This is a list of minor characters from the science fiction television series ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''. Characters are ordered alphabetically by family name, and only characters who played a significant recurring role in the series are listed.

Bareil Antos

Bareil Antos was a Bajoran Vedek. He was played by Philip Anglim.

Bareil becomes romantically involved with Major Kira Nerys of the Deep Space Nine space station. He runs against Vedek Winn Adami for the role of Kai, but is forced to drop out to protect the reputation of the previous Kai, Opaka. Bareil is injured in a shuttle explosion, and Dr. Julian Bashir has to replace his failing organs with cybernetics so that he can continue to advise Winn in negotiations with the Cardassians. His continued efforts in this weakened state cause brain damage, and eventually his death.

In the mirror universe, Bareil Antos is a petty thief who is close to the alternate Kira. He leaves his universe in a foiled attempt to steal an orb. ;External links

Brunt

Brunt is a Ferengi liquidator. He is the nemesis of Quark and often attempts to either destroy him or oust Grand Nagus Zek.

Brunt was the first recurring character to be played by Jeffery Combs, who later played the Dominion commander Weyoun during the latter half of DS9. He also played Shran on ''Enterprise''. He described Brunt as "the IRS guy from Hell".

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Cretak, Kimara

Kimara Cretak is a representative of the Romulan empire for a short time aboard Deep Space Nine. She is accused of treason against the Star empire and imprisoned in the episode "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges". Kimara Cretak was first portrayed by Megan Cole in "Image in the Sand" and "Shadows and Symbols", and Adrienne Barbeau in "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges". ;External links

Dax

Dax is a Trill symbiont, that has been "joined" to nine humanoid Trills:

Lela Dax

Tobin Dax

Emony Dax

Audrid Dax

Torias Dax

Joran Dax portrayed by Jeff McBride and Leigh McCloskey

Curzon Dax portrayed by Frank Owen Smith

Jadzia Dax portrayed by Terry Farrell

Ezri Dax portrayed by Nicole de Boer

Other Dax hosts were:

Verad Dax portrayed by John Glover

Yedrin Dax portrayed by Gary Frank

Fontaine, Vic

Vic Fontaine is a holographic entertainer appearing in a program run in one of Quark's holosuites on the space station Deep Space Nine. He is played by James Darren.

Created by a holoprogrammer named Felix, Vic works as a Rat Pack style crooner in an idealized version of 1960s Las Vegas. He is charismatic and extremely perceptive. He is used as an informal counselor by crew-members of Deep Space Nine, and he takes it upon himself to get Odo and Kira together romantically, by giving Odo lessons on how to relax around women so that he can be more expressive around Kira. His program is altered by a "Jack in the box" created by Felix to keep things interesting in the episode "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang". This threatens Vic's holographic existence but intervention by the crew saves him.

A rarity among holographic characters, Vic is self-aware and knows he is a hologram (as do the Emergency Medical Hologram and Professor Moriarty). Like the Doctor, Vic has the ability to turn his own program on and off. After Vic helps Nog deal with a traumatic battlefield experience, Nog arranges for Vic's program to run constantly so that Vic can experience a full life within his holodeck environment.

In the Mirror Universe, Vic is not a hologram. He is killed by the alternate Bashir.

Originally the role of Vic was offered to Frank Sinatra, Jr., but he turned it down, as he only wanted to play an alien.

The songs that Fontaine sings on Deep Space Nine are on the James Darren album ''This One's from the Heart.'' One song not on the album is "The Alamo", which he sings to Dr. Bashir and Chief O'Brien right before they are going to replay the Alamo battle in the Holosuites.

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Leeta

Leeta is a recurring character on Deep Space 9, portrayed by Chase Masterson. She is a Bajoran employed as a Dabo girl in Quark's bar. After a brief romantic relationship with Julian Bashir, she married Rom and therefore ended the series as First Lady of Ferenginar.

Although initially played as a stereotypical "airhead", over the course of the series it was revealed that she was in fact an intelligent woman who chose to maintain a carefree attitude. She was a ringleader when Quark's employees attempted to start a union, and also volunteered to play temporary host to one of Jadzia Dax's former personalities. She once explained that Dabo girls actually have to be good at math, to ensure that the house always makes a profit.

Unlike most Bajoran characters, Leeta was never given a family name. The (non-canon) novels explain that this is because she was brought up in an orphanage during the Bajoran Occupation, and doesn't ''have'' a family name. ;External links

Mila

Mila, played by Julianna McCarthy, was for over three decades the housekeeper of Enabran Tain, the head of the Obsidian Order. Possibly, during their time together, Tain and Mila had a child, whom they named Elim Garak. Due to Tain's position, it was decided to hide the fact that he was Garak's father. No confession from Tain, Mila, or Garak were made supporting this, but Garak does treat Mila as a mother as it is most likely that she was the only such figure in his life. In 2371, Tain considered having Mila killed because she knew too much about him. However, he did not go through with her execution. She was killed by Jem'Hadar soldiers on the eve of Cardassia's liberation from the Dominion. She appeared in several episodes as well as in the novel ''A Stitch in Time'' by Andrew J. Robinson. ;External links

Mora Pol

Doctor Mora Pol was the Bajoran scientist who was assigned to study the Changeling who would become known as Odo. Mora studied and taught Odo at the Bajoran Center for Science during the Occupation of Bajor from 2358–2365. When Odo assumed the shape of a humanoid, he imitated Mora's hairstyle.

Odo initially resented Mora for failing to realize he was sentient. Under pressure from the Cardassians to get answers and not fully understanding what he was dealing with, Mora used some questionable methods in his experiments. Odo left the institute two years later. They would not reconcile their differences until 2373, when Mora arrived on Deep Space Nine to assist Odo in treating an infant changeling.

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Morn

Morn is played by Mark Allen Shepherd. He is a Lurian male and the only member of his species seen in ''Star Trek''. According to make-up designer Michael Westmore, on the first day of filming the series the director chose Morn randomly from among several prosthetic characters.

Although Westmore went to great lengths to ensure that Morn could talk in case the character ever had a line, he never spoke on camera (though he did laugh); this became a running joke, with other characters commenting several times how talkative he was. Morn is credited with knowing the funniest joke in the universe, and in several episodes an incidental character is seen to start laughing as they leave his side. Quark sometimes breaks down laughing when he tries to retell the joke, and always gives up by saying that no one can tell it like Morn. Despite this, Morn rarely seems to get Quark's jokes, and when he does, it takes him a while.

