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Quark's greed brings Deep Space Nine under attack!
Trial by Error is a Pocket DS9 novel – #21 in the numbered series – written by Mark Garland. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in November 1997.
Summary[]
- From the book jacket
- After Quark brokers a too-good-to-be-true trade for gold-pressed latinum, Deep Space 9 is under fire from at least three different alien races, each accusing the others of theft, piracy, and worse. Then angry Klingons get involved, and so do the Ferengi – placing the entire station in the middle of a shooting war that might consume all of them.
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Memorable quotes[]
- "You know, Jake, it sounds as if you think that women are a lot harder to handle than runabouts". - Sisko
Background information[]
- The novel is set after the events of "Bar Association". Jake mentions the events of "Explorers".
- The author commented that the novel was: "was actually two different ideas that one day came rushing together quite handily when I considered doing a Deep Space Nine story. It's really a character story, a very fastpaced one. And the characters on DS9 were terrific". (Voyages of Imagination, p. 127)
- This novel coins the term trellium many years before Star Trek: Enterprise did.
Characters[]
- Canon characters listed below are linked to the main article about them. Non-canon characters are not linked, but those that recurred, appearing or being mentioned in more than one story, are defined further in Pocket DS9 characters.
Regular and recurring characters[]
- Benjamin Sisko
- Starfleet captain, the CO of Deep Space 9.
- Kira Nerys
- Odo
- Julian Bashir
- Jadzia Dax
- Quark
- Worf
- Jake Sisko
- Miles O'Brien
- Elim Garak
- Rom
External link[]
- Trial by Error at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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