NOVEL
Catalyst of Sorrows
Attribution
Series:	The Lost Era, No. 6
Author(s):	Margaret Wander Bonanno
Publication information
Published:	Paperback - February 2004
Pages:	334
ISBN:	ISBN 0743464079
Chronology
Date:	2360

Contents 1 Introduction (blurb) 2 Summary 3 Characters 3.1 Main 3.2 Other 3.3 Referenced only 4 References 4.1 Starships and vehicles 4.2 Locations 4.3 Races and cultures 4.4 States and organizations 4.5 Other 5 Information 6 Connections

Introduction (blurb)Edit

She was trained to be a killing machine. Abandoned as a child, without home or family, past or future, Zetha survived only by her own cunning in the back alleys of Romulus before being taken by the Tal Shiar and remade into one of its deadliest weapons. But Zetha is about to undertake a mission unlike any in her experience.

The mysterious return of a virulent scourge thought to be long extinct threatens devastation on a scale almost too horrific to contemplate. Zetha's only hope of stopping it is across the Neutral Zone -- among the enemies of Romulus. Now Admiral Uhura, centenarian chief of Starfleet Intelligence, must decide what to do with the knowledge Zetha has risked her life to bring to her. In order to stop the spread of the disease that is already ravaging the Romulan Empire, Uhura must assign a hand-picked team of Starfleet officers to covertly trace the contagion to its source -- and do whatever is necessary to contain it.

But the world awaiting Lieutenant Benjamin Sisko, Lieutenant Tuvok, Dr. Selar, and Zetha herself is a hot zone of secrets, deceptions, and subtle machinations revealing an imminent holocaust beyond anything the away team expected, or what they could hope to combat.

SummaryEdit

A lethal Romulan-trained agent turns against her paymasters in order to prevent them from unleashing a terrifying biological holocaust. Admiral Uhura of Starfleet Intelligence sends the young Romulan to investigate with a team of special operatives: Dr. Beverly Crusher (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a young Lieutenant Benjamin Sisko (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Vulcans, Lieutenant Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager) and Dr. Selar (Star Trek: New Frontier).

CharactersEdit

MainEdit

Beverly Crusher • Leonard McCoy • Selar • Benjamin Sisko • Tuvok • Nyota Uhura • Zetha

OtherEdit

Kimara Cretak • Curzon Dax • Scott Heisenberg • Alidar Jarok • Koval • James Leyton • Pardek • Jake Sisko • Jennifer Sisko • Luther Sloan • Tal • Thamnos/Cinchona • Papavar Thamnos

Referenced onlyEdit

Sarek • Carl Sagan • Solok • Joseph Sisko • Taymor • Jekri Kaleh

ReferencesEdit

Starships and vehiclesEdit

Albatross • USS Okinawa Referenced only: USS Enterprise • IKS K'Tarra

LocationsEdit

• Federation space: Earth • San Francisco • Starfleet Headquarters
• Romulan space: Romulus • N'emoth District
• Romulan Neutral Zone/Outmarches:

Races and culturesEdit

Human • Rigelian • Romulan • Trill • Vulcan

States and organizationsEdit

Altair Information Syndicate • Listeners • Romulan Star Empire • Bureau of Announcements • Starfleet • Starfleet Academy • Starfleet Intelligence • Tal Shiar • United Federation of Planets • First Families of Rigel

OtherEdit

Cloaking device • Gnawing • Holotransmitter • Khitomer Conferences • Subaltern • Tholian silk • Vulcanoid

InformationEdit

• A reference is made to the use of a holographic doctor for high risk situations by Leonard McCoy who heard rumors of such a project which was secretly in production and would take a decade for a prototype to be made which would be the EMH.

ConnectionsEdit

• Catalyst of Sorrows article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

published order
Previous novel: Deny Thy Father	TLE novels	Next novel: The Buried Age
Previous story: Probe	Stories by: Margaret Wander Bonanno	Next story: Burning Dreams
chronological order
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