Winn Adami
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| Winn Adami | |
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| Species: | Bajoran |
| Gender: | Female |
| Hair color: | Blonde |
| Eye color: | Blue |
| Home planet: | Bajor |
| Affiliation: | Bajoran Prophets, Pah Wraiths |
| Position: | Spiritual leader of Bajor |
| Rank: | Kai |
| Portrayed by: | Louise Fletcher |
Kai Winn Adami is a recurring character on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She is played by actress Louise Fletcher.
The "Kai" is the elected spiritual leader of Bajor.
[edit] Overview
Winn was a Vedek during the occupation 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 freedom from Cardassia.
Winn made 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 objected to Keiko's teaching of only the scientific information about the Bajoran wormhole, instead of teaching the religious mythos regarding it. Winn viewed the science-based teachings as blasphemy, and eventually her influence resulted in all of the Bajoran students being pulled from the school.
Later, a bomb was detonated inside the school. Commander Benjamin Sisko met with Vedek Bareil on Bajor and asked him to reprimand Winn before she stirred up more violence, but he declined to enter into the conflict.
Winn also directed one of her supporters to assassinate Bareil, who was Winn's chief rival in the Vedek Assembly. The failed assassination attempt was made during a speech Bareil was giving calling for an end to conflicts over the school. Winn's involvement, although suspected by Major Kira Nerys, was 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 approached. Winn sought out and obtained information about the Kendra Valley Massacre, which she used to manipulate Major Kira into investigating Vedek Bareil Antos, who happened to be in a relationship with Kira at the time. Ultimately, Bariel was forced to withdraw, resulting in Winn's election as Kai. Although Bariel was later determined to be innocent by Kira, he chose to not reveal the truth, which was that Kai Opaka had actually been responsible for the massacre. Bareil had faithfully kept the secret in order to protect the Bajoran people and preserve their religion.
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 in order to advance her own career and agenda.
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 in order to restore Bajor, she must release the Pah Wraiths, who he claimed were the true gods 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, and threatened to expose them. Winn killed him to prevent it; a drop of blood fell from the knife Winn stabbed him with, and onto the blank pages of the Kosst Amojan, revealing the text. Shortly afterwards, Winn discovered Dukat's true identity; when Dukat attempted to read the Kosst Amojan himself, he was blinded (the text may only be read by the Kai), and cast out onto the streets by Winn. After studying the text, Winn discovered the way to release the Pah Wraiths from the Fire Caves and hesitantly allowed Dukat join her.
Out on DS9, Sisko got a premonition about something going wrong on Bajor. In the series finale "What You Leave Behind", he went down to the planet to the Fire Caves and confronted Winn and Dukat. While Dukat and Sisko fought in the Fire Caves, Winn realized she had made the wrong choices, and that her own ambition had blinded her all of this time. 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. Dukat used powers granted to him by the wraiths, and pulled the book through the air, to himself. Surprised, Winn yelled to Sisko that the texts were the key to stopping Dukat and the Pah Wraiths.
Dukat, infused with powers from the Pah Wraiths, enveloped Winn in flames and destroyed her for her actions.
[edit] External links
- Winn Adami article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
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