ST: DSN: Horn and Ivory

This short story is by Keith R.A. Decandido. I began reading it Wednesday May 10, 2023. I completed reading this on Monday May 22, 2023.

Kira time traveled to before Bajor was united as one. It was still the provinces of Endtree, Bajora, as well as Lerra as well as other few. She had no idea why or how, for the Prophets or an injury or a little of both.

The Bajoreans had just won a battle with the help of Kiera Nierys. Kira traversed to her distant past before Bajor became Bajor and was still city states. This reminded her of her work currently with the Federation.

"You can't blind yourself to a good thing just because you don't like it."

ST: DSN: Horn and Ivory p. 97

"Without faith their can be no victory."

ST: DSN: Horn and Ivory p. 121

"Many different types of gateways were constructed over time, some large and elegant, others that could be held in the palm of one's hand."

ST: DSN: Horn and Ivory p. 134

"Two gates for ghostly dreams there are; One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory issuuing by the ivory gates are the dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them."

Homer, The Odyssey

ST: DSN: Horn and Ivory p. 140

Never Ending Sacrifice

I started reading this novel Wednesday September 21, 2022. It has 352 pages. I completed reading this on Friday December 9, 2022.

"Where shall a man find sweetness to surpass his own home and parents? In far lands he shall not, though he found a house of gold." Homer, The Odyssey

Migdal and Rugal, a father and son went up to Deep Space Nine from Bajor. The first person they met was Garek. Migdal was Pudar's, a Cardassians, son.

Before Rugal with the Cardassian Chief Miles O'Brian said to him, "If you need anything, let me know."

Family is extremely important on Cardassia. Rugal  was introduced to his grandmother. Kotan was part of the Civilian Assembly, a scientific advisor to their ruling body, the Detapa Council.

"Cardassia was a world of contradictions there were grandmothers, who claimed to care for nothing but family, but who you dead there were conversations you had to pretend were held in secret, when everyone knew that  they were  spied upon. And then there were Father's but who said had take that you loved you, but had taken you away from all you loved." 

The Never- Ending Sacrifice p. 33

Ragul picked up the book "The Never-Ending Sacrifice" book Ulan Corac, but never made it past the first chapter.

"Cardassians were vicious and heartless and lacked whatever gene carried compassion. They were the complete opposite of Bajorean. Bajorean were the kind of people that would adopt children abandoned by those who had almost abandoned their beautiful, benevolent world."

The Never- Ending Sacrifice pp. 37-38

"The heart of an empire is often beautiful to behold and cruel to contemplate."

The Never- Ending Sacrifice p. 38

Rugal made a friend, Penelya. She was an orphan who was studying plants.

"You don't fit in with people's expectations. Your not quite the same as they are, and because of that you make them feel uncomfortable. But instead of trying to understand what you are, for yourself, they dislike you for making them feel uncomfortable. That's what it's like sometimes."

Rugal

The Never-Ending Sacrifice p. 43

"A harmonious family is the bedrock of a harmonious state."

The Never- Ending Sacrifice p. 46

"Why would Cardassia do this to their children? Why not let them become everything they could be? What were they afraid would happen, if they simply let them go?"

The Never- Ending Sacrifice p. 50

Rugal spoke up in class about Bajor and how Cardassian history books showed it wrong, and was talked to by his teacher. A member of the Obsidian Order came to his father and him as well. 

"On Bajor everyone was poor, it tucked away below bridges." 

The Never- Ending Sacrifice p. 66

Rugal's Bajoren mom died.

"There’s a lot of empty space between here and Bajor. You could be trying to find a way back for a long time, doing nothing better than wishing you were somewhere else? Is that good enough for you? Is there nothing worthwhile you could do on Cardassia? Nothing you want to do?

Penelya 

The Never- Ending Sacrifice p. 94

"If you could not say what you were thinking, how could you ever work out whether it was wrong or right? How could you work out how to make your ideas better?"

