Breen Confederacy | Star Trek 

It is interesting to note that in Star Trek: Online, the Breen wholeheartedly supported the signing of the Temporal Accords, citing time travel as a "coward's tool"

Funny how the Romulans are usually hyped up as the ultra secretive, isolationist faction... Then there's the Breen who make the Romulans seem like an open book by comparison.

The Breen attack on Earth was crazy, the attacking forces were nearly wiped out and they didn't even damage anything of strategic importance, it was just a blow to Federation morale. Damar saw it as a pyrrhic victory, but the Breen just don't give a sh*t.

I think it's telling that when Kira confronted a pair of Jem'Hadar in a Breen suit, the Jem'Hadar looked scared.

Kira and Dukat saw a Breen because they stole "refrigerator suits" when they rescued Ziyal. Nor did they freeze to death wearing them suggesting that they're not refrigerated at all. Canonically, everything we know of the Breen comes from the Breen, so can be assumed to be a lie. In the real world, despite playing a major role in DS9 for three seasons, the writers never fleshed them out for some reason.

I loved how unknowingly powerful the Breen were, the fact that just them entering the war turned it single handily in the Dominions favour, it made them seem so powerful which when combined with their enigma made them so terrifying.

Most species with access universal translators: Normal speech Breen: Electric Garbling The Breen are indeed an enigmatic faction, with their full body suits, asymmetric warships, and astropolitical choices. In apocryphal Star Trek lore, the Breen may consist of multiple species. This is a rather *_"cool"_* video.

I liked the idea posed in the Post-Nemesis Pocket Books series that the Breen aren't actually one species, but several united under the same banner, like a secretive, militarised Federation.

The breen always fascinated me becuase i knew nothing about them and i love the suits. Not sure if any of the books expand on them, maybe the comics? idk but i should check it out......... Man, i want a good star trek game, id take one like jedi fallen order and in order to make hand to hand combat make sense, id love to play as a Klingon, so going swords out would make sense. That would be so great How the hell do we not have a modern amazing trek rpg yet?

I love the theory that the Breen is not a single species, but multiple brought together for survival. And why they are so against the Federation for it counters their culture in almost every way it is consider subersive.

The quote regarding Russia made by Winston Churchill applies perfectly to the Breen: "A riddle, wrapped inside of a mystery, wrapped inside of an enigma."

I've always wondered if the breen are shape shifters this could be the reason why we are unsure how they actually look, it would also explain why no one finds the body as it breaks down too quickly. It could also explain how the founders formed the alliance as they would have have similar common grounds.

>barges into the dominion war >attacks your home world >refuses to elaborate further >leaves

An enemy you know little about is an enemy you won't be able to defend against or anticipate the strategies. I think the Breen should replace the Borg as the overall "Big Bad " of the Star Trek franchise. Plus Garak used a Breen suit in one episode. Could always study it and the wreckage of their ships from the Dominion War. Buy the info from the Ferengi. Have the defeated Dominion and Breen turn it over as terms for the Armistice. I think the term "Confederacy " is a ruse so they can disavow their raiding operations. The suits could mask several different types of species that live under the term of Breen. The Alpha Quadrant version of The Dominion that uses the suits to mask what they truly are from outsiders. Like Vorlons do.

The Breen are one of my favorite science-fiction races of all time. I absolutely love the Breen and wished we got more of them because of how awesome they were.

Damn, the Breen are better at Isolationism than North Korea. With NK there's at least people who escape the system and tell the rest of the world what goes on in there, but the Breen don't seem to have that at all

I always like the theory that the Breen are the aliens from “Dear Doctor”, an ENT episode where the main characters have a cure to their species wide genetic disease, but refuse to give it to them because they’re “destined” to be wiped out, The Romulans gave them suits to survive and told them what the humans did, that’s why they hate the Federation.

Neil Breen Confederacy

How come the Breens outfits look like Princess Leias bounty hunter disguise in return of the Jedi?

I love the Breen because they're such an outlier to the setting, they just showed up one day and rocked everybody's shit. They didn't even really care that they lost, they just went back home and suffered few if any repercussions for bombing Earth.

