The worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
The worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Original title: Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ) is an existing six novels novels , which appeared in English in 2004/05 and 2012/13 in German for the first time. The novels are part of the literary continuation of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and are set, partly parallel to one another, in 2376, the first year after the end of the television series' plot. Each novel is focused on one of the six most important, non-human worlds that play an important role in the fictional sequel to the television series: Cardassia , Andor , Trill , Bajor , Ferenginar and the Dominion .
The novels were originally published in English by Pocket Books in three volumes and in German by Cross Cult in six separate volumes, each with around 200 pages.
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Cardassia - The lotus flower
The O'Brien family now live on Cardassia Prime because Keiko has taken a new job there, where she is running a model project to develop agriculture in the Andak region. Miles is helping the Starfleet Engineering Corps rebuild the Cardassian infrastructure.
The Cardassian physicist Tela Maleren belongs to the so-called Oralian Way, a group that is against the public expression of religion on Cardassia and wants to protect Cardassia as it used to be. While the Bajoran Vedek Yevir, who advocates the public practice of religion, is giving a speech in Andak on the occasion of the agricultural project, Tela's daughter Nyra arrests the speakers and the audience of around 200 people and, with the threat of detonating a bomb, demands the abandonment of the project, the dissolution of the Ghemor government and the stopping of the Oralian Way. Her goal is to cleanse Cardassia of external influences that endanger Cardassia's future.
From his seat of government in the capital, Ghemor tries to end the hostage situation. He is advised by his new political advisor Mev Jartek and by Garak. Garak realizes that Nyra works for the Cardassian extremist terrorist organization "True Path" that he previously spied on. He questions their former employee Korven, from whom he learns that Korven was once the commanding officer of Gul Entor. Entor is now an opponent of the Andak project and belongs to the technological approval committee, which decides on the funding for the project depending on today's event in Andak.
The hostage-taking ends bloodlessly after Yevir vs. Nyra appealed to give up. After Entor is confronted with the information garak has gathered, the committee approves the funding for the Andak project. Garak notes that Jartek leaked secret information about today's project presentation to Korven, which enabled the True Path to take action. However, Jartek did not let Korven know that they were from Jartek. It is clear to Garak that Jartek was trying to discredit Ghemor. Nevertheless, Garak keeps these findings with Jartek a secret.
Andor - paradigm
On the occasion of Thriss's funeral, Shar, accompanied by Prynn and Counselor Lt. Commander Phillipa Mathias, to Andor. Shar's mother Charivretha is accused by opposition groups on Andor of being a tool of the Federation and no longer an Andorian representative. As evidence for this accusation, they also lead Shar's refusal to act. the completion of the mating ritual. Sessethantis zh'Cheen - Thantis for short -, the mother of Shar's ally Thriss, who took his own life because Shar refused to engage in the mating ritual, also belongs to the opposition. Charivretha now expects Shar to help defend her against Sessethantis and thus keep her position as Andorian representative in the Federation Council. Because of the political dispute, there are already riots and demonstrations on Andor.
When Shar arrives at Charivretha, the two of them quarrel. Shar learns from his mother that she has been spying on him for a long time to protect him. Charivretha also tries to force her son to stay with her. Out of dismay, Shar and Prynn, with whom he is now close friends, flees from his mother in a shuttle to Harbortown. In the hustle and bustle of the marketplace there, they come under the influence of a euphoric poison and pass out. They are soon found by the authorities, also because Anichent was persecuting them.
Around the same time, Charivretha is kidnapped by an extremist group of visionists. The ruling party of progressives is blackmailed by the kidnappers into carrying out a full investigation into the allegedly unethical and conspiratorial research at the Andorian Institute of Science within one day. Shar, Prynn, Matthias and Thantis set out on a liberation campaign, they can liberate them on another continent. Their mutual acquaintance Thia, who was unconsciously exploited by the kidnappers, helps them find.
