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STAR TREK DEEP SPACE NINE: PROPHECY AND CHANGE
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Featuring:
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x"Ha'mara"
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by Kevin G. Summers
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Description:
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- Love and Hate. Faith and Doubt. Guilt and Innocence. Peace and War.
- Few television series have embraced this symphony of contradictions on the epic scale of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. From the vastness of space to the darkest depths of the soul, from the clash of empires to the struggles of conscience, from the crossroads of a galaxy to the convergence of hearts--that seven-year journey was both universal and personal, challenging its audience with stories and characters that redefined Star Trek's Human Adventure for all time.
- PATHWAYS TRAVELLED... The widowed father struggling to rebuild his shattered life, reborn as a religious icon to millions of believers.
- CHALLENGES CONQUERED... The resistance fighter who aided her former oppressors in their struggle for liberation and emerged as the leader she never imagined herself becoming.
- TRUTHS REVEALED... The orphaned alien whose quest for his own identity became the salvation of a quadrant.
- Rediscover this extraordinary saga in a landmark collection of tales that confronts assumptions, divulges secrets, and asks as many questions as it answers. These stories, entwined with familiar episodes, reveal the world of Deep Space Nine anew.
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- Table of Contents:
- x"Revisited, Part One"
- by Anonymous
"Ha'mara"
- by Kevin G. Summers
"The Orb of Opportunity"
- by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels
"Broken Oaths"
- by Keith R.A. DeCandido
"...Loved I Not Honor More"
- by Christopher L. Bennett
"Three Sides to Every Story"
- by Terri Osborne
"The Devil You Know"
- by Heather Jarman
"Foundlings"
- by Jeffrey Lang
"Chiaroscuro"
- by Geoffrey Thorne
"Face Value"
- by Una McCormack
"The Calling"
- by Andrew J. Robinson
"Revisited, Part Two"
- by Anonymous
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Critical Response:
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- "Ha'mara by Kevin G. Summers is set a few days after the premiere episode, "Emissary", and takes the reader back to where it all started, the planet Bajor just days after the discovery of the wormhole. The central characters Sisko, Kira, Opaka and Jake are each beginning a new chapter in their lives; some face that future with certainty, some with doubts. When an unexpected tragedy forces each into confrontations both personal and emotional, I felt as if a missing piece of the puzzle of the first season of Deep Space Nine had fallen into place. With this contribution Summers proves that his remarkable Strange New Worlds story, "Isolation Ward 4", was no fluke."
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"Perhaps the best story of the lot is Kevin Summers' "Ha'mara", which takes us all the way back to Sisko's first journey to the Bajor that would become his home over the course of the television series. Notable for giving us our first real look at a lot of introductions that the television pilot left out, it weaves together broad political themes with the very personal struggles of Ben and Jake Sisko. DEEP SPACE NINE was always remarkable for its deft handling of the big and small pictures, but maybe there's never been quite as poignant a moment in any part of the DEEP SPACE NINE legacy--televised or literary--as Summers gives us here. Without giving too much away, I'll just say that in the midst of exploring exactly why the Bajorans were so distrustful of the new Federation presence, Summers takes the time to give us a portrait of the exact moment Jake Sisko became a writer. So simply moving was this scene that I can still remember it now, some two years after having read it. If there had been nothing else in this book but that one moment, I would have felt my purchase price fully justified. Happily, there's so very much more in this rich collection, which leaves no major character without a truly signature moment."
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- "Ha'mara by Kevin G. Summers - Set a few days after the pilot episode "Emissary," Benjamin Sisko takes Kira, Jake, Julian Bashir, and Kai Opaka to Bajor to explore the remains of one of Bajor's long-lost libraries. When an explosion traps Sisko and Kira, they must examine their hidden uncertainties as to whether or not Sisko is the prophesied Emissary. This allegory reveals how Sisko continues to come to terms with his identity and destiny."
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" by J. Noah Kim?