Star Trek: Typhon Pact

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Star Trek: Typhon Pact is an 8-part novel miniseries, the 24th century in the late of the fictional Star Trek - universe plays. It deals with conflicts between the United Federation of Planets and its allies, on the one hand, and the Typhon Pact, on the other, a power made up of six nations of different species with which the Federation has recently found itself in a cold war . The miniseries is a crossover between the Star Trek novel series The Next Generation , Titan and Deep Space Nine and is part of the plot that takes place after the movie Star Trek: Nemesis , which partly spans novels .

The novels were published in English from 2010 to 2012 by Pocket Books and in German from 2013 to 2014 by Cross Cult . The part Kampf is a short novel that was only published as an e-book , whereas the other seven novels each have a length of several hundred pages and were also published in print.

action

The novels mainly take place in the years 2381 to 2383, the time after the Borg invasion, which was told in Star Trek: Destiny and in the course of which the so-called Typhon Pact was founded (see also: Individual fates) . The plot of the novels partially overlaps in time.

Zero sum game

This novel is by David Mack and takes place in 2382.

A Typhon Pact agent steals plans for the novel Slipstream propulsion system from Starfleet's possession. In order to prevent the Typhon Pact from building a prototypical slipstream drive and thus gaining too much power over the Federation, Federation President Bacco instructs Starfleet Intelligence to prevent the Typhon Pact project. The service sends Dr. Julian Bashir and Sarina Douglas, who as genetically enhanced humans have special abilities, for a covert operation. Disguised as Breen , the two can be brought to Breen area by the USS Aventine. Bashir and Douglas go to the Breen planet Salavat and try to find the shipyard where the prototype spaceship is built with Slipstream. They receive help from Breen dissidents and they also fall in love. While working undercover on Salavat, the two are forced to commit murders. The Breen military soon tracked down the infiltrators. When the two are in a building complex disguised as a recycling facility, the Breen begin to search for them across the planet. Separated from one another, Douglas is arrested and Bashir manages to escape on the outer hull of a Breen spaceship. This flies to the wanted shipyard, which is located on an asteroid in the asteroid belt of the Alrakis system. While Douglas is interrogated elsewhere by the Breen and tortured terribly with a neural stick, Bashir sabotages the shipyard and initiates a core break. When the core ruptures, the prototype Slipstream spaceship is destroyed and the chief Breen engineer is killed. But before and when Bashir destroyed the data with the development plans, he was able to save a backup copy of this data elsewhere. Bashir and Douglas, who were able to free themselves from their imprisonment, return to the Aventine. Bacco officially denies any Federation responsibility for the operation.

Fire

This novel is by Michael A. Martin and takes place in the years 2381 and 2382.

The warrior caste of the xenophobic , reptilian species Gorn has lost its breeding area due to a natural disaster. When looking for a replacement planet for the breeding area, the Gorn become aware of the planet Hranrar in the Beta Quadrant. A Gorn fleet under the leadership of Captain Krassr wants to make this usable by means of terraforming and accept the death of millions of residents, the Hranrarii. The Gorn S'syrixx is against this plan and sabotages the platform Brahma-Shiva, which is positioned in Hranrars orbit and which is supposed to serve the Gorn as a means for terraforming. Krassr then condemns him to death and lets him, assuming he is dead, thrust into space. He is rescued alive by the USS Titan, receives asylum there - despite the officers' fear that he is a spy - and is induced to reconsider his prejudices against the people and the Federation. Riker and the Titan officers are against Krassr's plan and want to prevent the genocide , but without violating the Supreme Directive . In order to preserve as much knowledge as possible about the Hranrarii for posterity in the event of the planet's inhabitants becoming extinct, an outside team from Titan goes to the planet, disguised as locals. While the Titan is hiding from the Gorn and the Gorn are working to get the sabotaged platform operational, a Typhon Pact spacecraft fleet approaches the planet. It turns out that S'syrixx is against the destruction of the platform because he suspects an intelligent, godly form of life on it. In addition, in contrast to Krassr, who wants to keep the previous warrior caste with its current characteristics, he wants to create a more developed, more intelligent warrior caste. A fight ensues between a Gorn spaceship allied with S'syrixx, which wants to maintain the platform, and Krassr's fleet, which wants to use it. The platform is destroyed in the process. The Titan mediates between the Gorn and the Hranrarii and achieves a chance that the Gorn can use the planet as a breeding ground without terraforming, but with minor changes to their genome . The Titan flees from the incoming Typhon Pact fleet.

