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Zero Sum Game
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| Zero Sum Game | |
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| Attribution | |
| Series: | Star Trek |
| Miniseries: | Typhon Pact |
| Author(s): | David Mack |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher: | Pocket Books |
| Published: | paperback - November 2010 |
| Pages: | 352 |
| ISBN: | ISBN 1439160791 |
| Chronology | |
| Date: | April/August 2382 |
Contents |
Description
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- A spy for the Typhon Pact—a new political rival of the Federation—steals the plans for Starfleet's newest technological advance: the slipstream drive. To stop the Typhon Pact from unlocking the drive's secrets, Starfleet Intelligence recruits a pair of genetically enhanced agents: Doctor Julian Bashir, of station Deep Space 9, and Sarina Douglas, a woman whose talents Bashir helped bring to fruition, and whom Bashir thinks of as his long-lost true love.
- Bashir and Douglas are sent to infiltrate the mysterious species known as the Breen, find the hidden slipstream project, and destroy it. Meanwhile, light-years away, Captain Ezri Dax and her crew on the USS Aventine play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a Typhon Pact fleet that stands between them and the safe retrieval of Bashir and Douglas from hostile territory.
SummaryEdit
A Federation shipbuilding facility on Utopia Planitia is destroyed and the plans for the slipstream drive are stolen. The Typhon Pact appear to be responsible and President Bacco gives permission for a covert operation to combat the threat.
On Deep Space 9, Julian Bashir is contacted by Starfleet Intelligence, who want his help to infiltrate the Breen shipyard where a prototype slipstream starship is being constructed and destroy both the prototype and the research. Bashir is to be partnered with his old flame Sarina Douglas. Their former associates, the "Jack Pack", have come up with a startling realisation: the Breen are not a species but several different races whose helmets conceal their true species even from each other.
The Aventine transports Bashir and Sarina to the Breen border, where they pose as survivors from a destroyed ship. The fact their lifesigns are shielded is almost immediately detected by a surveillance operative, Nar, but she turns out to be a member of a dissident group who disagree with their society's anonymity. Although shocked to learn they are Humans, she provides them with new identities and shelter. While with the dissidents, Bashir and Sarina become lovers.
Nar's actions are exposed and, under interrogation, she is forced to betray the dissident enclave. Bashir and Sarina escape, however, and manage to track down the factory where the parts for the slipstream prototype are being constructed. Bashir manages to hitch a ride on the ship taking the parts to the construction facility, located inside an asteroid belt, while Sarina is captured and tortured but manages to escape and steal a ship.
Bashir sets the facility's reactor to overload (and corrupts the project commander, Thot Keer backups of his research) and signals the Aventine for pick-up. Sarina also detects the signal and heads to the rendezvous. The Aventine manages to disperse a border blockade by convincing them the Klingons are attacking nearby worlds and prevents the prototype ship from leaving the facility, so it is destroyed in the explosion. Bashir and Sarina are successfully retrieved.
Back on Deep Space 9, Sarina tells Bashir she will stay with him wherever he chooses to go. Unknown to him, however, Sarina is actually working for Section 31, who plan to use the relationship to place him under their control.
