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Michael Eddington; 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. "The Search, Parts I and II".

When Commander Sisko defied Admiral Toddman's orders and embarked upon a rescue mission in 2371 during the joint Romulan and Cardassian attack on the Founders' homeworld, Eddington sabotaged the Defiant's cloaking device. He explained that he was working under Toddman's direct orders to prevent an unauthorized expedition. "The Die is Cast".

In 2372, Eddington was discovered to be an agent of the Maquis when he hijacked 12 Federation industrial replicators destined for Cardassia. "For the Cause".

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 Miserables, which was Eddington's favorite book. (Eddington saw his former friend Sisko as Javert, the inflexible police inspector in the same book.) "For the Uniform".

Eddington married fellow Maquis member Rebecca Sullivan in 2373. Two weeks later, Starfleet authorities arrested him. He was released several months later when it was feared that Eddington's Maquis group had engineered a devastating missile attack against Cardassia Prime, an attack that could have drawn both the Cardassians and the Federation into an all-out war. Captain Benjamin Sisko transported Eddington to the Badlands to persuade him to provide information on the suspected sneak attack, but learned that there was in fact no attack in progress. The apparent attack was a fake engineered by Eddington's wife. Once in the Badlands, Eddington was killed by Jem'Hadar troops while helping Sisko evacuate the surviving members of Eddington's Maquis group from planet Athos IV. Rebecca Sullivan was among the survivors. "Blaze of Glory".

Eddington also appeared in "The Adversary", "Rejoined", "Our Man Bashir", "