Morn's existence as a fixture at Quark's bar is mocked in the episode "Who Mourns for Morn?" when Quark sets up a holo-imager to project an image of Morn on his regular stool, quietly drinking. No one realizes that it isn't real (to the point of patrons greeting the image as they enter the bar) until Sisko and Dax ran into the bar with exuberance to let people know that Morn died. It's later revealed that he had not died but was, in fact, part of a scam.

Often, other characters refer to something Morn has done that, to the viewer, would seem very uncharacteristic for Morn. For example, when it became clear that war with the Dominion was inevitable, Morn allegedly threw a chair at Quark, then ran naked across the promenade screaming "We're all doomed!" Following that, he supposedly rushed into a Bajoran temple and threw himself at the feet of a priestess, begging for forgiveness. Vic Fontaine, the holographic singer who is a recurring character in seasons 6 and 7, has stated that Morn's rendition of "New York, New York" has to be seen to be believed. Lieutenant Commander Worf claimed that Morn was a formidable sparring partner, and the pair fought in the holosuites on a weekly basis. Jadzia Dax also stated having nearly been romantic with Morn, except that Morn turned her down.

Very little is revealed about Morn or his species on the show. In "The Way of the Warrior", it was implied Lurians are usually found near the Hyundite Nebula; a hostile Klingon suggested it was suspicious to find Morn so far from there. It was revealed in the episode "Who Mourns for Morn?" that he had been previously involved in some criminal activities, notably the Mother's Day Heist in which his crew stole 1,000 bricks of gold-pressed latinum. Like all Lurians, Morn has two stomachs; it was revealed that he was storing the latinum taken from the bricks in one of them, and it is explained by Quark that this is why his hair fell out.

Morn also appeared in the ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' episode "Birthright, Part I" and made a cameo in the ''Star Trek: Voyager'' episode "Caretaker".

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O'Brien, Keiko

Keiko O'Brien, born 石川 桂子|Ishikawa Keiko|but see also Keiko (given name) for alternate kanji}}, is played by Rosalind Chao. She is a professional botanist and the wife of Miles O'Brien in both ''The Next Generation'' and ''Deep Space Nine''.

Keiko married Miles O'Brien aboard the USS ''Enterprise''-D in the ''TNG'' episode ''Data's Day''. A year later, temporarily stuck in Ten-Forward, she gave birth to a daughter, Molly, with Worf as midwife (''TNG'' episode "Disaster"). When Miles was assigned to Deep Space Nine, Keiko's mother was still living in the city of Kumamoto, Japan. Keiko began talking of visiting her mother after seeing the condition of the space station when first arriving there.

Shortly after arriving at Deep Space Nine, Keiko soon decided to start a school. Jake Sisko and Nog were the first students to enroll. Later, Keiko went on a botanical expedition to Bajor. Pregnant with her second child, an accident endangered mother and child on the way back to DS9. Doctor Julian Bashir saved them both by removing the fetus and implanting it into Kira Nerys' womb. In her honor, the child was named "Kirayoshi".

When the Dominion War began, Keiko and the children were evacuated from the war zones. They remained away for a time until the fields of battle had shifted far enough to make Deep Space Nine safe again. After the war, the O'Brien family relocated to Earth when Miles became an instructor at Starfleet Academy.

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O'Brien, Molly

Molly O'Brien, played by Hana Hatae, is the daughter of Miles and Keiko O'Brien, and the older sister of Kirayoshi. She originally appeared on ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''.

Molly was born in 2368, with Worf delivering her, on the USS ''Enterprise''-D in the ''TNG'' episode "Disaster". She moved to Deep Space Nine when Miles was assigned there.

In the ''DS9'' episode "Time's Orphan", the O'Briens went on a picnic to Golana IV, where Molly accidentally fell into an abandoned time portal and emerged as an 18-year-old (played by Michelle Krusiec). From her point of view, she had experienced approximately ten years of solitary existence. Back at Deep Space Nine, she was wild and uncontrollable, unable to cope with life on the space station; after a violent altercation in Quark's, Starfleet officials intended to place her in a mental health institution. The O'Briens returned to Golana IV, hoping to send Molly back through the time portal to the place and time she had become accustomed to, preferring her happiness over a possible lifetime of confinement. However, she was returned to the point where she had first entered, allowing the adult Molly to help her child counterpart return home, erasing the adult Molly from history in the process.

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Opaka Sulan

Opaka Sulan, played by Camille Saviola, was the Kai or spiritual leader of the Bajorans through the latter years of the Cardassian occupation and the first few months after it ended in 2369. Opaka recognized Benjamin Sisko as the long-awaited Emissary of the Prophets, although he did not return her enthusiasm.

In response to a prophetic Orb experience, Opaka left Bajor for the first time to pay an unannounced visit to DS9. Journeying with Sisko and Kira through the wormhole, she was killed in a runabout crash on the Ennis penal moon, and was then resurrected by the artificial microbes present there. The microbes were specifically designed to only work on the moon, forcing her to stay behind. She took this as an opportunity to help end the prisoners' fanatical clan war.

During the Cardassian occupation, Opaka had been a collaborator: she gave away the whereabouts of a rebel base and her son was killed in the subsequent attack. The Cardassians had threatened to destroy some Bajoran towns so by betraying the rebels (including her own son) she saved thousands of Bajoran lives. Later on, Bareil Antos dropped out of the election for Kai in an effort to keep this secret from ruining Opaka's legacy. This led to the election of the more controversial Winn Adami.

In the Deep Space Nine relaunch novels, Opaka was rescued from the Ennis moon by zealous aliens called the Ascendants, after which she roamed the Gamma Quadrant as a healer. She is found by Jake Sisko and returned to Bajor, where she refuses to resume the post of Kai. ;External links

Ross, William J.

Vice Admiral William J. Ross, played by Barry Jenner, was the Field Commander of Starfleet forces during the Dominion War and was the coordinator of Starfleet's defense of the Bolian and Bajoran fronts in the early stages of that war.

His command post was on Starbase 375, where he was in direct command of the 7th Tactical Wing. During the first three months of the war, Ross was under severe pressure to halt the advance of the Dominion. Ross did this by making Captain Sisko his adjutant, in order to relieve himself of making minor tactical plans and reports. This action gave Ross the initiative to find the "Argolis Cluster Sensor Array." This sensor array was the Dominion's line of sight over all the Bajoran and Bolian fronts at the start of the War. Ross, along with Sisko, planned the attack on the Argolis Array and succeeded in the destruction of the array in late March 2374. As the war progressed, Ross took a much more tactical role rather than strategically planning the war effort.

