possibly be the system of origin for this species, in the Beta Quadrant. This translates into someone who is officious, fastidious, and pushy."Īccording to a line cut from DS9: " The Maquis, Part II", Benjamin Sisko and Calvin Hudson were persuaded by Curzon Dax to play a game of dom-jot against two Zakdorn on Pelios Station. The script notes for Dokachin's appearance described that "He is of a race called Zakdorn, noted for their self-assuredness and confidence. ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Makeup FX Journal, p. Once we had established what the Zakdorns looked like in "Peak Performance," I used the same makeup in "Unification." It was just a matter of adjusting and making a new set of appliances to fit the actor. I also left his hands alone, because I knew there would be several scenes of him playing a game, and he would need his hands free. I didn't want to do anything with his hair, so the hair stylist slicked it back, exposing more of his face. We made a piece that went over his nose and upper lip, two pieces for the cheeks and an appliance for this forehead. Roy has a full, round face, and I designed a set of appliances that would work with his features. There was nothing in the script telling me what the character would look like, and it wasn't until I started sculpting over the cast of Roy's head that I was able to come up with an idea. Sometimes it's hard to design a humanoid makeup until we actually know who the actor is and what he looks like.
Kolrami himself was described in the script notes as "a slender weasel-like creature." According to Michael Westmore, in the case of designing the Zakdorn: ( TNG: " Unification I")Īccording to the script for "Peak Performance", Zakdorn was pronounced as "ZACK-dorn". ( TNG: " Ménage à Troi")Īs of 2368, the Zakdorn had operated the Federation Surplus Depot Z15 in orbit of Qualor II for some time. They were one of the many species that attended the biennial Trade Agreements Conference held on Betazed in 2366. In 2365, the master strategist Sirna Kolrami visited the USS Enterprise-D to serve as observer and mediator during a war games exercise in the Braslota system. Because of this perception, no one has tested the Zakdorn in combat, prompting Worf to dismissively note that "the reputation means nothing." As a people, the Zakdorn were generally replete with self-assuredness and overconfidence. They were characterized by three pouches of thick, fibrous tissue on both of their cheeks.įor nine millennia, they were regarded by potential foes as having the greatest innately strategic minds in the galaxy. The Zakdorn were a sentient, humanoid species, whose homeworld was a member of the United Federation of Planets.
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