It's not the hair, but how old he looks. The Sisko of "Emissary" and the Sisko of "What You Leave Behind" look noticably different.
Also, Spock looks just he did in "Unification", 15 years prior and not at all like he does in STXI, 4 years hence.
At the Prophet's Door - new DRGIII TNG novel?
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Also, Spock looks just he did in "Unification", 15 years prior and not at all like he does in STXI, 4 years hence.
Maybe Vulcans age in spurts...
I see what you mean. And yes, you are right ofcourse.
Raise the Dawn's blurb specifically mention Sisko, Ro, and Picard. So I would assume we'll probably see them and at least a few of their crew in Plagues of Night too.
She's also running DS9 so any novel taking place their kind of has to use her.
It looks like a starbase to me !
Can't be at the Bajoran end unless the existing station is destroyed. Unless reality has undergone a major change in the Trek era, it could not possibly be cheaper or easier to build a new structure in space than to refurbish an existing one...i.e. DS9
It does seem to imply in that they are the main focus, at least of RoD.
Plagues of Night:
The first novel in a two-part Typhon Pact adventure set in the universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation! In the wake of the final Borg invasion, which destroyed entire worlds, cost the lives of sixty-three billion people, and struck a crippling blow to Starfleet, six nations adversarial to the United Federation of Planets – the Romulan Star Empire, the Breen Confederacy, the Tholian Assembly, the Gorn Hegemony, the Tzenkethi Coalition, and the Holy Order of the Kinshaya – joined ranks to form the Typhon Pact. For almost three years, the Federation and the Klingon Empire, allied under the Khitomer Accords, have contended with the nascent coalition on a predominantly cold-war footing. But as Starfleet rebuilds itself, factions within the Typhon Pact grow restive, concerned about their own inability to develop a quantum slipstream drive to match that of the Federation. Will leaders such as UFP President Bacco and RSE Praetor Kamemor bring about a lasting peace across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, or will the cold war between the two alliances deepen, and perhaps even lead to an all-out shooting war?
Raise the Dawn:
The second novel in a two-part Typhon Pact adventure set in the universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation. After the disastrous events in the Bajoran system, Captain Benjamin Sisko must confront the consequences of the recent choices he has made in his life. At the same time, the United Federation of Planets and its Khitomer Accords allies have come to the brink of war with the Typhon Pact. While factions within the Pact unsuccessfully used the recent gestures of goodwill–the opening of borders and a joint Federation-Romulan exploratory mission–to develop quantum slipstream drive, they have not given up their goals. Employing a broad range of assets, from Romulus to Cardassia, from Ab-Tzenketh to Bajor, they embark on a dangerous new plan to acquire the technology they need to take control of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. While UFP 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 as it once more becomes a flashpoint of galactic history.
Really? I have absolutely no difficulty believing that it'd be more efficient to build a new starbase using a modern, standard Federation design than to try to retrofit 40+ years of technological improvement into a space station built using completely alien technology...
If push comes to shove you could quickly phaser / beam the contents and partitions away fairly easily, leaving the outer structure only (the majority of the mass), then refit the entire inside.
Still quicker and more efficient than starting from scratch and building a new shell...
^Not necessarily. The components for such a shell could be easily enough fabricated by industrial replicators, and then just pieced together. And they'd already be a perfect match for the tech you'd put inside them, whereas fitting them into a decades-old alien spaceframe might be a tougher job.
Anyway, it seems to me that the most likely interpretation of that cover is that it's a Federation outpost being built on the Gamma Quadrant side of the wormhole. Obviously DS9 isn't going to be destroyed/replaced; it's in the title of the goshdarn series.
Anyway, it seems to me that the most likely interpretation of that cover is that it's a Federation outpost being built on the Gamma Quadrant side of the wormhole. Obviously DS9 isn't going to be destroyed/replaced; it's in the title of the goshdarn series.
You mean the series whose last book was in 2009 and doesn't have any more announced yet?
That's not a long time between books in the more general science fiction novel market.
Nor in the 70s, when ST tie-in titles were sometimes eight months apart.
For standalones that happen to form a series (like Dune or Miles Vorkosigan (Lois McMaster Bujold)), sure.
For a series designed to be told serially (like DS9, or Kris Longknife (Mike Moscoe/Sheppard), or Honor Harrington (David Weber), or the Recovery Artist (Kristine Kathryn Rusch))... well, I know there's some that turn out entries each year like clockwork. But even taking those as the exception, generally if it's been three years with no word of the next book, the series is dead.
Aren't you forgetting a couple of books called Zero Sum Game and Rough Beasts of Empire? Even without the label, those were definitely continuations of the DS9 saga (just as the other three Typhon Pact entries to date were entries in the Titan and TNG continuities). RBoE was a bit of a hybrid, since it combined its DS9 elements with a story about Spock and the Romulans; but Zero Sum Game, a book about Bashir, Sarina, and Dax dealing with the Breen, was DS9 through and through.
In what universe? Tell that to Harlan Ellison or David ("Chtorr") Gerrold . Or any number of SF sagas with gaps much bigger than three years between cliffhangers.
Using ATimson's examples, both Vorkisogan and Honor went with gaps longer than three years. Also off the top of my head, Uplift, Xeelee, Blackcollar, Cobra, Spin, Culture...come to think of it, it's almost harder to come up with long-term sci-fi series I like that HAVEN'T had at least one three-year gap in them.