Dominion War in LitVerse - Best way to tackle?

[Riverside2233]

I am looking at all of the different novels that deal with the Dominion War. Has anyone put together a list of how to best tackle that in some sort of order? I have not made it that far in TNG or DS9, so I don't know how all of the pieces fit together, but when I start to read I want to try and follow some sort of chronology in the different books.

Thanks.

 

[DimesDan]

I'm sure Mem Beta has a list, plus there aren't that many to worry about,.

 

[DS9forever]

Tales of the Dominion War is okay.

 

[Idran]

Here's a partial list from the Dominion War article on Memory Beta of stories dealing with the war, though it's not in chronological order:

• TNG novel: The Battle of Betazed
• The Dominion War miniseries:
  • TNG novel: Behind Enemy Lines
  • DS9 novelization: Call to Arms...
  • TNG novel: Tunnel Through the Stars
  • DS9 novelization: ...Sacrifice of Angels
• TNG comic: "The Gorn Crisis"
• DS9 anthology: Prophecy and Change
• DS9 novel: Hollow Men
• DS9 novel: The Never-Ending Sacrifice
• Multi-series anthology: Tales of the Dominion War
• SCE eBooks: War Stories, Book 1, War Stories, Book 2

You can also look through the 2374 and 2375 articles for anything not listed above; any stories listed on them that aren't Voyager would probably involve the Dominion War in some fashion, and the summaries should make it clear if they do or not.

 

[DS9Continuing]

Regarding Idran's list above, however, the Dominion War miniseries (the two TNG novels and two DS9 novelisations) are not really in continuity with the rest of the developing TrekLit 'extended universe' or whatever you choose to call it. The events of the TNG novels, and the additions to the onscreen material in the DS9 novelisations, are not referenced in later works and indeed flat-out contradicted in several points.

Now, that doesn't mean you might not still want to read them, they're perfectly acceptable works in their own right (although not among my favourites). It just means you may find things that contradict them if you continue to expand your TrekLit reading.

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[Csalem]

Regarding Idran's list above, however, the Dominion War miniseries (the two TNG novels and two DS9 novelisations) are not really in continuity with the rest of the developing TrekLit 'extended universe' or whatever you choose to call it. The events of the TNG novels, and the additions to the onscreen material in the DS9 novelisations, are not referenced in later works are indeed flat-out contradicted in several points.

Now, that doesn't mean you might not still want to read them, they're perfectly acceptable works in their own right (although not among my favourites). It just means you may find things that contradict them if you continue to expand your TrekLit reading.

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I don't think the TNG novels have been completely ignored. I seem to recall some novels referring to the Dominion's attempts at building an artificial wormhole. I would take it as more of a wink than a full outright reference.

 

[ryan123450]

Where was that referenced?

 

[Jinn]

Where was that referenced?

I think a Dominion Artifical Wormhole was mentioned in Plagues of Night or Raise the Dawn but I am not sure, especially since I have heard of these Dominion War book plots just a few moments ago, so it may just have reminded me of RoD/RtD.

 

[Csalem]

I think a Dominion Artifical Wormhole was mentioned in Plagues of Night or Raise the Dawn but I am not sure, especially since I have heard of these Dominion War book plots just a few moments ago, so it may just have reminded me of RoD/RtD.

I think you are right. It was one of the recent DS9 novels iirc but I honestly cannot remember which at this point. I just remember noticing it as I am a big fan of the TNG Dominion War novels.

 

[ryan123450]

Ok good to know. I'll have to find that when I get the opportunity.

 

[JD]

I don't think the TNG novels have been completely ignored. I seem to recall some novels referring to the Dominion's attempts at building an artificial wormhole. I would take it as more of a wink than a full outright reference.

Is there any way to reconcile what the TNG DW books established about Ro Laren with what the DS9 Relaunch established?

 

[ryan123450]

Thats something I'm wondering as well. Ive not read the Dominion War books.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

I don't think so - at the very least, there was a budding romance between Ro and Sam Lavelle (who'd been in a Dominion prison camp with Taurik, who I don't believe has referenced this capture and time in a POW camp), and he hasn't been mentioned at all in the DS9 books.

 

[Christopher]

Is there any way to reconcile what the TNG DW books established about Ro Laren with what the DS9 Relaunch established?

I don't think so. There are things that happen between Ro and Picard in the DW books that are disregarded in the DS9R, and maybe some stuff about the specifics of how/when she was pardoned.

 

[Csalem]

It is probably in the same category as Indistinguishable From Magic. It has been contradicted but maybe not as much as IfM.
The two main issues would be Ro, and details about what happened to her and her meeting with Picrad, and Taurik.
The rest of it the TNG books are pretty much a stand alone story that has little impact on the wider universe. Like with so many books of that era, the rest of the main characters end up back where they started.

 

[Christopher]

It is probably in the same category as Indistinguishable From Magic. It has been contradicted but maybe not as much as IfM.

No... the status of IFM is kind of unclear, but I'm pretty sure a decision was made at the start of the DS9R to disregard the Vornholt duology.

 

[Destructor]

No... the status of IFM is kind of unclear, but I'm pretty sure a decision was made at the start of the DS9R to disregard the Vornholt duology.

Yeah, the main contradiction is that when Picard sees Ro in 'Avatar', which kicks off the DS9R and is pretty much the 'pilot' for the extended novelverse, he makes it clear that he has not seen her since she betrayed him in the penultimate episode of TNG. This would be a direct contradiction with the Vornholt DW TNG novels. If you wanted to reconcile them all you have to do is gloss over that scene a little in your mind and it all falls back into continuity pretty easily.