Alien soldiers conquer Deep Space Nine!
Fallen Heroes is a Pocket DS9 novel – #5 in the numbered series – written by Dafydd ab Hugh. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in February 1994.
Summary[]
- From the book jacket
- When a troop of alien warriors demands the return of an imprisoned comrade – a prisoner no one on Deep Space Nine knows anything about – Commander Benjamin Sisko has a deadly fight on his hands. Under sudden attack from the heavily armed warriors, Sisko and his crew struggle desperately to repel the invaders and save the lives of everyone on board.
- Meanwhile, a strange device from the Gamma Quadrant has shifted Ferengi barkeeper Quark and Security Chief Odo three days into the future to a silent Deep Space Nine. To save the station they must discover what caused the invasion to take place, and find a pathway back through time itself.
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The imprisoned comrade is, in fact, a piece of technology that projects a "temporal bubble" around a given space, and transports anyone inside it either forward or back 3 days. Quark had purchased the technology from a Gamma Quadrant trader and inadvertently tripped a homing beacon, which attracted the aliens. When Odo performs a "shakedown", Quark hits a button not knowing what it will do, which transports him and Odo three days into the future. There, Jake and Molly O'Brien are the only ones left alive (with Quark and Odo finding them after being transported into the future) and must solve the mystery of what happened. Quark does not realize that it was him for the longest time, and eventually has to admit to purchasing a stolen artifact. Once he does so, the party has to find a dead alien soldier's corpse, because they need a "key" to use the button on the artifact that sends them back into the past. It turns out that the only body they can find is of an alien that had died in the engineering room – and the engineering room has been engulfed in extreme heat and radiation because the reactor core had been damaged. Odo had to retrieve the "key" while withstanding the extreme heat and radiation. Odo must withstand the temperature of an M class star in order to retrieve the key, demonstrating the remarkable resilience of the shapeshifter race. Once the "key" is retrieved, Quark and Odo use the alien device to go back in time, returning just in time to intercept the aliens coming out of the wormhole, explain the situation, and surrender the technology to the aliens, who promptly return to the Gamma Quadrant.
Background information[]
- This is ab Hugh's first Star Trek novel. When he was planning Fallen Heroes, the author thought of breaking the number one rule of tie-in science fiction literature (not killing off a regular character) by finding a way to kill all the characters in an alternate timeline. (Voyages of Imagination [page number? • edit])
- Mary F. Taylor wrote that the novel was "an ultimate hero's story.". (Adventures in Time and Space, p 245)
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Characters[]
- Canon characters listed below are linked to the main article about them. Non-canon characters are not linked, but those that recurred, appearing or being mentioned in more than one story, are defined further in Pocket DS9 characters.
Regular and recurring characters[]
- Benjamin Sisko
- Starfleet commander, the CO of Deep Space 9.
- Kira Nerys
- Bajoran Militia major, liaison and XO of DS9.
- Quark
- Ferengi barkeeper.
- Odo
- Deep Space 9's Changeling security chief.
- Miles O'Brien
- Deep Space 9 chief of operations.
- Jadzia Dax
- Trill Deep Space 9 science officer.
- Julian Bashir
- Deep Space 9 chief medical officer.
Other characters[]
- Djonreel
- Captain of the freighter Square Deal (which is also his nickname).
- Cory Ewin
- Deep Space 9 security chief petty officer.
References[]
- Brekkian narcotics
- Lonat
- Species.
- Margin
- Ferengi Nondisclosure-class merchant ship.
- USS Clifford Simak
- Federation starship.
- Named for author Clifford D. Simak.
- Square Deal
- Lonatian freighter of Captain Djonreel.
- USS Thule
- Federation starship.
- See Thule and Ultima Thule for other uses of this name.
External link[]
- Fallen Heroes at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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