
The nine lives of Dax are revealed in a unique anthology of stories, one for each life of the symbiant organism that has occupied a variety of humanoid hosts.
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The nine lives of Dax are revealed in a unique anthology of stories, one for each life of the symbiant organism that has occupied a variety of humanoid hosts.

The personal, political, and religious tensions between the Bajorans and the Cardassians spiral out of control, irrevocably shaping the futures of both worlds in an emotionally charged and unforgettable tale of treachery, tragedy, and hope.

Eighteen years into the Occupation, a new star rises in Bajor's sky. But even as the gray metal crown of Terok Nor ascends to its zenith, ragtag pockets of Bajoran rebels - including a fierce young fighter named Kira Nerys - have begun to strike back at their world's oppressors.

As violence all across Bajor continues to escalate, Cardassian forces tighten their grip on the captive planet, driving back the resistance at every turn; but on Terok Nor and elsewhere, the winds of change are stirring - the beginnings of a hurricane that will alter the landscape of the Occupation.

A virulent plague has stricken Terok Nor, striking down both the enslaved Bajorans and Cardassian oppressors, who blame each other for the growing epidemic. Dr. Pulaski must work with Gul Dukat and Kira Nerys to discover the true source of an infection that threatens them all.

Commander Benjamin Sisko is just recovering from the death of his wife when he is assigned command over the former Cardassian, but new Federation space station, Deep Space Nine.

Rediscover the extraordinary saga of Deep Space Nine in a landmark collection of tales that confronts assumptions, divulges secrets, and asks as many questions as it answers. These stories, entwined with familiar episodes, reveal the world of Deep Space Nine anew.

Deep Space Nine is forced to curtail entry to the wormhole due to increased graviton emission. This anxiety leads to the murder of an Edeman religious leader. Soon Sisko and Odo have more lifeless bodies on their hands and a killer who strikes without motive.

Before Major Kira can deliver a new Federation station on the other side of the wormhole, a fanatic from her violent past appears. Kira must engage in a life and death struggle with an enemy who will stop at nothing to destroy her.

In an alternate universe in which Klingons and Cardassians rule the Alpha Quadrant as part of an uneasy alliance, Annika Hansen, an operative for the Obsidian Order, targets Kira Nerys, the ruthless and duplicitous Intendant of Bajor.

Intendant Kira, Overseer for the entire Klingon-Cardassian Alliance, must deal with Deanna Troi, the ambitious consort of Regent Worf, and B'Elanna Torres, half-human Intendant of the Sol System, as she enters into a dangerous liaison with Annika Hansen, an undercover agent of the Obsidian Order, who has orders to kill Kira.

As political tensions rise on Bajor, Odo probes a series of murders aboard the station, while Commander Sisko struggles to cope with a new religious faction out to seize control of Bajor and to force the Federation out of the region.

Benjamin Sisko tells his own story: growing up, his early years in Starfleet, designing the Defiant, leading through the Dominion War, raising Jake, and becoming the Emissary of the Prophets. Written as a memoir, with his views on Kira, Dax, Garak, Dukat and Kai Winn.

Nog says he has seen a ghost on the station, and Jake doesn't believe him, until a shimmering figure with glowing eyes appears in his quarters and leads him into the depths of Deep Space Nine.

Jake and Nog stow away on Dr. Bashir's shuttle to Bajor and see him kidnapped. With a Bajoran girl's help they cross the wastelands to rescue him.

A message left behind by the Kai Opaka givesSisko a fateful mission: find a young Bajoran girl destined to bring together the warring factions of Bajor. While Dax tries to find the healer, Bashir goes planetside to treat a rare disease.

Ambassadors from all over the Federation have assembled on Deep Space Nine for a conference that will determine the future of the planet Bajor. Terrorists begin a bombing campaign on the station and Sisko's job becomes nearly impossible.

A player is killed during Quark's poker tournament. When the station is rocked by subspace waves that threaten its destruction, Commander Sisko and Security Chief Odo must hunt down the killer in time to save the players.

