Tekara

Tekara was a Hideki-class Cardassian vessel that answered a distress call of the federation dilithium mine in the Alpha-Redfield system. Its whole crew was involved in rescue operations. When USS Pegasus arrived in the system, it found the ship in orbit around Redfield III completely void of crew and powered in standby, but secured. Medical equipment and weapons were missing, only a datapad was found that explained the reply to the distress call and mentioned attacks on the Cardassian away teams and also the intention to rescue the comrades by sending the remaining crew as reinforcements. In sickbay the Pegasus ' away team finds also the corpse of a Cardassian female, which still wears her armor. The latter has a very visible bump in the chest region, the corpse shows scratches from two five-fingered hands in the face and a broken skull on the backside - scans and analysis reveal human DNA on the corpse, suggesting an attack by a human.

Due to a risk of further contamination, the ship was destroyed by Pegasus after the its crew finished investigating the the events on Redfield III.