Beasts

This novel is by David R. George III. , begins during the Borg invasion in 2381 and ends shortly after the beginning of 2382.

A few weeks after the Borg invasion of Federation territory ended, Benjamin Sisko was deployed as captain of the USS Robinson, with which he patrols the Romulan border. Sisko had previously lost his colleague Elias Vaughn seriously injured in a fight, and his father recently died. Sisko therefore sees himself abandoned by the prophets and breaks off the relationship with his wife Kassidy, finally applying for a divorce from her.

In the underground of the Romulan capital Ki Baratan, where Spock hopes to advance his efforts to reunite Romulans and Vulcans , a Reman carries out a murder attack on him, in which Spock is seriously injured. The Reman dies from a poison plaster on his skin, his motive for the assassination remains unclear. When Spock tries to hand the dead Reman over to the Romulan security personnel, he is arrested for illegal residence. Praetorin Tal Aura seems to support his reunification efforts, releases him and gives him a visitor visa. He advertises his project in several public speeches. Mainly because of this, many Romulans come to the opinion that a reunification of the two Romulan states is necessary. Spock suspects that his assassin may have been commissioned by Donatra, and uses intermediaries to inform the Federation leadership. Bacco then instructs Sisko to collect information in this regard on Achernar Prime. Sisko understands Donatra in such a way that she is not aware of any guilt. Spock is certain that Tal Aura is secretly responsible for the numerous demonstrations held by citizens in both Romulan states for the reunification of the two states. Donatra then goes to a summit meeting with Tal Aura on Romulus at his own request. However, Tal has Aura arrested Donatra because she was responsible for the attempted murder of Spock. While Donatra is imprisoned, she commits despair suicide . The imperial Romulan state she has headed up to now will be integrated into Tal Aura's Romulan star empire. Tal Aura, seeing her long-devised secret plan fulfilled, lets Sela murder the head of the secret service Tal Shiar, which she dislikes, whereupon Sela becomes the new head of Tal Shiar. One day Tal Aura is found dead, dead from a virus infection . She was secretly taught this by Alizome Tor Fel-A, a special agent of the Tzenkethi autarch Korzent. With this and another murder, as well as by posing as Romulan trade minister, Alizome made sure that the Romulan Kamemor becomes the new praetor, about whom Alizome is certain that she - unlike Tal Aura - does not control the Seeks Typhon Pact. With Alizome's commitment, Korzent has achieved his wish that the two Romulan states will be united and thus reduce the risk that the Typhon Pact will be weakened by a possible war between the two states.

discord

This novel by Dayton Ward is set in 2382, one year after the Borg invasion. He takes up the storyline about the Andorians again, which was last discussed in the literary sequel to Deep Space Nine .

The Federation planet Andor was badly hit by the Borg attack. The majority of the members of the government died, the new head of government was the politically inexperienced and federation-friendly Iravothra sh'Thalis. The problem that the Andorians do not reproduce sufficiently has not yet been resolved despite intensive research and continues to threaten to let the species become extinct. There is resentment among Andorians that the Federation is not caring enough for them and the Federation-sponsored research in which some Andorian subjects died. There are groups like the Treishya who view the efforts of the Federation to help the Andorians with their reproductive problems with suspicion and see them as an unjustified interference with their cultural identity. Picard and the Enterprise-E are sent by Bacco on a diplomatic mission to Andor to demonstrate the willingness of the Federation to help. The Enterprise crew helps with the reconstruction work and with the safety precautions for a high-profile conference that deals with the state of research on the reproductive problem.

Under the direction of the Andorian Eklanir th'Gahryn, after the arrival of the Enterprise crew on Andor, the Treishya carried out various attacks and attacks, which he used to probe the security situation. These include a bomb attack on the conference building and an armed attack on a cave complex where Picard is currently staying. After the attacks, sh'Thalis refuses to accept the Treishya's demands and, at Picard's suggestion, to move the conference to the Enterprise. After the conference began, armed Treishya members disrupted the gathering, killing four civilians despite the intervention of the Starfleet crew.

