Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (literary sequel)

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This article covers those literary works, especially fiction , that continue the plot of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine after it ended in 2375. The works have been published since 1999 and are mainly novels, published by the US publisher Pocket Books. Translated into German, they have been published by Cross Cult since 2009 . From the other novels in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series, which are set before the end of the television series action, they differ - with a few exceptions - by a new main character ensemble.

Origin and publication history of the novels

Original English editions

After the end of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in 1999, Pocket Books , which is responsible for the publication of the Star Trek novels - an imprint by Simon & Schuster - continued the television series in the form of a novel. Marco Palmieri, editor and editor at Pocket Books until about 2008, designed a narrative framework for at least the first ten volumes. The beginning of the novels was the two- parter Avatar (German: Revelation ), first published in English in 2001 , the plot of which begins in 2376 and three months after the end of the plot of the final double episode , What you leave behind ( → Season 7 ). He introduces the four new main characters Shar, Taran'atar, Elias Vaughn and Ro Laren; the latter was previously known as a recurring supporting character from the television series Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century .

The novels that continue the television series after its end are collectively referred to as relaunch and have a redesigned logo compared to the original series logo; it is written in a different font .

The two-part novel The Left Hand of Destiny , which was only published after Revelation , plays between What you leave behind and Revelation and does not tell about the new characters. The novels Abyss and Demons of Air and Darkness belong to the miniseries Section 31 and Portals, respectively . Within these two miniseries, other volumes appeared in the other Star Trek novel series . The novels in the Section 31 series are only linked by the common theme of Section 31 and tell independent stories.

For the four-part novel miniseries Mission Gamma , which tells of an expedition of the Defiant into the Gamma Quadrant, Palmieri was the Lewis and Clark expedition as a major source of inspiration. The miniseries Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine consists of six novels that tell a largely independent story and are centered on one of the worlds Cardassia, Andor, Trill, Bajor, Ferenginar and Dominion - these are the home planets of the peoples of main non-human figures. These novels originally appeared in English in pairs in three volumes.

Pocket Books reissued the novels Avatar (parts 1 and 2), Abyss , Demons of Air and Darkness and the epilogue Horn and Ivory in 2007 in the anthology Twist of Faith , followed in 2008 by the anthology These Haunted Seas with the first two parts of the miniseries Mission Gamma .

German translations

The novel Am Abgrund was originally published in German in 2002 by Heyne Verlag . A large part of the remaining relaunch novels was published in German by the Cross Cult publisher, starting in 2009 . These novels and - as a new translation - The Abyss were translated by Christian Humberg . Cross Cult numbered 13 novels - suggesting an eighth and a ninth season of the television series - with 8.01 to 8.10 and 9.01 to 9.03.

The band demons of air and darkness contains in addition to the novel, the much shorter epilogue story in the German edition horn and ivory ( Horn and Ivory ), originally in English in the band What Lay Beyond miterschien. The six-part series Die Welten von Star Trek: Deep Space Nine appeared in German in six separate volumes.

Summary of the content

2376 to 2377

characters

The Bajoran Kira Nerys is in the rank of Colonel Commander of Deep Space Nine and at the same time Liaison Officer of the Bajoran military with the Starfleet. After Bajor joins the Federation, she is promoted to captain. Major Cenn Desca is the new Bajoran liaison officer on DS9 . Kira's comrade Ro Laren once betrayed Captain Picard by defection to the Maquis . Now she is the station's chief security officer. In the novel Revelation 1 , the Bolian Tiris Jast is the station's first officer, but dies in it. In this role, she will soon be replaced by Commander Elias Vaughn , who was around 100 years old at the beginning of 2376 , a person who had 80 years of experience in Starfleet . Vaughn is also in command of the Defiant, where his daughter Prynn Tenmei also serves; they became strangers long ago as a result of the death of Prynn's mother. Taran'atar is a Jem'Hadar who is not dependent on the drug Ketracel-White and who works on the station as a cultural observer sent by Odo on behalf of the Dominion .

The Ferengi Quark still runs the casino with bar and restaurant named after him . When Bajor joins the federation, the casino becomes Ferenginar's embassy to the federation, and Quark becomes an ambassador. Quark's nephew Nog is a lieutenant and chief engineer on Deep Space Nine and the Defiant. Since being seriously wounded in the Dominion War , he has had a synthetic leg in addition to a healthy leg. Samaritan Bowers , Sam for short , is a male with the rank of commander. Dr. Julian Bashir continues to be the station's chief medical officer. Only in the novel The Abyss does his lover Ezri Dax find out that it was once genetically upgraded. The Trill Ezri Dax, still active as a psychological advisor on DS9 in the seventh season , decides in Revelation 2 to embark on a career in command. After a few months, the love affair between the two breaks up.