Rugal

The Never- Ending Sacrifice p. 95

Rugal decided not to go back to the academy, and therefore would have to look for new ways to spend his time. Rugal was discussing the fact that their should be elections on Cardassia, to which his father said their needs to be more education first.

Rugal was giving out food at night on the Cardassian streets.

"The open secrets that nobody voiced. Life would be so much easier if they all simply talked to one another. It was almost as if Cardassians preferred life to be complicated. The best option, Rugal decided was to be honest and to hope his actions spoke as loudly for him as his words."

Rugal

The Never- Ending Sacrifice pp. 105-106

The Obsidian Order fell. It was replaced by The Cardassian Intelligence Bureau. Rugal was trying to help his friends escape, but they resisted until the last minute. Then he managed to. He got them out of there by stashing there IDs and using his to get them through and since his father is high in authority they had no problem. Kotan was on the search for his Bajorean father, Rugal would stay on Deep Space Nine. Kotan found out that his father died before he got there. The Klingons are going to attack Cardassia Prime.

"If life was a battleground, all you could ever do was be a victim or victor."

The Never- Ending Sacrifice p. 143

"Any God will do right, now true, false, friendly, hostile--I'm open for business."

The Never- Ending Sacrifice p. 144

"It all comes down in the end to need. Needing to have more than anyone else. Perhaps now that you've seen one of our droughts you understand why. Gather all you can to you to you, because as sure as the hot sun rises in the morning, the rain will stop and the food will run out. Gather up everything you can from wherever you can."

The Never-Ending Sacrifice p. 150

"We are the sum that has gone before. We are the source of all to come."

The Never-Ending Sacrifice p. 161

"If I'm going to enjoy my life, I might as well enjoy myself doing it."

The Never-Ending Sacrifice Alon p. 170

"Duty at least, should keep them going, even if there was a little promise of reward." 

The Never-Ending Sacrifice p. 172

"Friends had been in lamentably short supply on Cardassia Prime." 

The Never-Ending Sacrifice p. 180

"People here have all these reasons to hate each other, and they feed them rather than try to lose their appetite for them. And they brought that way of doing things to Bajor and now Bajor has to struggle with exactly the same problem. And that's not to say that people don't have good reasons to hate each other. Bajor has every reason to hate Cardassia--and I do understand why people want revenge, and reparations, but...when will it end."

Zeyal

The Never-Ending Sacrifice 183-184

Dukot put Cardassia under Dominion authority. Meya Rejel and Tetretis Geyl opposed the remarks.

"People of Cardassia, I call on us to stand united at this time. Let us not bow down to tyranny; let us not give way to threat. We are a proud people and we will survive."

The Never-Ending Sacrifice p. 191

Rugal was being drafted by Dukot for the Cardassian War with the Klingons. Rugal received a medal. The Breen entered the War on the Cardassians side. Rugal and Tret found Romulan Commander Tret injured when he took Tret down for medical treatment. Rugal told her the war had ended and helped her out.

Rugal woke up to Selik holding Tret hostage. However Tret managed to talk the situation down peacefully. After a three day stay at a Cardassian garrison the Commander killed herself with her disrupter. Tret was in and out of consciousness as they traveled and asked Rugal  where the Commander was. He died three days after.

"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. And it is the youth that must inherit the tribulation, the sorrows, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war." Herbert Hoover

HARF stands for Headquarters Allied Reconstruction Forces.

"The sun isn't shining everywhere."

The Never-Ending Sacrifice p. 250

Rugal was on the Starship Lotus as a medic. Rugal left the ship when they reached Ithic in search for Penelya. The ship left him for three months to find her, but the captain gave him a subspace transponder to call them earlier if needed. He went to her house. He never found her though. Rugal accepted Penelya death. He would work her farm until his ship returned. There was a young human girl on the farm, Rugal had been conversing with her some.

