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Plagues of Night is a Star Trek: Typhon Pact novel – the first novel in a duology – written by David R. George III. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in May 2012.
Summary[]
- From the book jacket
- In the wake of the final Borg invasion, which destroyed entire worlds, cost the lives of sixty-three billion people, and struck a crippling blow to Starfleet, six nations adversarial to the United Federation of Planets – the Romulan Star Empire, the Breen Confederacy, the Tholian Assembly, the Gorn Hegemony, the Tzenkethi Coalition, and the Holy Order of the Kinshaya – joined ranks to form the Typhon Pact.
- For almost three years, the Federation and the Klingon Empire, allied under the Khitomer Accords, have contended with the nascent coalition on a predominantly cold-war footing. But as Starfleet rebuilds itself, factions within the Typhon Pact grow restive, concerned about their own inability to develop a quantum slipstream drive to match that of the Federation. Will leaders such as UFP President Bacco and RSE Praetor Kamemor bring about a lasting peace across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, or will the cold war between the two alliances deepen, and perhaps even lead to an all-out shooting war?
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Background information[]
- The novel was announced by George on 9 March 2011, [1] with the details of the series revealed at the Shore Leave Convention on 10 July 2011, and the working titles on 15 July 2011. [2]
- Official Pocket documentation – including the author's contract and sales catalog entries – carried a placeholder title of At the Prophet's Door, and listed it as a Pocket TNG novel, later under the umbrella title Chain of Destiny; however, George confirmed that these were internal designations for the purpose of labeling, and not indicative of the final novel. [3] [4]
- A preliminary cover was released in December 2011 and featured Deep Space 9, the USS Defiant, a Danube-class runabout, and a Chaffee-type shuttlecraft entering the Bajoran wormhole. The author confirmed that the Galaxy-class starship is the USS Robinson (NCC-71842), which Benjamin Sisko assumed command of in Rough Beasts of Empire. [5]
- This book takes place after Zero Sum Game and Paths of Disharmony. It also takes place during and after Indistinguishable from Magic.
- Cover art by Doug Drexler.
Characters[]
- Benjamin Sisko
- Jean-Luc Picard
- Kira Nerys
- Ro Laren
- Spock
- Worf
- Julian Bashir
- Quark
- Kasidy Yates
- Martok
- Rom
- Sela
- Tomalak
- Laas
- Sarina Douglas
- Alynna Nechayev
- Morn
- Broik
- Grimp
- Frool
- D'Tan
- Taurik
- Brathaw
- Pardshay
- Aluura
References[]
Andorian; autarch; Bajoran; Breen; Deep Space 9; Dominion War; Federation President; Ferengi; Grand Nagus; Jem'Hadar; ketracel-white; Romulan; Tholian; Tzenkethi
External link[]
- Plagues of Night at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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