After the liberation of Charivretha, it turns out that the allegations of the visionists - that the scientists are using genetic engineering to reduce the number of Andorian genders from four to two in order to increase fertility - are true. Because of this knowledge, Charivretha resigns from her office and publishes the information. However, there is also research going on with the eggs of the Yrythny ( → see also: This gray ghost ). Shar and Thia, who have been disapproved of by their allies, offer themselves as test subjects for the research. Because of this, and despite Shar's admission to love Prynn, Shar remains on Andor.
Trill - Unjoined
Based on Ros's investigations into the origin of the parasites, the Federation Council sends a task force consisting of Bashir, Dax, Ro and Taran'atar to the planet Minos Korva. The team found lots of dead parasites in an ice cave there. They obviously died from the death of the parasite queen. The Trill government begins a parasite investigation with Ezri Dax to help. Bashir accompanies them to Trill. From analyzing a fragment from the cave on Minos Korva, Bashir comes to the conclusion that it may have come from the planet Kurl, whose population died out several millennia ago and was possibly also a symbiotic species. On Trill, Ezri is questioned by the Senate about the parasite plague.
The public on Trill learns that, contrary to the previous political announcement that only a few Trill are suitable for a union with symbionts, at least half of all Trill are suitable for a union. This leads to violent demonstrations, including in front of the seat of government. Assassins assassinate a key Trill senator and plan to detonate a bomb in the Senate, but Dax and Bashir thwart the explosion. Political extremists who call themselves neo-purists and who are not united, acknowledge that they are responsible for the terrorist attacks. They state that the Kurl are not only related to the Trill, but originally colonized Trill. The purists want to spread this information as truth and kill all united trill. In the terrorist attacks with biogenic radiation bombs, 90 percent of all Trill symbionts living on the planet are killed.
Dax goes to the Mak'ala caves, which are on another continent. There she wants to explore the connection between the Trill and the Kurl. To do this, she dives into a pool of water in which ununited symbionts and the great caregiver symbiont Memh live, with whom she communicates. Also based on the information obtained by Dax, the Trill President gives a planet-wide address to the public in which she admits that the government has kept the close relationship between the symbionts and the parasites secret from the population for centuries. She also says that the parasites were created by Trill scientists centuries ago, but, contrary to necessity, they were not completely destroyed. This meant the fall of millions of colonists on Kurl and the emergence of the ancestors of today's parasites. In order to allow the Trill species to survive in the long term, the President imposes a symbiosis emoratorium and is setting her own example by having her symbionts removed.
On the flight home to DS9, Ezri realizes that Bashir is in love with her because he was already in love with Jadzia. That's why she breaks up with him.
Bajor - fragments and omens
Jake, who lives with Ben and Kas on Bajor, happens to meet the young Bajoran Azeni Korena, or Rena for short, with whom he falls in love. Your friend Kail is skeptical about it. Bajor's accession to the Federation because he sees economic disadvantages. After several weeks and a secret marriage, Jake and Rena meet Ben.
A massacre was carried out in the village of Sidau in the Bajoran province of Hedrikspool, 300 residents are dead. The assassins escaped in a Besinian freighter that Kira and Ro are looking for. The village-born Bajoran couple Hovath and Iniri are on the freighter. Iniri is tortured by the kidnappers to force Hovath to divulge information. Hovath is the only one who studies the wormhole from both a theological and a scientific point of view. Hovath should agree to receive the previously unknown key for the possibility of using other, previously unknown entrances and exits to the wormhole. The Defiant discovers the freighter near the Badlands, Hovath is gone, Iniri succumbs to her torture injuries and most of the crew is dead. The away team can beam back onto the Defiant before the freighter explodes. Ro finally ascertains that the Dal'Rok ritual was performed in Sidau (→ Season 1 : The Legend of Dal'Rok) , in which the imaginary storyteller Sirah plays an essential role for the villagers and uses an artifact that may be a fragment of a rotating body is. Ro suspects that the village was raided to find this fragment and that there is a mole on DS9 because of the information required to do so.