Andorian professor zh'Thiin, who leads research to overcome the reproductive problem, essentially plans to re-sequencing Andorian DNA . For her research, as the Federation has only now learned from the Tholians , she has accepted help from an anonymous source, which is the Tholians. The Tholians, who arrive at Andor in a spaceship, reveal that they have provided the professor with information about the meta- genome of the long-extinct species Shedai, which is related to the Tholians. Since the information was kept top secret by the Federation for years, Bacco now feels exposed and snubbed.

A little later th'Gahryn forces the Enterprise, which is waiting in orbit of Andor, to move away from Andor. To do this, he takes control of her main computer with the help of malware secretly placed in the Enterprise , which threatens to destroy the ship. With La Forge's help and by secretly replacing the Enterprise's operating system, the crew can regain control.

Picard, Crusher, Choudhury and other Enterprise crew members who are supposed to protect the parliament building on Andor are taken hostage by the Treishya, but are soon able to break free. The aversion to the Andorians is increasing. the Federation because it withheld essential information to save the Andorian species. Much to Bacco's dismay, the Andorian parliament decides to remove sh'Thalis and a majority of the Andorian people decide in an election that Andor will leave the federation.

struggle

This short novel is by Christopher L. Bennett , was only published as an e-book and is set in 2382.

The Talarians now also want to join the expanded Khitomer Agreement and ally with the Federation against the Typhon Pact. A federation delegation led by Picard is negotiating with the government of the head of state Ronzel. On the talarian side, Picard's old friends also take part in the negotiations, the talarian Endar and his human adopted son Jono. A group of women who want to emancipate themselves from the patriarchy protests against Ronzel's government in robes. As part of an ingenious plan, Crusher and Jono are kidnapped by Talarian women to the planet, also in order to drive out Starfleet. Crusher convinced the women that the Tzenkethi - contrary to the hope of the women - only help them to help them build a Typhon Pact. instrumentalizing friendly Talarian puppet government . Then the women end the hostage situation.

Choudhury and Chen are on a secret mission to infiltrate and spy on the Kinshaya and, if possible, to support the efforts of their secular, oppositional splinter group "devotionalists". Disguised as Romulan observers, the two attend a demonstration by the devotionalists. With the help of armed Breen , the Kinshaya security forces brutally crush the protest of the devotionalists, who they consider to be heretics . Choudhury and Chen cannot prevent the devotionalists from confronting their enemies again in silent protest. So it happens that the Breen slaughter hundreds of demonstrators. But when the Kinshaya realize that the massacre is broadcast live in the media, they force the Breen to lay down their arms in order to save face.

visitation

This novel is by David R. George III. The first half of the novel takes place between April 2382 and June 2383, with events from the previous novels in the Typhon Pact miniseries being told from different perspectives. The second half of the novel takes place in August 2383.

The theft of the construction plans for the Federation-owned Slipstream drive was carried out in secret by the new Tal Shiar chairwoman Sela in cooperation with the Breen secret service. Sela disguised her role in this action by blaming two deceased, namely her predecessor Rehaek and Tal Aura, the predecessor of Kamemor, who pursues a peaceful and multiculturalist course and is a thorn in Sela's side. A Breen employee was able to save the construction plans before Bashir destroyed the prototype Slipstream spaceship and the shipyard. However, the data was damaged. Breen engineer Trok needs certain equipment to develop a self-buildable and long-term multicompatible slipstream drive for the Typhon Pact. These are two components that are standard on Jem'Hadar spaceships. Meanwhile, the Federation colonizes three planets with refugees on the border with the Tzenkethi area. The Tzenkethi coalition is not satisfied with this and sees it as an overly expansionist course of the Federation.

