#Star Trek: Typhon Pact

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[ds9jack]

My Intro Post!!

Hi Welcome to my blog I'm insane abt Jack and Julian. Learn more about me under the cut

My name is Jack, but you can call me whatever else you feel like. I go by he/him. I have autism, so if I accidentally encroach on a social rule, give me some grace and make me aware.

Most of my art is centered around my favorite ship Jackshir. I fucking love Jackshir. I'm also a really big fan of Rom/Leeta, Garashir, Spirk (who isn't), Chahura, Lon/Tuvok, Quark/Odo, Geordi/Data, Mariner/Jennifer etcetera. I LOVE GAY STAR TREK PAIRINGS!!

I started watching Star Trek in 2021, and in that time I've finished these series:

The Original Series

The Next Generation

Deep Space 9

Lower Decks

I'm currently on season 5 of Voyager.

I also like:

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Revolutionary Girl Utena

House MD

Scott Pilgrim

Heathers

Death Note

Spore (the game)

Sims 4

Moths

Doll collecting

Plague history/plague doctors

Astrophysics

Biochemistry

Genetics

I'm not 100% on all of these so even though I really like them I might mess up some stuff sometimes okay Okay

Jack is my favorite character, I think he's really underappreciated, so here's a section in my about me dedicated to him and why I like him. I related to Jack heavily, I see a lot of my traits reflected in him and find comfort seeing a character similar to me. A central part to what makes a character likeable is seeing emotional similarities in them, allowing for catharsis in the viewer. I find these similarities in Jack. He's a good place for me to place my more irrational thoughts, into a little contained pod of a character. I've been focused on Jack since about February 2022. In this time I've watched Statistical Probabilities and Chrysalis over 100 times combined, read nearly every fanfiction involving the members of the Jack Pack, and read every official novel/short story containing them with the exception of the Typhon Pact books past the first and the Section 31 novels. I've also photo-scanned the pages of the DS9 Companion and the DS9 Technical handbook pertaining to the Jack Pack. My sketchbook is full of portrait art of Jack. My inner voice sounds like Jack most of the time. Not only do I find emotional catharsis (also the name of a song I heavily associate with Jack btw) in Jack, I also find him a motivating character for me. Whenever I feel like not doing work or self-improvement, I think about Jack and I find a new eagerness to power through whatever I might be hung up on. I also find a sense of confidence from him. Since I view genetic engineering (in the episode of Statistical Probabilities and Chrysalis at the very least) as an allegory for autism, when Jack talks about finding pride in his genetic identity I can draw a sort of pride in my autism from that as well. Jack isn't just a charaxcter to me but a part of my soul. Okay

Okay, thank you for reading! If you want some of my other socials, I have a Twitter, and my own personal website. My Discord is Jack.scr

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In a Name (House of Worf, Part IV)

[This was originally posted by me on another site on 3 February 2021; it has been copied here without change.]

Grr...

I mentioned almost a year and a half ago that I felt there was one more story to be told, one more scene to be written. And it's here, kinda sorta. It didn't turn out the way I thought it would. In fact, I actually like how the moment fits here better than my original intention.

But this story doesn't have an ending, even after a year and a half. It ends, sure; but I'm not sure it counts as an ending.

Did I mention it's been a year and a half?

le sigh Whatever. Here it is, the fourth and almost certainly final bit of a series that follows not from televised Star Trek, not even from the books I love so much, but the books except Collateral Damage, because I started writing these before that came out, contradicting my stuff before being contradicted itself (along with everything else!) by Star Trek: Picard.

Curtain goes up.

***

As dinner was served, Worf seethed, even as he tried to decide whether he had the right to. A glance at his son told him he was also gravely concerned at least.

Birktal set V'Lin's plate on the table before her, and she nodded in thanks as he retreated toward the kitchen. Her husband and father-in-law regarded their own far different plates in obvious satisfaction, but neither ate just yet. "Is there something that is wrong?" she asked them.

"No," Alexander quickly lied.