Hulya was the girls name. Before their first meal together, Rugal insisted she take a bath, which she welcomed. Then Rugal found clothes for her in Penala's closet.

"I think we get angry when people die because we feel like they've left us behind. They've left us having to carry on and cope with the whole mess of being alive."

Rugal

The Never-Ending Sacrifice p. 295

Hulya saw a teacher, while shopping with Rugal. Arani, a Cardassian woman has come.

"You never could overestimate how resourceful people could be." 

The Never-Ending Sacrifice p. 312

Gheta arrived after winter to Rugal's farm. She was the youngest amongst them.

Dr. Anders wants to take Hulya away, because she is having tantrums. They tried to remove Hulya by force, but couldn't manage it.

"There’s something you need to understand, I was brought up on Bajor, by Bajoreans. They were my parents. The only ones I ever knew. Then my biological father turned up alive, and a Starfleet Officer decided it was better for me to go back to Cardassia with him. But it wasn't. He was wrong, and it did me great harm. I don't  want Hulya to forget she's human, and I'm the last person on this world to make her think she is Cardassian. But she's safe and happy. She wants to be with us. That's where she should stay."

Rugal

The Never-Ending Sacrifice p. 322

Five more Cardassians were sent to live with them. The Lotus was on its way back. Rugul was going on the Lotus. Rugal visited Miles. He wanted to become a Federation citizen. Miles contacted Garek about this. Rugal recalled he bite Garek on the hand at Quarks on Deep Space Nine. Garek forgave him and helped Rugal. It was weeks before his case, during which time he and Hulya were guests of Garek.

"Seeing this place, Rugal thought he could understand why Commander Sisko might have chosen to send him back to Cardassia. People who had been happy in their homes often lacked imagination; they lacked the understanding that what had been a source of joy for some might be a prison for others. This was the only reason he could find to explain Sisko's actions--other than cruelty, which did not seem likely in a man Miles O'Brian respected. Earth explained a great deal-- although perhaps it did not excuse it."

The Never-Ending Sacrifice p. 343

"What I chiefly wanted to say was that there were tragic time's for my people. And it seems to me that the chief tragedy of our history is the demands we have made and obligations we have placed upon generation after generation. I have come to believe that if Cardassia is ever to escape our history, it must reciprocate these obligations and no longer require these sacrifices most of all, we must learn to let go." 

Garek

The Never-Ending Sacrifice p. 348

Rugal became a Federation citizen. Rugal went with Hulya to Bajor. He buried his earing by his parents resting places. The they went to Cardassia. He was officially gone to adopt Hulya. Rugal then stopped by the Pa'Dar house, which was rubble now, but said his thanks for the gift of life. Rugal met Penelya and they went off with Hulya.

The Symbiot Council on Trill

Jerrad is the cheif magistrate of the Symbiot Council. He has a trill inside of him as well. His trill is Coal.

Coal is one of the oldest Trills in existance. It is about 5,000,000,000 years old. It has had many hosts. It remembers each and every aspect of its lives like it was yesterday.

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Station Rage

In Startrek: Deep Space 9: Station Rage there was fighting both on the inside and outside of Deep Space Nine.  This book was written by Diane Carey in 1995. It had 23 chapters within its 227 pages. I started this on Saturday July 19th. I completed this on Thursday August 7.

Obrien, Odo and Bashir were in a cave, Obrien got hit with a booby trap. Odo protected them from an explosion. After sheilding them, Odo called for Obrien to let Kira and Sisko know to come down.

They found corpses of Cardassians. They tranported Gerek to them.

The Federation agreed to have a Cardassean on DSN to improve relations with the Cardassieans and the Federation. However the Cardassians could claim mistreatnent of the dead and perform an unending investigation. One strange thing was the Cardassieans that awoke were all male. The Cardassians in the chamber awoke suddenly without any clue where or when they were. There was this High Gul trapped on the station with his Cardassean allies.

