Inferno (Bk. 3) (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Softcover

Reeves-Stevens, Judith; Reeves-Stevens, Garfield; Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671024035 ISBN 13: 9780671024031

Publisher: Star Trek, 2000

Synopsis

The True Reckoning is only seconds away, and only the crew of Deep Space Nine can prevent it from happening. But the Pah-wraiths and their followers, Gul Dukat and the merciless Grigori, will do anything to stop them.

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Review

When volume two of a trilogy ends with the destruction of the universe, it's a tough act to follow and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens's effort is not entirely successful. When the wormholes merged at the end of volume two, The War of the Prophets, two manifestations of DS9 became trapped inside separate temporal bubbles within them: one from just before the station's destruction in volume one The Fall of Terok Nor; and one from the Cardassian Day of Withdrawal six years earlier. In an incredibly complicated plot, DS9's command crew find themselves bouncing around in time, some on each station. Hampered by Weyoun and the mad Dukat, they attempt to keep out of sight and preserve the timeline until the wormholes merge, preparing to act to change history and save the universe an instant after their previous selves were flung forward in time 25 years.

There are so many time zones that it's sometimes difficult to keep track of who's when and the characters seem to expend a lot of energy rushing around in order to deliberately do nothing at all. There's plenty of temporal technobabble from Dax and O'Brien, and lots of things happening, but the reader is left wondering just what, if anything, our heroes manage to accomplish. --Elizabeth Sourbut

Edition details

• Publisher: Star Trek
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671024035
• ISBN 13: 9780671024031
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 288