After the first battle of Chin'toka, Ross was posted aboard Deep Space Nine to command the Allied forces presently hemmed in at Chin'toka.

It was later revealed that Ross was one of the few Starfleet personnel to know of the existence of Section 31. Although he collaborates with Section 31 in one of their operations, like Julian Bashir he staunchly maintains that he is not a member of the organization.

During the Battle of Cardassia, Ross led the Starfleet wing of the assault fleet. He devised the planned assault on Cardassia and, soon afterwards, presided over the signing of the Treaty of Bajor at which he gave a speech to the delegates.

His flagship (featured in the 7th season episode "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges") is the Intrepid Class USS ''Bellerophon''.

Ross appears in the ''DS9'' episodes "A Time to Stand", "Behind the Lines", "Favor the Bold", "Tears of the Prophets", "Image in the Sand", "Shadows and Symbols", "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges", "Til Death Do Us Part", "The Changing Face of Evil", "When It Rains...", "The Dogs of War", and "What You Leave Behind".

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Shakaar Edon

Shakaar Edon was a resistance leader, farmer, and later First Minister of Bajor. He was played by Duncan Regehr.

A onetime farmer in Bajor's Dahkur Province, Shakaar returned to his fields in 2369 after 25 years of fighting the Cardassian occupiers, only to enter politics as his world's secular leader in 2371. As the head and namesake of Kira's resistance cell, he agreed to let her go on her first raid at age 13 to fill in a vacancy in the ranks, and reteamed with her years later during a near-violent showdown with Kai Winn over the return of promised soil reclamators.

After that encounter and the support he received for his handling of it, Shakaar handily won the position as Bajor's second post-occupation First Minister, edging Winn out of her acting role. Shakaar realizes he has fallen in love with Kira a year after his election, during his successful push to cut Bajor's UFP admission timetable in half, though that act was later postponed by Emissary Benjamin Sisko's ''pagh'tem'far'' (sacred vision) that advised against it. As his and Kira's affair played out, he had a hard time accepting her carrying the O'Briens' transplanted second child to term after an accident in 2373.

Soon afterward, he and Kira part ways romantically, although she still respects him as Bajor's best leader. Shakaar is used to death threats and he routinely ignores them, but a True Way alien operative nearly kills him twice during the Federation conference on DS9, first by sending his turbolift car into free fall, and later by almost getting his quarters depressurized. According to Dukat, Shakaar slept with every woman in his resistance cell except Kira—but Dukat's jealousy of the Major should be taken into account.

Shakaar's relationship with Kira ended in 2373 after a visit to the Kendra shrine on Bajor revealed that they were not meant to walk the same path.

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Sisko, Joseph

Joseph Sisko, father of Captain Benjamin Sisko, was played by Brock Peters (who also played Admiral Cartwright in ''Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'' and ''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country'').

Joseph ran a restaurant in New Orleans called "Sisko's Creole Kitchen" (DS9: "Image in the Sand"), with a particular specialty each night (generally seafood). While Nog was at Starfleet Academy, he commuted from San Francisco to dine, as Sisko obtained Ferengi tube grubs especially for Nog. Joseph's grandson, Jake Sisko, often worked at the restaurant, and Benjamin worked there after the Pah Wraiths collapsed the wormhole.

Joseph was first married to a woman named Sarah, but when their son Benjamin was a year and a half old, Sarah left, eventually moving to Australia and dying in a shuttle accident. Joseph remarried soon after, and Benjamin and his stepmother had such a close relationship Joseph could not bring himself to disclose the truth to his son: that Sarah was, in fact, a Prophet that took physical form. This discovery was made by Benjamin and Jake in the episode "Image in the Sand".

Though Joseph Sisko does eventually reveal to Benjamin the truth about Sarah, he vows to take his gumbo recipe "to the grave".

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Sloan, Luther

Luther Sloan was played by William Sadler. An operative in the secret police organization known as Section 31, Sloan appeared in three episodes of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'': "Inquisition," "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges," and "Extreme Measures."

In 2374, Sloan placed Dr. Julian Bashir in a psychologically intense holodeck scenario designed to test his loyalties to the Federation. Satisfied that Bashir was a steadfast Starfleet officer, Sloan offered Bashir a position in Section 31, knowing of the doctor's fondness for 20th century espionage fiction. Bashir adamantly refused, but Sloan was content to let him consider the offer.

In 2375, Sloan attempted to recruit Bashir for a mission to gather information on Koval, chairman of the Romulan Tal Shiar. Bashir initially declined, but agreed with Captain Sisko that this would allow them to learn more about Section 31's operations and possible connections to Starfleet Command. However, unbeknownst to both of them, Sloan had already enlisted the assistance of Admiral William Ross and thus succeeded in strengthening covert ties to one highly-placed Romulan and subverting the career of another. Sloan appeared to perish at Koval's hand, but later appeared in Bashir's quarters to thank him for playing his part and living up to Sloan's high expectations of him.

Later that year, Bashir discovered evidence that Section 31 was responsible for infecting Odo with a genocidal virus intended to bring an end to the Dominion War. With the assistance of Miles O'Brien, Bashir lured Sloan to Deep Space Nine and captured him. Rather than risk handing Bashir the cure, Sloan triggered a neuro-depolarizing device in his brain, effectively killing himself. After stabilizing Sloan, Bashir and O'Brien linked their minds to his in a last-ditch effort to secure information that would lead to a cure. While inside Sloan's mind, Bashir was offered secret information that could bring about the end of Section 31. This was Sloan's way of delaying Bashir from escaping with the knowledge needed to save Odo's life, and the lives of the Founders.

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Tain, Enabran

Enabran Tain, played by Paul Dooley, was the former head of the Obsidian Order and the biological father of Elim Garak. However he never admitted this fact publicly, believing that his son was a "weakness [he] couldn't afford".

Tain was the head of the Obsidian Order for twenty years, and the only head of the Obsidian Order to live long enough to retire. As the head of the Order, Tain trusted no one, with the exception of his housekeeper, Mila. He was known for his ruthlessness, and many said that he lacked a heart. Tain was also Garak's immediate superior, whom he trained and molded into a mirror image of himself. Nevertheless, Tain was directly responsible for exiling Garak after being betrayed by him in some way.