The person Jake Sisko is the son of Benjamin Sisko , the envoy of the Bajoran prophets. In 2376 Jake married the young Bajoran Azeni Korena , or Rena for short, in a spontaneous wedding . Benjamin has been in the “Heavenly Temple” of the prophets since the end of the television series. Towards the end of 2376 he returned to reality. Shortly thereafter, his human wife Kassidy Yates - often just called Kas - on Bajor becomes the mother of their daughter Rebecca Jae Sisko .

Ensign Thirishar ch'Thane , who is usually just called Shar , is a young Andorian and at the same time a science officer of the station and the Defiant. Shar's mother Charivretha zh'Thane is an Andorian representative on the Federation Council until 2376 . Shar has three so-called allies: Shathrissia zh'Cheen (short: Thriss ), Thavanichent th'Dani (short: Anichent ) and Vindizhei sh'Rraazh (short: Dizhei ). The four partners, of whom Charivretha is called “Zhavey”, are of four different sexes and are intended to reproduce with one another as part of the Sheltreth ritual . Because Shar does not want to participate in the sheltreth, Thriss commits suicide. Shar falls in love with Prynn, but, according to the novel Andor - Paradigm , remains on his home world to help solve the reproductive problem there.

Until his assassination in 2376, Shakaar Edon was Prime Minister of Bajor and thus head of government of Bajor. His deputy and successor in office is Asarem Wadeen . Vedek Levir Linjarin is a leading Bajoran clergyman. One of the most important Bajoran clergymen is Opaka Sulan , who forcibly stayed in the Gamma Quadrant in the first season , but returned to the Bajoran system at the end of 2376. The Starfleet Admiral Akaar belongs to the tall species of Capellans. Alon Ghemor heads the Cardassian transitional government. The ambassador of this government to the Federation is Fatima Lang . The Cardassian Gul Macet is the commanding officer of the Cardassian spaceship Trager and cousin of Gul Dukat , whom he looks remarkably similar. The former Cardassian secret agent and tailor Garak is active in a leading position in the rebuilding of the war-ravaged Cardassia.

action

The two- parter Revelation introduces the main new characters Vaughn, Taran'atar, Prynn and Ro Laren into the plot. In it, the DS9 crew learns that the Dominion now allows the Federation to undertake reconnaissance missions in the Gamma Quadrants. Therefore, the Defiant, now converted from a war ship to a research spaceship, embarks on an expedition into the Gamma Quadrant that will last several months. There the crew meets some previously unknown life forms and civilizations.

Parallel to the Defiant's mission in the Gamma Quadrant, another storyline deals with Shakaar's intended admission to Bajor into the Federation. After some time it turns out that Shakaar is not pushing the admission process of his own will, but under the influence of a parasite with which he is obsessed. One of the Trill kills Shakaar, preventing Bajor from joining the Federation. The parasites plan to infiltrate Bajor by taking possession of several station and planet inhabitants. The DS9 crew can kill the parasites, also with the help of Odo and the Prophets. At the same time, Benjamin Sisko returns from the Heavenly Temple to reality. Shortly afterwards, at the end of 2376, Bajor is ceremonially admitted to the Federation.

In the miniseries The Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine the reader learns that there is unrest on the federation planet Andor because of research to resolve the Andorian reproductive crisis. Andor's head of government is stepping down after the secret has been revealed that researchers were trying to reduce the number of Andorian genders. There is also unrest on Trill because the Trill government had given the population too low a figure for the true proportion of those Trill who are eligible for union with a symbiote. 90 percent of all symbionts are killed in terrorist attacks. The Dominion's shape-shifters tell us that they once abandoned the 100 young founders in the galaxy in order to find the so-called ancestor with them, the creator of the great connection. In the dubious assumption that the ancestor is dead, the great connection dissolves. It becomes clear that the founder, believed to be the ancestor, was probably killed by the so-called ascendants, a species hostile to the founders.

The three novels War Path, Horrible Uniformity and The Key of Souls deal with the efforts of the Cardassian Iliana Ghemor, who was once re-operated as Kira Nerys, to rise to the status of “envoy” in the mirror universe. To secure power, she tries to get Taran'atar and other Jem'Hadar as soldiers from this world.

In addition to the ascendants, the Eav'oq species, whose religious beliefs are based on the same foundation as that of the Bajorans, and who, after thousands of years, return from the subspace into which they have sheltered themselves from religious persecution, are newly introduced into the Star Trek universe once fled. Like the founders, the Eav'oq are enemies with the Ascendants. At the end of The Soul Key it also turns out that Iliana Ghemor has made a pact with the Ascendant.

