Cardassia: The Lotus Flower

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NOVEL
Cardassia: The Lotus Flower
Attribution
Series:	Deep Space Nine
Miniseries:	Worlds of Deep Space Nine
Author(s):	Una McCormack
Publication information
Printed:	Worlds of Deep Space Nine: Volume One
Pages:	1-154
Chronology
Date:	December 2376

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Summary 3 Characters 4 References 4.1 Locations 4.2 Species 4.3 Starships 4.4 States, Groups and Organizations 4.5 Other 5 Information 6 Connections

[edit] Introduction

CARDASSIA: The last world ravaged by the Dominion War is also the last on which Miles O'Brien ever imagined building a life. As he joins in the reconstruction of Cardassia's infrastructure, his wife Keiko spearheads the planet's difficult agricultural renewal. But Cardassia's struggle to remake itself -- from the fledgling democracy backed by Elim Garak to the people's rediscovery of their own spiritual past -- is not without opposition, as the outside efforts to help rebuild its civilization come under attack by those who reject any alien influence.

[edit] Summary

Miles and Keiko O'Brien are on Cardassia, assisting with a project at Andak to make a barren area fertile. However, although they have the support of Alon Ghemor, many members of the funding committee prefer a similar project at Sentek which has military applications so O'Brien travels to the capital to argue their case.

In his absence, Vedek Yevir visits the project. However, in the middle of his speech to the crowd, Nyra, the teenage daughter of one of the Cardassian scientists, produces a bomb and threatens to detonate it if the government is not disbanded, the Oralian Way banned and all aliens expelled.

O'Brien and Macet head back to Andak to try and resolve the situation. Yevir manages to win Nyra's trust, telling her of how Bajor survived its own occupation, and stops her detonating the bomb when Macet's troops storm the building.

Garak realises that Nyra has been used as a pawn by the True Way and contacts Legate Kervan, a member of the group who he "broke" while working with the Obsidian Order. Kervan tells him another leading member is Entor, an opponent of the Andak Project, and Garak and Ghemor are able to blackmail him into voting with them. Garak also learns that Ghemor's assistant Jartek manufactured the whole incident, feeding Kervan and Entor information in order to precipitate a crisis and allow Ghemor to be hailed as a hero for resolving it, and warns him never to try anything without telling him again.

[edit] Characters

• Elim Garak
• Miles O'Brien
• Keiko O'Brien
• Molly O'Brien
• Kirayoshi O'Brien
• Yevir Linjarin
• Alon Ghemor
• Akellen Macet
• Feric Lakhat
• Tela Maleren
• Nyra Maleren
• Mev Jartek
• Korven
• Jack Emmett
• Merak Entor
• Naithe
• Remar
• Charles Drury
• Teris Juze
• Lamerat Anjen
• Neret

Referenced only 

Julian Bashir | Corat Damar | Skrain Dukat | Ekosha | Kira Nerys | Shoggoth | Benjamin Sisko | Enabran Tain | Tarinas | Weyoun

[edit] References

[edit] Locations

• Cardassia
  • Andak
  • Cardassia City
    • Victory Square

Referenced only 

Bajor | Deep Space 9 | Earth | Empok Nor | Lakarian City | Sarpedion V | Setekh

[edit] Species

• Bajoran
• Bolian
• Cardassian
• Human

Referenced only 

Jem'Hadar | Prophets

[edit] Starships

[edit] States, Groups and Organizations

• Cardassian Union
  • Andak Project
  • Cardassian Guard
  • Directorate
  • Oralian Way
  • Technological Appropriations Committee
  • True Way
• Interstellar Agricultural Aid Commission
• United Federation of Planets
  • Federation News Service
  • Starfleet
  • Starfleet Corps of Engineers

Referenced only 

Cardassian Science Academy | Cultural Conservation Committee | Cultural Restoration and Reconstruction Commission | Obsidian Order | DS9 school | Twelfth Order

[edit] Other

Aramanth | Attainder | Battle of Cardassia | Canka nut | Castellan of the Cardassian Union | Dominion War | Drokna | Enigma tale | Kanar | Kotra | Meya | Pagh | Red leaf tea | Relief of Rakantha | Tzeka fever

[edit] Information

• This is the first of two stories in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Volume One. The second story contained in this book is Andor: Paradigm

[edit] Connections

• Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume 1 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

published order
Previous novel: Unity	DS9 novels (Post-finale)	Next novel: Andor: Paradigm
Previous story: Face Value	Stories by: Una McCormack	Next story: Hollow Men
chronological order
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