Son'a
From Hidden Frontier
The Son'a are a narcissistic and materialist humanoid race descended from the Ba'ku. They left their idyllic home planet in the Briar Patch in the 2270's after a failed attempt to take over Ba'ku society. The Son'a had rebelled against the Ba'ku philosophy of rejecting high technology.
After their departure, the Son'a established for themselves a technologically advanced society. In 2325, they subjugated the Tarlac and the Ellora species to serve as indentured servants and soldiers. The Son'a have equipped their vessels with unpredictable subspace weapons, in defiance of the Second Khitomer Accords. They have also manufactured large quantities of ketracel-white for the Dominion. One of their white storage facilities was located at their outpost at Devos II.
However, without the regenerative effects of the Ba'ku homeworld's metaphasic radiation, the Son'a became desperate in their efforts to prolong their lives by any possible means, including genetic manipulation and surgical techniques. The Son'a make regular visits to facilities where their skin is stretched tight, and accumulated toxins are purged from their bodies. Nevertheless, in the 2370's many Son'a were nearing death.
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Alliances, Insurrections and a Return Home...For Some
In 2375, a group of Son'a led by Ahdar Ru'afo attempted to access the metaphasic particles within the rings of the Ba'ku planet, now located within Federation space. To do so, they entered an alliance with Starfleet Admiral Matthew Dougherty, who convinced the Federation Council to approve the scheme. The Son'a had constructed a vessel to harvest the particles, but with the secondary effect of rendering the planet uninhabitable. They agreed to follow Starfleet procedures and relocate the existing Ba'ku population beforehand, using a cloaked Federation holoship.
The plan began to unravel when Lieutenant Commander Data from the USS Enterprise-E uncovered the holoship and was shot by a Son'a soldier. When the Enterprise-E arrived, Captain Jean-Luc Picard threatened to expose the true nature of their operations to the Federation, when he and a number of his officers beamed to the surface to help the Ba'ku. In response, Ru'afo sent Son'a warships to intercept the Enterprise and ordered the Ba'ku to be removed by force, though his efforts were impeded by the Enterprise crew.
Unwilling to wait any longer, Ru'afo killed Dougherty and deployed the metaphasic collector. Fortunately, Picard was able to stop its activation and trigger the auto-destruct sequence, with help from Ru'afo's second-in-command Gallatin. Soon the Federation Council withdrew their support for the project, with new information from the Enterprise. Some of the Son'a elected to return to the Ba'ku. (Star Trek: Insurrection)
The Dominion War and Its Aftermath
During the later days of the Dominion War, Weyoun diverted a number of Dominion warships to the Son'a outpost on Devos II. They were diverted, rather than sent to pursue the USS Defiant in order to help protect the new ketracel-white facility built there, as the Dominion became aware that the Federation had been informed of its location. (DS9 7.17 - "Penumbra")
In 2376, in the aftermath of the war, the Son'a leadership fell apart and corruption set in. A Federation diplomatic team was sent to the Son'a, who were complaining about control of the trade routes in the Patch. (ANG 1.01 - "Return to Duty") In 2377, a Son'a ambassador was a part of an ambassadorial delegation at Deep Space 12. (HF 1.06 - "Echoes")
Alternate Timeline
When the original USS Excelsior fell through a temporal anomaly, it resulted an in altered history, where the Federation laid waste to the Klingon Empire in response to the assassination of the President of the United Federation of Planets. The Q, as punishment, led the Borg to the Federation, who then decimated both the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, after which only a handful of ships remained. The Son'a were a part of the fleet that was assembled from the survivors. Ensign Jenna McFarland was appointed as the Federation Ambassador to the Son'a. (HF 2.02 - "Yesterday's Excelsior")
Production Notes
- Although the Son'a role in the Dominion War was first mentioned in Star Trek: Insurrection, this event presumably took place after the events in Insurrection, indicating that not all of the Son'a returned to the Ba'ku home world.