Tain attempted to stage a comeback by destroying the Founders' homeworld with a combined fleet of Obsidian Order and Tal Shiar ships. His plan was compromised by a Changeling infiltrator, and the fleet was destroyed by the Jem'Hadar. Tain was assumed to have perished when his warbird exploded, but he was actually captured by the Dominion and detained at Internment Camp 371.

In 2373, Tain modified the camp barracks' life support system to send a subspace signal to Garak, indicating he was alive. By the time Garak reached him, he was dying of heart trouble. On his deathbed, after being sure all his enemies were dead, Tain asked Garak to escape and seek vengeance on the Dominion for what it had done to him. Garak agreed, but only if Tain asked him as his father. Tain died after acknowledging that Garak was his son.

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Tora Ziyal

Tora Ziyal is the half Cardassian / half Bajoran daughter of Gul Dukat and Tora Naprem. She spent most of her early life with her mother, and thus her name is structured as are all Bajoran names (with the family name first). Her given name, Ziyal, is a popular Cardassian name. She was played by Cyia Batten in "Indiscretion" and "Return to Grace", by Tracy Middendorf in the episode "For the Cause", and by Melanie Smith from "In Purgatory's Shadow" to "Sacrifice of Angels".

Ziyal was first introduced in the Season 4 episode "Indiscretion". In this episode, Gul Dukat accompanied Kira Nerys to the crash site of the Cardassian prison transport ''Ravinok''. On the crash site (in the Dozaria system) Kira found out Dukat went along because his mistress (Tora Naprem) was aboard the ''Ravinok''. They discovered the grave of Tora Naprem, and Dukat confessed Tora Naprem and he had a daughter, Tora Ziyal, who was also on the transport. Dukat originally intended on killing Ziyal to protect his career, as it was an abomination for a Cardassian and a Bajoran to have a child, but Kira's arguments and his own paternal love convinced him not to kill his daughter. They found Ziyal in a Breen prison camp on the planet and freed her.

Even though her mixed heritage made living on either Cardassia or Bajor unrealistic due to the inherent prejudices, she ended up spending time on Bajor attending a university there, but after living on there for a short time, Ziyal moved to DS9, where she felt more comfortable and at ease among the station's diverse population with the added bonus of being closer to Major Kira whom she considered a big sister. Shortly after returning to DS9, she entered into a relationship with Elim Garak, which, even though it seemed like a relationship of convenience since they were the only two Cardassians on the station, they grew to have real feelings for one another, much to her father's disdain and condemnation. She lived there until she was killed by Gul Dukat's first officer Damar, because he overheard her confession to freeing Rom, Kira, Jake and Leeta from prison after they were caught trying to sabotage the station's then-Cardassian/Dominion occupying force's disarmament of the wormhole's Federation minefield that stopped the Gamma quadrant's Dominion reinforcements to the Alpha Quadrant (Season 6 episode "Sacrifice of Angels"). Dukat underwent an immediate and near catatonic mental breakdown with this news.

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Winn Adami

Kai Winn Adami held the title of "Vedek" during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor, and claimed to have been beaten for her religious teachings. She had a contemptuous attitude toward Bajorans who fought in the underground resistance cells, because she felt she did not get proper credit for helping to fight for Bajor's liberation. She was played by Louise Fletcher.

Winn makes her first appearance objecting to the teachings of Keiko O'Brien in the ''Deep Space Nine'' school, in the episode "In the Hands of the Prophets". In particular, she objects to Keiko's teaching of only the scientific information about the Bajoran wormhole, instead of teaching the religious mythos regarding it. Winn views the science-based teachings as blasphemy, and eventually her influence results in all of the Bajoran students being pulled from the school. Later, a bomb is detonated inside the school. Commander Benjamin Sisko meets with Vedek Bareil on Bajor and asks him to reprimand Winn before she stirs up more violence, but he declines to enter into the conflict. Winn also directs one of her supporters to assassinate Bareil, who is Winn's chief rival in the Vedek Assembly. The failed assassination attempt is made during a speech Bareil is giving calling for an end to conflicts over the school. Winn's involvement, although suspected by Major Kira Nerys, is never proven.

Ever the ambitious opportunist, Winn later aligned herself with an extremist group called "The Circle". The Circle's goal was to eliminate all external influences from Bajor, including the Federation, which would have served Winn's purposes in getting rid of Commander Sisko, whom she resented as the Emissary of the Prophets. The reward for her support would have been the guarantee of becoming Kai.

Eventually it was discovered that ''The Circle'' was actually being supplied by the Cardassians. Major Kira managed to sneak into the council chambers and presented the evidence to the Council of Ministers. When Kira announced she has the thumb scan of a Cardassian Gul signing off on a shipment of weapons to the Kressari, who in turn sent them on to The Circle, Winn immediately changed sides telling Minister Jaro that if he truly believes the Cardassians were not supplying the weapons, he should not mind an examination of the evidence.

In the episode "The Collaborator", the election for the next Kai approaches. Winn seeks out and obtains information about the Kendra Valley Massacre, which she uses to manipulate Major Kira into investigating Vedek Bareil Antos, who happens to be in a relationship with Kira at the time. Ultimately, Bareil is forced to withdraw, resulting in Winn's election as Kai. Although Bareil is later proven innocent by Kira, he chooses not to reveal the truth, which is that Kai Opaka had actually been responsible for the massacre---a move that resulted in forty-three deaths, including that of her own son, but which had saved thousands of other Bajoran lives. Over the years, Bareil faithfully kept the secret to protect the Bajoran people and preserve their religion.

When the first minister of the provisional government dies, Winn gets herself appointed to the political office, and tries to reclaim soil reclamation equipment loaned by the Federation. She wants to have it used to reclaim soil for cash crops for sale off-planet, while a group of farmers led by Shakaar, a former resistance leader, are trying to reclaim soil to produce food for Bajor; Shakaar and his people had been promised the reclamators, but Winn, now leading the government, reneges on the previous leadership's promise. A brief insurrection, with Shakaar's people preparing to fight security forces sent out by Winn, results in the security force leader and Shakaar burying the hatchet. Shakaar challenges Winn for the position of first minister in the upcoming election.

Throughout her service as both Vedek and Kai, Winn always proved to be selfish, arrogant, and power-hungry. She would do anything, and betray anyone to advance her own career and agenda. She is also jealous of other people receiving visions from the Prophets, especially the alien, Sisko the Emissary.