A troop of alien warriors demands the return of an imprisoned comrade, a prisoner no one on Deep Space Nine knows anything about. Meanwhile, a strange device from the Gamma Quadrant has shifted Quark and Odo three days into the future.

The Hortas of Janus V1 are the greatest miners in the galaxy, capable of burning through solid rock the way humanoids move through air. Recruited to help rebuild Bajor's devastated mining industry, the Hortas could provide new hope for the planet's struggling economy.

Rugal is an orphaned Cardassian who has been raised by the people his race once conquered, the Bajorans. Rugal becomes the living witness to the downfall of the proud people to whom he was born. Through it all, Rugal’s singular perspective illuminates the choices that brought the Cardassians to their ruin.

Overseeing a starship building project that could help Bajor's unstable economy, Commander Sisko is alarmed when the shipment of a major component is hijacked and taken through the wormhole, and plans a desperate recovery mission.

The captains and crews of eight ships and Deep Space Nine join forces against a new enemy who possesses a formidable energy weapon and who is spreading disease throughout the different worlds of the Zalkat Union.

A trip to find the runaway granddaughter of an old friend of the Dax symbiont takes Jadzia Dax to a casino on Argelius II. At the same time she is troubled by visions of Joran, the murderous former host she would rather forget, and the two turn out to be connected.

A new boy in Jake and Nog's class, whose parents were killed by Cardassians, wants to join the Bajoran resistance, and when a Cardassian official's daughter stows away on the station, he sees his chance.

Jake and Nog look after a playful creature that escaped from a freighter, while an alien captain threatens to destroy the station unless his missing crown prince is returned.

A Ferengi opens a virtual reality arcade on the Promenade, and soon children all over the station are falling into comas, their minds trapped inside a game.

Keiko O'Brien takes her class through the wormhole to a safe, boring planet, until a Cardassian raider shoots down their runabout and the students are stranded among plants that move and scream.

Jake and Nog sneak aboard a ship of nomadic traders to look at their star maps and are carried off to their secret homeworld, where they must pass a dangerous rite of passage to be allowed to leave.

Jake and Nog take jobs running remote-controlled mining machines like a video game, until they discover the screens are showing a real war.

Bored, Jake and Nog explore an abandoned deck of the station on Garak's advice and find a Cardassian toy that keeps replicating itself.

At a Starfleet summer camp on a planet whose people destroyed themselves, Jake and Nog fall out, until an accident sets off an ancient bomb and they have to work together to stop it.

At the edge of the wormhole, Deep Space Nine and Bajor sit on what will be the front line in any Dominion attack. To try and prevent the conflict, Benjamin Sisko and his crew take a never-tested Federation warship through the wormhole to track down and confront the Dominion.

When a mysterious cloaked ship begins raiding wormhole shipping, cleaning out holds and killing entire crews, Sisko must act to stop the menace.

Rumors about a Cardassian plan to reoccupy Bajor are complicated by the arrival of a mysterious alien ship that contains valuable Gamma-quadrant technology, and Commander Sisko must fight to keep the ship out of the wrong hands.

In the Badlands, Voyager encountered the same threatening phenomena that had previously endangered both Kirk and Picard. Now, detoured from her mission by an urgent Cardassian distress call, Janeway finally uncovers the origin of the hidden menace! Sisko must deal with the exposed threat once and for all.

Participating in an unusual game as a means of gaining an attractive alien's attention, Dr. Bashir is horrified when each of his plays set off a disaster somewhere in the Federation and the alien culture will not let him stop.

Centuries ago, the Supreme Ruler of the planet Jibet fled a democratic uprising, taking with him many priceless works of art. Now Quark's greed leads Commander Sisko and his crew to the lost treasures and to the Supreme Ruler himself.

A tomb of Cardassian soldiers is discovered on Deep Space Nine. While Sisko searches for a diplomatic way to return the soldiers to Cardassia, the "bodies" begin to pulsate with life, determined to seek revenge on the enemies now occupying the former Cardassian stronghold.

