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     Title: The Captains Table, The Mist
     Book 3 of 6 Told by Benjamin Sisko as recorded by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, published: 7/1998
     There's a bar called The Captain's Table where those who have commanded mighty vessels of every shape and era can meet, relax, and share a friendly drink or two with others of their calling, sometimes a brawl may break out but it's all in the family, more or less. Just remember, the first round of drinks is always paid for with a story ... even on the planet Bajor. Do the people of the Mist have the ultimate cloaking device - or a gatewayto another dimension? Captain Sisko doesn't know for sure, but the Klingons, the Cardassians, and the Ferengi Alliance will stop at nothing to obtain the device. Now Sisko finds himself in the middle of a deadly struggle that could change the balance of power throughout the entire Alpha Quadrant!

     Title: Vengeance
     Writer(s): Dafydd ab Hugh, #22, published: 2/1998
     Rumors of a secret alliance between the Dominion and the Klingon Empire lure Captain Sisko and the crew of the Defiant on a desperate mission into the Gamma Quadrant, leaving Deep Space 9 vulnerable to a surprise sneak attack! Now an elite Klingon task force has seived control of the station, and only Chief O'Brien, Dr. Bashir, and Worf are left to defend Deep Space Nine. But Worf's loyalties are tested when he discovers that the invaders include his oldest friend - and his own brother!

     Title: The 34th Rule
     Writer(s): A novel by Armin Shimerman and David R. George III, from a story by Shimerman, George and Eric A. Stillwell, published: 1/1999
     For once, business is going well for Quark, not that anyone of DS9 truly appreciates his genius for finding profit in the most unlikely of circumstances. Quark is even looking forward to making the deal of a lifetime - when he suddenly finds himself stuck right in the middle of a major dispute between Bajor and the Ferengi Alliance. It seems that the Grand Nagus is refusing to sell one of the lost Orbs of the Prophets to the Bajoran government, which has responded by banninbg all Ferengi activity in Bajoran space. With diplomatic relations between the two cultures rapidly breaking down, Quark loses his bar first, then his freedom. But even penniless, he still has his cunning and his lobes, and those alone may be all he needs to come out on top - and prevent an interstellar war!

     Title: Rebels: The Conquered, Book 1 of 3
     Writer(s): Daffyd ab Hugh, published: 2/1999, #24
     When Captain Sisko leads the Defiant on a dangerous mission into the Gamma Quadrant to liberate a conquered world, the Bajoran government insists that Kai Winn, the Federation's longtime nemesis, assume complete control of the space station. Left behind by Sisk, Major Kira expects the worst from the Kai's new regime, but even she is caught by surprise when a fleet of alien warships attack Deep Space Nine.

     Titles: Rebels: the Courageous, Book 2 of 3
     Writer(s): Daffyd ab Hugh, #25, published: 2/1999
     Kai Winn, the supreme spiritual leader of the Bajoran people, has never divulged what she personally did during the harsh and perilous days of the Occupation. But now, as alien warships fight to reclaim Deep Space Nine, she cannot help recalling those bygone days - and her own private war against the alien oppressors. Meanwhile, on the other side of the wormhole, Sisko and the crew of the Defiant are stranded on an alien world overrun by ruthless invaders.

     Title: Rebels: the Liberated Writer(s): Daffyd ab Hugh, published: 3/1999, #26
     Major Kira and the ambitious Kai Winn have never seen eye to eye, but when alien renegades invade DS9, determined to capture one of the sacred Orbs of the Prophets, the two women must work together to preserve both the orb and the safety of everyone aboard the station. Captain Sisko and the crew of the Defiant cannot come to Kira's aid; they are too busy teaching an entire world how to fight back against a vicious invasion - even if it means breaking the Prime Directive!

     Title: What You Leave Behind
     Writer(s): Novel by Diane Carey, based on the Episode Writer(s): Ira Stephen Behr and Hans Beimler, published: June, 1999
     The Final Chapter: Seven years ago, Benjamin Sisko took command of an alien space station newly christened Deep Space Nine. There he met Kira Nerys, Odo, Miles O'Brien, Quark, Worf, Julian Bashir, and many others who would touch his life deeply. He also found a new and troubling destiny as the long-awaited Emissary to the mysterious wormhole entities known as the Prophets. Now, after years of triumph and tragedy, and a cataclysmic war that rocked the entire Alpha Quadrant, Captain Sisko and his valiant crew face their final challenge. No one is safe, nothing is certain, and not even the Prophets can predict the ultimate fate of Deep Space 9.