"No," echoed Worf, with an equal lack of truth.

"I see," she said with a raised eyebrow. "Then perhaps we should all dine while you decide how to reach the topic of your concern." She took a bite of her artfully seasoned and prepared vegetarian meal, as the two men scowled at their meat as a proxy.

Worf spoke first. "How are deliberations with the Remnant proceeding?"

His son answered. "The Federation continues to provide aid, though the amounts needed continue to decrease as their infrastructure grows. The Empire's patrols along the borders with the Breen and Tholians continue to be uneventful, and the Gorn and Tzenkethi are more than willing to support those patrols more in coming months." He turned to V'Lin. "Is that accurate?"

She nodded. "From what I understand, yes. The Remnant is still open to discussion of joining the Khitomer Accord powers, but after the experience of the Typhon Pact, they are understandably cautious about coming too interdependent with those that might turn on them. Better the more flexible, adjustable alliances they seek at the moment."

Worf made a noise of acceptance. "And is the new chancellor planning to make sweeping changes to Martok's policies, or willing to keep the status quo?"

Alexander laughed, and even V'Lin's expression acknowledged the facetiousness of Worf's comment. "Chancellor Klag is a strong-minded, wise individual, who happens to agree with most of what Martok did and believed. There is nothing wrong with a good status quo."

Worf chewed a bite thoughtfully. "And what of this new ambassador to the Remnant he chose? What are your feelings about him?"

V'Lin made no immediate comment; Alexander, on the other hand, tensed and fixed his father with a hard look. "The chancellor feels he is a good choice; otherwise he would not have selected him. And certainly his family has had long-standing relationships with the Romulans."

Worf snorted. "A fine answer, for a politician." He matched Alexander's hard stare. "Now answer again, as the son of Worf and K'Ehleyr."

"Husband--" V'Lin reached for Alexander's hand.

"No," he said calmly, though he accepted the hand in his. "That was blunt and direct and well-formulated, and my father deserves a good answer. As the son of Worf and K'Ehleyr... I wonder if I would hate him as much as I do if he didn't have his uncle's name."

Worf nodded in agreement, and spat the name as if it were the vilest curse imaginable. "Duras."

V'Lin was no stranger to either her husband's history, nor how strongly family animosity could be held. "It is certainly understandable to object to the choice," she said simply. "In truth, do you have objection to him alone, or merely to his family?"

"You think I am letting hatred cloud my judgement?" Worf asked with fire in his eyes.

"I ask a question that may or may not have great depths." She squeezed her husband's hand even as she regarded her father-in-law. "If you truly believe that he is a poor choice, even if his family is the prime reason... Then perhaps you ought to speak with the chancellor, or the High Council, or both."

Worf heaved a sigh, and looked to his son. "You married well," he said simply.

"I know," Alexander replied, and V'Lin gave a small nod of acknowledgement.

"I will speak with Torqal," he said, naming Martok's cousin who had taken the House's seat on the Council -- but not leadership of the House itself, despite the objections of absolutely no one but Worf himself when he said the House ought to be led by Worf himself. "Perhaps a discussion is in order."

***

"Worf, son of Mogh, head of the House of Martok... Speak."

Worf gave the High Council a nod of deference, primarily directed to the man who stood at the center. "Chancellor Klag," he said. "I wish to address the Council requesting information."

Klag threw back his head and laughed. "Any other man and I would consider that a challenge. But I have known you too long to believe you mince words. Ask your questions, friend!"

"Thank you," Worf rumbled. He looked to the youngish man who stood glowering openly. "I wish to understand why Duras, son of Torg, was appointed as ambassador to the Romulan Remnant."

The movement of Duras's hand toward his d'k tahg seemed almost reflexive. "If the Chancellor will not take this as a challenge, I will!"

"Duras!" Klag bellowed, even as Torg himself stirred at his son's actions. "You have not been challenged! Unless you feel that slaying an unarmed man for asking a question will add to your hard-earned good reputation."