The Hive came from another galaxy: billions of alien beings living inside a vast, biological starship. Now the Hive is heading for Bajor and they have given the planet's inhabitants an ominous warning: evacuate in three days or die along with their world.

The Federation is threatened by an ancient mystery when a battered and broken version of the Defiant is found, frozen for five thousand years. Only the wormhole holds the answer and the future of the Federation itself may depend on the secrets it conceals.

En route to a ceremony for the new U.S.S. Saratoga, Captain Sisko and his reunited crew are sucked into a destructive energy wave that leaves them only hours to live.

When Bajor is threatened with extinction by a terrible disease, Captain Sisko accepts help from Ro Laren, a Starfleet officer turned Maquis renegade, who teams up with a reluctant Kira in a quest to track the plague to its source.

The entire Alpha Quadrant has been threatened with deadly infiltration by the shape-shifting Founders of the Dominion and a massive fleet of Klingon warships has arrived at DS9 on a secret mission.

Investigating a ferocious plasma storm, Lieutenant Dax, accompanied by botanist Keiko O'Brien, flies a runabout into its heart and encounters a strange new form of life.

Dispatched on a secret mission to investigate the raids, Commander Worf of Deep Space Nine and the crew of the Defiant find themselves trapped on a an alien world threatened by global cataclysm - trapped along with Klingons who were exiled to this world for their loyalty to Worf's dishonored family.

Kira and Worf embark on a dangerous undercover mission deep into the heart of the Gamma Quadrant to find the secret of the addictive substance that the Changelings use to control their Jem'Hadar warriors.

The Grand Nagus is refusing to sell one of the lost Orbs of the Prophets to the Bajoran government, which has responded by banning all Ferengi activity in Bajoran space. With diplomatic relations between the two cultures rapidly breaking down, Quark loses his bar first, then his freedom.

When Quark brokers a lucrative deal to trade trellium crystals from the Gamma Quadrant, the potential for profit seems too good to be true. Pretty soon, Deep Space Nine is under fire from at least three different alien races, each accusing the others of theft, piracy, and worse.

Jake, Nog and O'Brien follow a thief through a time machine to Normandy in 1944, where he plans to warn the Nazis about the D-Day landings.

On the occasion of the sacred Klingon Day of Honor, Worf's son Alexander, now living on Earth, must learn to control his hunter instincts or lose everything that he loves.

Almost a century ago, Captain Kirk first encountered the Tribbles, resulting in one of the most unususal adventures in the annals of Starfleet. Captain Sisko and the crew of the Defiant are transported back in time to that historic occasion.

Rumors of a secret alliance between the Dominion and the Klingon Empire lure Captain Sisko on a desperate mission into the Gamma Quadrant, leaving Deep Space None vulnerable to a surprise sneak attack by an an elite Klingon task force.

A Federation President sends Captain Picard to Deep Space Nine, to meet Chancellor Gowron. When their runabout is shot down, it's up to Commanders Worf and Data to find out the truth before their captains are killed.

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.

As Cardassian warships battle to reclaim the space station, Kai Winn is forced to confront her own dark memories of the Occupation and her own private war against the Cardassian oppressors.

Major Kira and Kai Winn must work together to preserve both the sacred Orb of the Prophets and the safety of everyone aboard the space station.

Captain Sisko and the Deep Space Nine team must find a way to close down the wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant before the entire Federation is enslaved by the Dominion.

Without warning, Benjamin Sisko is living another life. No longer a Starfleet captain, commander of space station Deep Space Nine, he is Benny Russell, a struggling science fiction writer living in 1950s Harlem. Benny has a dream, of a place called Deep Space Nine.

Is the Mist the ultimate cloaking device or a gateway to another dimension? Benjamin Sisko contends with the Cardassians, the Ferengi, and even the Klingon Empire to uncover a secret that could change the balance of power throughout the entire Alpha Quadrant!