In the final days of the Dominion War, Winn finally received what she believed to be a vision from the Prophets, who tell her that a guide will soon appear to her. In reality, this vision was from the Pah Wraiths, and the "guide" was Gul Dukat, who had been surgically altered to look like a Bajoran.

Dukat and Winn soon became lovers, and he convinced her that to restore Bajor, she must release the Pah Wraiths, who he claimed were the true prophets of Bajor. To do this, Winn obtained the Kosst Amojan, a forbidden text, but found that the pages were blank. Her servant Solbor discovered what she and Dukat were planning. He revealed Dukat's true identity and threatened to expose them. As Winn killed him to prevent this revelation, a drop of blood fell from the knife Winn stabbed him with, and onto the blank pages of the Kosst Amojan, revealing the text. Later when Dukat attempted to read the Kosst Amojan himself, he was blinded (the text could only be read by the Kai), and cast out onto the streets by Winn. After studying the text, Winn discovered there is only one way to release the Pah Wraiths from the Fire Caves and hesitantly allowed Dukat to rejoin her.

Back on Deep Space Nine in Vic Fontaine's holosuite programe, the Prophets send Sisko a premonition about a dangerous situation on Bajor. In the series finale "What You Leave Behind" and after the battle of Cardassia, Sisko traveled to the Fire Caves on Bajor to confront Winn and Dukat. While Dukat and Sisko fight, Winn realized she has made the wrong choices and that she had been blinded by her own ambitions. In an effort to correct all that she had done and redeem herself, she attempted to throw the book of the Pah Wraiths into the fire and destroy it. Before she could do so, Dukat disintegrated her using powers given to him by the Pah Wraiths.

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Winn Adami at Memory Beta

Yates, Kasidy

Kasidy Danielle Yates, played by Penny Johnson Jerald, is a civilian freighter captain. She is introduced to Benjamin Sisko by his son Jake, who feels it is time for Sisko to start dating again after the death of his first wife Jennifer at Wolf 359.

Jake's attempt at matchmaking is successful, and Kasidy and Sisko become lovers, even after her arrest and eventual imprisonment for aiding the Maquis. Following her release from prison, the two resume their relationship.

Eventually, Kasidy becomes Sisko's second wife and, at the end of the series, she becomes pregnant with their child. When Sisko leaves to join the Prophets, he tells her that he will be away for a while, but would eventually return to her.

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Zek

Zek was the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance throughout most of the 24th century. He was played by Wallace Shawn.

Zek attempted retirement shortly after the discovery of the wormhole near Bajor. He arrived on DS9 and during a business meeting announced Quark would be his successor, and then appeared to have died. Eventually it is discovered that Zek faked his death by entering into a trance his attendant Maihar'du taught him. The whole set-up was a test to see if his son Krax was ready to take over, but Krax failed miserably: by trying to seize power (assisted by Rom); by attempting to kill Quark instead of acquiring it quietly; by learning all the favorable deals and assuming power by subterfuge and cunning, in keeping with 'Rule of Acquisition' number 168: "Whisper your way to success".

Zek visited the Bajoran Prophets within the wormhole in an attempt to gather information about the future which he could use to increase his profits. Instead, the Prophets 'devolved' Zek's personality to that of a proto-Ferengi, before his people had dedicated their lives to the acquisition of wealth. During his time in this state, Zek made many radical reforms to his people's laws and government directing his people away from their greedy ways, including reformatting the long-standing Ferengi Rules of Acquisition. He was eventually changed back and his reforms nullified after Quark successfully appealed to the Prophets' fear of interaction with other corporeal life forms that might come to their domains to investigate the change.

During a Tongo tournament on Ferenginar, Zek received a tip from Ishka, who is the mother of Quark and Rom, which helped him make a comeback to win the tournament. They eventually fell in love. They were briefly broken up by Quark at the prodding of Liquidator Brunt who was plotting to depose Zek and succeed him as Nagus. Ultimately the effort failed: Quark became aware of the plan, stopped Brunt's takeover, and got Zek and Ishka back together again. (DS9: "Ferengi Love Songs")

Zek, suffering from failing memory, bequeathed all his financial dealings to the financially brilliant Ishka, eventually caving in to her not-so-subtle prods for female rights. He was once again deposed, this time by Brunt, after he amended the Ferengi constitution to allow females to wear clothes in public, but was later reinstated after the populace learned of the new and exciting business opportunities such reforms would pave. Under Ishka's influence, he further reformed the Ferengi political and economic system into a significantly less syndicalist model.

Eventually, he and Ishka retired to Risa after naming Rom as his successor.

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List of Star Trek characters

References

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Coordinates	37°46′45.48″N122°25′9.12″N
name	Chase Masterson
birth name	Christianne Carafano
birth date	February 26, 1963
birth place	Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
years active	1993–present
occupation	Actress, singer
website	http://www.chasemasterson.com }}

Chase Masterson, born Christianne Carafano on February 26, 1963 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is an American actress and singer.

Career

Masterson portrayed the Bajoran Leeta on ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' for five years, from 1995 to 1999, and Ivy Lief on ''General Hospital''. Her recent prominent feature film roles include starring as a sultry singer in James Kerwin's sci-fi noir film ''Yesterday Was a Lie'', which she also produced, and voicing "Janice Em" in the animated film ''Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles''. Her television guest starring roles include ''Sliders'' (as Kelly, the sister of Wade Welles) and ''ER''.

Masterson was named one of the world's "50 Sexiest Women" by the men's magazine ''Femme Fatales'', and the "Favorite Science Fiction Actress on Television" in a TV Guide reader's poll. In December 2009, AOL named her one of the "Ten Sexiest Aliens on TV", reporting that "Masterson is regularly voted the most popular guest at ''Star Trek'' conventions."

Masterson hosted an ''Entertainment Tonight''-style news program for the Sci Fi Channel in the 1990s called ''Sci-Fi Entertainment'' and an Internet-based radio talk show for the website The Fandom in 2004-2005. She released a jazz album entitled ''Thrill of the Chase,'' the follow-up EP ''AD ASTRA!'' (Latin for ''To the Stars!''), and the limited edition ''Crystal Anniversary: Songs from the Holosuite'', in honor of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's'' fifteenth anniversary.

