Zebreliy Va'Kust

Cardassian Glinn Zebreliy Va'Kust served as first officer on the Cardassian warship Romac under Gul Rebek. (Star Trek: Sigils and Unions)

Va'Kust is notable for a temperament that can at times appear so stoic as to seem Vulcan-like, as well as for his great height and bulk, and a deep voice.


 * Va'Kust's position depends on the Sigils and Unions understanding of his rank, rather than that of the Pocket Books novels.

For at least six months in 2375, however, Va'Kust acted as commander of what appeared to be a POW camp on the Cardassian outworld of Lessek--but was instead intended to gather captured Starfleet personnel into a place where they would ultimately be invited to join the Cardassian rebellion against the Dominion.

Even to the Starfleet prisoners interned at the Lessek camp, however, his modus operandi diverged significantly from the brutal regime typical of Cardassian prisoner camps. Instead, Va'Kust ran the camp within the bounds of the Seldonis Convention.

In addition to ensuring the basics of food, medical care, and shelter, Va'Kust also acted in his commanding role to maintain order by portioning out the camp's more undesirable tasks by means of the "rotation"--a schedule assigning teams of Starfleet soldiers with Cardassian guards to cook meals and carry out latrine duties. Most notably, however, Va'Kust enforced discipline on his own men even with the two Bajoran prisoners. Crewman Webene Grathis noted that those Cardassian guards without Va'Kust's even-handedness feared to act inappropriately towards him and Ensign Folani Jederia lest they incur the glinn's wrath.

Va'Kust was part of the group that revealed the truth of the Lessek base to ranking Starfleet officer, Lieutenant Commander Makis Spirodopoulos. (Star Trek: Sigils and Unions--The Thirteenth Order)