2378 to 2383

After the novel The Soul Key , no new novels that set on DS9 appeared for several years. The novel Visitation from the miniseries Star Trek: Typhon Pact is the first to be played on DS9 to a significant extent again. The main story begins in 2383. Ro Laren is the station's commander. She had taken over this role in 2381 as first officer from Vaughn, who fell seriously wounded in the fight against the Borg into a coma and has been artificially kept alive since then. Vaughn himself had previously received command of DS9 from Kira Nerys, who had ended her career in command and has since lived as a clergyman on Bajor, now as Vedek. First officer on DS9 is 2383 Colonel Cenn Desca, second officer is Lt. Cdr. Wheeler Stinson. Jefferson Blackmer is now head of security.

As one learns in the Typhon Pact novels Visitation and Shadow , Deep Space Nine is destroyed in August 2383 by the explosion of bombs on the station core, for which members of the Typhon Pact are responsible. Around 400 civilians and 600 crew members die, including chief engineer Chao. Most of the station residents can be evacuated in good time. The remaining DS9 crew begins to work temporarily from an operations center on Bajor. Since there is no hope of Vaughn's recovery, Prynn Tenmei stops life support for her father, causing him to die.

Novel title overview

The titles are arranged according to the main story time.

language English German
publishing company Pocket Books Cross Cult
author title Publ. Mini series title NiM No. title Publ. Mini series title Year of
action 		comment
SD Perry Avatar 1  May 2001 8-01 Revelation Book 1  Oct 2009 2376
SD Perry Avatar 2  May 2001 8-02 Revelation, Book 2  Dec 2009 2376
David Weddle , Jeffrey Lang Abyss  July 2001 Section 31 4th 8-03 The abyss  Apr. 2010 Section 31 2376 This novel was originally published in German by Heyne Verlag , already in 2002 and with the serial number 29. The Cross-Cult version is a new translation compared to the Heyne edition.
Keith RA DeCandido Demons of Air and Darkness  Sep 2001 Gateways 4th 8-04 Demons of air and darkness  Oct 2010 Portals 2376 The German edition consists of two parts: The first part is the translation of the English novel. The second, shorter part and epilogue horn and ivory ( Horn and Ivory ) comes from the book What Lay Beyond the miniseries gateways .
David R. George III. Twilight  Sep 2002 Mission Gamma 1 8-05 twilight  Nov 2010 Mission Gamma 2376
Heather Jarman This gray spirit  Sep 2002 2 8-06 That gray ghost  March 2011 2376
Michael A. Martin , Andy Mangels Cathedral  Oct 2002 3 8-07 cathedral  June 2011 2376
Robert Simpson Lesser Evil  Oct 2002 4th 8-08 The lesser evil  Sep 2011 2376
SD Perry Rising Son  Jan. 2003 8-09 So the son  Jan. 2012 2376
JG Hertzler , Jeffrey Lang The Left Hand of Destiny 1  Apr. 2003 2375
JG Hertzler, Jeffrey Lang The Left Hand of Destiny 2  May 2003 2375
SD Perry Unity  Nov 2003 8-10 unit  May 2012 2376 The German edition also contains a summary of the events from volumes 8.01 to 8.09.
Una McCormack Cardassia - The Lotus Flower  June 2004 Worlds of Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine		 1 Cardassia - The lotus flower  July 2012 The worlds of Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine		 2376
Heather Jarman Andor - paradigm  June 2004 2 Andor - paradigm  Aug 2012 2376
Michael A. Martin, Andy Mangels Trill - Unjoined  Feb. 2005 3 Trill - Unjoined  Sep 2012 2376
J. Noah Kym Bajor - Fragments and Omens  Feb. 2005 4th Bajor - fragments and omens  Oct. 2012 2376
David R. George III. Ferenginar - Satisfaction
is Not Guaranteed		  Feb. 2005 5 Ferenginar - Satisfaction
is not guaranteed		  Nov. 2012 2376
Keith RA DeCandido Dominion - Olympus Descending  Feb. 2005 6th The Dominion - Fall of the Gods  Jan. 2013 2376
David Alan Mack Warpath  Apr. 2006 9-01 Warpath  March 2013 2377
Olivia Woods Fearful Symmetry  July 2008 9-02 Terrible uniformity  Apr. 2013 2377 u. a.
Olivia Woods The Soul Key  July 2009 9-03 The soul key  May 2013 2377
Paula M. Block , Terry J. Erdmann Lust's Latinum Lost (and Found)  Sep 2014 2385 Only as an e-book.
Una McCormack The Missing  Jan. 2015 mistrust  Jan. 2017 2385
David R. George III. Sacraments of Fire  July 2015 Sacraments of fire  Sep 2017 2385
David R. George III. Ascendance  Jan. 2016 supremacy  March 2018 2385/86
Jeffrey Lang Force and Motion  June 2016 Strength and movement  June 2018 2386
Paula M. Block, Terry J. Erdmann The Rules of Accusation  July 2016 2385 Only as an e-book.
David R. George III. The Long Mirage  March 2017 Lights in the dark  Aug 2019 2386
Una McCormack Enigma Tales  June 2017 Mysteries  March 2020 2386
David R. George III. Original Sin  Sep 2017 gamma Original sin  Apr. 2020 gamma 2385
Paula M. Block, Terry J. Erdmann I, The Constable  Nov 2017 2385 Only as an e-book.