Following a series of stalking incidents instigated by a man in Berlin, Masterson was the plaintiff in ''Carafano v. Metrosplash.com'', a controversial legal case in which the courts ruled against Masterson and expanded the definition of "interactive computer services" under the Communications Decency Act.

Masterson was named Best Feature Film Producer of 2008 by the LA Femme Film Festival for her work as producer of ''Yesterday Was a Lie''. In 2010, she voiced the role of Leeta, as a hologram, in Cryptic Studio's ''Star Trek Online''.

References

;Notes

External links

The Official Chase Masterson Website

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name	Lita Grey
birth name	Lillita Louise MacMurray
birth date	April 15, 1908
birth place	Hollywood, California
death date	December 29, 1995
death place	Los Angeles, California
spouse	Charlie Chaplin (1924-1928)Henry AguirreArthur DayPat Long
children	Charles Chaplin, Jr.(1925-1968)Sydney Earle Chaplin(1926-2009) }}

Lita Grey (April 15, 1908 – December 29, 1995) was an American actress and the second wife of Charlie Chaplin. She was born in Hollywood, California, in 1908, to a Mexican-born mother and a father of Irish heritage and christened Lillita Louise MacMurray.

Personal life

Grey married four times. In 1924, when she was 16 years old, she suspected she had become pregnant by Charlie Chaplin, who was then 35. Chaplin, who could have been imprisoned for having sexual relations with a minor, married her in secret in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico to avoid a scandal. They had two children, Charles Chaplin, Jr. (1925–1968) and Sydney Earle Chaplin (1926–2009).

The marriage was troubled from the start. The two had few interests in common, and Chaplin spent as much time as he could away from home, working on ''The Gold Rush'' (in which Grey was to have played the female lead) and later ''The Circus''. They divorced on August 22, 1927, due to his alleged numerous affairs with other women, and he was ordered to pay over $600,000 (USD) and $100,000 (USD) in trust for each child. It was the largest divorce settlement up to that time. The divorce was one of the sensational media events of the time. Copies of her lengthy divorce complaint which made then-scandalous sexual claims against Chaplin were published and publicly sold.

She later married Henry Aguirre, then Arthur Day, then Pat Longo.

In the 1970s and 1980s, she worked as a clerk at Robinson's Department Store in Beverly Hills.

She died in Los Angeles, California, in 1995 of cancer, aged 87, and was buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California.

She wrote two autobiographical volumes covering her life with Chaplin. ''My Life With Chaplin'' (1966) was by her own admission largely a work of exaggeration and fabrication. She claimed to tell the story as it really was in her second memoir ''Wife of the Life of the Party'' (1995).

She was portrayed by Deborah Moore in the 1992 film ''Chaplin''.

The Chaplin biographer Joyce Milton asserted in ''Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin'' that the Grey-Chaplin marriage was an inspiration for Vladimir Nabokov's ''Lolita''.

Filmography

''Unknown Chaplin'' (1983) (TV)

''The Devil's Sleep'' (1949)

''Seasoned Greetings'' (1933)

''Mr. Broadway'' (1933)

''The Idle Class'' (1921)

''The Kid'' (1921)

Further reading

Oderman, Stuart. ''Talking to the Piano Player 2''. BearManor Media, 2009. ISBN #1-59393-320-7.

External links

IMDB: Lita Grey

Silent Ladies & Gents has some nice images from her career

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Coordinates	37°46′45.48″N122°25′9.12″N
name	Gene Simmons
birth name	Chaim Weitz (; ‏)
alias	"The Demon"
born	August 25, 1949Tirat HaCarmel, Israel
background	solo_singer
occupation	Musician, songwriter, producer, actor, businessman
genre	Heavy metal, hard rock, glam metal
instrument	Bass, vocals, guitar, piano
associated acts	Kiss, Wicked Lester
years active	1963–present
website
notable instruments	Cort Signature GS-1Gene Simmons Signature model }}

Gene Simmons (born Chaim Weitz ; August 25, 1949) is an Israeli-American rock bassist, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and businessman. Known as "The Demon", he is the bassist/vocalist of Kiss, a hard rock band he co-founded in the early 1970s.

Simmons was ranked number 12 in Roadrunner's list of 50 Best Frontmen in Metal History.

Early life

Chaim Weitz (later Gene Simmons) was born at the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel in 1949. Mother and children emigrated to Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City when he was eight years old. His mother Flóra Klein was born in Jánd, Hungary. The German name Klein (means: small) translates to Hungarian as ''Kiss'', that gave the rock band's name. Florence and her brother, Larry Klein, were the only members of the family to survive the Holocaust. Simmons' father, Feri Witz, also Hungarian-born, remained in Israel. Simmons says the family was "dirt poor," scraping by on bread and milk. In the United States, Simmons changed his name to Eugene Klein (later Gene Klein), adopting his mother's maiden name. He attended Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in Williamsburg, Brooklyn as a child, from 7 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Music career

Simmons became involved with his first band, Lynx, then renamed The Missing Links, when he was a teenager. Eventually, he disbanded The Missing Links to form The Long Island Sounds, the name being a play on words relating to the estuary separating Long Island from Westchester County, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island. While he played in these bands, he kept up odd jobs on the side to make more money, including trading used comic books. Simmons attended Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake, New York. He then joined a new band, Bullfrog Bheer, and the band recorded a demo, "Leeta"; this was later included on the Kiss box set.

thumb|left|120px|The Demon Simmons formed the rock band Wicked Lester in the early 1970s with Stanley Harvey Eisen (now known as Paul Stanley) and recorded one album, which was never released. Dissatisfied with Wicked Lester's sound and look, Simmons and Stanley attempted to fire their band members; they were met with resistance, and they quit Wicked Lester, walking away from their record deal with Epic Records. They decided to form the ultimate rock band, and started looking for a drummer. Simmons and Stanley found an ad placed by Peter Criscoula, known as Peter Criss, who was playing clubs in Brooklyn at the time; they joined and started out as a trio. Paul Frehley, better known as Ace Frehley, responded to an ad they put in ''The Village Voice'' for a lead guitar player, and soon joined them. Kiss released its self-titled debut album in February 1974. Stanley quickly took on the role of lead performer on stage, while Simmons became the driving force behind what became an extensive Kiss merchandising franchise. The eye section of his "Demon" makeup with KISS came from the wing design of comic book character Black Bolt. In 1983, while Kiss' fame was waning, the members took off their trademark make-up and enjoyed a resurgence in popularity that continued into the 1990s. The band hosted their own fan conventions throughout 1995, and fan feedback about the original Kiss members reunion influenced the highly successful 1996–1997 Alive Worldwide reunion tour. In 1998, the band released ''Psycho Circus'',. Since then, the original line-up has once again dissolved, with Tommy Thayer replacing Ace Frehley on lead guitar and Eric Singer (who performed with Kiss from 1992 up through 1996) replacing Peter Criss on drums.