Sisko is summoned to Earth to take part in the first Allied talks to come out of the Federation's new partnership with the Romulans. But Sisko's conscience weighs heavily on him ... while elements within Starfleet itself set in motion a scheme to use Elim Garak as a pawn against a human political dissident who may hold the key to the outcome of the war.

A secret buried deep in the heart of the station threatens to rip the Federation apart when it is revealed, and only the crew of Deep Space Nine can prevent disaster.

The crew of Deep Space Nine becomes trapped in a future where the Pah-wraiths have smashed the Federation and threaten to destroy the entire galaxy.

In the final chapter of this trilogy, Captain Sisko is trapped on the Defiant while an apocalyptic war rages outside between the Prophets and the Pah-wraiths.

For nearly a decade Garak has longed for just one thing -- to go home. Now, finally, he is home. Ironically, it is a letter from Dr. Julian Bashir, that inspires Garak to look at the fabric of his life. Elim Garak has been a student, a gardener, a spy, an exile, a tailor, even a liberator. But it is the tailor that understands who Elim Garak was, and what he could be.

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 Nine!

Chancellor Martok's triumphant 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 they are ashes under the foundation of a new Klingon Empire.

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.
In the uneasy ceasefire following the Dominion War, a surprise attack cripples Deep Space Nine, killing hundreds and threatening the peace of the galaxy, as Kira Nerys and her fellow survivors struggle to prevent all-out war and protect Captain Sisko's unborn child, and Captain Picard and his crew make a startling discovery that could forever alter the destiny of all concerned.
As the Federation prepares to launch a counterstrike against the Dominion, Kira Nerys searches for a way to prevent another galactic holocaust. Meanwhile, as the combined crews of Deep Space Nine 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.

Searching desperately for his missing father, Captain Benjamin Sisko, Jake Sisko enters a wormhole that hurtles him across the galaxy, to an encounter with an alien ship populated by a strange alien crew whom he joins on a bizarre and unexpected adventure through the universe.

Dr. Julian Bashir faces his darkest nightmare when Section 31 compels him to undertake a mission to stop one of their own. But this renegade is no ordinary agent. Like Bashir, Dr. Ethan Locken is genetically enhanced, a human superior in body and mind. But Locken dreams of remaking the galaxy in his own image - and creating a new human empire based on the example of the infamous Khan Noonien Singh.

When a deadly force from the Delta Quadrant threatens to annihilate a world near Deep Space Nine, Kira Nerys and her crew battle to avert an planetary disaster, while Lieutenant Nog and Ensign Thirshar ch'Thane race against time to shut down the spatial portals forever, and Quark becomes embroiled in an interstellar conspiracy.

The threat of the Gateways - portals that allow for travel to other times and places - is finally destroyed, in this explosive conclusion to the Gateways series, in which Captains Kirk, Picard and Janeway, Colonel Kira Nerys, and the crews confront untold perils in the distant reaches of space.

As the planet Bajor takes steps to join the Federation, Deep Space Nine is confronted by political turmoil and religious conflict, and Commander Elias Vaughn and the crew of the U.S.S. Defiant journey through the wormhole to explore previously unknown regions of the Gamma Quadrant.

When Captain Klag and the crew of the Gorkon venture into the unexplored Kavrot Sector, they stumble upon a strange planet populated by the Children of San-Tarah, a powerful warrior culture, who offer Klag a challenge he cannot refuse--a series of martial contests whose winner could transform the Klingon Empire.

Cardassian Ambassador Natima Lang has returned to the station on a mission of hope, but it's one that will bring back old wounds and old ghosts. 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 that region of the Gamma Quadrant.

After a breakdown in diplomatic efforts to secure a lasting peace between the Bajorans and Cardassians, an alliance of alien religions offers unexpected new hope, until a mysterious, ancient alien artifact sends crewmembers of the Defiant on individual odysseys of self-discovery at the height of a dangerous military confrontation.

