Yes Time's Enemy is an excellent book and is, indeed, one of my favorite DS9 books. Really, it's the only book in the Invasion! series that is actually worth reading.
Pre-Relaunch DS9 Novel Question
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I suppose novelizations count. But they're mostly written by Diane Carey, who supposedly gave the short end of the stick to What You Leave Behind and Sacrifice of Angels...
I'm glad to see so much love for Time's Enemy, as it sprung to mind after reading the thread title. As much as I loved the book, I also equally loved the write-up of who "L.A. Graf" are (those who know will get that my choice of "Be" verb is not an error).
The Millennium trilogy was also mentioned. There was a recent thread on it in here and I definitely think it's one of the better pre-relaunch novels.
The Millennium trilogy was also mentioned. There was a recent thread on it in here and I definitely think it's one of the better pre-relaunch novels.
I remember not liking the Invasion series much when it came out, but having seen the amount of love for Times Enemy may give it another read - it has been a good few years.
I am certain I didn't like Millennium and won't be going anywhere near it again. It does have the biggest RESET button I've ever seen...
I have a strange fondness for Bloodletter, but most here will disagree with me.
Betrayal is a pretty good Cardassian politics story, as I recall.
Betrayal is a pretty good Cardassian politics story, as I recall.
And Valhalla by Nathan Archer, published a few books later, is actualy a prequel to Betrayal. It was supposed to be one of the earliest books, but got pushed back when the writer broke his hand and couldn't write for a while. So it's actually a 2-book Cardassian-politics arc, published out of sequence.
Valhalla was the one in which a ship designed by giant alien crabs docks sans crew and invades the station's computer systems by sending vibrations through the docking clamps, right? As cooky as my summary sounds, I have fond memories of the book and even the vibrations explanation. I had no idea there was a sequel ...
Thanks a lot everyone! So many great suggestions and opinions. Once I finish the relaunch, I plan on going back to these earlier books to flesh out my DS9 reading experience.
I have read the Millennium books and rather enjoy them, despite their GRB-ness. Back in the day, I was instructed to lump it into the Relaunch as the frame story and epilogue take place after the Series Finale. (I was guided by both my friend and the bbs in large way back in 2002)
While I'm not one to get overly concerned with continuity (I can rationalize away most inconsistencies), am I right in assuming that Wrath of the Prophets is irreconcilable with Ro's depiction in later works?
I have read the Millennium books and rather enjoy them, despite their GRB-ness. Back in the day, I was instructed to lump it into the Relaunch as the frame story and epilogue take place after the Series Finale. (I was guided by both my friend and the bbs in large way back in 2002)
While I'm not one to get overly concerned with continuity (I can rationalize away most inconsistencies), am I right in assuming that Wrath of the Prophets is irreconcilable with Ro's depiction in later works?
In the sense that the DS9 crew meets her here but is unfamiliar with her in the post-finale books, yes, at least according to Memory Alpha.
I apologize to the OP for 'hijacking' his/her thread, but this ties in. Could anyone give me a list of/reading order for the DS9 numbered novels that would be consistent with both the DS9 canon and the DS9 'relaunch'?
I don't know if anyone's specifically worked that out. It would probably be a judgment call anyway; I've found over the years that different readers can have very different ideas about which stories can be reconciled with one another and which ones can't.
Besides, does it matter? A good story is a good story, regardless of its consistency with other stories. If you read a good story and it doesn't fit with canon, then at least you've had the pleasure of reading a good apocryphal tale. So your best bet is to read the books for yourself and make your own choices about whether they "fit."
I always get the names of the books wrong, but just to put things into perspective, Worf meets Admiral Janeway in one of the first post-Nemesis TNG books, then claims, or thinks to himself, that he's never met her a book or three later.
Ro has already been on DS9 for several weeks by the time Avatar begins, so we never really saw her introduction to the station crew.
If I come across something that doesn't fit with canon or with books in the novelverse, then I just tell myself that it took place in an alternate realty.
I vaguely remember something Ron D. Moore once said in response to a question about continuity errors, likely with a winking eye: Roughly, the episodes are intended to be imperfect fictionalizations of actual events, so when they disagree amongst each other it's an instance of Chinese whispers 
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^When TMP came out with redesigned Klingons, Roddenberry suggested that Klingons had always had ridges, but we couldn't see it in TOS because of imperfections in the transmissions from the future (or some such facetious thing).
It's also the one where O'Brien gets to unleash the "Pup" from that second season episode.
Plus, Valhalla is also famous for having the editing error of the Defiant being gone from the station put in by the editors because the book was published after Season 3 had started airing, but the book was set between Seasons 1 & 2.
As for Ro, don't forget that the DS9 crew met her in Wrath of The Prophets (DS9 #20) because of the disease affecting Bajor, but neither Ro nor Kira seem to recall each other in the Season 8/9 books as having met till after What You Leave Behind. And I believe WOTP takes place in the late-5th season, possible 6th season of the show.
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