Duras's hand dropped, and Worf could practically hear the calming breaths he took. "With respect, Chancellor," he said, "there has not been a question yet."

Klag's eyes moved from Duras to Worf, and he nodded with the ghost of a smile.

Worf stepped toward the younger man, and even as he did, he saw the man's crest and eyes, both so evocative of both his mother and his uncle. "My question is, then: why were you the proper choice to speak for the Empire to the Remnant?"

He could practically see the shift in Duras's mood: challenge or no, he was being asked to proclaim his great deeds. "I was there at the Battle of Achernar Prime, two weeks after leaving the academy on Ty'Gokor. As a bekk I defended the old Imperial Palace alongside Romulan and Federation forces; more than ninety percent of our troops were killed when the Breen ground forces attacked. For my services I was given a commission as a first lieutenant and a medal from the Romulans."

"No small feat," Worf said in unfeigned admiration. "You should be proud."

Duras looked bewildered a moment, but said, "I am." A pause. "There is more."

"Continue, then."

"Aboard the IKS 'apuStoQ, I served as second officer during the Kinshaya assault on Nimbus III." Duras glanced at Klag, who shifted slightly at the mention of the Kinshaya, but who nodded for Duras to continue. "They intended to destroy the joint Klingon-Romulan settlement there as vengeance for the loss of their homeworld." He looked at Klag, who was openly smiling, clearly enjoying memories of the Kinshayas' homeworld being lost. "With my captain and his first officer killed in the battle, I took command and helped deflect the attack. In the end... the 'apuStoQ was mine."

Worf was unsure whether the tale of Duras's rise to a captaincy -- a story very similar to more than one officer he greatly respected -- was a credit to him or an affront to Worf himself. So he deflected the issue. "You earned the respect of both powers."

"I already had the respect of both," Duras said, sharply but without offense. "My actions only made that respect grow."

"And so, when someone was needed to bridge the gap between us..."

"I was chosen." Impossible as it seemed, Duras seemed to stand even taller and straighter.

"None would doubt your deeds, or your ability." Worf narrowed his eyes. "But would one doubt your family?"

Duras's hand moved again, but did not withdraw his blade. "My father serves on the High Council," he said lowly. "No one would dare speak against him."

"But that was not always the case," Worf pointed out. "Especially after Torg's connection with a dishonored house was revealed. And what of your mother's House?"

The hand on the d'k tahg tightened. "My mother's House was disbanded shortly after I was born... with your help."

Worf's eyes flickered to Duras's blade, and a not-quite-small part of him would relish the excuse. He pictured himself grappling the younger man, bellowing his rage at his very existence. I buried my blade in your uncle's chest; I fired the shot that destroyed your mother and aunt; I would have slain your cousin on the Hur'q world had not my mate stayed my hand. How many of you must I kill to be at peace at last?

Then Worf locked eyes with this young man who carried the name of a man and a House that he passionately hated. "And do you wish you could be a member of the House of Duras? Or will the honor of your father, and his House, and your own accomplishments be enough for you?"

The hand on the blade relaxed, and moved down to rest by Duras's side. "I am proud to be my father's son, and I am proud to be what I have made myself. I do not need to cling to the past."

"Nor do I," Worf said. "Duras, son of Torg... I have no quarrel with you or with your position."

Duras's eyes narrowed. "Nor I with you... Worf, son of Mogh, leader of the House of Martok."

With a nod, Worf turned to Klag. "I am satisfied, Chancellor. I thank you for your time in hearing me." Everyone deserved the chance to strive for and create a better future... especially those blameless of the circumstances that came before. Let the past be exactly that, then: the past.

***

Postscript:

I cannot express how thrilled and furious in equal measure I am that after a year and a half... I write two sentences and have an ending I like. Whatever. Peace out, y'all.

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[2021|072] Star Trek Typhpon Pact: Raise the Dawn (2012) written by David R. George III

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Star Trek: Typhon Pact - “Raise The Dawn”

After Deep Space Nine’s untimely exploding last book Bajor decides to give Captain Ro and the gang an old air traffic control terminal as a replacement, and meanwhile Sisko and Picard try to stop the Typhon Pact from stealing stuff from the Dominion.

