Tales of the Dominion War

Introduction

This book owes its existence to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for two reasons.

The obvious reason is that the Dominion War was chronicled on the last two seasons of DS9. That show introduced the Dominion, the Jem'Hadar, the Vorta, and the Founders, and many of the stories you are about to read relate to episodes of DS9, either by expanding on references in them or chronicling events that happened simultaneously with them.

But the second reason is far more fundamental than that: when DS9 debuted in 1993, it changed the face of Star Trek forever.

Until DS9 came along, Star Trek was pretty much defined by the words spoken at the beginning of one of the most famous show-opening voiceovers in television history: "These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise." It could be Kirk's Enterprise or Picard's Enterprise (or, if you wanted to get radical, possibly Pike's Enterprise, April's Enterprise, or Garrett's Enterprise), but for twenty-seven years, it was the Enterprise that was ... read full excerpt from Star Trek: Tales of the Dominion War ebook