Ideas for the next video: -Autobots(Transformers/IDW) -Decepticons(Transformers/IDW) -Adeptus Mechanicus(Warhammer 40K) -The TVA(MCU) -Cybermen(Doctor Who)

OrangeRiver released a fantastic video about the Breen about two months ago. I think that he's currently one of Top 5 Star Trek focused RU-vidrs.

I really like your WarHammer 40k videos. It would be great if you make a on Alpha Legion.

Breen physiology cannot be than much of a mystery. Kira and Dukat killed some Breen when rescuing his daughter. They could have seen what was underneath the helmet of the dead Breen. On Cardasia, Kira kills a breen and actually wears his suit. She must know what they look like. Likewise, during the Dominion war, there must be cases where the allies came across dead Breen and saw what was inside their suits. So the physiology must be known to some extent. If they have a physical form, then there will be knowledge what that could be. If there is nothing under the helmets, this is also an indication that they have no physical form or one that can't stay stable without the suit.

Basically the Mandalorians of Star Trek.

Those helmets are the same one Leia wore in ROTJ.

Factions to be covered in the future: 1. The Borg (Star Trek) 2. Confederacy of Independent Systems (Star Wars) 3. Equestria (My Little Pony) 4. Umbrella Corporation (Resident Evil) 5. The Mavericks (Mega Man) 6. Allied Nations (Command & Conquer) 7. Tau Empire (Warhammer 40.000) 8. Global Relief Effort (Dying Light) 9. Autobots (Transformers) 10. Union Aerospace Corporation (DOOM) 11. Arasaka Corporation (Cyberpunk) 12. 3rd Street Saints (Saints Row) 13. The Fourth Reich (Metro) 14. Hunter's Guild (Monster Hunter) 15. Empire of Orlais (Dragon Age) 16. Coalition of Ordered Governments (Gears of War) 17. Terran Republic (PlanetSide) 18. House Harkonnen (Dune) 19. Decepticons (Transformers) 20. The Grineer (Warframe) 21. The Hive (Destiny)

Damn, Neil Breen has moved up in the world...and galaxy.

for me the Breen will always be akin to the wolves in Saki's brutally elegant "The Wolves of Cernogratz" they are ever so delightfully eerie and terrifying, aren't they? ;) their mere entry into the Dominion war very nearly turned the tide of the war in the Founder's favours just like (snaps fingers) that

Nice of my favorite factions in StarTrek! sooo cool & mysterious! and i really like their "off" ship designs! (specially in ST:O, Breen ships are glorious to fly!)

Man does anyone besides me find it funny that the helmets worn by the Breen reminds anyone of the helmet worn by Princess Leia in the Return of the Jedi.

The Breen have no hair and exist as a gelatinous and in solid form. La'K is breen in star trek discovery

They sound almost as much of an enigma as our own Breen, of first name Neil

No foreigner has ever seen the Breen without their suits and lived? On two occasions Kira killed a Breen and took their suit.

Id still like to see a 40k lore video on Ciaphas Cain.

What if the Breen are like the Cylons of Star Trek. Interesting 🤔

I've got an idea for a series of videos you could do. How about the 24 factions of Twilight Imperium?

For other mass effect fans, it really seems like the Batarians share many similarities with the Been, right?

Earlier than my Notification 🔔

@1:50 While rescuing Ziyal, Kira and Dukat killed two Breen and wore their suits as a disguise, so they've definitely seen what they look like.

Exceptional episode‼️ Complete, thorough and surprisingly detailed, given the very little canon material available. BRAVISSIMO‼️✊🏼💯💪🏼

Breen would be a much better base for a new Star Trek series than Discovery or the corrupted Federation of Picard.

I love how the Breen look like princess Leia's disguise from ROTJ

With the fall of the Romulan star Empire I want the Breen to be the new mysterious adversary to the Federation.

Wait? No one has seen one with out their suit? Maybe I am misrembering but didn't Kira and Dukat beat up some and steal their uniforms to rescue his daughter?

It's telling that even in the comedy-focused Lower Decks, the Breen are treated with the utmost seriousness with nothing light-hearted or joking made of their showing up.

Perhaps the Dominion offered them genetic engineering techniques that would allow them to live on Minshara class planets without environmental suits.

.....CRM-114 ?!

As much as I think that showing what the brain actually look like would ruin them, I swear that if I was operating in the Star Trek universe as an independent, the first thing I would do is crack a few of those suits open whether they liked it or not.