Contents

In order of action time.

The Left Hand of Destiny

The Klingon Morjod carries out a terrorist attack on Kronos, completely devastating the capital and killing almost all members of the High Council. With the attack, Morjod is pleading with the people to return the Klingon people to their roots, among other things because they would be absorbed by alien values ​​such as those of the Federation. He also wants Martok and Worf to die. It turns out that Morjod is the illegitimate son of Martok and Gothmara, who is megalomaniac and in turn uses Morjod for the terrorist attack and coup. For these purposes she genetically modified Morjod. Morjod becomes the new emperor. Ezri Dax and Worf help Martok regain his power by retrieving the sword of Kahless for him. Meanwhile, Martok and the Rotarran crew are on their way to the planet Boreth and are looking for Gothmara, who has withdrawn there. Ultimately, a decisive battle for the future of the Klingon Empire ensues on the planet.

epiphany

The Bajoran Istani Reyla is murdered on DS9. While investigating the crime, the new security chief Ro Laren discovers a book about the Bajoran history hidden by Reyla, which Reyla had previously stolen from the ruins of B'hala on Bajor and which contains a prophecy according to the birth of the envoy's son Ten thousand people will die. Vedek Yevir and his supporters want to prevent the publication of the found book, which Kira opposes. Kira is therefore declared a tainted person by Yevir, so that she is no longer welcome in the Bajoran faith community.

DS9 is attacked and severely damaged by two Jem'Hadar spaceships that appeared from the wormhole; over 30 people die on the ward. The Jem'Hadar Kitana 'clan is exposed on DS9 and alleged to have been sent by Odo to serve as ambassadors for the Dominion. He was attacked en route by the Jem'Hadar, who also shot at the station. Meanwhile, the Enterprise-E, which has the Bajoran consultant Elias Vaughn on board, discovers the previously lost Bajoran rotating body of memory in a Cardassian spaceship wreck in the Badlands. Picard then delivers the rotating body to Kira. Shortly afterwards, the Kitana'klan breaks out, kills and injures several crew members and tries to blow up the station. Vaughn and the suddenly emerged Jem'Hadar Taran'atar are instrumental in overpowering and killing the Kitana clans. Its story turns out to be a lie through the explanations of Taran'atar. In reality, Taran'atar was sent by Odo with the aim of letting the Jem'Hadar learn what peaceful coexistence means. Kitana'klan and the other Jem'Hadar were renegades who wanted to plunge the Dominion into a new war against the Federation by blowing up the station. The video message Taran'atar brought from Odo also shows that the Dominion now allows the Federation to conduct exploration expeditions into the Gamma Quadrants. Vaughn joins DS9 as the new first officer. Ezri Dax decides to pursue a career in command.

Jake Sisko announces that he is going to earth, but secretly sets off with the spacecraft Venture on a flight through the wormhole into the Gamma Quadrant, where he hopes to find his father again. When he flies into the wormhole, the ship spins out of control.

The abyss

Dr. Bashir is commissioned by Section 31 to assist Section Agent Dr. Finding and stopping Ethan's curls. Originally on behalf of the Section, Locken began to investigate in a secret Jem'Hadar hotbed created by the Dominion on the planet Sindorin in the Badlands, whether the facility could be modified in such a way that the Jem'Hadar created would be loyal to the Section . The section wanted to increase the military strength of the Federation for defense purposes. However, Locken, traumatized by an attack by the Dominion on his former place of work on the Federation planet New Beijing, broke off contact with the Section and began using genetic engineering to make the new Jem'Hadar submissive to him. Locken seeks to weaken the ceasefire between the Federation, Klingons and Romulans by launching a missile at a Romulan target, blaming the Federation for it. He sees himself as Khan's successor and wants to create a new, better federation. Bashir thwarts the missile launch by destroying the missile launcher. Bashir tells Locken that Section 31 once leaked falsified evidence of the existence of biogenic weapons to the Dominion in New Beijing and that this location was attacked by the Dominion as a result. The Section accepted the deaths of 5,000 people, just to manipulate Locken so that he would willingly be recruited by Section 31 in revenge on the Federation. Eventually, after Ezri Dax poisoned her Ketracel-White, the Jem'Hadar, bred by Curls, take on him and shoot Curls.

