Publisher's description
Months ago, young Jake Sisko came upon a mysterious prophecy in the ruins of B'hala, one that told of a Son destined to enter the Celestial Temple of the Prophets and return home with a lost Herald. Certain that the ancient text was intended for him, Jake entered the wormhole to bring back his father, Captain Benjamin Sisko -- missing since his final, fateful confrontation with Gul Dukat in the Fire Caves of Bajor. But Jake's quest has failed. Or so he believes.
Flung across the galaxy by a power beyond his understanding, Jake is rescued by a strange ship with an even stranger alien crew. Joining them on a voyage unlike any he has ever experienced, Jake learns that his search for the truth will lead him to find the last thing he ever expected, and to discoveries far beyond his wildest imaginings.
Part of the tenth anniversary celebration of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Summary
References
Characters
- Arislelemakinstess (Aris, Le, Lema, Kin & Stess) • Aslylgof • Brad-ahk'la • Bryn • Coamis • Zin Dezavrim • Elshada • Fajgin • Feg • Pifko Gaber • Allo Glessin • Halada • Itriuma • Itu • Korin • Misja • Opaka Sulan • Atterace Prees • Pri'ak • Raiq • Golin Shel-la • Jake Sisko • Facity Sleedow • Srral • Tadia • Neane Tee • Triv • Tosk • Umi • unnamed Eav'oq • Wex • Weyoun • Yimis • Zlangco
- Referenced only
- Akorem Laan • Bareil Antos • Julian Bashir • Frank Chalmers • Mason Cooley • Ezri Dax • Jadzia Dax • Dezavrim's father • Vic Fontaine • Gaba • Gabek • Gabele • Giani'aga • Hyrcham the Swib • Istani Reyla • Jaro Essa • Jirro • Kesha • Kira Nerys • Li Nalas • Mardah • Morn • Nog • Keiko O'Brien • Miles O'Brien • Odo • Off-Zel • Opaka Fasil • Ptasme • Quark • Rom • Sfeila • Shakaar Edon • Benjamin Sisko • Jennifer Sisko • Joseph Sisko • Rebecca Jae Sisko • Rym Thijmen • Palor Toff • Vash • Vilix'pran • Winn Adami • Kasidy Yates • YimMa • Zek
Locations
- Drang • Ee • Gamma Quadrant • Hw17 • Idran IV • Idran system • The Laughing This • New Bajor • unnamed moons
- Referenced only
- Aarru • Ajilon Prime • Alpha Quadrant • Arshiv • Arshiv Prime • Ascendant homeworld • Bajor • Bajoran wormhole • Beras • B'hala • Buof • Celestial Temple • Deep Space 9 • Earth • Enskith • Enskith VI • Ferenginar • The Fortress • Founders' homeworld • Friagloim homeworld • Ga • Galaxy's edge • Himh homeworld • Merdosa • Omarion Nebula • Orias system • Preth • Quark's • Ri • Romulus • Syll VIII • Teplan system • Terok Nor • Tevlin-De • Tombs of Luw • Tosk homeworld • Vic's lounge • Xlidu Expanse • Yaron
Starships and vehicles
- Ascendant vessel • Even Odds • Even Odds dropship (dropship) • freighter • Jem'Hadar fighter • Tosk starship • transport • Venture (shuttle)
- Referenced only
- Cardassian warship • Danasket • D'deridex-class (warbird) • USS Defiant • escape pod • Glimnis • Keldon-class (cruiser) • land hopper • Merdosian salvage ship • My'lta • Romulan warship • USS Saratoga • science vessel • survey ship • transport shuttle • USS Yangtzee Kiang (runabout)
Races and cultures
- Aarruri • Ascendant • Bajoran • Cardassian • Drang • Eav'oq • Ee natives • Eline-dumayo • Ferengi • Friagloim • Hissidolan • Human • Jeflinic • Jem'Hadar • Karemma • Merdosian • Rentician • Srral's species • Tosk • Trelian • unnamed races and cultures • Vorta • Wadi
- Referenced only
- Argrathi • BiaMertis • Breen • Bwada • Dosi • Gocibi • Himh • Horgin • Iconian • Klingon • Metron • Ool'sp • Organian • Q • Parada • Prophets • Rodulan • Romulan • Swib • T-Rogoran • Twelfthray • unnamed races and cultures • v'Xaji • Yaron
States and organizations
- Dominion • Hunter • Sen Ennis
- Referenced only
- Allies • Chamber of Ministers of the Third Republic of Bajor • Ennis • Federation News Service • The Five Kings • Founders • Group 67 • Nol-Ennis • Obsidian Order • Starfleet • Tal Shiar • United Federation of Planets • Vedek Assembly
Ranks and titles
- agent • appraiser • archaeologist • assistant • athlete • bartender • beggar • captain • chief • chief engineer • consultant • copilot • counselor • creditor • dabo girl • doctor • drink server • Emissary of the Prophets • engineer • engineering tech • equipment dealer • farmer • First Minister of the Third Republic of Bajor • first officer • fortune hunter • gemologist • glinn • Grand Nagus • gul • instructor • journalist • kai • medic • minister • pilot • refugee • reporter • researcher • sage • salvage dealer • servant • smuggler • soldier • spy • technician • terrorist • thief • tour guide • trader • vedek • vendor • writer
Science and technology