Rava Mehwyn, the new Bajoran representative on the Federation Council, has died of a heart attack. Therefore Asarem is looking for a successor for Rava. She finds him in her ex-husband Krim Aldos, who once fought for the so-called "circle" (→ Season 2 ) . The Bajoran Cenn Desca is appointed by Lenaris and Kira as the new liaison officer of the Bajoran military with the Starfleet and stationed on DS9. Opaka suggests Vedek Solis as a candidate for the new quay.
Ferenginar - Satisfaction is not guaranteed
Ferengi pharmaceutical entrepreneur Chek books Quark's bar or embassy for a gathering of nine Ferengi. The assembly is concerned about the reforms introduced by the Great Nagus Rome , which enable women in particular to participate more in economic life and therefore endanger the income of the male Ferengi. Chek, as the spokesman for the assembly, therefore asks Quark to influence his brother to represent the interests of the assembly. Quark has to go to Ferenginar anyway because Rome asked him and Nog to do so because of the endangered health of the pregnant Leeta. Chek Pharmaceutik is a financier of Brunts advertising campaign, which is supposed to help Brunt to become a Great Nagus himself and thus to drive Rome out of office. Brunt hopes to bring Ferenginar back to his roots and to reverse the reforms initiated by Rome's government.
Brunt , FCA liquidator and member of the Economic Advisory Congress, raises Rome accused Rome of being illegally married to Leeta. Rome had once left his wife Prinadora, who is Nog's mother, but is still legally married to her because the marriage contract contains a standard monogamy clause . Quark, Nog and Ro then try to refute Brunt's accusation. You can finally prove that Rome's prenuptial agreement with Prinadora, which Brunt showed to Congress, is a forgery by Gash. You can ensure the real marriage contract which Rome did not break. Brunt and Dav ensured that Gash forged the marriage contract. Krax, the son of Rome's predecessor Zek, helped them with this. Brunt is discredited by the revelations of his fraudulent machinations, he loses his fortune and his profession.
Leeta finally gives birth to her and Rom's daughter, whom they name Bena.
The Dominion - Fall of the Gods
Taran'atar travels at his own request, accompanied by Kira, to Ananke Alpha, a Federation prison on an asteroid, in which the founder has been held since the end of the war, who had commanded the Dominion troops in the Alpha Quadrant during the war. Taran'atar has self-doubts about his commissioned mission by Odo to serve as cultural ambassador to the Federation. He sees himself as a useless soldier in the Alpha Quadrant. The founder refuses his request to serve her and informs him that she is not a goddess, but that the founders believe in the ancestor. After returning to DS9, he feels completely disoriented. He no longer fulfills his mandate as a cultural observer and spends the time in angry combat exercises. He believes that he has disappointed Odo and failed in the task he had set. So he escapes from DS9 with a runabout, seriously injuring Ro and Kira.
Meanwhile, Odo is the founder on the home planet. Suddenly Laas appears with him and wants to know why the 100 young founders, including Odo and Laas, were once abandoned in the galaxy. In conversation with the ancient founder Indurane, Odo learns that the founders believe that the Great Connection was once created by the so-called ancestor and that the founders suspended the 100 in order to find the ancestor they had missed . In the file, Odo researches the locations where the 100 were once exposed. The distribution of the places results in a pattern and an intersection near the planet of great connection. At the point of intersection, a supernova is in progress, which is already showing on the horizon of the planet of great connection and in which Indurane suspects the returned ancestor. Odo, Laas, Indurane and a few other founders take a spaceship to the vicinity of the nova, a planet fragment. There you will find the remains of an oversized old founder. In contrast to Odo, Indurane assumes that this was once the ancestor, the founders' search for the ancestor seems to be over for Indurane. Odo fears that the founders will die out because they cannot reproduce without the ancestor.
Weyoun's investigation also reveals that the dead founder was once killed by the supernova. The supernova was likely triggered by an isolytic subspace weapon belonging to the ascendants that the founders fear. After Indurane has returned to the great connection with the knowledge about the found, dead founder and the supernova, this dissolves and is distributed in the universe. The reason for this is that the founders believe that their plan to leave the hundreds to find the ancestor failed and lured the ancestor to his death.