Can Anyone Summarize the DS9 "Millennium" Series To Me?
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The omnibus version has an excellent timeline of all events by Allyn Gibson. Up till then, I'd not bothered getting omnibus reprints, but the additional info made this a must-have.
I'd assume that Memory Beta has summaries of the three novels? I haven't checked...
PS. Nah, so far only the cover blurbs...
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Judy and Gar, in their first book, wrote about, wrote about /
Judy and Gar, in their first book, wrote about, wrote about /
Judy and Gar, in their first book, first book, they wrote about...
BONG!
While a brief summary was welcome, a few more details would be appreciated.
Hmmm. I had a ridiculously hard time getting through these books too, and I found a good summary online somewhere. I'll look in a bit.
Frankly, I found these books to be pretty hard to stomach/believe and an overall chore to get through. The characterizations felt like they were from the first season with Sisko being cold and stoic, Bashir being naive and horny, Kira being loudmouthed and impulsive, etc. etc.
That, and the premise was a bit too fan-fic for me and for the first time I felt really disappointed with the Reeves-Stevens writing. It felt really... just bad. I tried with the individual books, and also in omnibus form. By the end of the second book, I couldn't do it anymore.
Frankly, I found these books to be pretty hard to stomach/believe and an overall chore to get through. The characterizations felt like they were from the first season with Sisko being cold and stoic, Bashir being naive and horny, Kira being loudmouthed and impulsive, etc. etc.
That, and the premise was a bit too fan-fic for me and for the first time I felt really disappointed with the Reeves-Stevens writing. It felt really... just bad. I tried with the individual books, and also in omnibus form. By the end of the second book, I couldn't do it anymore.
Book 2 was a chore to get through, but Book 3 made for it. It just raced along!
A new wormhole, a Pagh-Wraith wormhole, is opened up by artificats that are found mysteriously. Heroes are thrown into the near future and it's all funky. Wormholes cross; as with proton pack streams, this is bad and makes the Universe go cablooy. Except that a part of it survives inside the Wormhole and throws Our Heroes back in time. They end up being responsible for placing the things that opened up the Evil Wormhole, and, in a predestination paradox, save the Universe. It's a closed loop.
Start again!
(I first entered a Seaside Summarizing Judy & Gar Competition when I was on holiday, and my doctor encouraged me with it.)
It's discovered that there were additional orbs created by the Pah'Wraith that would open the door to a second wormhole. There is a murder on the Station and several new crew arrivals. Long story short the Orbs are combined together and a second wormhole opens.
The Defiant is thrown forward into the future. The Federation, Klingons, Romulans, and Cardassians are in a war against the Bajorans and the Grigari. Weyoun has become the leader of the Cult after his ship passed through the new Wormhole. Dukat is there too - he is the leader of the Pah'Wraith Cult. The book ends with them all going through the combined wormholes which will bring about the destruction of the galaxy.
The crew of the Defiant and Weyoun's Starship are trapped inside the combining Wormholes and are able to beam to the past in an effort to save the Galaxy. One group arrives on DS9 at the time of the opening of the new wormhole, the other in the past. Both groups have to try to find a way to seal the rupture. Turns out that a Cardassian woman is also there trying to unlock the secrets to build the Cardassian Union into a stronger force. In the end they save the galaxy again.
Jadzia Dax is the one that kills the Pah'Wraith infected Dukat narrowly a week before what would be her death at Dukat's hands.
shit happens.
Whereas I absolutely loved book two.
There's imagery in the trilogy that has just stuck with me over the years. There's a scene in War of the Prophets where Captain Nog sees his old friends for the first time in 25 years, and he gives Worf a bearhug, and the sense of pain and loss he's felt for so long is palpable.
I want to see Arla Rees again.
My favorite out of the three is War of the Prophets. I liked the depiction of the (alternate) future, with two different groups claiming to be the legitimate Starfleet - one allied with the Ascendancy, the other not. And I thought the idea of a purple Klingon ship to be rather hilarious. 
I also liked that one scene where Our Heroes arrive on a future Starfleet ship (non-Ascendancy) whose captain announces that she's going to have all the Bajorans among them executed. Our Heroes refuse to go along with it and stay in the cargo bay with them so they can all die together. The Bajorans are moved by this, but insist that the others go free so they can sacrifice themselves. Worf praises them on their heroism. (Turns out the whole thing was a ruse, to find out if any of Our Heroes were Grigari constructs - they never tried to bargain for their lives, which a Grigari will always do)
I also liked that one scene where Our Heroes arrive on a future Starfleet ship (non-Ascendancy) whose captain announces that she's going to have all the Bajorans among them executed. Our Heroes refuse to go along with it and stay in the cargo bay with them so they can all die together. The Bajorans are moved by this, but insist that the others go free so they can sacrifice themselves. Worf praises them on their heroism. (Turns out the whole thing was a ruse, to find out if any of Our Heroes were Grigari constructs - they never tried to bargain for their lives, which a Grigari will always do)
My favorite scene during the Millennium Trilogy is when Captain Sisko ends up back in time and meets the Bajoran Monk in the Station's Temple who we see in Emissarry introducing Sisko to the station. It was one of those moments that tied it all together for me.
I still think of that scene every time I watch the Pilot thinking that Captain Sisko is right behind that door.
I still think of that scene every time I watch the Pilot thinking that Captain Sisko is right behind that door.
I get similar feelings watching "The Trouble With Tribbles" (TOS), knowing exactly who's up in the grain hold causing tribbles to drop down on Kirk.
And the opening of each DS9 episode's credits with the closeup of the icy comet, knowing that the time-displaced USS Defiant is inside it (as told in the novel "Invasion!: DS9: Time's Enemy"). In fact, they find the remains of Dr Bashir and Captain Sisko aboard it, and the Dax symbiont in stasis.
Isn't that one a bit of a stretch, Ian? There are quadrillions of comets in this galaxy alone. Also, the Defiant was interred in a comet in Sol's Oort cloud, not in Bajor's Oort cloud (and I assumed that the comet in Deep Space Nine's opening credits was meant to be in Bajor's vicinity). Yeah, if you want to think that the Defiant is in that particular comet, you can. But it doesn't make sense, and you can't point to any reason more than, "It's there because I say it's there."
Its been a while since I read it but I also remember that the Pah-Wraiths that created the Red Wormhole were a separate faction from the ones in the Fire Caves. These guys wanted to unite the two wormholes, an act that would destroy well... all of creation really.
Personally, I liked the second book more and loved the dark future there as well as how Starfleet changed in order to combat the Bajoran Ascendancy. Weyoun was a bit of a surprise for me to see as the leader of the Ascendancy.
Personally, I liked the second book more and loved the dark future there as well as how Starfleet changed in order to combat the Bajoran Ascendancy. Weyoun was a bit of a surprise for me to see as the leader of the Ascendancy.
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