Because of the theft of the Slipstream plans and Andor's exit from the Federation, Federation President Bacco sees the role of the Federation weakened or in danger with a view to a possible armed conflict with the Typhon Pact. That is why it is expanding the Khitomer Agreement that the Federation once concluded with the Klingon Empire. After Ferenginar, the Cardassian Union is now also joining the agreement. At Bacco's instigation, trade agreements are concluded between the power blocks. It also ensures that civilian spaceships from both power blocks are allowed to travel into the space area claimed by the other power block. The Khitomer members are allowed to travel into the Typhon Expansion and the Typhon Pact members are allowed to pass the Bajoran wormhole . As part of this agreement, the Enterprise-E and the Romulan spaceship Eletrix embark on a joint research mission into the Gamma Quadrant. At the same time as this mission, the Breen secret service takes advantage of the changed situation and flies - concealing the true flight mission - with the cargo spaceship Ren Fejin, on which Trok is also on, in the direction of the Dominion area in order to steal the required components. Since the parts turn out to be too big for the transport on the Ren Fejin, the crew calls the Eletrix, who is commanded by the T'Jul, who is cooperating with Sela, for help using a replacement plan. The Eletrix then staged its crash on a moon in the appearance of the Enterprise, freed the Ren Fejin crew from the Dominion, which they had got caught in the meantime, and flies the stolen parts towards the wormhole. By sabotaging the communications relay, located at the gamma end of the wormhole and used by Deep Space Nine to communicate with spaceships in the gamma quadrant, T'Jul prevents the Enterprise from informing the Federation.

Meanwhile, Robinson, commanded by Ben Sisko, has been on a research mission in the Gamma Quadrant for months. After Sisko learned from Picard that the Enterprise can no longer communicate with DS9, Sisko lets the Robinson fly towards the wormhole. Meanwhile, two Andorian-style explosives have been discovered near the core of the DS9 station, which can hardly be removed. Captain Ro has the thousands of station residents evacuated immediately, for which Kassidy Yates' spaceship Xhosa is also used. One Breen and one Tzenkethi spaceship attack. When the Robinson leaves the wormhole, Sisko sees first the Xhosa and then the DS9 explode.

shadow

This novel is by David R. George III. , is a direct follow-up to the novel Visitation and mainly takes place in 2383.

The Eletrix returns camouflaged to the Alpha Quadrant. According to T'Jul's plan, which she had been given by Tomalak, who collaborated with Sela, the Eletrix should have returned to Romulan territory unnoticed by DS9. The plan also envisaged that a camouflaged waiting spaceship of the Breen and the Tzenkethi as well as the bombs on DS9 served to enable the Eletrix to return safely to the Alpha Quadrant. The bombs on DS9 exploded unexpectedly and the Eletrix was exposed by the Defiant after passing the wormhole. In order to avoid the shame of the failure of their mission, T'Jul has the Eletrix deliberately destroyed and killed themselves, making them the scapegoat for Sela and Tomalak. The Ren Fejin, flying without cargo, is seized by Starfleet, the Tomalak on it is taken into Federation custody.

DS9 is destroyed by several explosions. A little more than 1,000 people die in the process. Over 80 percent of the civilians in DS9 were able to be evacuated to spacecraft or to Bajor in good time, the remaining civilians perished. Among the crew members, the proportion of dead is significantly higher at around three quarters. The Robinson is badly damaged, killing over 30 people. Kassidy survived. The remaining DS9 crew begins to use an old operations center on Bajor as a substitute, which is called "Bajoran space center". Miles O'Brien, who becomes chief engineer again after the death of DS9 chief engineer Chao, and Nog also help.

The Cardassian Denison Morad, like some of his fellow citizens, does not agree with Cardassia's accession to the Khitomer Alliance, and belongs to the Cardassian fundamentalist group “True Path”, which is striving for a Cardassia, as it was before the end of Cardassia's occupation was the case over Bajor. To achieve this goal, Morad, like Sela, supports the team around Tzenkethi scientist Nelzik Tek Lom-A materially in their work to develop an artificial wormhole. This begins in the Cardassian-Bajoran border area and ends directly in the Bajoran wormhole.

Sela continues to lie to Kamemor and hide any involvement in the destruction of DS9 from her. Meanwhile, Kamemor's suspicion grows that Sela and her confidants are responsible for the act of violence - not least when the Romulan warbird Vetruvis is reported missing. As part of a top secret mission, Kamemor goes to earth and protests against. Bacco her innocence. When Kamemor blackmailed Tomalak, she and Bacco learn of Sela's plan to help the Breen build a Slipstream drive.