Demons of air and darkness

Novel plot : The rights of use to the Iconian portals, which enable real-time transfer over long distances, are being offered at the highest bidder across the galaxy. All portals that have already been found appear, so that spaceships and other objects are sometimes pulled through to another location and many planets are therefore set in an uproar. For example, radioactive antimatter waste is transferred through a portal from the Delta Quadrant to the vicinity of the human-colonized planet Europa Nova, so that an environmental disaster begins there and the DS9 crew evacuates the colonists. Kira and Taran'atar fly through the portal into the Delta Quadrant, where they are confronted with a Hirogen . You can secure a shield enhancer from the ship that is draining the antimatter, which can be used to significantly reduce the radiation from Europa Nova. Quark is officially bidding as a negotiator for the criminal Orion Syndicate for the rights to use the portals. But secretly he is helping Ro infiltrate the Syndicate. Quark's cousin Gaila acts as the Iconian negotiator. The Defiant uses a method devised by Nog and Shar to disrupt the portals, which turns out that it is not the Iconians but the Petraw who are responsible for the appearance of the portals, who illegally present themselves as rulers of the portals and have now been exposed. In the Delta Quadrant, Kira and Taran'atar are separated; Having made an emergency landing on a desert planet, Kira passes through a portal discovered there for lack of alternatives.

Epilogue horn and ivory: Kira finds herself on Bajor 30,000 years before she was born. With the name Ashla she finds herself in the middle of a war between the Perikians and the Lerrit. To escape the time, she goes through the portal in the fire caves and comes to an Iconian guard, who lets her return to DS9.

Mission Gamma

This four-part miniseries takes place in a storyline, explaining the series title, in the gamma quadrant and is about a fact-finding mission of the Defiant. At the same time, the events on DS9 are told, mainly about Bajor's planned accession to the Federation.

So the son

After Jake arrives on his secret journey in the Gamma Quadrant, he is picked up by the wadi spaceship Even Odds after an accident with his shuttle about 100 parsecs away . With his shuttle beyond repair and the wadi planning a multi-month mission, Jake cannot return to DS9 any earlier than three months. The Even Odds roams through the Gamma Quadrant as a rescue ship and is always on the lookout for profitable items, including those from abandoned Dominion outposts. Jake accompanies the crew on their mission to steal a religious artifact from a planet. As the months go by, the crew becomes like family to Jake. After about three months he decides to stay on board longer, but under the false impression that the first mate agrees that he agrees with his opinion that he rejects the pursuit of profit and poverty. The Even Odds goes to the planet Ee, a free market. There Jake happens to come into contact with a Tosk who is being hunted and is looking for something specific, as well as the Trelian Wex. This brings him and Jake into contact with Opaka Sulan, who was a Bajoran Kai until seven years ago. On the moon in the Gamma Quadrant, on which she was once stranded, she worked to ensure that the long fighting conflict between the Ennis and Nol-Ennis tribes was peacefully resolved and the new Sen Ennis tribe came into being. Their leader achieved that Opaka could leave the moon.

The Even Odds brings the Tosk to a planet in the Idran system, where he hopes to find what he is looking for with a special crystal. There, with the help of Opakas and the crystal that serves as a key, he finds a cave and in it an inscription that can be deciphered as a hunter . Shortly thereafter, Tosk is found by his hunters and murdered. In the cave, Opaka solves a riddle that was left there with the help of the prophets. This is how the being Itu appears from the lost people of the Eav'oq, who are now returning to their lifetime after 50,000 years. The people had once built their own city in the subspace to protect themselves from religious persecution . At the moment of Itu's appearance or the opening of the subspace gap, the planet and the even odds that encircle it are displaced from their original positions by more than three light years ; space is changing and the seekers are suddenly in an Eav'oq city. Finally, after Even Odds has left , Jake, Wex and Opaka set off with Tosk's small warp ship for the return flight to the wormhole and to DS9. On the way they are picked up by Weyoun's spaceship.

unit

The Defiant returns to DS9. A news blackout has been imposed due to the ongoing search for further parasites. The Cardassians are immune to the parasites and help find them. Bashir determines that the parasites were once created by genetic manipulation of Trill symbionts, which leads Starfleet to suspect Trill for the murder of Shakaar. Meanwhile, there have been multiple cases of parasite infestation on Bajor and DS9. The station crew catch a parasite queen and find a way to communicate with the parasites. You can see that the parasites actually want to rule the Federation.