There was a problem with the translation matrix on DS9, so everyone was speaking their foreign language. Most of the turbolifts were malfunctioning as well. The environmental controls were starting to act up also. So they were having a fire drill of sorts on Deep Space Nine but an actual emergency. An airlock opened and people were hanging on for dear life.

The whole station was damaged from communication systems to airlocks. They evacuated DS9. Sisko, Odo, and Kira stayed aboard. Kira went to Security. Odo and Sisko cought the humanoids that were damaging the station but had no weapons. They attacked when asked to identify themselves. Cardasseans were aboard planning to take the station back.

There was also a dark entiry aboard. Sisko just found the Cardassians, who were asleep for 80 years. He started fighting one. Malici was the second in command of the  Cardassean army which was aboard. The High Guls memories were great and compared to throughout the armed forces of Cardassia. Gerek was asked if he wanted to save anyone. He didn't answer.

Thee Cardasseabs were first ask if they wanted any food. Some of the Cardassions went missing. Odo was going into an electronic field not knowing what will happen. A reactor breach almost caused the whole station shutdown. A vessal was entering the wormhole, despite the order of no vessals in the wormhole. Kira was planning to blow up the wormhole if necessary to protect the lives of people in the Gamma Quadrant. They were also going to flood the docking ring with radiation

The Cardassians were from 70 years prior. The Cardassians, who just awoke, thought they were still occupying Bajor and said that they'd kill any Bajoreans who moved off Bajor. Sisko suggested to them to turn themselves in. They were going to destroy the Defiant.

The Cardassians that just awoke were figuring out that the time they awoke was a different time then they slept. There was only one ship coming for the sleeping Cardassians, Benjamin didn't know that though. The Cardassians that awoke were part of an elite team known as the Crescent Order.

The Cardassians came in order to get the members of The Crescent Order. Sisko told them to back off. Garek gave the Cardassians intel on the Defiant. Sisko was prepared for war if the Cardassians wanted it. Kira got captured. Sisko was dead. Odo saved Sisko.

Kira was taken captive on the Defiant. Gerek saved Sisko. Sisko suddenly appeared on the Defiant. The High Gul offered Sisko a place at his side, he refused. The High Guls wife was killed by Franso. Starfleet sent 3 Starships and 1 Klingon Vessel to help the Defiant.

Odo

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Odo

Discovered: June 1, 2337

He was one of a hundred changeling infants sent out to explore the universe and return to The Founders in the future to share  all that he had learned. Odo was unaware of his origin for most of his life, until the opening of the Bajoran Wormhole into the Gamma Quadrant premuturally reunited him with his race. A product of civilizations pn both sides of the wormhole, Odo was comflicted during the Dominion War. Though he sided with the Alpha Quadrant, his commitment to justice did not take sides and he worked to ensure that his allies stayed true to StarFleet ideals. Following the war Odo returned to his people to share the cure to the disease that had been engineered to wipe out his race.

Saratoga

This StarTrek novel by Michael Jan Friedman has 275 pages.

Within it, Sisko is meeting his old shipmates from Saratoga. In the last mission of this ship he lost his wife to the Borg. The get together was to take place on Mars.

Rom found a beverage container from Thetalian Prime in Quirks supply closet.

Kira asked Quark to obtain what the Bajorean needed from a friend

Captain Ishemaki, of the Zapata was on course to Beta Jalonis on a distress call after dropping the passengers off at DS9

The passengers were on their way to DS9 to attend a get together as part of the new Saratoga crew

Groken was a man who slept around and had at least two female mates on the Saratoga

After he beamed onto another ship he hit on a counselor and then the person who beamed him over

Captain Nicholis Kyprios

Tarlegga was a competitor in the run, he was in, in the holodeck. Counselor Constance Barnes interrupted his run. They conversed about her immersion in her work not to deal with the voyage underway and her not wanting to talk about the Saratoga incident.

A few of the passengers who were going to take part in the ceremony were going to beam to Deep Space Nine, because the docking port were damaged.