After a shocking death, space station Deep Space Nine erupts into chaos as weak political alliances unravel in the middle of the desperate search to find a killer, while the commander of the Defiant must confront dark secrets of the past that could cost the life--and love--of his daughter.

After a harrowing and historic voyage of exploration in the Gamma Quadrant, the Starship Defiant is coming home with its weary, wounded crew. Captain Elias Vaughan learns the true purpose for which he was Touched by the Prophets - and discovers in the process the ultimate fate of Captain Sisko. Meanwhile, somewhere on Bajor, a long-awaited child is about to be born...

Upheaval threatens to destroy the civilization on Trill as Ezri Dax must uncover millennia of lies and deceptions to uncover the truth about the planet's origins, while on the planet Bajor, conflicting visions of Bajor's role in the Federation divide the planet's inhabitants, in the second of a three-volume series examining six alien civilizations.

As Miles O'Brien joins in the reconstruction of Cardassia's infrastructure, his wife Keiko spearheads the planet's difficult agricultural renewal. On Andor, biological necessity clashes with personal ethics as 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.

Quark's profit-driven homeworld is rocked with scandal as shocking allegations involving his brother's first wife threaten to overthrow Rom as Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance. Odo investigates his kind's true motives for sending a hundred infant changelings out into the galaxy.

The Jem'Hadar are a species engineered for war and programmed at the genetic level for one purpose: to fight until death as soldiers of the sprawling stellar empire known as the Dominion. No Jem'Hadar has ever lived thirty years, and not even their masters know what such a creature is capable of becoming were it to be freed of its servitude.

A Cardassian sleeper agent, Iliana Ghemor, was once surgically altered to resemble and replace resistance fighter Kira Nerys. That plan never reached fruition, and the fate of the agent remained unknown ... until now. Ghemor has set her sights on Kira's other double, the malicious Intendent in the Mirror Universe.

Captain Kira’s lookalike, Iliana Ghemor, dreams of fulfilling a prophecy that will mark her as the one true Emissary of the mirror universe. But the stakes are higher than anyone imagines, for the pull of destiny tugs at other souls who are swept into the vortex of the Prophets, remote and timeless beings who have set these events in motion.

Nine new Star Trek captains belly up to the bar to tell their tales of adventure and romance, of triumph and tragedy, of duty and honor, of debts paid and prices exacted.

Five years after the Dominion War, Jake Sisko is back on Earth after a long journey through the Gamma Quadrant. Starfleet Intelligence and the Bajorans who revere his father all want something from him, and the rumors he heard out there about Starfleet and his father during the war could shake the Federation if they are true.

Still on Romulus in pursuit of his goal of reunifying the Vulcans and Romulans, Spock finds himself in the middle of a massive power struggle. Meanwhile, four years after Benjamin Sisko returned from the Celestial Temple, circumstances have changed, his hopes for a peaceful life on Bajor with his wife and daughter beginning to slip away.

A spy for the Typhon Pact—a new political rival of the Federation—steals the plans for Starfleet’s newest technological advance: the slipstream drive. Bashir and Sarina Douglas are sent to infiltrate the Breen, find the hidden slipstream project, and destroy it. Meanwhile Captain Ezri Dax and her crew on the USS Aventine play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a Typhon Pact fleet.

Factions within the Typhon Pact grow restive, concerned about their inability to develop a quantum slipstream drive to match that of the Federation. Will leaders such as President Bacco bring about a lasting peace or will the cold war between the two alliances deepen?

While President Bacco and Romulan Praetor Kamemor work feverishly to reestablish peace, Captains Sisko, Jean-Luc Picard, and Ro Laren stand on the front lines of the conflict, even as a new danger threatens the Bajoran wormhole.

While Captain Ezri Dax and the crew of the USS Aventine are sent to investigate what is happening at one of the Venette bases, Captain Picard and the Enterprise are assigned to a diplomatic mission to the Venette homeworld in order to broker a mutually acceptable resolution.

