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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

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