Bashir was giving Dr. Offer a tour of sickbay. She was very insulting to him, and constantly made him feel inferior to her.

The ship docked, and let out the rest of the passengers who were attending the reunion and then left on its next mission.

Ezri Dax

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December 20, 2354

Ezri Dax

Ezri Tigan never anticipated becoming a joined Trill. As such, she never underwent   the intensive training that all hosts must experiance. But when the Dax symbiont took a turn for the worst en route to the Trill homeworld, it needed to be implanted intothe only member of the race on board the StarFleet ship transporting it. The young counselor suddenly found herself part of a centuries-long tradition as she was stationed at Deep Space 9. Although it was awkward at first to be stationed with the widowed husband of her previous host, she and Worf moved past the discomfort and she became a valued member of the crew.

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Julian Bashir

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Julian Bashir

Born November 21, 2341

Dr. Julian Bashir underwent illigal genetic  enhancements as a child that made him slightly superior in body and mind, but he had to keep that a secret as the process was illegal. The young officer was excited about life on the final frontier, though he quickly learned that the dangers of living on Deep Space 9 were much more real than the holosuite adventutes he enjoyed. Bashir rejected his initial to join the covert ops group Section 31, but later used his connections to secure valuable information on the Dominion War. His ability to find a cure for the genetically engineered plague affecting the founders was instrumental in securing their surrender at the end of the conflict.

Quark

Born: 2333

Quark was a Ferengi of many talents, though many of them weren't quite in the realm of what was considered legal by Federation standards. As the proprietor of Quarks Bar he could obtain most of what his patrons needed, whether it be alcohol, gambling, time in the holosuite, or perhaps less savory endeavors. Quark lived by his own code that kept him from crossing the line into truly despicable acts, yet still ensured that Deep Space Nine's security cheif Odo kept a watchful eye on him. Through their time together on the station, Quark and Odo engaged in a game of cat and mouse with each getting the upper hand at times as they developed an unusual--and slightly co-dependent--friendship.

Startrek Deep Space Nine January 3, 1993 (Syndicated)

"What was supposed to be a lonely outpost at the edge of Federation Space became a hotbed   of activity with the discovery of a stable wormhole leading deep into the Gamma Quadrant. When Benjamin Sisko took command of the space station in orbit of the planet Bajor, he also inherited a world applying for Federation membership, tensions with their former oppressors, the Cardassians, and the title Emissary as a religious icon for the Bajorean People. Over seven years Sisko and his crew saw the station through a war with the Dominion as Bajor moved closer to the Federation Membership while Sisko helped to see the Bajoran People to a new future."

Wrath of The Prophets

Star trek: Deep Space Nine: Wrath of The Prophets has 274 pages within the story. This story is by Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman and Robert Greenberger. I started Monday August 15, 2014 and finished Tuesday September 20, 2014.

They were in a Bajorean palace bar. Varis had befriended both Jake and Nog. She was given a party on her return to Bajor  Molly and Keiko returned from a botony conferance Keiko took part in, however the Cheif was still distracted. Keiko was going back to Bajor for three weeks. Obrien was furious because of this so he went to Quarks.

Ritnas were a sloth like animal that stayed close to the water on Bajor. They generated a milk, which kept Bajoreans healthy.

People and animals were dying and the Kai was supposed to tell Bajor that it was a test. Kai was visiting the station. Dax was doing her best not to become emotional over her Bajorean friends on the planet, but it was difficult. The virus laid dormant on the replicators until they were used and that brought them back to life.

Ro Laren came through the wormhole. Sisko asked Quark to investigate why the Orions supplied replicators to the Bajoreans. Then the virus mutated so he was back to square one. Ro and Kira went to talk to Kiras friend on Bajor.
He wasn't much help until they left and he ran after them and told them whoch counsel member to talk to.

Varis misled Kai Winn telling her she got the cure. He was on a mission to find a real antidote. However, Bashir found a cure to the sickness. Varis told the prophets to go to hell. Jake talked to Varis about having faith.