Miles O’Brien and Nog have led the Starfleet Corps of Engineers in designing and constructing a larger, more advanced starbase in the Bajoran system. As Captain Ro Laren’s crew prepares to open DS9 to the entire Bajor Sector and beyond, disaster looms. And what of Kira Nerys, lost aboard a runabout when the Bajoran wormhole collapsed?

The station is bustling, but residents and visitors are spending more time at the new Deep Space Nine's facilities than at Quark’s establishment. All of Quark's misfortunes just could be reversed, however, when he finds out that one of the steamiest holonovels to hit the Alpha Quadrant in years is up for grabs.

With countless lives at stake, the leaders of Andor, the Federation, and the Typhon Pact all scheme to twist the crisis to their political gain—at any price. Unwilling to be a mere bystander to tragedy, Doctor Julian Bashir risks everything to find a cure for the Andorians. But his courage will come at a terrible cost: his career, his freedom ... and maybe his life.

Captain Ro Laren is drawn into the affairs of the People of the Open Sky, who have come to the station in search of sanctuary. As tensions rise on the station, the science vessel Athene Donald arrives as part of its journey of exploration. The brainchild of Doctor Pulaski, the ship is crewed by different species from the Khitomer Accords and the Typhon Pact.

Quark’s Public House, Café, Gaming Emporium, Holosuite Arcade, and Ferengi Embassy can’t legitimately be called an embassy until the Grand Nagus dedicates it as such.

Days after the assassination of Federation President Nan Bacco on Deep Space Nine, the unexpected appearance of a stranger on the station raises serious concerns. The visitor is armed with a projectile weapon, but the Bajoran liaison to the station believes that Altek has been sent from the Prophets, out of a nearby wormhole.

O'Brien and Nog travel to the space station Robert Hooke to visit O'Brien's former captain Benjamin Maxwell.

On the original Deep Space Nine, Captain Kira Nerys watches as the nearby wormhole opens and discharges a single, bladelike vessel. When an armada subsequently begins to emerge from the wormhole, she orders her first officer to board the USS Defiant and defend the station.

Quark goes missing during a hastily planned trip to Ferenginar. His concerned friends on Deep Space Nine feel that Odo, as the station’s former chief of security, is uniquely suited to track Quark down. But once on Ferenginar, Odo learns that Quark is trapped in the seamy underbelly of a criminal enterprise that could have been ripped from the pages of one of O’Brien’s novels.

Quark continues his search for Morn and Kira Nerys emerges from a wormhole after being caught inside it when it collapsed two years earlier. She arrives on the new DS9 to discover Altek Dans already there. While inside the Celestial Temple, Kira lived a different life in Bajor’s past, where she fell in love with Altek.

Doctor Bashir sacrificed his career for a chance to infiltrate Section 31 and destroy it from within. Now it’s asking him to help it stop the Breen from stealing a dangerous new technology from the Mirror Univers. It’s a mission Bashir can’t refuse, or is it a trap from which even his genetically enhanced intellect can’t escape?

Starfleet sent Captain Sisko and the crew of the USS Robinson on an extended mission into the Gamma Quadrant, tasked with a yearlong assignment to travel unknown regions. But now three months into the mission, their first contact with an alien species comes in the form of an unprovoked attack on the Robinson. Seventy-eight of the 1,300 aboard are abducted, including Sisko’s daughter, Rebecca.

The discovery of a two-hundred-year-old secret gives Doctor Bashir his best chance yet to expose and destroy the illegal spy organization. But his foes won’t go down without a fight, and his mission to protect the Federation he loves just end up triggering its destruction.

Elim Garak has ascended to Castellan of the Cardassian Union, but the imminent publication of a report exposing his people's war crimes during the occupation on Bajor looks likely to set the military against him. Into this tense situation come Dr. Pulaski - visiting Cardassia Prime to accept an award on behalf of the team that solved the Andorian genetic crisis - and Dr. Peter Alden, formerly of Starfleet Intelligence.