Meanwhile, Vaughn is psychologically stressed by the death of Ruriko, so that he, seeking advice from Opaka, communicates with the prophets. In his rotating body experience, he is in the role of Eli Underwood, who is a patient in the Riverdale prison sanatorium in the years after World War II . There he befriends Benny Russell. He tells him that Vaughn is here because he thinks he murdered his wife and therefore lost contact with his daughter Prynn. Eli and Benny decide to flee the sanatorium.

Jake and Kassidy receive a visit from Joseph and Judith Sisko and Miles O'Brien's family on Bajor, while Miles helps out on DS9. A short time later, the Siskos, O'Brien's family as well as Opaka and Vaughn, who is still spiritually with the prophets, are captured by Bajoran monks who are infected by parasites. All over Bajor, infected residents attack high-ranking personalities. The monks hold the hostages in the monastery of Ashalla, the capital of Bajors. An away team, including O'Brien, Kira and Wex, start a rescue operation. Kira opens the shop where the rotating bodies are kept. Under their action, the parasite queen is destroyed and all parasites are caused to flee from their hosts. During the rescue operation, Wex reveals himself as Odo. At the same time, Kassidy gives birth to her daughter Rebecca Jae Sisko. At that moment Ben Sisko appears and Vaughn wakes up again.

Opaka suggests to Yevir that the religious division of Bajor was not caused by the publication of Ohalu's writings, but by Kira's defilement. Shar does not want to travel to Andor despite the request of his allies and mother. Ben refuses his promotion to admiral. Quark's becomes the Ferengi embassy in the Bajoran region, Quark is appointed Ferengi ambassador by his brother. Ro puts their capabilities against Akaar proves and decides not to leave Starfleet after all. In a solemn ceremony in Ashalla, at which Picard, Martok and Worf are also present, Bajor is admitted to the federation.

The worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Each of these six novels is focused on one of the six main, non-human worlds that play an important role in the fictional sequel to the television series: Cardassia , Andor , Trill , Bajor , Ferenginar and the Dominion .

Warpath

As a result of Taran'atar's violence, Kira and Ro were so badly injured that they threatened to die. An artificial heart is implanted in Kira, and Ro is operated on on the spine so that she just escapes paraplegia . The rest of the crew is looking for Taran'atar. He hijacks the Euphrates runabout, which is also Prynn. Vaughn chases the Euphrates with the Defiant. Taran'atar takes over the Klingon warship noH'pach with a trick, kills its crew and flies with it camouflaged towards Cardassian territory after the destruction of the Euphrates. Meanwhile, Bashir and Nog discover on DS9 that Taran'atar's thoughts have long been controlled by a foreign authority. Further investigations on DS9 reveal that Taran'atar may have been involved in the massacre in the Bajoran province of Hedrikspool (→ The Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Bajor ) , and that Taran'atar unconsciously received his orders from the intendant Kira from the Mirror universe. The transmissions to Taran'atar came from the Cardassian industrial planet Harkoum, on which a large prison complex is located. The noH'pach is on the way there, so Vaughn is also letting the Defiant set course there.

During her operation, Kira is with the prophets, who show her in a vision Parek Tonn, a fortress on Bajor. In the vision of things that never happened, Kira is the leader of the Bajora and claims to be admitted to the fortress with her people, who they want to defend together with the Eav'oq against the ascendants who are approaching with an army. Kira learns from the prophets that the fortress symbolizes the Heavenly Temple and that the beliefs of the Eav'oq and the Bajorans are based on the same foundation. The fortress falls, however, and Kira dies in an infernal battle due to the violence of the ascendant. Finally the real Kira wakes up from her prophet dream.