- actuality-web room • AD light • adrenaline • air filter • alien • alloy-density illuminator • android • animal • antigrav halo • artificial gravity • arva node • atmosphere • automated medbay • beacon • biology • bird • black hole • blood • bone • brain • canine • cartilage • centimeter • chemical • chemical water • cloaking device • clock • clock patch • clone • codebreaker key • com • com piece • coma • communication board • communication collar • communicator • computer • conduit • control panel • core stick • database • dimension • dimensional-shift subspace deck • directional pickup • directional sensor • disposal system • disruptor • distress beacon • drug • earpiece • Eav'oq vanishing crystal • egg • energy • energy storm • energy weapon • engine • environment suit • evolution • exoskeleton • explosive • fail-safe backup system • feather • feeding belt • fiberpatch storage board • filter • fire • fish • flight control console • folded space • force field • force field generator • fountain • fuel tank • fungus • fur • geology • gravity • hair • handheld scanner • heart • high-intensity optic device • holo • holodeck • holodecoy • hologram • holosuite • hour • humanoid • humidity mesh • Hunter bow • hypo • hypo gun • hypothermia • ice • ice storm • Iconian gateway • industrial incinerator • insomnia • intercom • interspatial gateway • ketracel-white • klick • lifeform • lift tube • light panel • light panel connector • light-year • liquid • long-range sensor • magnetic field • magnetic flash effection • mammalian • manual height adjust • math • matter • medical bioreader • medicine • meter • microbe • mine • minute • mirror • monitor • muscle • non-corporeal lifeform • nose-filter • observation relay • oil • optical board • optical sensory bulb • orbit • oxygen • padd • parasite • parsec • particulate transmitter • phaser rifle • physics • plant • plasma • proximity sensor • psionic wave disruption • pulse survey • rain • reader • recycler • remote • repeater hardware • replicator • reptile • root • satellite • scale • scan patch • screen cube • search key • second • secondary communication array • sedative • seed • sensor • sensor array • sensor line patch • sensor-repellent containment box • sensory probe • shadow-trigger pit trap • shields • shifter • shower • silicon • skull • snow • space • space station • spanner • speaker • star • starship • star system • stat reader • stomach • sublight • subspace • subspace relay • subspace variance • support beam • surgery • system connector • temp station • tendon • Teplan blight • text translator • thermal oil • time • toilet • tongue • translator • translator implant • transmitter • transponder • transponder beacon • transporter • transporter pad • transporter tag • transport scrambler • trifiltered sensor array console • universe • vein • viewscreen • visor scope • vocal cord • wall comm • warp drive • water • weather shield • wormhole
Other references
- access code • accounting • Aclim Age • Ahswidus cup • Akada chair • alcohol • alehouse • algae • alloy • alpha-currant nectar • Alphie • Ancient Bajoran • androgyny • Appliance Worm • archaeology • architecture • armor • art • Ascendant language • ashflake • Avatar of Peace • Axwism • Bajoran earring • Bajoran prophecy • Bajoran religion • ball • baseball • basket • basotile • basted espod • bathing cubicle • bathroom • Battle of the Omarion Nebula • bean • belt • bench • Bienwon'ata lamp • bill • birthday • blanket • bloodwine • bodysuit • book • boot • brain blast • brandy • bread • bridge • bulkhead • camouflage • candied roast-bird • candle holder • carb-protein pack • cargo hold • casino • century • chula • chula hall • citrus • city • civil war • Class M • clay • clothing • club • cockpit • cocktail • coin • collar • communications • conference room • contract • control stand • corridor • crown • crystal • curis rib • currant juice • currency • dabo • dagger • dance • day • demon • dezomin • dirak • directed-channel message • dog • Dominion War • Dominion War Accords • dom-jot • Dosi birth-rite mask • dessert • disposable cup • Drang language • earring • Eav'oq language • Ee shield tower • emergency signal • emotion • empathy • engineering • Ennis-Nol-Ennis language • equipment cart • era stone • Eyisla Age • fabric • Ferengi Rules of Acquisition • ferment-grape • field report • flower • folk art • food • Friagloim language • fruit • gambling • Gamma-speak • garden • gear belt • gem • genocide • Giani'aga box • glass • glove • goblet • god • gold • government • grass • gravel • greenhouse • grem • gruel • half paeg • hevgin • history • homeworld • honey • hors d'oeuvres • hospice • hull • The Hunt • Hunted • ice fishing • immortality • industrial fabricator • irrigation • jacket • jewel • jewelry • journal • juice • katterpod • kava • kejelious • kiosk • klon paeg • knife • lab • landing party • language • latinum • leather • lemon • library • library bank • linen • liquor • lizard • lodging house • mace • magic • maintenance bay • mantra • map • Mardi Gras • meat • meditation • mess hall • metal • metal foil • military • millennia • mining • mini-transport case • monastery • money • monster • month • moon • mountain • museum • mushroom • music • myth • nightmare • Occupation of Bajor • ocean • ochshea • ochshea-hos • Off-Zel vase • orb shadow • orphanage • the Other • outpost • oyster • pagh • painting • paint • parliament • peace treaty • peach • pearl • pet • pillow • planetoid • planet • poem • pottery • Prime Directive • prospect-propensity test • psionics • puppy • quadrant • Quadrant War • quarters • quarteth • The Quest • quinteth • raktajino • Reckoning • religion • res • resin bead • restaurant • rock • salad • Saurian brandy • science • science survey file • sculpture • seafood stew • sector • Seerwagah clay furniture • self destruct • sensor jam • serk • Sh'dama Age • shipyard • shoe • shuttlepad • Siblings • sickbay • smuggling • snail juice • song • souvenir • spice • spinewater • stardate • Starfleet brat • statue • stew • stick • stone • sto • storage locker • subdeck • sugarfruit • suicide • synthehol • tattoo • tavern • tea • technology • temonis • Thas • Three Bay • Tirges dagger • toolkit • toy • T'p urn • transmitting station • transporter room • Treaty of Bajor • True • Tumika Age • Unnameable • uniform • urn • vase • vegetable paste • Veltan sex idol • victory shroud • VihnAKAn scissor pearl • Wa • Wa festival • Wadi lullaby • war • water tube • weapon • weather • week • whistle • whistling rock • wine • wine rack • wint • wood • work permit • xenophobia • Yaron Oracle • Yaron robe • year
Appendices
Background information
- Rising Son introduces the Ascendants, the Ea'voq and the crew of the Even Odds.
- Opaka's given name is revealed to be Sulan in this novel. The name has been used in later Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novels, as well as in the Star Trek: Terok Nor series and in the Prophecy and Change short story "Ha'mara".
- Rising Son is Marco Palmieri's favorite Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel. (Voyages of Imagination)
- This book was named one of the top Star Trek novels in TV Zone #207. Other novels to be included in the top ten list were The Galactic Whirlpool, The Entropy Effect, The Final Reflection, My Enemy, My Ally, Once Burned, The 34th Rule, Ex Machina, A Time to Kill and Crucible: Provenance of Shadows.
- Some information excluded from this book, such as the species names of Dezavrim, Aslylgof, and Brad-ahk'la (as well as her home planet and system) are shown in the novel Sacraments of Fire.
Related Stories
- Rising Son begins just at the end of Avatar, Book Two and ends just prior to the last scene of Mission Gamma: Lesser Evil. The events of the DS9 novel: Demons of Air and Darkness and the TNG novel: Doors Into Chaos (part of the Star Trek: Gateways miniseries) are also mentioned.
External links
- Rising Son article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Trek Nation review
Connections
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous novel: Mission Gamma Lesser Evil |
DS9 novels (Post-Finale) |
Next novel: The Left Hand of Destiny, Book One |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous Adventure: Gumbo |
Next Adventure: Cold Fusion | |
| The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2376. The Pocket Books Timeline places events from this story in eight other timeframes: | ||
| Previous Adventure: Collective |
early May 2376 Chapter 8, Section 2 |
Next Adventure: Doors Into Chaos |
| Previous Adventure: Caveat Emptor |
mid June 2376 Chapter 8, Sections 3-4 |
Next Adventure: Twilight Part Two |
| Previous Adventure: Oaths |
late June 2376 Chapter 8, Section 5 |
Next Adventure: This Gray Spirit |
| Previous Adventure: This Gray Spirit |
early July 2376 Chapter 9 |
Next Adventure: Foundations, Book One |
| Previous Adventure: Wildfire, Book 2 |
late July 2376 Chapter 10 |
Next Adventure: Being Human |
| Previous Adventure: A Good Day to Die Chapters 5-13 |
early August 2376 Chapters 11-14 |
Next Adventure: Home Fires |
| Previous Adventure: Stone and Anvil |
mid August 2376 Chapter 15 |
Next Adventure: Honor Bound |
| Previous Adventure: Lesser Evil |
late August 2376 Chapters 16-20 |
Next Adventure: Ishtar Rising, Book 1 |