It's a pity the series finale of DS9 saw a quarter million cut from their budget at the last minute, it didn't just cause some.reused footage to be used, the Breed where supposed to retreat before the assault on Cardassia.

I find it hard to believe that Starfleet hasn't come across a dead Breen and studied it.

TLDW: We have very little idea what the Breen are, or what they want, but they played a devastating role during the Dominion War.

Hasn't anyone every studied the body of a dead Breen? Or taken sensor reading? Come on folks. sm

Starfleet Reimagined!

I thought The Breen were surrounded on all sides by The Federation, so the size of their empire would be constrained, not unknown.

Please tell me that Neil Breen is their God.

I wonder if we might see more of the Breen in a future storyline from Picard or maybe Lower Decks. Meanwhile, I'm just waiting for a new version of the lost video on the Dominion.

I would love to see you guys conquer the tholian assembly for your next trek race. Btw why did your dominion episode dissappear?

Heard a creepy theory that Breen soldiers my be animated cadavers that use refrigeration kits to keep them from decaying. If true then they would be a scary enemy to deal with.

Wouldn't say MOST secretive. Would say that one's the weird sentient mechanical robots.. whom we've NEVER SEEN outside STO least in my knowledge.

It would be interesting to find out if the Borg would be able to assimilate a Breen.

Could you do the Terran empire next?

It's supremely silly to maintain that there's nothing known about breen physiology even after they've been in a major war. There _would_ have been bodies to study. There would have been wreckage of ships telling alliance engineers a lot about the internal environment they were built to support. And even before the war, breen weapons were traded on the black market. You can learn a _lot_ about the conditions under which an item was manufactured by looking at it on a molecular or atomic level even today, and we're talking about the 24th century here.

We now know what they look like.

The Federation would never have developed a countermeasure to the Breen energy dampner, if the Breen _had not joined the Dominion._ Starfleet were only able to obtain a Breen dampner due to failings in Cardassian security on Jem'hidarr ships being retrofitted with the Weapons. … If the Dominion did not insist on having Breen weapons installed in their own ships, and the Founders didn't have a "traitor", the Breen's enigmatic nature means Starfleet would never have been able to get one. So in some parallel universes where the wormhole was never discovered, the Breen have this ace which they'll use someday - and perhaps a lone Bird of Prey won't make certain reactor adjustments at just the right time?

Can you do a video on the Autobots?

The Breen are cyborgs. The Breen biological structure is somewhat like The Fouders. The only difference is that The Breen has engineered mechanical hardware into their biological form.

i am shocked that the alpha powers didn't continue a separate war against the breen. starfleet, the klingons and the romulans, all ganging up on them. just wipe them out, or at least humble them and get tons of intelligence. they let them off too easily in my view

Of course the term Confederacy, regarding the brain, maybe like certain countries that call themselves republics but are just autocracies. You know like China and North Korea.

It's assumed that after the Dominion War, the Breen resumed their isolationism, which lasted for at least several more centuries and possibly up until the time of the Burn, and didn't reveal their presence until the Emerald Chain had sufficiently established a presence in the expanded galaxy in the wake of the Federation's near-total collapse. Not until 3191 was anything significant learned about the Breen, and even then not much was verified. The Breen civilisation seems to have been revealed as a stratocracy, a civilisation in which all have a military role to fill,and a military purpose to serve -- there are no civilians among the Breen of the 32nd Century, only soldiers. They are organized into "flights", each of which is commanded by their most senior officer, called a Primarch. Only a very few, possibly couriers, have ever seen the face of a Breen and lived to tell the tale, but they have confirmed that the Breen appear to have a humanoid body structure, they require no refrigeration, and are polymorphic, though their ability to modify their bodily appearance,though it appears to be limited to two distinct forms, ome gelatinous, the other appearing more solid and humanoid.

Kira took a Breen suit and wore it on Cardassia Prime, so she would have seen one.

"This is intolerable! They have us caged up like animals!" -- WORF

Major Keira and Gul Dukat subdued at least 2 Breen and stole their refrigeration suits. They even managed to dress themselves in these suits. The Breen mystery in this regard has been solved. Star Trek ulis just trying to milk the mystery cow. It's intellectually lazy as well.

