Fallout from "In the Pale Moonlight"

[Gotham Central]

Have any of the post Nemesis books dealt with any potential fallout from Sisko's actions in "in the Pale Moonlight?" Do the Romulans ever find out that they were played by the Federation?

 

[Elias Vaughn]

Hollow Men deals pretty extensively with Sisko's guilt from ItPM. It's not really post Nemesis though.

 

[Christopher]

^It's not even slightly post-Nemesis, since it takes place immediately after "In the Pale Moonlight," a good five years before Nemesis.

 

[rfmcdpei]

Hollow Men deals pretty extensively with Sisko's guilt from ItPM. It's not really post Nemesis though.

From what I recall, when Sisko talked to a Romulan the latter seemed to hint that even if the Senator had been assassinated, it didn't really matter since it just gave Romulus an excuse to do what the people in power wanted to do regardless.

 

[Sho]

Hm, does that make Hollow Men a good candidate for standalone reading?

 

[Christopher]

Hm, does that make Hollow Men a good candidate for standalone reading?

As long as you've seen "In the Pale Moonlight," certainly. It's set during the series and is not part of the post-finale continuity. It's the very embodiment of a standalone DS9 novel, aside from the fact that it's a direct sequel to an episode.

 

[Sho]

Aye, I meant it in a lit context. Thanks .

 

[ICW]

It's also a great read (in my opinion of course)

 

[Relayer1]

It's also a great read (in my opinion of course)

That's not just your opinion - it is correct !

 

[Jarvisimo]

Although Hollow Men does have some characters (namely the Cardassian government-in-exile characters) who appear also in McCormack's The Never-Ending Sacrifice.

On a related point, are there any clues or news as to what Brinkmanship will be about? Has anyone asked her on Twitter?

 

[DEWLine]

Standalone or not, Hollow Men made for pretty good - sometimes scary - reading. A very quiet horror/spy story that also worked as a Trek novel...

 

[DEWLine]

Hollow Men deals pretty extensively with Sisko's guilt from ItPM. It's not really post Nemesis though.

From what I recall, when Sisko talked to a Romulan the latter seemed to hint that even if the Senator had been assassinated, it didn't really matter since it just gave Romulus an excuse to do what the people in power wanted to do regardless.

And in some respects, that scene was part of what makes the book work as a horror story.

 

[Sho]

FWIW, the sense of standalone I was caring about was "no significant dependency other than the show"; sequels to fine books are of course awesome and no detriment to reading them. (Well nor is not being standalone according to this definition, ... you get what I'm going for though.)

 

[toughlittleship]

Didn't a story from Tales of the Dominion War make some reference to the Romulans learning the truth?

 

[cml898]

Yeah, Peter David's New Frontier story in Tales of the Dominion War told of the eventual fallout of the "Sisko lie." I remember being really irritated at how the story was really a long winded hammering of "war is wrong" barely disguised as a Trek story.

 

[Christopher]

^Ummm... dozens of Trek stories have boiled down to "war is wrong." It's one of the core messages of the franchise, and that was part of the reason it had such resonance with the Vietnam generation.

 

[cml898]

I'm not saying I have a problem with the message. I just didn't think there was anything more to the story, or really even a story there. Reading it I felt like Peter David was screaming at me "If you enjoyed DS9's Dominion War arc SHAME ON YOU!"

 

[Sjaddix]

Yeah War is wrong but sometimes you have to fight war. If anything DS9 Dominion War was a lot closer to WW2 then Vietnam.