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Starfleet Security officer who defected to the Maquis. Lieutenant Commander Michael Eddington was assigned to Deep Space 9 in 2371 because Starfleet Command did not have full confidence in Odo. When Commander Sisko defied Admiral Toddman's order and embarked upon a rescue mission in 2371 during the joint Romulan and Cardassian attack on the Founder's homeworld, Eddington sabotaged the Defiant's cloaking device. He explained that he was working under Toddman's direct orders to prevent an unauthorized expedition. In 2372, Eddington was discovered to be an agent of the Maquis when he hijacked 12 Federation industrial replicators destined for Cardassia. Eddington subsequently fled Starfleet authorities and, in 2373, organized a Maquis offensive using biogenic weapons against the Cardassian colonies on Veloz Prime and Quatal Prime. Eddington was also responsible for an attack that disabled the Starship Malinche. Benjamin Sisko, determined to stop his former friend, scattered toxic trilithium resin into the atmosphere of Solosos III, rendering it uninhabitable. Eddington surrendered to Starfleet authorities when Sisko threatened to do the same to Tracken II. As a leader of the Maquis, Eddington envisioned himself as Valjean, the heroic character of a novel entitled Les Misérables, which was Eddington's favorite book. Michael Eddington was first seen in "The Search, Part I" (DS9). |
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