RATING: 88%

(Where to place: The fourth year after Nemesis.)

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Currently reading The Typhon Pact series using Archive.org:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28typhon%20pact%29%20AND%20mediatype%3A%28texts%29

[collective-remnants-rwby]

Borg War

Ok, if I’m gonna sit down and actually write this RWBYTREK thing, I need to set some framing.

Everything follows the canon set in the shows up to the year 2381...and the subsequent Borg Invasion.

The Borg Invasion of 2381 was the centerpiece of the Star Trek: Destiny novel series, with the basic premise being that in the wake of Voyager’s shenanigans in the Delta Quadrant, on top of the defeats they’ve been dealt by Picard, Starfleet, and the other Alpha & Beta Quadrant powers, the Borg decide that any growth of the Collective will be stifled as long as the Federation exists.

And so, for the first time since Species 8472, the Borg’s mission changes from assimilation, to genocide. 

The Federation, the Klingons, the Romulans, the Breen, the Tzenkethi, all must be destroyed, and whatever remains absorbed into the collective.

I won’t get into the particulars of the war, I’d ask you to read the Destiny novels instead, but the Borg are defeated with the help of their creators, and are either driven insane or ascend to join said creators.

But the cost is enormous. Over 63 Billion people are killed, entire planets are destroyed, including locations like Khitomer and Deep Space 9, and 40% of Starfleet is wiped out.

And here’s where I add some changes:

- First off, this is when Romulus is destroyed. The Star Empire, already unstable coming off of Shinzon’s coup in 2379, simply collapses and fractures into a dozen states warring for legitimacy.

- Utopia Planetia is destroyed, and Mars in rendered uninhabitable

- The Borg’s ascension was messier, and while the Borg Hivemind is gone and much of their technology with it, there is still a veritable treasure trove of Borg artifacts and semi-inert tech littered throughout the Alpha and Beta Quadrants.

- There is also the matter of individual Borg drones who didn’t ascend, but rather simply regained their consciousness (and sanity) with the loss of the Hivemind. The Klingons, surprisingly enough, open their arms to the tide of disconnected refugees.

- The Typhon Pact (Another Destiny timeline storyline) is established by the Breen Confederation, Tzenkethi Coalition, Tholian Assembly, Holy Order of Kinshaya, Black Crest faction of the Gorn Hegemony, and a powerful post Imperial Romulan state as a counter to the Federation, engaging in activities in Romulan Space and the now fractured Gorn Hegemony.

- In order to mitigate the losses incurred in the invasion, a series of ships meant to fast track promising enough cadets into capable crews was initiated by the Federation. The Beacon is one of these ships.

- 6 years later, (2387) the Beacon is destroyed on the edge of the now defunct Neutral Zone, and our story begins a year later...

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Obscure Star Trek aliens 94

The Tzenkethi

Probably the most significant alien race who we’ve never actually seen on screen. The Tzenkethi Coalition is a reasonably major power in the Alpha Quadrant, who fought a war with the Federation in the mid-24th century. It was a big enough deal that the Dominion tried to start the war up again.

The name Tzenkethi is a near anagram of “the Kzinti” leading a bunch of fans to think this was a way of including the nefarious felinoids without copyright issues. Writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe said he combined the names Kzinti and Tsankth but always imagined them as big, heavily armoured lizards.

This is how Star Trek Online went with it, as seen above. They’ve also got four arms, which is cool. The novels describe them completely differently though, as delicate, beautiful humanoids who are flexible due to their fluid-filled bodies. Plus they are bioluminescent and change colour. They’re a major part of the Typhon Pact, the anti-Khitomer Accords alliance.

[dgcatanisiri]

The term “canon” has gotten so fucking twisted...