The Vetruvis secretly flies through the artificial wormhole into the Bajoran wormhole and so into the Gamma Quadrant. From another Dominion planet, the Vetruvis steals the components that the Breen need to build a multi-compatible Slipstream drive and flies back the same way. When the Vetruvis is in the Bajoran wormhole, both Sisko with the Defiant and Odo try to prevent the Vetruvis from returning to the artificial wormhole. When the Defiant threatens to fail, Kira Nerys rams the Vetruvis with a runabout. The artificial wormhole, the Vetruvis and Nelzik's research laboratory are destroyed, the Bajoran wormhole collapses, and Kira disappears.

After Prynn Tenmei had her father's artificial respiration stopped, Vaughn dies. Sisko learns from the prophets that they consider all tasks they have ever given him to be fulfilled. Sisko then returns to Bajor to live with Kassidy. Meanwhile, at Kamemor's instigation, Sela has been replaced as Tal'Shiar chair by Tesitera Levat. Kamemor punishes the imprisoned Sela by poisoning her. Meanwhile, Starfleet Security has arrested the Andorian Th'Shant as a bomber. He also acted in retaliation for the Federation's failure to provide assistance. the Andorian people. In September 2384, Starfleet built a new DS9 station near Bajor.

risk

This novel is by Una McCormack and takes place in 2383.

The Cardassian Neta Efheny spies in Tzenkethi guise under the name Mayazan Ret Ata-E in the Tzenkethi Foreign Ministry on Ab-Tzenketh. There she happened to meet a human, also camouflaged spy of the Federation, who works under the name Hertome Ter Ata-C. Hertome came into contact with the young Tzenkethi girl Corazame. When Mayazan's long spy stay comes to an end and she secretly sets off to her pick-up location, Hertome and Corazame want to accompany her.

Meanwhile, the hitherto independent species known as the Venette Assembly can be protected from the conflict between the Khitomer power bloc and the Typhon Pact by the Tzenkethi. To do this, she officially leases the Tzenkethi three space stations, which are located close to the border with the Federation, Ferengi and Cardassians, for storage and repair purposes. The three Khitomer powers see themselves endangered by the possible deployment of weapons by the Tzenkethi at these stations. Picard and Crusher are part of the diplomatic team made up of the Federation, Ferengi and Cardassians who want to discuss the changed situation on a visit to Venette. Detrek, the leader of the Cardassian delegation, openly denies the peaceful intent of the Venetans and is certain that the Tzenkethi want to have weapons ready for an attack on the stations. To find out exactly that, three spaceships of the three mentioned Khitomer powers are on their way to the three space stations. This also includes the Aventine, on which Dax's old friend Peter Alden, who works in Starfleet Intelligence, works as an advisor to the mission. In contrast to Dax, he is sure that the Tzenkethi want to use the stations to arm themselves against the Khitomer powers. When investigating station V4, the Venetians assert that they are not warmongers. The away team found no evidence of weapons, but found a high concentration of a solvent that can be used to stabilize a bio-weapons-grade substance. As several Tzenkethi cargo ships approach the stations, the Cardassian delegation leaves the negotiations indignantly. The star fleet is blocking the Tzenkethi spaceships' way to the stations. Meanwhile, the Aventine, disguised as a Tzenkethi spaceship, flies to Ab-Tzenketh to bring back the Cardassian spy Efheny on behalf of the Cardassians. Shortly before Efheny's planned departure from the planet, Hertome notices that Mayazan doesn't want to take him and Corazame with her. Hertome dies in the resulting dispute. Concerned about Corazame, Efheny hands her her transponder chip, so that instead of Efheny, Corazame is beamed to the Aventine. Instead of Corazame, Mayazan is sent to a Tzenkethi re-education institution.

Finally, Akaar reveals to Picard reported that the Federation's suspicions that the Venetans were helping the Tzenkethi upgrade were just an excuse to uphold the Federation's alliance with the Cardassians.

See also