No offence to that particular narrator, but I can't listen to his voice. It's so scratchy, like the guy rinses his mouth with nails and shattered glass every morning. Not only that, he also sounds completely lifeless, even today's AI assistants sound more vivid and alive. I've watched several videos with this dude, and I practically had to force myself every time

To me, the Breen are the epitome of lazy writing in TNG era Star Trek. You cannot just say *"these guys are xenophobic isolationists"* and then call it a day. When it comes to mystery, there generally has to be *something* behind the curtain for the viewers to believe you when you say there is.

I considered the Breen to be a lazy plot device in DS9 to give tension and move the story forward. They did the job well. I just still find them flat and lazy. I'll admit this is primarily because through all of the TV series, they were never really developed at all with any plot lines of note. They were a tool to move things along and that was that.

I never understood (and still don't) the logic of the Breen even joining the Dominion War. It just seemed to be a way to create tension by the writers. A more fleshed out reasoning/story would have been nice.

I remember hearing a theory that the Breen are actually a collection of species, hence 'Confederacy', who wear the suits to maintain the facade of a single, united species.

I guess with all the dead Breen laying around after the battle of cardasia no one thought to take one of their helmets off. Or when kira snuck in in a Breen suit she must of closed her eyes when she took it off of the Breen. Maybe she found it in a closet, who knows?

In short: The Breen Confederacy is a land of contrast

Right off the bat, a vessel with green lights looming menacingly in the darkness.

The Breen are clearly extra-galactic refugees who have fled the GFFA. The hats give it away.

I have an idea for an Atlas investigation: Wellington Wells from We Happy Few. The narrator has a voice fitting enough for it

it may be that the breen are not native to the planets they inhabit but originated on other worlds that were concured or were destryed by a super nova, thier original world may have been very cold with a non oxygen atmostphere. it may be they are a form of ice being that when exposed to oxygen they desolve and vaporize into gas, this is why nobody has seen one out of the suit. if the gemhadar had seen the deaths of breen soldiers the may be somewhat in fear of them because the founders they are geneticly programmed to see as gods see the breen as sort of a distant relitive of thier gods the founders. the breen may have joined forces with the dominion for 2 reasons, to eliminste other powers they see as a threat and for room to expand thier confederation, over hundereds of year of isolation they may be running short on resorces. it also may be that the breen are not from the same galaxy and thier confederacy may be the location of a wormhole to another galaxy, merly just an outpost to protect the opening to thier home galaxy.

Except Kira was wearing a Breen suit so.... how don't we know what the look like?

I only just noticed that Breen helmets look rather like a certain character from Star Wars...

Suggestion: Ambassador Kosh's Ship please

Little known fact, The Breen were also welcome at Jabba the Hutt's palace.

So long story short. - we have no idea what they are. - we have no idea where they came from. - We have no idea on their agenda. - lastly, we have no idea who they are

Could you take a look at the ADVENT administration from xcom 2? It’s really interesting to me and has a decent amount of lore

Orions: Well at least you lasted longer against the Federation than we did.

Ambitious episode given the lack of information on this civilization.

I like to imagine the Breen are either non-corporeal organics or a robotic race akin to a swarm intelligence. Rather than a hive intelligence like the Borg, the individual "selves" could each have a voice in the Breen Confederacy but their external politics is using the entire swarm's voice. As for why they are using the suits, two ideas come to mind: Camouflage and optimal processing. To interact with other species, they likely determined they had to look similar enough to them and thus created the suits to serve as avatars of the swarm. In order to quickly process both the will of the swarm and the strategic situation in normal "biological" environments they would need to keep cool to maximise processing speed. It's entirely possible the ultra-cold suits is to keep biological species from looking too close as it's clearly incredibly dangerous for them if the suit is breached. This would take up vast amounts of resources, but given organic species tend to react badly to synthetic ones it is safer than the other choice until the Dominion comes along promising to unite all regardless of species, finally giving the Breen a path out of their self-imposed restrictions.

So Section 31 has never captured a living or dead breen in the entire domion war?

Hilarious that they stole a Star Wars: Return of the Jedi helmet for a prop.

Very deadly and mysterious during the dominion war.

Who copywrites this? Maybe looking to hire.

Please do the Terran republic from plantside 2

Isnt that breen ship called the Chell Gret or something like that?

Love the been ships have the most "alien" aesthetic on Star Trek.