I need an example here, so I’m going with the version that is easiest to address, meaning Star Wars. Which... There’s A LOT of fraught stuff that comes up when that happens, so, because I know there’s a lot of issues with reading comprehension on the internet, I’m gonna say this here: This is AN EXAMPLE, not a judgement or a condemnation.

Star Wars spent much of the pre-Disney era utilizing something referred to as “canon tiers,” where media X was “more” canon than media Y, but if George Lucas said a contradictory thing that superseded everything (a memorable version of this was shortly before the novel Death Star was released, George Lucas was on with Conan O’Brien and casually referred to the guy who Vader chokes in the meeting scene as being named after O’Brien, which led to a hasty change to the character’s name in the book, not all of which were changed, because the original name does appear in the final released version in my collection).

This was, I’m sure no one is surprised to hear, a headache. I can’t say I don’t understand where Disney was coming from in rebooting the whole EU when they bought the rights to the franchise.

BUT... Getting hung up on the word “canon” misses the forest for the trees.

It’s not about the stories that are connected to one another, sharing the universe. It’s about the things that connected to the audience.

Continuing the Star Wars example, my introduction to the Star Wars Expanded Universe, to the world of Star Wars beyond the movies, was with the novel Dark Journey. This was a novel centered around Jaina Solo, daughter of Leia and Han. Jaina’s journey, both in this novel and through the rest of the Legends line of novels, mattered to me, it connected to me, and was grounding to me.

I found that novel in the eighth grade, as a fourteen year old. It mattered to me. It still matters to me. Despite Disney saying “well, that’s not part of our canon” and asshole gatekeep-y fanboys going “the novels were never REALLY canon,” no one can take that away from me. Jaina’s story was there and connected with me at the time that I needed that story to exist.

And THAT’S the thing that it all comes down to when people start arguing about what’s REALLY canon. Because I don’t care if corporate entity A has declared that the events of Story B influence the supposed greater narrative but Story C’s events do not. It’s about if that work that happens to be part of a shared universe has been important to me.

The same thing is happening over in Star Trek novel land right now. From 2002, after the release of Star Trek Nemesis, until the premiere of Star Trek Picard last year, the novels were the only source of new stories being set in the 24th century. This created a lot of ongoing narratives for these characters and this setting - a selected listing of events includes a massive Borg invasion, the formation of a new major Alpha Quadrant power and rival to the Federation called the Typhon Pact, the assassination of the Federation president at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a DS9 that had been rebuilt because of terrorist activity by the Typhon Pact, and I haven’t even touched on character events.

All of that was rendered as “not the real story” with the announcement of Picard (and further undermined with the jump to the 32nd century of the universe over on Discovery). But Star Trek is full of the concept of alternate timelines and such. Hell, this wasn’t even the first time a shared continuity of novels was reset, given the novels of the 1980s, before TNG aired - many of which still influence more modern portrayals.

But these stories still matter. I have kept my Star Wars Legends novels on the shelf next to the Disney EU, just like I will keep my new Trek novels next to the ones I already have.

Indeed, to me, the Legends line for Star Wars is more in line with what I think of as the universe beyond the first six movies, BECAUSE I have that emotional connection to it. This is, literally, the world I grew up with. It may not be “canon” and may not be getting new material being produced for it, but... I don’t see how that matters, considering that these are the stories that matter to me. Time will tell if the same happens for Trek - personally, I’ve enjoyed Discovery, Picard, and Lower Decks, while I know there are those who do not. That doesn’t mean, however, that I will not miss certain novel-developed things, such as characters or events. Some of the novel original lines have been of great importance to me.

They’ll still be there, though. They will still be stories I can return to, revisit when I want to, be able to be that comfort in my time of need. Because I don’t return to them because “this is how events in the fictional universe absolutely 100% happened and did not occur in any different manner.” I return to them because “this story has mattered to me, connected with me emotionally, at a time I needed it, and brings me comfort and joy.”

And ask any writer, they’ll say outright, they’ll often tweak and adjust things as they go on with their works, even if they’re going to be a contradiction to things earlier - the original printing of the first Animorphs book had the characters able to communicate through telepathy when morphed in to other animals, and this became not the case as early as the very next book, with the later reprinting and adaptation cutting that bit out entirely.

