DS9 Relaunch: is it over?

[antonio107]

Hello Star Trek people,

I made my one and only thread in here last summer asking where in the blazes one went to find the DS9 comic books, that I couldn't conveniently download off of Kobo. I never did end up getting them, but I've read through most of the series to date. I just finished "The Soul Key," and I just downloaded "The Never Ending Sacrifice."

According to wikipedia, it's been 14 months since the last book in the series was launched, and there's ambiguity over whether more books will be coming out in the series. While it's been a wild summer jumping from one novel immediately to the next, I suppose like the TV series, all good things must eventually come to an end.

What's the skinny on this? Has it been officially shelved? I remember someone mentioning that a few trek authors lurk on these boards, so I figured someone here would be able to field a slightly more than educated guess.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Jarvisimo]

Howdi, the DS9 relaunch is continuing, just under more profitable titles, that is The Typhon Pact.

You will want to read Destiny, by David Mack, if you have not yet already, then read A Singular Destiny by Keith RA DeCandido, before the following, since they concern DS9R characters (mainly Ezri, Sam Bowers, and a few others).

Then you will read Rough Beasts of Empire and Zero Sum Game, both from the original Typhon Pact quartet.

Finally, more DS9 books are out this year under the Typhon Pact banner. There are the two Typhon Pact books this summer by David R George III, Plagues of Night, and Raise the Dawn, which have DS9 on the cover.

Finally, there seems to be another Una McCormack novel this October, under the TP banner, called Brinkmanship.

And if you want to talk to many of the authors, check out the Treklit section

 

[DeVario]

The DS9 story continues in several of the Typhon Pact novels. The TP novels released so far that are relevant to DS9 are: Zero Sum Game and Rough Beasts of Empire. They jump the story ahead about five years though, so there's several references to events in that gap that we never saw.

Two more Typhon Pact novels Plagues of Night and Raise the Dawn, will be out this summer, and going by the cover artwork, it appears these novels will have a big contribution to DS9's ongoing saga.

ETA: Jarvisimo beat me to it.

 

[Jarvisimo]

ETA: Jarvisimo beat me to it.

Aye, but any chance to see that winning smile!

 

[DeVario]

ETA: Jarvisimo beat me to it.

Aye, but any chance to see that winning smile!

*ting*

 

[DS9forever]

Hopefully we'll get a DS9-branded novel (or novels!) for the 2013 twentieth anniversary.

 

[antonio107]

Thanks all!

Judging by the cover art I googled, it looks like Destiny also features TNG relaunch stuff as well. Am I going to be completely lost in a litany of new characters and plot twists from the TNG universe? I've read the DS9 books to the exclusion of the rest of the trek universe, simply because it was my favorite series.

 

[DeVario]

The Destiny trilogy features mainly the crews of the Ent-E, Titan and Aventine (Ezri's ship), plus the NX-02 Columbia. There are several characters you may not be familiar with if you've never read the TNG relaunch or Titan series, and the trilogy itself is pretty massive and epic, but I think it's definitely worth it. I think it can still be read and understood even if one is a relative newcomer to the post-Nemesis novel timeframe.

 

[Jarvisimo]

Thanks all!

Judging by the cover art I googled, it looks like Destiny also features TNG relaunch stuff as well. Am I going to be completely lost in a litany of new characters and plot twists from the TNG universe? I've read the DS9 books to the exclusion of the rest of the trek universe, simply because it was my favorite series.

The Destiny trilogy features mainly the crews of the Ent-E, Titan and Aventine (Ezri's ship), plus the NX-02 Columbia. There are several characters you may not be familiar with if you've never read the TNG relaunch or Titan series, and the trilogy itself is pretty massive and epic, but I think it's definitely worth it. I think it can still be read and understood even if one is a relative newcomer to the post-Nemesis novel timeframe.

And if you did not read Destiny & A Singular Detiny, there would essentially be no point in reading the following DS9-focused Typhon Pact novels, since they directly follow on from the situations in those books.

If you were to read the TNGR relaunch, you should read A Time to Kill and A Time to Heal by David Mack, as well as A Time for War, A Time for Peace & Articles of the Federation by Keith RA DeCandido. These provide the context for the TNGR and the Titan series, as well as Destiny itself.

Then occurs the TNGR - Death in Winter, Resistance, Q&A, Before Dishonour& Greater than the Sum - which though following on from excellent books, had a very bumpy start, with Resistance in particular very bad. Also Before Dishonour which I hated, has a very comic book characterisation and a dreadfuly atavistic approach to what Trek could be. It does not appear to be well liked in the Treklit section of the site, but some do enjoy it. However it seems that both Greater than the Sum and Destiny take some steps to rewrite what occured in it, or rather to provide just enough context to make it fit the tone of the rest of Treklit these days.

The use of Titan, which is the other main ship in Destiny, & Enterprise in some senses does not require you to read the books beforehand. Certainly Mack explains as much as possible, but if you do read anything read else before Destiny, then do read A Time to Kill, A Time to Heal, A Time for War, A Time for Peace and Articles of the Federation.