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ReferencesEdit
CharactersEdit
- Leonard James Akaar • Nanietta Bacco • Julian Bashir • Bera chim Gleer • Sam Bowers • Brex • Ezri Dax • Sarina Douglas • Aldo Erdona • Ezgog • Gren • Evan Granger • Kellerasana zh'Faila • Fyyl • Gruhn Helkara • Jack • Jath • Jex • K'mtok • Keer • L'Haan • Lauren • Lonnoc Kedair • Mikaela Leishman • Marius • Oliana Mirren • Min • Naaz • Nar/Deshinar Tibbonel • Jang Si Naran • Alynna Nechayev • Patrick • Esperanza Piñiero • Quark • Ro Laren • Neldock • Raisa Shostakova • Rujat Suwadi • T'Latrek • Simon Tarses • Taryl • Prynn Tenmei • Tezrene • Tharp • Tomorok • Valnor • Elias Vaughn • Vixia
- Referenced only
- Lari Beltane • Cole • Leonard Da Vinci • Cort Enaren • Darwyn Friel • Elim Garak • Edward Jellico • Kaz-ren • Kira Nerys • Krim Aldos • Leeta • Marjat • Miles O'Brien • Odo • Melora Pazlar • Benjamin Sisko • Luther Sloan • Taran'atar
LocationsEdit
- Alrakis system • B'hava'el system (Bajor-B'hava'el, Deep Space 9, Quark's) • Earth (Palais de la Concorde (Roth Dining Room, Ra-ghoratreii Room) • Salavat (Rasiuk, Utyrak) • Starfleet Command • Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards
- Referenced only
- Andor • Bajor • Deep Space 3 • Draconis sector • Gamma Quadrant • Ravanar • Resinoor Prime • Salavat (Tanhevit) • Sindorin • Starbase 514 • Tellar
Starships and vehiclesEdit
- USS Aventine (Vesta-class) • Breen interceptor • Breen escape pod • USS Defiant (Defiant-class) • IRW Dekkona (Mogai-class) • Guernik (Breen cruiser) • Interceptor Ten • IRW Kytonis (Mogai-class) • Marjat (Breen quantum slipstream prototype) • Negh'var-class • Qang-class • unnamed Orion corsair • USS Sparrow • IRW Terrinex (Mogai-class)
- Referenced only
- Sitkoskir • SS Tullahoma
Races and culturesEdit
- Andorian • Bajoran • Breen (Amoniri, Fenrisal, Paclu, Silwaan) • Brikar • Bolian • Dessev • Ferengi • Gorn • Human • Klingon • Rigellian • Romulan • Takaran • Tellarite • Thallonian • Tholian • Trill • Zakdorn • Vulcan
States and organizationsEdit
- Breen Confederacy (Breen Intelligence Directorate, Breen Militia, Confederate Congress, Confederate Information Bureau, Nezca Squadron • Special Research Division, [[Ulco Squadron) • Gorn Hegemony • Holy Order of the Kinshaya • Klingon Empire • Romulan Star Empire • Tholian Assembly • Typhon Pact • Tzenkethi Coalition • United Federation of Planets (Federation Council, Federation Security Agency, Section 31, Starfleet, Starfleet Intelligence) • United Rigel Colonies
- Referenced only
- Corgal Institute • Daystrom Institute • Dominion • Vulcan Science Academy
Other referencesEdit
- Chot • chroniton integrator • Dominion War • Domo of the Breen Confederacy • energy dampening weapon • Federation President • genetic resequencing • Kukalaka • Malbec • neural truncheon • optolythic data rod • ozuk • pinotage • raktajino • sakto • Starfleet Operational Security Act • thot • The Twilight Kingdoms • Vitruvian Man
AppendicesEdit
BackgroundEdit
- Zero Sum Game marks the first appearance of Deep Space 9 in stories set after Star Trek Nemesis.
Related storiesEdit
| Star Trek: Typhon Pact |
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| Zero Sum Game • Seize the Fire • Rough Beasts of Empire • Paths of Disharmony • The Struggle Within • Plagues of Night • Raise the Dawn • Brinkmanship |
| Stories featuring the USS Aventine |
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| Destiny (Gods of Night • Mere Mortals • Lost Souls) • A Singular Destiny • Zero Sum Game |
| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine relaunch publications and stories | |
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| Novels | A Stitch in Time • Avatar • Abyss • Demons of Air and Darkness • Twilight • This Gray Spirit • Cathedral • Lesser Evil • Rising Son • The Left Hand of Destiny • Unity • "Cardassia: The Lotus Flower" • "Andor: Paradigm" • "Trill: Unjoined" • "Bajor: Fragments and Omens" • "Ferenginar: Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed" • "The Dominion: Olympus Descending" • Warpath • Fearful Symmetry • The Soul Key • The Never-Ending Sacrifice |
| Miniseries and anthologies | The Lives of Dax • Divided We Fall • Mission Gamma • Worlds of Deep Space Nine (Volume One, Two & Three) |
| Short stories and novellas | "Horn and Ivory" • "The Officers' Club" |
| Comics | N-Vector • "Crossfire" • "No Quarter" • "All Fall Down" • "United We Stand" |
| Omnibuses | Twist of Faith • These Haunted Seas |
External linksEdit
- Zero Sum Game article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
