Deep Space Nine: The Missing
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At the end of the year, a new Deep Space Nine book, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Missing, will debut.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Missing was written by Una McCormack with a cover designed by Doug Drexler.
Some familiar characters from The Next Generation will also be appearing in Deep Space Nine: The Missing.
In The Missing, “the entire sector is waiting to see what the newly reopened Bajoran wormhole will mean for the shifting political landscape in the Alpha Quadrant. On Deep Space 9, Captain Ro Laren is suddenly drawn into the affairs of the People of the Open Sky, who have come to the station in search of sanctuary. Despite the opposition of the station’s security officer, Jefferson Blackmer, Ro Laren and Deep Space 9’s new CMO, Doctor Beverly Crusher, offer the People aid. But when Dr. Crusher’s highly secure files are accessed without permission—the same files that hold the secrets of the Shedai, a race whose powerful but half-understood scientific secrets solved the Andorian catastrophe—the People seem the likeliest suspects.
Three-hundred-and-four pages in length, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Missing will cost $7.99 and is available for pre-order on Amazon now. The book will be released on December 30.
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So, Deep Space Nine is a shiny-new Starfleet facility, Ro Laren is its commanding officer, and Beverly Crusher is its CMO.
Why not just make it the Enterprise’s home port and have Q pop in every few books while they’re at it?
I have little doubt they will get there soon. The fanfic universe of the novels is one where there are only like 80 important people in the universe, who all know one another, and all events are eventually connected to other events already shown until space exploration seems to be some kind of coincidence-driven kaffeeklatsch.
It’s a shame. When they first got to actually do something other than inconsequential stories that revert to status quo at the end, with the DS9 relaunch books in 2002-2004 or so, they hit a grand slam. Out of the park! They where epic, fantastic, brilliant. Like an 8th season. And then… and then it all kind of wed kaboom. Ever since, it’s just been a continuing downward spiral into “how outlandish can we get?” and “what can we change for the sake of changing things?”
I feel bad for the authors, really. They do exceptional work. They deliver good material. I can’t fault them. But the universe they’re tasked with working in, and the seemingly rutterless ship that is 24th century trek literature, it’s just a chaotic environment.
Sadly, until and unless the day comes when TPTB do something else post-Nemesis that contradicts (and thus erases) all the chaos that’s been sewn, it’s all we’ll ever see of the characters we loved week in, week out.
Dr. Crusher is only there temporarily, due to a few plot points in the book series. You can read “The Fall” books if you’re at all interested.
EDIT: This was meant to be a reply to Theragen’s response, sorry.