Chiaroscuro

"Chiaroscuro" is a 2003 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine short story by Geoffrey Thorne. It was published in the Prophecy and Change anthology.

Summary[]

Ezri helps the crew of a Starfleet ship negotiate the release of several hostages, although the true mission is linked to one Jadzia Dax participated in eight years earlier.

References[]

Characters[]

Casey • Ezri Dax • Jadzia Dax • Lela Dax • Edmunds • Etoli • Gabrielli • Axael Krinn • Y'Lira Medoxa • Oktesh • Quark • Shavras • Sovak • Benjamin Sisko

Referenced only: Dante Alighieri • Neema Cyl • Dax (symbiont) • Audrid Dax • Curzon Dax • Emony Dax • Joran Dax • Tobin Dax • Torias Dax

Locations[]

Deep Space 9 • Fassig Drift • Ibarri • Pandora facility • Quark's • Wardroom

Referenced only: Earth • Trill

Starships[]

USS Anansi

Races and cultures[]

Andorian • Ferengi • Human • Protean • Selenean • Trill

Visions only: Cardassian • Deltan • Kytharri • Romulan • Vulcan

Referenced only: Klingon • Syroccan

States and organizations[]

Starfleet • United Federation of Planets

Referenced only: Dominion • Trill Symbiosis Commission

Other references[]

2367 • archaeology • asteroid • asteroid belt • blast door • brain • catalyst • codex • comet • cryptography • Dax Infinitum • Distant Past • The Divine Comedy • Dominion War • entropy • environmental suit • finger trap • Heaven • Hell • holodeck • Pandora's Box • satellite defense array • "Skipper" • targ • thermium

Appendices[]

Background[]

This story features the first appearance of a Selenean character; two years later Geoffrey Thorne introduced Y'Lira Modan as a character in Star Trek: Titan.
In art, "Chiaroscuro^WP" is a defining contrast between light and dark.

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")
Star Trek: Explorer	"A Night In" • "By Special Request" • "The Mission" • "Things Can Only Get Better" • "Frontier Medicine" • "The Victim" • "You Can't Buy Fate" • "Lost and Founder" • "A Year to the Day I Saw Myself Die" • "Academy Acquisition" • "The Snake and the Worm" • "The Needs of the Many"
Misc. short stories	"The Badlands, Part IV" • "The Second Artifact" • "Mirror Eyes" • "Requital" • "The Officers' Club" • "A Terrible Beauty"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"Horn and Ivory" • "Saturn's Children" • "Seeds of Dissent" • "A Gutted World"

Timeline[]

published order
Previous story: Foundlings	Prophecy and Change	Next story: Face Value
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Seven of Nine	Pocket	Next Adventure: Take Me Out to the Holosuite