     Title: The Fall of Terek Nor, Book I of DS9 Millennium
     Writer(s): Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, published - March, 2000
     Bajor is in flames. The corridors of Terok Nor echo with the sounds of battle. It is the end of the Cardassian Occupation, and the beginning of the greatest epic adventure is the saga of Deep Space 9.
     Six years later, with the Federation losing ground in its war against the Dominion, the galaxy's greatest smugglers rendezvous on DS9. Their objective; a fabled lost Orb of the Prophets unlike any other, rumored to be the key to unlocking a second wormhole in Bajoran space - a second Celestial Temple. Almost immediately, mysterious event plague the station: Odo arrests Quark for murder; Jake and Nog lead Chief O'Brien to an eerie holosuite in a section of the station that's not on any schematic; and a Cardassian scientist whom even the Obsidian Order once feared makes an unexpected appearance. With all those events tied to a never-before-told story of the withdrawal, Sisko faces the most dangerous challeng of his career; unless he can uncover the secret of the lost Orb, what began with the fall of Terok Nor will end with the destruction of DS9 or worse!

     Title: The War of the Prophets, DS9 Millennium II
     Writer(s): Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, published - March, 2000
     The crew of the Defiant is trapped in a future in which the Pah-wraiths have trimphed and the greatest epic adventue in the saga of DS9 continues.
     In the last days of the 24th century, caught in the crossfire of the apocalyptic conrfrontation between the Bajoran Prophets and the Pah-wraiths, Sisko and his crew face what might be the final millennium.
     On one side, the Pah-wraith's new emissary - Kai Weyoun - promises his followers that when Bajor's two Celestial Temples are restored as one, all beings in the universe will ascend to a new and glorious existence with the True Prophets. On the other side, the scientists of Starfleet predict that when the 2 Bajoran wormholes merge, the will create a Warp 10 shock waave of infinite destructive power.
     With the Federation of the brink of collapse, and Starfleet consumed by Admiral Jean-Luc Picard's obsessive quest to build the largest starship ever conceived, Sisko enters the ultimate race against time for the biggest stakes of all, the survival of the universe itself.

     Title Inferno, DS9 Millenium III
     Writer(s): Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, published - April, 2000
     Now begins the final battle of the Prophets and the Pah-wraiths within the nightmarish realm of nonlinear time - as the greatest epic adventure in the saga of DS9 reaches its staggering conclusion... As predicted in ancient Bajoran texts, the Celestial Temple has been restored, ending normal space-time existence for all except Sisko and those trapped on the Defiant and the Klingon warship Boreth.
     But as apocalyptic war rages between the Prophets and the Pah-wraiths, one last chance for survival beckons - a return to DS9. Yet in the realm of nonlinear time, it appears that there are two possible times at which Sisko and his allies can return to the station: on the day of the Cardassian Withdrawal, or on the day 6 years later when DS9 was destroyed. But which choice will lead to the triumph of the Prophets? And which to eternal victory for the Pah-wraiths?
     With time literally running out and the fate of the universe in his hands, Sisko now must confront his own personal inferno-in order to change the past and restore the present, he must be ready to make the ultimate sacrifice....his future...

     Title: A Stitch in Time
     Author(s): Andrew J. Robinson  Published May 2000
     For nearly a decade Garak has longed for just one thing - to go home. Exiled on a space station, surrounded by aliens who loathe and distrust him, boing back to Cardassia has been Garak's one dream. Now, finally, he is home. But home is a world whose landscape is filled with death and destruction. Desperation and dust are constant companions and luxury is a glass of clean water and a warm place to sleep.
     Ironically, it is a letter from one of the aliens on that space station, Dr. Julian Bashir, that inspires Garak to lok at the fabric of his life. Elim Garak has been a student, a gardener, a spy, an exile, a tailor, even a liberator. It is a life that was charted by the forces of Cardassian society with very little understanding of the person, and even less compassion.
     But it is the tailor that understands who Elim Gark was, and what he could be. It is the tailor who sees the ruined fabric of Cardassia, and who knows how to bring this rabaged society back together. This is strange, because a tailor is the one thing Garak never wanted to be. But it is the tailor who both Cardassia and Elim Garak need. It is the tailor who can put the pieces together, who can take a stitch in time.