Instruments

Gene Simmons has used various bass guitars during his career including:

Axe Bass (Kramer, jackson, b.c. rich and now Cort)

Punisher Bass (B.C.Rich, Now made by Cort)

Spector Gene Simmons Signature

Pedulla Basses (mainly in the 1980s and early 1990s)

Gibson Grabber (mainly in Kiss' early years)

Gibson Ripper (mainly in Kiss' early years)

Custom lebau bass (wicked lester, very early kiss circa 73-74)

Cort Guitars Signature GS-1 Bass

He uses Ampeg SVT CL Series amps with 8x10 cabinets. He uses Silver Herco Flex .75 Nylon Flat Guitar Picks. In 2010 Gene Simmons collaborated with Cort Guitars to make his own signature bass line called the GS-AXE-2.

Film and television career

Simmons has been the creative force behind such television projects as:

''My Dad the Rock Star'', a cartoon by the Canadian animation company Nelvana, about the mild mannered son of a Gene Simmons-like rock star;

''Mr. Romance'', a show created and hosted by Simmons on the Oxygen cable television channel;

''Rock School'', a reality show in which Simmons tries to make a rock band out of a group of students of Christ's Hospital School in the first season, and in the second, a group of kids from a comprehensive school in Lowestoft;

''Gene Simmons Family Jewels'', a reality show documenting the personal lives of Simmons, his girlfriend, his son and daughter

On March 9, 2011, Simmons and Kiss co-founder Paul Stanley and E! Entertainment announced that they have finalized a production and development deal to create an as-yet-untitled comedic half-hour kids' television series.

Simmons appeared as a psychic working at the Mystic Journey Bookstore in Venice, California on the American hidden camera prank TV series ''I Get That a Lot''.

Political views

While a self-described social liberal, Simmons was a supporter of the foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration. He supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, writing on his website: "I'm ashamed to be surrounded by people calling themselves liberal who are, in my opinion, spitting on the graves of brave American soldiers who gave their life to fight a war that wasn't theirs...in a country they've never been to... simply to liberate the people therein". In a follow-up, Simmons explained his position and wrote about his love and support for the United States: "I wasn't born here. But I have a love for this country and its people that knows no bounds. I will forever be grateful to America for going into World War II, when it had nothing to gain, in a country that was far away... and rescued my mother from the Nazi German concentration camps. She is alive and I am alive because of America. And, if you have a problem with America, you have a problem with me".

During the 2006 Lebanon War between Israel and Lebanon, Simmons sent a televised message of support (in both English and Hebrew) to an Israeli soldier seriously wounded in fighting in Lebanon, calling him his "hero".

In 2010, Simmons said he regretted voting for Barack Obama and criticized the 2009 health care reforms. Following Obama's 2011 Mideast speech, in which the President called on Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate a settlement "based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps," Simmons told ''CNBC'' that Obama was gravely misguided. "If you have never been to the moon, you can't issue policy about the moon. For the president to be sitting in Washington D.C. and saying, 'Go back to your '67 borders in Israel' – how about you live there and try to defend an indefensible border – nine miles wide?" Simmons also accused the United Nations of being "the most pathetic body on the face of the earth."

During his visit to Israel in 2011, he stated that the artists refusing to perform in Israel for political reasons are "stupid," referring to artists who canceled planned concerts in Israel.

Personal life

He became a science fiction fan and published several science fiction fanzines, among them ''Sirruish'', ''Id'', ''Cosmos'' (which eventually merged with ''Stilletto'' to become ''Cosmos-Stilletto'' and then ''Faun''), ''Tinderbox'', ''Sci-Fi Showcase'', ''Mantis'' and ''Adventure''. He also contributed to other fanzines, among them ''BeABohema''.

In the late 1960s, he changed his name to Gene Simmons, after legendary rockabilly performer Jumpin' Gene Simmons. Simmons' legal name after arriving from Israel is Gene Klein.

Simmons lives in Beverly Hills, California along with his fiancée, former Playboy Playmate and actress Shannon Tweed. They have two children: a son, Nick (born January 22, 1989), and a daughter, Sophie, (born July 7, 1992). He formerly had live-in relationships with Cher and Diana Ross. Simmons can speak English, German, Hungarian and Hebrew.e

Homecoming visit to Israel

In March 2011, Simmons had a homecoming visit to Israel where he was born. He described the trip as a "life changing experience". He talked about how he still feels that he is an Israeli – "I'm Israeli. I'm a stranger in America. I'm an outsider". While there, Gene met his half brother Kobi, and half sisters Drora, Sharon and Ogenia, the latter two being twins. Simmons has plans to bring his band, KISS, to Israel. He has always said that he is an ardent supporter of Israel. At a press conference in Israel, he spoke both Hebrew and English.

Controversy

In February 2002, Simmons was interviewed on the NPR radio show ''Fresh Air'' and asked about his claim of having had sex with 4,600 women. He told Terry Gross: "If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs," paraphrasing a lyric from The Who's 1981 hit song "You Better You Bet". Gross replied: "That's a really obnoxious thing to say." At the time, Simmons refused to grant permission to NPR to make the interview available online. However, it appears in print in Gross's book ''All I Did Was Ask'' (ISBN 1-4013-0010-3) and unauthorized transcripts are available. NPR re-broadcast part of the interview in August 2007. Simmons' bandmate Paul Stanley has frequently used the phrase "... welcomed us with open arms and open legs" in onstage patter during Kiss concerts. In 2004, during an interview in Melbourne, Australia, while talking about Islamic extremists, Simmons described Islam as a "vile culture", saying that Muslim women had to walk behind their husbands, weren't allowed to be educated or to own houses. He said: "They want to come and live right where you live and they think that you're evil." Amongst ensuing criticism, Australian Muslim of the Year Susan Carland argued that Simmons' stereotyping of Muslims was inaccurate. Simmons later clarified his comments on his website, saying he had been talking specifically about Muslim extremists. In 2005, Simmons was sued by a former girlfriend, Georgeann Walsh Ward, who said she had been "defamed" in the VH1 documentary ''When Kiss Ruled the World'' and portrayed as an "unchaste woman". A settlement was reached in June 2006. In 2011, Kiss was removed from the lineup for Michael Jackson's tribute concert because of Simmons' allegations and negative comments regarding Jackson's personal life and legal issues.