“Canon” is a word. Getting hung up on it having a strict definition, rather than just meaning “the commonly accepted rules of the universe,” as opposed to “a factual accounting of everything that ever happened in this setting”... You’re engaging with the story, I suppose, but not in the way that I guarantee the writers particularly want you to. Because they’re not telling the story so you can remember the exact details of page 173. They’re telling a whole story that they hope connects with you, the audience. If that emotional connection is there, that’s what matters.

And it’s not your place to tell anyone that they don’t get to have that emotional connection to a story because it doesn’t fit this arbitrary set of rules.

I mean, it’s all fiction either way. Why the fuck are people getting hung up on what fiction is the real fiction?

[stra-tek]

What happened to the Next Gen crew in the novels?

After Star Trek: Nemesis flopped and future Next Gen movies were shelved, the novels were free to do what they wanted with the TNG crew. Star Trek: Picard has invalidated most of it but let's see what happened...

Picard: Remained in command of the Enterprise 1701-E with a mostly new crew except for Worf and Geordi and went on adventures. Married Beverly and they had a son, Rene. Figuring danger always finds him anyway, kept his son on board the ship and carried on exploring space. Helped Q save the galaxy from annihilation again. Dealt with several Borg invasions in increasingly barmy ways, including voluntarily becoming Locutus again and acting so unhinged when battling a Borg cube led by recently-assimilated Queen Janeway (which was so big it ate Pluto and flew right through the sun like it was nothing), his new senior staff members mutinied. After dealing with that (turns out he was right and they should have just let him reactivate a Doomsday Machine), he got another new senior staff. Was key in stopping the final Borg invasion a few months later, which saw the collective finally freed and ascended to a higher plane of existence, but at the cost of a third of Starfleet, dozens of worlds and 60 billion Federation lives. Commanded the Enterprise-E for longer than he did the 1701-D from TNG.

Riker: Was captain of the USS Titan and went on adventures with his wife Troi (who was his diplomatic officer), security chief Tuvok (transferred from Voyager) and a bunch of weird nonhumanoid aliens in the Gum Nebula. Later promoted to Admiral and kept the Titan as his flagship. As Admiral, pretty much let Jean-Luc do whatever he wanted.

Troi: Became a commando during the Dominion War and helped free Betazed from the Dominion. Joined the USS Titan as Diplomatic Officer. Following several miscarriages, was de-aged by the Caeliar to her 30's and had a child (Tasha) with her husband and Captain, Will. No, Will Riker wasn't de-aged.

Data: Came back from the dead with a new, human-looking and better body which his father Noonien's conciousness had been living in. Inherited his father's fortune and gambling empire on Orion. Data 2.0 learned the secret of positronic brains and resurrected is daughter Lal. He has a new life outside of Starfleet, and declined to return when Picard offered.

Geordi: Left for awhile to captain the USS Challenger until it blew up. Took a voluntary demotion to come back and be engineer of the Enterprise-E again, having seemingly lost any ambition to progress back up through the ranks. Novels written by authors who didn't co-ordinate enough meant he was dating 2 women at once, which is a pretty good turnaround from his TNG days.

Worf: After Data's death and Riker's promotion in Nemesis, became Picard's first officer on the Enterprise. Occasionally leaves the ship to go on Klingon adventures. Once had to deal with most of Picard's new crew committing mutiny. Started sleeping with the new security chief but she died.

Barclay: Joined the Full Circle fleet, which was a mission led by Voyager (now equipped with a Quantum Slipstream drive making it a journey of weeks not 70 years) back to the Delta Quadrant. Used the MIDAS array to beam all the way across the galaxy one time to join Geordi and Scotty on the USS Challenger, which has to be some kind of beaming record.

