Star Trek Deep Space Nine Millennium
Chapter 1
On this day, like a beast with talons extended to claw through space itself, the Station stalked Bajor one final time.
Viewed from high above, from orbit, the dark, curved docking arms angled sharply downward, as if gouging the planet's surface to leave bloodred wounds of flame. And from each blazing gash of destruction, wave after wave of ships lifted from the conquerors' camps and garrisons, on fiery, untempered columns of full fusion exhaust.
As those ships exploded upward through the planet's smoke-filled atmosphere, the sonic booms of their passing were like the echo of the death-screams of the ravished world they left behind. The jewel-like sparkle of the departing ships' thrusters like the glittering tears of that world's lost gods.
On this day, on this world, sixty years of butchery and brutality had at last come to an end.
But on the dark station that was Terok Nor, with viewports that flashed with phaser bursts and shimmered with the fire of its own inner destruction, there was still far worse to come.
On this day, the Day of Withdrawal, the Card ... read full excerpt from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Millennium: Fall Of Terok Nor/War of the Prophets/Inferno ebook