     Title: Dark Passions, Bk. 1 of 2
     Writer(s): Susan Wright, published January, 2001. Book 2 will be found in the voyager books 2 database on this server.
     Klingons and Cardassians rule the Alpha Quadrant in the Mirror Universe in an uneasy alliance that hides a viper's nest of backstabbing plots and counterplots. Annika Hansen has become a trained operative for the Obsidian Order. Her latest target: Kira Nerys, the duplicitous Intendant of Bajor, whose ruthless ambition has brought her to a position of power second only to the Regent himself, the fierce Klingon warrior known as Worf. To get close to her prey, Annika must worm her way into the Intendant's notoriously fickle affections. Easy enough to accomplish, perhaps, but it remains to be seen who is truly manipulating whom.

     Title: Avatar, Book 1 of 2
     Writer(s): S. D. Perry, published May, 2001
     Return to the edge of the Final Frontier. In the aftermath of a war that brought the Alpha Quadrant to the brink of destruction, Starbase Deep Space 9 - the galaxy's nexus of scientific and military intrigue - is once more the flashpoint of impending Armageddon as a surprise attack cripples the station, killing hundreds and threatening the fragile new peace.
     Colonel Kira Nerys and the survivors - together with several controversial new officers - are all who stand against the outbreak of a new war and a terrible doom tied to the unborn child of Captain Benjamin Sisko.
     Elsewhere, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise make a startling discovery . . . one that will forever change the lives of those aboard Deep Space 9.

     Title: Avatar, Book 2 of 2
     Writer(s): S. D. Perry, published May, 2001
     As the Federation prepares to launch a counterstrike against the Dominion, Colonel Kira Nerys searches for a way to prevent another galactic holosaust. But when a newly discovered prophecy propels Jake Sisko on an impossible quest and threatens to plunge all of Bajor into chaos, Kira is forced to choose between being true to her faith . . . and being true to herself.
     Meanshile, as the combined crews of Deep Space 9 and the Starship Enterprise struggle to stop a terrorist plot to destroy the station and the ship, lives change, new friendships are forged, and the shocking truth behind a grisly murder is revealed.

     Title: Twilight (book 1 of 4 "Mission Gamma")
     Writer(s): David R. George III, Published September 2002
     The Time Has Come ... for a new era of exploration. With the Dominion War Behind them, the crew of the U.S.S. Defiant journeys through the wormhole as Commander Elias Vaughn leads a "corps of discover" to blaze new trails into the unexplored reaches of the Gamma Quadrant.
     The Time Has Come ... for a civilization to reach a crossroads. As political forces throughout the Alpha Quadrant intersect at Deep Space 9TM to determine the future of Bajor, the planet's theological unity threatens to shatter. And for Colonel Kira Nerys, the path of the Prophets may become a road to ruin.
     The Time Has Come ... for a father and daughter to confront their past while a mother and son fight for the future, for lovers to be tested and for friendships to transform and for worlds on opposite ends of the galaxy to face the dusk .. or the dawn.

     Title: This Gray Spirit (book 2 of 4 "Mission Gamma")
     Writer(s): Heather Jarman, Published September, 2002
     The political intrigue aboard Deep Space 9TM escalates when Gul Macet's warship arrives at the station with an unexpected passenger, Cardassian Ambassador Natima Lang has returned to the station on a mission of hope, but it's one that will bring back old wounnds and old ghosts. As tensions rise on all sides, Colonel Kira Nerys discovers that the line between friend and foe is narrower than she ever imagined.
     Elsewhere, the crew of the damaged Starship Defiant forges an uneasy alliance with an unusual alien species - one whose unique biological makeup is the key to the balance of power in the region of the Gamma Quadrant. As the crew becomes ensnared in a web of deceit, Lieutenant Ezri Dax and Ensign Thirisher ch'Thane struggle to stave off a genocidal civil war.

     Title: Cathedral (book 3 of 4 "Mission Gamma ")
     Writer(s): Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels, published October, 2002
     Siren Songs      As a small child, Jules Bashir underwent illegal genetic enhancements that forever altered the natural course of his life. As an adult, ever since the day he discovered what his parents had done, Dr. Julian Bashir has wondered what he might have become if "Jules" had been allowed to live, certain he would never know the answer. But when the lure of a strange alien artifact in the Gamma Quadrant inexplicably begins to reverse Bashir's enhancements, the person he had though long dead is given a second chance at life.
     Ninety thousand light-years away, as the crew of Deep Space 9TM tries to comprehend a shocking tragedy, Ro Laren makes a fateful decision about her life aboard the station. And although political maneuverings and failing diplomacy have already extinguished all hope of a real, lasting peace between Bajor and Cardassia, one man's search for his true calling may lay a new foundation for the future.

