A Night In

A Night In
Attribution
Series:	Deep Space Nine
Author(s):	Una McCormack
Illustrator(s):	Louie De Martinis
Publication information
Printed:	10 November 2021, in Star Trek: Explorer digital supplement #1
Pages:	6
Chronology
Date:	2373

"A Night In" was the first digital exclusive short story published in Star Trek: Explorer. This Deep Space Nine story was written by Una McCormack, illustrated by Louie De Martinis, edited by Jonathan Wilkins, and published on 10 November 2021.

Description

Garak meets a mystery man while in the Brig.

References

Characters

Elim Garak • Odo • Q • Chayo Trusi • unnamed Deep Space 9 personnel

Referenced only

Julian Bashir • Female Changeling • Rom • Enabran Tain • Worf • Tora Ziyal

Starships and vehicles

freighter • skimmer • tram

Locations

Cardassia Prime (East Torr) • Deep Space 9 (brig)

Races and cultures

Cardassian • Changeling • Ferengi • Nausicaan • Q (species)

Referenced only

Bajoran • Founders • Human • Romulan

States and organizations

Cardassian Central Command • Federation • Starfleet Intelligence

Science and classification

biomimetic gel • data rod • dermal regenerator • force field • PADD • replicator

Ranks and titles

commander • constable • security officer • spy • tailor

Other references

bed • butter • clothing • coffee • dabo • day • exile • fuel • gelast • genocide • hotel • hour • ithian • kotra • logic • minute • month • nano-second • perfume • raktajino • security • sleep • station • sugar • sun • time • time line • toast • universe • war

Appendices

Related media

• DS9 episode: "Broken Link" – Elim Garak's imprisonment began in this story. The Female Changeling's statement about Cardassia from this episode, "They're dead. You're dead, Cardassia is dead. Your people were doomed the moment they attacked us," was quoted in the story.
• DS9 episode & novelization: What You Leave Behind – Q showed Garak a glimpse of ruined Cardassia as seen at the end of the Dominion War in 2375.

Background

• This story took place four months after DS9 episode: "Broken Link" during the fourth of Garak's six-month confinement, said in the story to be in the fifth year of his Cardassian exile.

Images

Elim Garak and Q.

Connections

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine collected short stories, novellas and short novels
The Lives of Dax	"Second star to the right..." • "First Steps" • "Dead Man's Hand" • "Old Souls" • "Sins of the Mother" • "Infinity" • "Allegro Ouroboros in D Minor" • "The Music Between the Notes" • "Reflections" • "... and straight on 'til morning"
Prophecy and Change	"Revisited" • "Ha'mara" • "The Orb of Opportunity" • "Broken Oaths" • "... Loved I Not Honor More" • "Three Sides to Every Story" • "The Devil You Know" • "Foundlings" • "Chiaroscuro" • "Face Value" • "The Calling"
Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Volume One ("Cardassia: The Lotus Flower" • "Andor: Paradigm") • Volume Two ("Trill: Unjoined" • "Bajor: Fragments and Omens") • Volume Three ("Ferenginar: Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed" • "The Dominion: Olympus Descending")
Strange New Worlds	I ("Life's Lessons" • "Where I Fell Before My Enemy") • II ("Research" • "Change of Heart") • III ("Ninety-three Hours" • "Dorian's Diary" • "The Bottom Line" • "The Best Defense..." • "An Errant Breeze") • IV ("Captain Proton and the Orb of Bajor" • "Isolation Ward 4") • V ("Fear, Itself") • VI ("Fabrications" • "Urgent Matter" • "Best Tools Available") • VII ("Infinite Bureaucracy" • "Barclay Program Nine") • 8 ("Trek" • "Gumbo" • "Promises Made" • "Always a Price") • 9 ("Shadowed Allies" • "Living on the Edge of Existence" • "The Last Tree on Ferenginar: A Ferengi Fable From the Future" • "The Tribbles' Pagh") • 10 ("So a Horse Walks into a Bar..." • "Signal to Noise") • 2016 ("The Façade of Fate" • "The Manhunt Pool" • "The Dreamer and the Dream")
Misc. short stories	"The Badlands, Part IV" • "The Second Artifact" • "Mirror Eyes" • "Requital" • "The Officers' Club" • "A Terrible Beauty" • "A Night In"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"Horn and Ivory" • "Saturn's Children" • "Seeds of Dissent" • "A Gutted World"

Timeline

Published Order
Previous story: Q and False	Short stories (Star Trek: Explorer)	Next story: The Offer
Previous story: The Dreamer and the Dream Strange New Worlds 2016	DS9 short stories	Next story: latest story
Previous story: The Autobiography of Mr. Spock	Stories by: Una McCormack	Next story: Second Self