The Defiant reaches Harkoum shortly after Taran'atar, who after the landing of the noH'pach goes without Prynn in the direction of his destination, a meeting with a Cardassian woman. Meanwhile, Prynn is able to free himself and also begins to pursue Taran'atar. At the same time as these events, the director Kira also arrived at Harkoum. She is planning an experiment that she does not want to explain in detail and that apparently serves to take over power from the regent. When Vaughn encounters Taran'atar inside the kilometer-sized Grennokar prison complex, Prynn saves her father from being killed by the Jem'Hadar. It turns out that genetic experiments on living Jem'Hadar had been carried out in Grennokar for years. Taran'atar is able to flee and shortly afterwards beam himself into the mirror universe with the technical help of the director, whom he worships as his new goddess. While the prison complex implodes as a result of a self-destruction sequence, Vaughn and Prynn manage at the last second to save themselves on the outer shell of the noH'pach. After the two have landed the noH'pach on Harkoum, the Cardassian Iliana Ghemor appears, who claims that Captain Kira Nerys is in mortal danger. The danger comes from a second Iliana Ghemor, who was once created as a doppelganger by Kira Nerys (→ Season 3 : The second skin) . This second Iliana Ghemor, who looks like Kira Nerys and is an undercover agent and murderer, materializes in the meantime on the spaceship Negh'Var in the Mirror Universe, shortly after Taran'atar materialized there. She executes the director, allows Taran'atar to worship her as a goddess and from then on pretends to be the director. The other Iliana Ghemor, who has now arrived at Prynn and Vaughn's, was unable to carry out her mission to protect Captain Kira Nerys from her doppelganger, because she was permanently held up by bounty hunters who had been hired by the Mirror Universe Ghemor.

Terrible uniformity

Flashbacks to events in the past: The Cardassian Entek tried in 2357 to recruit his fellow species Iliana Ghemor as an agent for the Obsidian Order; however, she refuses. 2357 to 2359: Ataan, Iliana's lover, tells Iliana in letters about his time with the Cardassian troops on Bajor. He too died in a bomb attack by the Bajoran resistance in 2359. Embittered about this, Iliana immediately decides to join the Obsidian Order. From 2359 to 2361 Iliana went through a tough training program to become an agent of the order under Entek's direction. Only in 2361, after these two years, did she find out what she was being used for: she was supposed to be a sleeper in the Bajoran resistance, re-operating as Kira Nerys, thus sabotaging it and providing information to the order. As part of this contract, she can be operated surgically and neurologically in Kira. Iliana, who is now Kira Nerys, is no longer aware of her true identity, actually being Iliana. The plan to make Iliana as Kira a sleeper in the Bajoran resistance fails, however, because from 2361 she is imprisoned by Dukat in Letau prison. For 15 years she was mistreated there by him and locked up in a very small space. At the end of 2375, she and several other prisoners managed to escape. At this time, strange memories come to her in which she feels Cardassian. With her friends she finds out that she is actually Iliana. She decides to take revenge on Dukat and sets off with them to the planet Harkoum.

Events in the present: Sisko learns from Opaka that the rotating body fragment, which was stolen during the massacre in Sidau, apparently comes from the rotating body of souls and is therefore called Paghvaram or soul key. Meanwhile, Iliana Ghemor is being held prisoner on DS9 and questioned. She comes from the mirror universe and used to work there as an agent for the Obsidian Order, the secret service of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. She is now one of the Terrans who rebel against the Alliance with the aim of overthrowing it. Ghemor's job as a rebel was to murder the Bajoran director, Kira Nerys. When she found out that people from this world were planning to replace the director with someone worse, Ghemor broke off her plan and came to this universe to thwart this plan. One of the people who pushed the plan forward is Ghemor's this-world alter ego, who was surgically altered years ago to replace this-world Kira Nerys. Ghemor, who looks like this worldly Kira Nerys, has meanwhile murdered the artistic director in the mirror universe and has taken her place. The Ghemor trapped here cannot return to the mirror universe for technical reasons and wants the help of the DS9 crew to stop her doppelganger. The captured Ghemor says that Ghemor, who is now in the Mirror Universe, had the residents of the village of Sidau massacred in order to find the fragment with which she wants to kill every Kira Nerys who is still alive with the key. On Harkoum, the Defiant crew had arrested some mercenaries, which Cenn is now questioning. One of the prisoners is the Kressari Shing-kur, an assistant to Iliana Ghemor, who is now in the mirror universe. Through interviews with Shing-kur and Iliana Ghemor, who is staying here, Kira learns that Ghemor, who is staying in the Mirror Universe, intends to become the emissary of the Mirror Universe Bayorans, with which she would gain enormous power. The Bajorans there have no Sisko as an envoy because Sisko died years ago. Kira and Vaughn go into the mirror universe to stop the alternative Ghemor (the current director).