     Title: Lesser Evil, book 4 of 4 "Mission Gamma"
     Writer(s): Robert Simpson
     Sins Past
     Chaos erupts aboard "Deep Space 9" as the crew begins a desperate search for a killer in their midst, catapaulting Colonel Kira Nerys on a dangerous chase into the heart of the Federation. But the crime she seeks to avenge is part of a plot more ancient and far-reaching than anyone suspects, and that secret,if exposed, could divide worlds throughout the Alpha Quadrant.
     Meanwhile as the Starship Defiant makes its way back toward the wormhole and home to "DS9", a startling discovery shakes Commander Elias Vaughn to his core and to light the truth behind the most tragic missionof his long life. As the crew struggles with the implications of what they"ve found, their captain's judgment comes into question... and cast doub on the final outcome of their historic voyage through the Gamma Quadrant.

     Title: The Left Hand of Destiny, Book 1
     Writer(s): J. G. Hertzler & Jeffrey Lang
     "The Klingon Empire is dying ... and I think it deserves to die"
     With those words, Lieutenant Ezri Dax propelled Lieutenant Commander Worf to most fateful decision of his life - to vanquish Klingon leader Gowran in honorable combat and install in his place a low-born, one-eyed soldier of the empire who might lead their people back to the path of honor.
     Under the weighty mantle of chancellor, General Martok led the forces of the empire to victory in the final Allied assault against the Dominion. Now, with Worf at his side as the newly appointed Federation ambassador to Qo'noS, Martok at last is coming home, bringing with him the hope of a bright new future for his people
     But the new chancellor's trimuphant return to the Klingon homeworld is met by treachery and upheaval. As the demons of the general's past rise up, so too does a usurper to the Imperial Throne, one who knows exactly how to crush Martok and all who stand with him - and who won't be satisfied until the are ashes under the foundation of a new Klingon Empire.

     Title: The Left Hand of Destiny, Book 2
     Writer(s): J. G. Hertzler and Jeffrey Lang
     "The true test of a warrior is not without ... it is within."
     Sins of the past collide with hopes for the future as Martok fights for the right to lead the Klingon Empire. With the secret of his usurper exposed, the ousted chancellor and his ragtag band of followers embark on a desperate plan to retake the empire.
     But while Worf, Ezri Dax, and the crew of the IKS Rotarran go in search of the Klingons' most revered icon of power, Martok is dealt the most crushing blow of all - driving him to make his final stand on the ice-strewn cliffs of sacred Boreth. As that frozen world reverberates with the song of armies and bat'leths clashning, the mystery of Martok's past, and the future of the Klingon Empire, is revealed.
     These two books are part of the 10th Anniversary celebration of Star Trek, Deep Space Nine.

     Title: Worlds of Star Trek Deep Space 9, Volume 1
     Writer(s): The Lotus Flower, Cardassia, Una McCormack; Paradigm, Andor, Heather Jarman
     Within every federation and every empire, behind every hero and every villain, there are the worlds that define them. In the aftermath of Unity and in the daring tradition of Spock's World, The Final Reflection,and A Stitch in Time, the civilizations most closely tied to Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, can now be experienced as never before...in tales both sweeping and intimate, reflective and prophetic, eerily familiar and utterly alien.
     Cardassia: the last world ravaged by the Dominion War is also the last on which Mile O'Brien ever imagined building a life. As he joins in the reconstruction of Cardassia's infrastructure, his wife Keiko spearheads the planet's difficult agricultural renewal. But Cardassia's struggle to remake itself - from the fledgling democracy backed by Elim Garak to the people's rediscovery of their own spiritual past - is not without opposition as the outside efforts to help rebuild its civilization come under attack by those who reject any alien influence.
     Andor: On the eve of a great celebration of their ancient past, the unusual and mysterious Andorians, a species with four sexes, must decide just how much they are willing to sacrifice in order to ensure their survival. Biological necessity clashes with personal ethics; cultural obligation vies with love - and Ensign Thirishar ch'Thane returns home to the planet he forswore, to face not only the consequences of his choices, but a clandestine plan to alter the very nature of his kind.