Wesley: Used his traveler powers to erase the Maquis from history and that somehow made the Dominion War much worse, but DTI agents talked him into undoing it. Later, warned the Enterprise about a gigantic machine entity that was eating the galaxy, and along with Picard and Data 2.0, talked it out of annihilating everything.

Ro: Came back to Starfleet, pretty much no-questions-asked and moved to Deep Space Nine to become security chief after Odo rejoined the Great Link. Had an affair with Quark(!). Became captain and commanded DS9 when Kira left to become a Vedek. After the sinister Typhon Pact attacked and blew up DS9, Starfleet built a bigger, shinier, silver replacement and Ro commanded that too.

[ninerforever]

I just started reading Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game... and apparently there’s a character named “Thot.”

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Post-canon Garashir Novels Masterlist

This is a list of post-canon Star Trek novels depicting the lives of Garak and Bashir after the events of Deep Space Nine. I’ve included the approximate dates during which the events of each book occurs, and I’ve added a short blurb. I haven’t read all of these (yet), so I did my best to summarize without spoiling, but there are spoilers in the blubs. The title of each novel links to the Memory Beta article, and there are way more spoilers there. If you see this in a reblog, check this link for any updates. Enjoy!

Thank you to whomever assembled all of these novels in one place! You can find them here to download. There’s a handy text file that tells you the chronological order for the books. I used that doc to build out this list. 

A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson 2376 — Garak’s memoir, written by Garak.

Gateways: Doors Into Chaos by Robert Greenberger 2370s — Picard contacts Garak for help. (It’s literally one scene in an otherwise badly written book. You can honestly give this a miss.)

The Brave and the Bold: The Final Artifact by Keith R.A. DeCandido 2151-2376 — Garak is mentioned by Lwaxana Troi as seeking Federation aid for Cardassia. (Garak is only referenced; Ambassador Troi refers to him as “Eli Gark” and calls him a toad. It’s a paragraph. That’s literally it. You can give this a miss, too.)

Section 31: Abyss by Jeffrey Lang & David Weddle April 2376 — Bashir thwarts a Khan-wannabe; he stops an attack on a Romulan-protected Cardassian colony.

Cathedral by Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels July 2376 — Bashir stops being genetically enhanced for a bit. In a minor subplot, Garak helps a vedek find a missing orb.

Unity by S.D. Perry September 2376 — Garak returns to DS9 to see Ziyal’s paintings be displayed. Bashir is fighting homicidal parasites. (Garak is there for like 5 paragraphs at the end, and he only speaks to Ro Laren.)

Worlds of Deep Space Nine: Cardassia by Una McCormack December 2376 — Garak’s doing cool stuff on Cardassia. Miles O’Brien is there.

Fearful Symmetry by Olivia Woods 2377 — Bashir gets in touch with Garak to find out wtf was up with that whole Kira/Iliana Ghemor thing.

The Never-Ending Sacrifice by Una McCormack 2378 (2370-78) — This is mostly about Rugal (DS9 s02e05: Cardassians), but Garak shows up kinda big at the end as Cardassian ambassador to the UFP.

"The Calling" in Prophecy and Change by Andrew J. Robinson 2380 — Uh... there’s just a whole lot of Garak happening on Cardassia.

Mere Mortals by David Mack 2168-2381 — There’s a lot happening here, but there’s a little bit where Garak goes to Earth to talk about the Borg.

Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game by David Mack 2382 — Bashir gets a gf (Sarina Douglas), thinks about joining Starfleet intelligence.

Typhon Pact: Plagues of Night by David R. George III 2383 — DS9 is destroyed.

Typhon Pact: Raise the Dawn by David R. George III 2383-84 — Bashir suspects Sarina in the destruction of DS9.

Typhon Pact: Brinkmanship by Una McCormack 2383 — Garak hangs out with the UFP president.

The Fall: Revelation and Dust by David R. George III 2385 — The new DS9 is opened. The UFP president is assassinated.

The Fall: The Crimson Shadow by Una McCormack 2385 — A lot is happening on Cardassia. Someone tries to assassinate Garak. There’s a lot of Cardassian political intrigue. Garak becomes Cardassian president.

