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Spy, tailor, gardener. At last, Elim Garak is home, and free. His parents are dead and his world and home lie in ruins. What's a lizard to do? "A Stitch in Time" is unique in Trek fiction in that it is a first-person semi-epistolary novel ostensibly written by the Cardassian spy, tailor, and gardener Elim Garak to his friend and conversational partner Julian Bashir from within the ruins and reconstruction of a defeated Cardassia in the wake of the Dominion War, after the end of the series' run. The book's author is the actor who portrayed Garak, Andew J. Robinson. [more inside]
posted by mwhybark on Feb 25, 2018 - 9 comments

(Series Finale - Part 9 of 9) "To the best crew any captain ever had. This may be the last time we're all together... but no matter what the future holds, no matter how far we travel a part of us... a very important part--will always remain here... on Deep Space Nine." -- Benjamin Lafayette Sisko. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Dec 26, 2016 - 44 comments

(Series Finale - Part 8 of 9) It's nearly the tail end of the war. The Dominion sniffs out rebel bases, yet Damar continues to hound them; Sisko meets a new breed of Defiant; Zek arrives to fetch a new Nagus; and the Bashir/Ezri relationship still gets criticism from Woof Worf. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Dec 22, 2016 - 8 comments

(Series Finale - Part 6 of 9) It is a period of civil war. Rebel Cardassians, striking from a hidden base, will attempt to win their first victory against the evil Dominion. During the battle, Cardassian spies hope to steal the Dominion's ultimate weapon, the BREEN ENERGY DAMPENER, an advanced energy projectile with enough power to disable an entire starship. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Dec 15, 2016 - 8 comments

...it pours... plot twists. The Klingons hold the key to victory over the Dominion, and a canny and judicious leader could use that to hold them at bay until the entire Alliance was ready to join them; unfortunately, the Empire has Gowron. Kira changes her clothes and Garak makes a call. Dukat finds out that when the Pah-wraiths say "for the Kai's eyes only", they mean it. And the only cure for someone's fever (not the sexy kind) isn't more cowbell, and Bashir and O'Brien have to go to the last people (ostensibly) on their side who they want to see to get it. (Series Finale - Part 5 of 9) [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Dec 12, 2016 - 15 comments

There's talk on the street; it sounds so familiar/Great expectations, everybody's watching you/People you meet, they all seem to know you/Even your old friends treat you like you're something new/Ezri come lately, the new kid in town/Everybody loves you, so don't let them down... [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 10, 2016 - 10 comments

When you dance with the devil in the pale moonlight... the devil always leads. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 5, 2016 - 32 comments

OK, you know how, when you think you've found the right person, you just can't get enough of them? And you totally lose track of time in their arms? And all your friends are like, hey, where have you been, and you try to tell them that this is the one, man, and they just don't get it? And then you realize that one of them is going to get executed because you didn't do your part to resist the invading aliens? OK, maybe not so much the last part, but that's Odo's deal. Also, Sisko & Co. prepare to retake the station. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jul 18, 2016 - 7 comments

In the first episode of the six-part "Station Occupation" arc, Jake learns the limits of freedom of the press under the Dominion, Dukat creeps on Kira (big shock), Odo balances being a god and a cop, Quark looks on the bright side of life, and the exiled Federation crew (plus Garak) execute a plan that's so crazy, it's gotta work--or does it? Plus, special bonus July 4th surprise! [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jul 4, 2016 - 6 comments

A salvage operation on an abandoned, booby-trapped Cardassian space station? One of the most dangerous agents of the Obsidian Order in your party? What could possibly go wrong? [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jun 23, 2016 - 3 comments

Garak and Worf investigate a message which suggests that Cardassian spymaster Enabran Tain is still alive. Upon their arrival, not only do they find Tain, but also General Martok... and someone they did not expect. [more inside]
posted by Slothrop on May 18, 2016 - 12 comments

DS9 officers (and one tailor) experience a nightmare on Odo Street (hat tip to Levar Burton). [more inside]
posted by Slothrop on Apr 27, 2016 - 8 comments

Odo spills butterscotch pudding everywhere. Garak suggests housewarming presents for the Founders' new home planet. [more inside]
posted by Slothrop on Mar 30, 2016 - 12 comments

In which Benjamin Sisko discovers his inner Inspector Javert. Lord let me find him, that I may see him safe behind bars. I will never rest, 'til then! This I swear! This I swear by the stars! Meanwhile, in Garak’s world, it’s lizard time. [more inside]
posted by Slothrop on Mar 16, 2016 - 9 comments

Once more, with Klingon! Through the looking glass we go again, as Professor Jennifer Sisko uses Jake to lure Captain Sisko to the "mirror universe" to help the rebels build another starship Defiant. [more inside]
posted by Slothrop on Mar 10, 2016 - 11 comments

A transporter accident replaces the characters in Bashir's secret agent holosuite program with the physical forms of the station's senior staff. [more inside]
posted by Slothrop on Feb 3, 2016 - 14 comments

In which we learn much more about Garak. [more inside]
posted by Solomon on Sep 13, 2015 - 34 comments

Some Cardassians arrive on the station and Quark catches up with an old friend.
posted by Solomon on Aug 30, 2015 - 23 comments

Garak investigates the identity of a Cardassian boy abandoned on Bajor. [more inside]
posted by zarq on Jul 15, 2015 - 22 comments