Orion Syndicate
The Orion Syndicate is an organization that features in Star Trek.
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History
The Orion Syndicate were an interstellar criminal organization that was created by the Orions.
During the 22nd century, the Orion Syndicate controlled an area of space bordering the Klingon Empire. The area of space between the two powers was a volatile and lawless region known as the Borderland. It was in this region that a group of Augments that were relics from Earth's Eugenics Wars where they attacked a Klingon Bird-of-Prey in 2154 and murdering the crew as well as stealing the ship. In order to avert a war with the Klingon Empire, Enterprise NX-01 was sent into the Borderland in an attempt to locate the Augments. While on this mission, however, Enterprise was attacked by an Orion Interceptor, and nine crewmembers were kidnapped. The crewmembers were taken to a processing station on Verex III, where they were intended to be auctioned off as slaves. Although Captain Archer was able to rescue his crewmembers, his actions in stealing Orion "property" made him a wanted man in the Syndicate. (ENT: Borderland) Later that year, an Orion named Harrad-Sar attempted to kidnap Archer and deliver him to the Syndicate. It was during this incident that it was learned by the Enterprise crew that Orion females, previously thought to be little more than commodities to be bought and sold, were actually in charge of the Syndicate, controlling the males via highly potent pheromones. (ENT: Bound)
In 2371, an Idanian Intelligence operative was placed undercover in the organization of a man named Draim, a Syndicate member who specialized in blackmail and extortion. Due to the fact that Draim employed telepaths to screen all potential associates, the operative's memories were removed and placed on a data crystal, and she was given a new identity. Believing her name to be Arissa, she worked as a net-girl in Draim's operation, obtaining information which Draim would later use for blackmail. Arissa stayed undercover for two years, never realizing that she was an undercover operative, until she was recalled by Idanian Intelligence, and her memories were restored. (DS9: A Simple Investigation)
In 2373, Starfleet Intelligence came to recruit Deep Space 9's chief of operations Miles O'Brien to operate as an undercover operative set to infiltrate the Syndicate. He was tasked with discovering the identity of a leak within Starfleet who was passing information to the Orion Syndicate. During his assignment, Chief O'Brien came to discover that the Syndicate as working with the Dominion in a plot to destabilise the Klingon-Federation alliance. This information was passed to a Starfleet Intelligence contact named Chadwick who informed the Klingons of an assassination plot against their ambassador on Farius Prime. The revelation would have led to the death of the Syndicate team involved in the plot. However, O'Brien had become close to the team he had been embedded in where he warned Liam Bilby against commencing the operation by revealing his ties to Starfleet. Bilby though chose to continue with the assassination attempt as he knew that if he backed off then the Syndicate would learn that he allowed his gang to be infiltrated by Starfleet. This wold have resulted in not only Bilby's death for the failure but the murder of his entire family. (DS9: Honor Among Thieves)
Overview
Its activities included gambling, racketeering, smuggling, piracy, slave-trading, extortion, and assassination.
A practice performed by the Syndicate was the act called 'witnessing'. Members would often vouch for the loyalty of any new recruit whom they brought into the organization. This was a method of ensuring trustworthiness amongst its members, as any Syndicate member who was found to have brought in a disloyal recruit would be killed along with that recruit. (DS9: Honor Among Thieves)
Failure was known to result in the Syndicate killing its members and the murder of their families. (DS9: Honor Among Thieves)
Members
- Harrad-Sar :
- D'Nesh :
- Thadial Bokar :
Notes
- The Orion Syndicate made their first appearance in Star Trek: Deep Space 9.
In other media
Video games
- In Star Trek: Starfleet Command - Orion Pirates, the Orion Syndicate appeared in the setting of the video game. the Syndicate was just one of eight Orion pirate cartels, the others being the Orion Cartel, Crimson Shadow, Camboro, Prime Industries, Tiger Heart, Beast Raiders, and the Wyldefire Compact.
- In Star Trek Online, the Orion Syndicate appeared in the setting of the MMORPG video game. They were allied with the Klingon Empire in its war against the Federation. The legitimate Orion government is not mentioned directly, but it seems to be implied that either the government has taken control of the Syndicate or vice-versa, as the leader of the Syndicate, Melani D'ian, was apparently the Matriarch of the Orion homeworld as well.
Novels
Appearances
- Star Trek: Deep Space 9:
- Star Trek: Enterprise:
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