     Title: Unity
     Writer(s): S. D. Perry, published December, 2004
     Synopsis: On the eve of Bajor's formal entry into the Federation, First Minister Shakaar was assassinated, derailing the induction and flunging the planet and station Deep Space 9TM into chaos. Investigation into the murder revealed the presence of a parasitic conspiracy threatening not onl7y Bajor' future with the Federation, but the very survival of both. At the same time, the fracturing of Bajor's theology has put its people on the threshold of a startling transformation - and its consequences now rest on the shoulder of Colonel Kira Nerys, who months ago defied the religious authority of her planet by making public an ancient heretical text that challenged the very foundation of the Bajoran faith.
     Now, after a harrowing and historic voyage of exploration in the Gamma Quadrant, the weary, wounded crew of Starship Defiant is ;at last coming home. But the joy of their return is short-lived as the crew becomes swept up in the crisis aboard the station, with many of them confronting personal issues that force them to make life-altering choices. Among those is a grief-stricken Commander Elias Vaughn, who reaches a crossroads in his life's journey and learns the true purpose for which he was Touched by the Prophets - as well as the ultimate fate of Captain Benjamin Sisko. And, somewhere on Bajor, a child long awaited is about to be born.

     Title: Worlds of Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Volume 2
     Writer(s): Trill - Unjoined - Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin, Bajor - Fragments and Omens by J. Noah Kym. Published together in February, 2005
     Within every federation and every empire, behind Every hero and every villain, there are the worlds that define them. In the aftermath of Unity and in the daring tradition of Spock's World, the Final Reflection,/i> and A Stich in Time, the civilizations most closely tied to TM can now be experienced as never before...in tales both sweeping and intimate, reflective and prophetic, eerily familiar and utterly alien.
     Trill: They are a people with secrets. For centuries they kept their true nature hidden, even taking disturbing steps to protect the small population of near-immortal symbionts with whom a privileged few Trill are joined, body, mind, and soul. They are a people who hold memory to be sacred, yet deny their own past. Now amid a whirlwind of scandal, accusations, and growing civil unrest, Ezri Dax must penetrate millennia of lies and deceptions, and rediscover what should never have been forgotten, before her civilization rips itself apart.
     Bajor: The honeymoon is over. Following the euphoria of Bajor's marriage to the Federation, the real business of making that union work has begun. But even on a world where politics and religion are intertwined, conflicting visions of Bajor's role in the interstellar arena divide the planet's leadership. As newly minted Captain Kira Nerys sets the tone for the kind of Starfleet officer she will be, First Minister Asarem makes a bold move to define Bajor's voice in the Federation, while the returned Benjamin Sisko prepares for a future that only he, as yet, can see.

     Title: Worlds of Startrek, Deep Space Nine, Volume 3
     Writer(s): Ferenginar - Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed by Keith R. A DeCandido. The Dominion - Olympus Descending, by David R. George III, both published together in February, 2005
     Within every federation and every empire, behind Every hero and every villain, there are the worlds that define them. In the aftermath of Unity and in the daring tradition of Spock's World, the Final Reflection,/i> and A Stich in Time, the civilizations most closely tied to TM can now be experienced as never before...in tales both sweeping and intimate, reflective and prophetic, eerily familiar and utterly alien.
     Ferenginar: Quark's profit-driven homeworld is rocked with scandal as shocking allegations involving his brother's first wife, the mother of Nog, threaten to overthrow Rom as Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance. Making matters worse, Quark has been recruited by Rom's political adversaries to join the coup d'etat, with guarantees of all Quark ever dreamed of if they succeed in taking his brother down. While Ferenginar's future teeters on the edge, the pregnancy of Rom's current wife, Leeta, takes a difficult turn for both mother and child.
     The Dominion: Since its defeat in the war for the Alpha Quadrant, the Great Link - the living totality of the shape-shifting Founders - has struggled with questions. At its moment of greates doubt, its fate, and that of the Dominion itself, is tied to Odo's investigation of his kind's true motives for sending a hundred infant changelings out into the galaxy. As Odo searches for ansers and takes a hard look at his past choices, Taran'atar reaches a turning point in his own quest for clarity ... one from which there may be no going back.

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