The Fall: A Ceremony of Losses by David Mack 2385 — Bashir breaks the law to save the Andorians from extinction.

The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice by James Swallow 2385 — Someone tries to kill Bashir; he’s granted sanctuary on Andoria.

The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms by Dayton Ward 2385 — Cardassian, Andorian, and UFP political intrigue.

The Missing by Una McCormack 2385 — Garak being president.

Section 31: Disavowed by David Mack 2386 — Bashir and Sarina go on a Mirror Universe adventure.

Section 31: Control by David Mack 2386 — Bashir, Sarina, and Data and Lal for some reason, are hanging out on Cardassia with Garak. Even the wikia says Garak is jealous of Sarina haha.

Enigma Tales by Una McCormack 2386 — Garak keeps being president. Parmak and Bashir live at his residence. (He’s got a thing for idealist doctors.)

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Make It So Friday

When I saw this book on the physical shelves I was stoked, and it jumped to the top of my TBR pile. For a bunch of reasons. For one, I wondered what it was like. It was originally written in German and translated to English. Good news, I could only barely tell, which was awesome. It flowed just like any other Star Trek novel I've read. It's also a Post-Typhon Pact (a big multi-serieses storyline they had in the novels) novel. I've only read a little of the Typhon Pact, but, that didn't seem to matter too much either. You may want to have read stuff like A Singular Destiny, just to know some of the names, but, the author also introduces the facts you need to know pretty well.

And the story. There is a species, the Renao, some of them seem to have become radicalized. So, The USS Prometheus (the cool ship that can split itself in three pieces) and a Klingon Ship called the Bortas are put on the case of who truly has started terrorizing the Federation and Klingons. There are also some familiar faces from various Star Trek TV serieses. And I may or may not have yelped a characters name in joy when he appeared on the page (I won't spoil it, it was awesome!)

It was a really fun read, and, as I said, part of a trilogy (darn ILL, have to wait for the next part). Can't wait to see what happens next. (Oh, and that is a warning, while this is a full book, it does have a cliffhanger, so, make sure that you can get the whole trilogy somehow before you start this book).

You may like this book If you Liked: The Unsettling Stars by Alan Dean Foster, Gods of NightActs of Contrition by Kirsten Beyer

Fire with Fire by Bernd Perplies

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333: An Umbrella Book

Plagues of Night. As the Typhon Pact series has progressed it has been clear that the crew of Deep Space Nine has jumped in time to make it concurrent to where the rest of the Star Trek universe is, so it is time to fill in the gaps.

In this episode of Literary Treks hosts Matthew Rushing and Bruce Gibson talk about Plagues of Night. We discuss Sisko's story, different ways, filling in a lot of gaps, plans within plans, characters in flux, the end of Deep Space Nine, Kira far beyond the stars, our ratings and final thoughts.

In the news we review the second issue of the Mirror War comic series. News Mirror War #2 (00:02:46)

Feature: Plagues of Night Sisko's Story (00:09:32) Different Ways (00:19:29) Filling in a Lot of Gaps (00:21:03) Plans Within Plans (00:27:00) Bashir (00:34:33) Prynn (00:39:24) The End of Deep Space Nine (00:42:35) Kira Far Beyond the Stars (00:47:24) Ratings (00:49:40) Final Thoughts (00:51:19)

Hosts Matthew Rushing and Bruce Gibson

Production Matthew Rushing (Editor and Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Greg Rozier (Associate Producer) Casey Pettitt (Associate Producer)

New podcast episode!

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Star Trek: Typhon Pact - “Plagues of Night”

Sisko is starting to feel bad about splitting from his wife and daughter because of some vague thing the Prophets said would happen if he didn’t, and then while the Enterprise and Robinson (Sisko’s ship) are flying around the Gamma Quadrant the so-called Typhon Pact pulls some shenanigans that result in something bad happening to the good station Deep Space Nine!

RATING: 71%

(Where to place: The fourth year after Nemesis.)