The soul key

Events in this world (partly in flashbacks): Iliana Ghemor was badly hit by the death of her friends Ataan and Dakahna Vaas. Now, nine months ago, she and her assistant Shing-kur are on the planet Harkoum. When Gul Dukat was once demoted to the command of a cargo space ship, he had secret research carried out in the Grennokar prison on Harkoum with the aim of changing the genetic programming of the Jem'Hadar in such a way that the Jem'Hadar, instead of the founders, would submit to him. When Ghemor learned in 2376 that the Jem'Hadar Taran'atar had arrived on DS9, she began with her plan to resume the research of Dukat, which had been interrupted by the Dominion War, and to make Taran'atar a spy via mind manipulation. Used as such, it also transmits information about the rotating bodies, the wormhole and the mirror universe. They come from a Bajoran philosopher and contain the theory that both the wormhole and the Bajoran rotating bodies can enable cross-dimensional travel and thus provide access to the mirror universe. That's why she got herself a specific rotating body fragment, the soul key. Arriving in the mirror universe, Ghemor takes on the identity of the director.

Events in the mirror universe (present): L'Haan, the assistant to the new director, has become repentant about her intentions and therefore tries to influence Taran'atar in such a way that she promises him freedom. However, he refuses and murders her. Meanwhile, the director wants to discover the wormhole in the mirror universe in order to get to the Jem'Hadar in the other universe and to recruit them as soldiers. In order to take Terok Nor, which has been held by the Terran rebels so far, they have the Bajoran capital Ashalla destroyed. The rebels of the Alliance surrender under the threat of further such crimes. Immediately afterwards the general manager Terok Nor maneuvers to the Denorios belt in order to discover the wormhole. Meanwhile, Kira and Vaughn were imprisoned on Terok Nor. But they will soon be freed from prison by Taran'atar, who has returned to his own way of thinking. Together they try to stop the director. When the wormhole appears for the first time, Kira, the director and Iliana Ghemor come into contact with the prophets. They can't do anything with the director. She remains missing while Kira and Ghemor, who has been transformed back into her Cardassian appearance, return to Terok Nor. Ghemor remains there while Kira and Vaughn return to DS9.

Back on DS9, Kira lets Taran'atar fly by shuttle into a freedom of choice. After flying into Dominion territory, he receives a distress call from the Even Odds spaceship, which is under attack. He follows up the emergency call and changes course. Meanwhile, for the first time in millennia, the Ascendants are gathering on one planet. The Ascendant seekers come together to discuss certain signs, which include the appearance of the Dominion and the possible return of the Eav'oq, whom they consider to be competitors. A figure who is not an ascendant but resembles the Cardassian Iliana Ghemor appears in the middle of the gathering and brings with him the last of nine artifacts that are worshiped by the ascendants.

Other works

In addition to the novels listed in the table, there are other, deep-space-nine- related fiction works that take place after the television series has ended. Unless otherwise stated, they have not yet been published in German.

  • A Timely Engraving is a novel made up of several letters from Garak to Dr. Bashir exists and partly plays after the television series ends. Garak tells of his life story, including Garak's role in the rebuilding of Cardassia, which was devastated by the Dominion War.
  • The anthology The Lives of Dax also takes place only to a relatively small extent in the time after the end of the TV series plot.
  • The trilogy Millennium (2000 appeared) plays only in the framework of action for , but mainly before the end of the TV series plot.
  • The Calling is a short story included in the anthology Prophecy and Change (2003). It comes from the Garak actor Andrew J. Robinson , is a sequel to his novel A Stitch at the Right Time and is about Garak in the post-war era on Cardassia Prime.
  • The comic mini-series N-Vector was also published in German by Dino Verlag in 2002 .
  • As part of the comic mini-series Alien Spotlight Vol. 2 , the 2009 edition of Cardassians was published , which takes place shortly after the end of the Dominion War. It is about Cardassian fundamentalists who want to assassinate the founder who is responsible for the deaths of many millions of Cardassians.

See also

literature

  • Jeff Ayers: Voyages of Imagination. The Star Trek Fiction Companion , Pocket Books, New York 2006, ISBN 978-1-4165-0349-1 .
  • Julian Wangler (Ed.): Maximum Warp. The guide through the Star Trek novel worlds , Cross Cult, Ludwigsburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86425-199-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ayers 2006, p. 260
  2. ↑ Number within the mini-series
  3. ↑ a b In English, the novels Cardassia - The Lotus Flower and Andor - Paradigm originally appeared together in one volume, the first volume of the miniseries Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . In German, however, they appeared in separate volumes (No. 1 and 2).
  4. ↑ a b In English, the novels Trill - Unjoined and Bajor - Fragments and Omens originally appeared together in one volume, the second volume of the miniseries Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . In German, however, they appeared in separate volumes (Nos. 3 and 4).
  5. ↑ a b In English the novels Ferenginar - Satisfaction and Dominion - Olympus Descending originally appeared together in one volume, the third volume of the miniseries Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . In German, however, they appeared in separate volumes (Nos. 5 and 6).