On the journey to the mountain Ro exclaimed she was sick of Kira. Kira and Ro were captured to be sold on the black market by the Orions. Dax was at Quarks bar, recounting all the lives she had.

Morn got the disease. Ro got a knife from a guard. Winn just got infected after screaming at the Prophets. Ro and Kira were pretending to fight until the Zeber came in and then they took care of him. They set the place on fire.

Sisko and Quark were playing Dabo for the info on the replicators. If they won they would get the information. If they lost they would become the others slaves. Sisko and Quark won.

The Orions blew out their cloaking device. Ro and Varis saved Kira from an attack, Kira said you took your sweet time. A knife was flying toward Ro and Kira grabbed it
Dax knew the disease,  her first host had experience with it. If Obrien went down to Bajor the station gravity would have been compromised and the cure would have likely parished. Bashir, with Daxs help made the antidote. Bashir was going to test the antidote on Morn with the promise of free drinks at the bar. They were venting the antidote through the system and seeding it throughout Bajor.

The Bajorean Government wouldn't thank Roe for her helping Kira, in fact the oppisite, they were damming her if she returned. Sisko was of great defense to Varis,  he brought the whole consil down for allowing the Black Market to exist.

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Grand Negus

Rom

"I've always been smart brother, (Quark). I just lack self confidence. "

He was Kelders and Ishkas son. A failure in business ventures he worked for his brother Quark, who took advantage of him. Later he became an engineer in the Bajorean Militia. After that he became the Grand Negus.

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Nog

A Ferengi boy who was the son of Rom and Prinadora, and the nephew of Quark. Being the first Ferengi to enter Starfleet, he served under Benjamin Sisko on the Defiant during the Dominion War.

#piccadillyinc

Jake Sisko

He was Benjamins and Jennifer Siskos son. He chose to become writer/ reporter and not join Starfleet on Deep Space Nine. Nog was his best friend, which really irked his father because his father thought Nog was a bad influence. Jake influenced Nog to join Starfleet. 

Jake lost his mom to the Borg. His father and him loved baseball and played it on the holodeck whenever they could.

The Orb of Prophecy and Change

This was an Orb of the Prophets. The Orb was sent from the Celestial Temple to guide Bajor. This was the third of nine Orbs that appeared within ten thousand years. One influenced Trekor, who became a poet, when he encountered one 3000 years ago.

It was kept under watch by Vedek Bevil Antos. In 2370 he consulted the Orb during the next Kai election. In 2373, Sisko got a plasma burst that gave him a vision in which he had an encounter with the Orb of Prophecy. In 2374 the Orb was moved to the Space Station.  Bareil was going to steal it and travel to his alternate universe,  but he left it after having an experiance with it.

Pel

A Ferengi female, disguised as a male to prove yhat females were business savvy. As a male she worked at Quarks bar and even advised Quark wisely to purchase a root. She later assisted Quark to purchase Tulberry Wine, which went over well also.  But she fell in love with Quark and kissed him.

Benny Russel

He was an identity that Benjamin Sisko took on some transes that the
Prophets and Pawraiths.

An African American science fiction writer and an ex-navel service man in the 1950s. He lived in New York City. He wrote in The Incredible Tales Magazine. Douglas Pabst, the editor, was reluctant to reveal Benny was black necause he was afraid sales would go down. Bennys greatest work was of a black captain who commanded a space station.

Prophets

Thrse beings were known as the wormhole aliens, mainly by non Bajoreans. They were non - corporeal and extra dimensional. Their origins are not known. They only live in the Bajorean wormhole because of its stability. They identify themselves as Bajor. Other then that their origins are not known.

Pah-Wraith

These are the enemies of the Prophets. The usually take the form of fire spirits. Despite that, they were identical. When they brought on visions they acted smugly. The prophet acted humbly and displayed very little emotion.