 

[toughlittleship]

The two upcoming Typhon Pact novels seem to be the starting point of new DS9 novels. For example, part of the blurb of Raise the Dawn states"a new danger threatens the Bajoran wormhole as it once more becomes a flashpoint of galactic history".

 

[Ln X]

If you're really desperate for more DS9R, I know one author on Ad Astra called lvsxy808 who covers the 'tenth season' of DS9R. Another author who dabbles a bit in the 6th, 7th and 8th seasons of DS9 is Enterprise1981 another Ad Astra author. lvsxy808 has already completed fourteen out of the 22 stories he planning for his series. I myself do my own little DS9 'relaunch' but its set eighteen years after DS9 ended and sticks strictly to all Star Trek TV series/films in terms of canon after the Dominion war.

I haven't read any of the DS9R books but lvsxy808 is worth a look.

 

[Jarvisimo]

=I haven't read any of the DS9R books but lvsxy808 is worth a look.

Hi Ln X, I really think you should read the DS9 books! Including A Stitch in Time (which was the last numbered novel), the DS9R really was superlative tie-in literature, with lots of genre experimentation and creative moments, as well as being the first set of novels to build up the Federation as a larger, more interesting, more complex society (and which the current generation of Trek novels owes its genesis to).

In some senses, Vanguard was a more condensed version of this process, but set during the run of TOS. The same intellectual expansion overseen by Marco Palmieri happened therein.

 

[Min Zife]

I'm sorry but Vedek Kira in Rough Beasts made me ill. It's alluding to KAI Kira in Star Trek online which makes me vomit. They've really took the ds9 relaunch and ruined it. SIsko divorced Kassidy, Ezri, Kira, Bowers left. Nog left to serve with Scotty\Geordi on the Challenger, and RO. Traitor, Maquis loving RO is captain of the station.

 

[Ln X]

I'm sorry but Vedek Kira in Rough Beasts made me ill.

Eep! When I discovered this I felt pretty sick as well! What have they done with the character?

 

[toughlittleship]

Nothing that wasn't established in the earlier novels. The Prophets had begun to see Kira as "their Hand", such as in Warpath.

 

[Jarvisimo]

I think saying 'they' is a misnomer, since Vedek Kira is the development of DRGIII, whose love for DS9 is well-attested, and whose prior works for the series, most of all Cathedral and the 34th Rule, are superlative. And indeed from the Gateways epilogue, and even the cause and nature of her attaintment throughout the early Relaunch, it was alluded to that a ministerial path was a possible future development.

Also, about any STO allusisons, DRG I think has no interest in computer games.

Anyway, you can both read his FB page here, which is full of wonderful details about past and future novels, and the Trekbbs thread on Rough Beasts, where essentiaally very nasty rhetoric made it too distasteful for him to stay here.

And I would argue that Rough Beasts was the best written of the five TP books so far, the most literate, the most revolutionary and the most succesful at showing the TP as disparate societies whose opposition to the Federation is not from villainy, but from genuine cultural difference. Zero Sum Game was good (and quite dark), though I was sad to see that it was predicated on a more dualistic view of the TP, and an imperial-conservative view of the Federation. Paths of Disharmony (which included one of the major DS9R charcaters) was ok, though what happens in it felt too simplistic, too sudden and too unbelievable, given how much more complex and tenuous similar separation situations are in our world are.

 

[toughlittleship]

Star Trek Online actually borrowed/ripped off a lot of storylines from Pocket Books

 

[Therin of Andor]

Vedek Kira is the development of DRGIII, whose love for DS9 is well-attested, and whose prior works for the series, most of all Cathedral...

Not "Cathedral". David R George III's installment was "Twilight" in the "Mission Gamma" four-parter.

 

[Sjaddix]

Nothing that wasn't established in the earlier novels. The Prophets had begun to see Kira as "their Hand", such as in Warpath.

Haha so it sucks to be Kai even more now u got the Emissary and the Hand above you. Might as well make Kira, Kai. Which reminds me what is the difference between Emissary and Hand?

 

[Rush Limborg]

If you're really desperate for more DS9R, I know one author on Ad Astra called lvsxy808 who covers the 'tenth season' of DS9R. Another author who dabbles a bit in the 6th, 7th and 8th seasons of DS9 is Enterprise1981 another Ad Astra author. lvsxy808 has already completed fourteen out of the 22 stories he planning for his series. I myself do my own little DS9 'relaunch' but its set eighteen years after DS9 ended and sticks strictly to all Star Trek TV series/films in terms of canon after the Dominion war.

I haven't read any of the DS9R books but lvsxy808 is worth a look.

I'd also (shamelessly, I admit) plug my own fanfic, which you can find in the Fanfic forum on this site. My DS9 tales are mostly set in the interim between WYLB and Avatar, and I have a lot of post-Destiny "Tales Of Captain Ezri Dax".