Awards and recognition

On January 28 in 2011, Simmons was presented the key to the city in Dallas, Texas and a street, Gene Simmons Boulevard, was named for him. On June 15 of the same year he was given the key to the city by Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Filmography

! Year	! Film	! Role	! Bandmates	! Miscellaneous
1978	''Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park''	The Demon	Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley	TV movie
1984		Dr. Charles Luther
1986		Nuke (radio DJ)
1986	''Never Too Young to Die''	Carruthers / Velvet Von Ragner
1987		Malak Al Rahim
1988	''The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years''	Himself	Paul Stanley	Documentary
1989	''Red Surf''	Doc
1999		Himself	Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley	Simmons also produced
2002	''The New Guy''	Reverend
2002	''Wish You Were Dead''	Vinny
2008	''Detroit Metal City''	Jack lll Dark		Japanese movie
2009		Joe Adler
2010	''Expecting Mary''	Taylor
2010	''Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage	Himself		Documentary

Television appearances

! Year	! Show	! Episode	! Role	! Bandmates	! Miscellaneous
1974	''The Mike Douglas Show''	June 11, 1974	Himself	Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley	Kiss' first national television appearance, performed "Firehouse"
1976	''The Paul Lynde Halloween Special''	October 29, 1976	Himself	Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley	The band performed "Detroit Rock City (song)
1985	''[[Miami Vice''	"Prodigal Son"	Newton Blade
1997	''Action League Now!''	"Rock-A-Big-Baby"	Toy version of himself	Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley	Performed "Rock and Roll All Nite"
1998	''MADtv''	October 31, 1998 (#406)	Himself	Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley.	Halloween special; performed in five sketches
2001	''Family Guy''	"A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas"	Animated version of himself	Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley
2001		May 27, 2001	Himself		Won $500,000 for a charity
2001	''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart''	June 12, 2001	Himself		Almost licked Jon Stewart's face in response to Jon being unable to explain the difference between pleasure and joy to a man with a 'twelve-inch tongue'
2002	''Family Guy''	"Road to Europe"	Animated version of himself	Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley
2002		September 6, 2002	Himself
2003	''King of the Hill''	"Reborn to Be Wild"	Jessie
2004	''Third Watch''	"Higher Calling"	Donald Mann
2004	''Third Watch''	"Monsters"	Donald Mann
2004	''Third Watch''	"More Monsters"	Donald Mann
2005	''American Idol''	"Auditions: New Orleans"	Himself- guest judge
2005	''Family Guy''		Animated version of himself/ Prisoner #3
2005	''Mind of Mencia''	Episode #1.7	Himself
2006		August 1, 2006	Himself		Gene Simmons Family Jewels
2007	''SpongeBob SquarePants''	"20,000 Patties Under the Sea"	Sea Monster
2007		"Gene Simmons"	Himself		UK's More4 show
2008	''Entertainment Tonight''	January 2, 2008	Himself
2008	''Jimmy Kimmel Live!''	January 18, 2008	Himself
2008		March 11, 2008	Himself
2008	''Criss Angel Mindfreak''	"Mindfreaking with the Stars"	Himself
2008	''Ugly Betty''	"The Kids Are Alright"	Himself
2008	''Ugly Betty''	"A Thousand Words by Friday"	Himself
2008		Episode #3.9	Himself		Won $500,000 for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation charity
2008		First three episodes	Himself		Fired in the third episode
2008	''Jingles''		Celebrity judge		Mark Burnett reality show
2009	''Glenn Martin DDS''	Glenn Gary, Glenn Martin	himself
2009	''American Idol''	Season Finale	Himself	Eric Singer, Tommy Thayer, Paul Stanley	Performed medley of 3 songs with contestant Adam Lambert
2009	''The Fairly OddParents''		Animated version of himself	Eric Singer, Tommy Thayer, Paul Stanley
2009	''The Fairly OddParents''		Animated version of himself	Eric Singer, Tommy Thayer, Paul Stanley
2010	''I Get That a Lot''	Episode 2	As Himself		Simmons appeared as a psychic working at the Mystic Journey Bookstore in Venice, California
2010	''Extreme Makeover: Home Edition''	Episode 160	As Himself		The band Kiss made a personal appearance during the Wagstaff family's vacation in Disneyland and honored them as special guests at one of their concerts. Kiss also made a personal appearance at a local school where a donation of new musical instruments was made in the Wagstaff family's name.
2010	''I'm in a Rock 'n' Roll Band!''	Episode 1 And 5	As Himself		Discussing the requirements of being in a rock band.
2011		To Love and Die in LA	As Himself

Video appearances

In 2007, he appeared alongside other celebrities, as well as regular people, in the music video for "Rockstar" by Nickelback.

Video game appearances

Gene Simmons is a playable character in ''Tony Hawk's Underground'', unlocked when completing the story mode on Normal difficulty, and also appears with his Kiss bandmates in the Hotter Than Hell level to play one of three songs upon collecting the four K-I-S-S letters.

Gene Simmons' Kiss character, The Demon, is a playable character in ''Kiss: Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child''.

Simmons also has a large role in the 2010 music video game ''Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock''. In addition to narrating the main storyline and doing advertising for the game, the Kiss song "Love Gun" is playable.

Discography

Kiss

Solo

''Gene Simmons'' (1978)

''Sex Money Kiss'' (audiobook CD), 2003)

''Asshole'' (2004)

''Speaking in Tongues'' (spoken word CD, 2004)

Publishing career

In 2002, Simmons launched ''Gene Simmons' Tongue'', a men's lifestyle magazine. The magazine lasted five issues before being discontinued.

Published works

''Kiss and Make-Up'', Gene Simmons (ISBN 0-609-81002-2)

''Sex Money Kiss'', Gene Simmons (ISBN 1-893224-86-4)

''Kiss: The Early Years'', Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley (ISBN 0-609-81028-6)

''Kiss: Behind the Mask'', David Leaf and Ken Sharp (ISBN 0-446-96524-6)

''Ladies of the Night: A Historical and Personal Perspective on the Oldest Profession in the World'', Gene Simmons (ISBN 1-59777-501-0)

References

External links

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