Dead Man's Hand

   

Tobin Dax and Skon of Vulcan have to save a human ship and the prototype transporter from Romulans.

ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

Tobin Dax • Burgwin • Heyes • Jarman • Mira Laasa • Katie Lo • Monsees • Skon • Williams • unnamed Romulans

Referenced only 

Lela Dax • Wild Bill Hickok • Solkar

Starships and vehiclesEdit

escape pod • Heisenberg

LocationsEdit

Alpha Centauri • Earth • Mars • Trill • Vulcan

Races and culturesEdit

Human/Terran • Martian • Romulan • Trill • Vulcan

States and organizationsEdit

Cochrane Institute of Alpha Centauri • Symbiosis Evaluation Board • Symbiosis Institute

Other referencesEdit

99 Great Card Tricks You Can Learn in Your Spare Time • airlock • antimatter • artificial gravity • bomb • bridge • cargo hold • chronometer • computer core • "Dead Man's Hand" • deck • deflector • disruptor • Earth-Romulan War • engineering • EVA suit • gamma shift • hull • intermix chamber • Jefferies tube • padd • pattern buffer • playing card • poker • rebreather • running light • scanner • solar wind • thruster • transporter • warp core • warp drive • warp nacelle

AppendicesEdit

Background InformationEdit

• Jeffrey Lang commented "We all often talk about how the Trek universe is such a positive view of the future, but we also all know that this imagined future has its roots in the very real present. How did this world - our world - become that world? It didn't all start out being bright and shiny. There had to be some grungy, unpleasant moments in there where ideas and attitudes were tested and tempered". (Star Trek: Communicator, issue #126, p. 60)
• Internal references set this story during the Earth-Romulan War. Star Trek: Enterprise (and in particular the episode "Daedalus") contradict this timeframe. The Enterprise Romulan War novels feature both Tobin Dax and Skon based on "Dead Man's Hand", ignoring the contradiction.

External linkEdit

• Dead Man's Hand article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

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