- This article is about the short story. You may be looking for TNG - War and Madness comic: "Ceremony of Innocence".
Summary
The fall of Betazed (as established in DS9 episode "In the Pale Moonlight") as experienced by Lwaxana Troi.
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References
Characters
- Cort Enaren • Nathan Gold • Homn • Jeea • Lemec • Luaran • Mara • Masc • Kan Mryax • Thriss • Barin Troi • Lwaxana Troi • Elaine Welsh
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- Campio • Reittan Grax • Jeyal • Odo • Jean-Luc Picard • Timicin • Deanna Troi • Ian Andrew Troi • Kestra Troi • Xelo
Locations
- Betazed • Byram Hall • Lake Cataria
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- Loneel Mountains • Minos Corva
Starships and vehicles
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- USS da Vinci • USS Enterprise-D
Races and cultures
- Andorian • Betazoid • Cardassian • Human • Jem'Hadar • Sindareen • Vorta
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- Changeling • Tavnian
States and organizations
- Betazed resistance • Starfleet • Tenth Fleet
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- Fifth House of Betazed
Other references
- admiral • allira punch • amra • blue-leaf salad • Dantric • Dominion War • Eridat • espra cheese • Gul • Holy Rings of Betazed • jakarine • neo-Valdane • oscoids • phaser • replicator • Sacred Chalice of Rixx • Samarian sunset • Torinese • tricorder
Appendices
Background
- The title comes from a line in "Second Coming", a 1919 W.B. Yeats poem: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" The line was also used as the title of TNG - War and Madness comic: "Ceremony of Innocence", while the poem provided title sources for each installment in the six-part TOS Mere Anarchy ebook series. (The Second Coming (poem) article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
Related stories
- "Dark Page" (TNG episode)
- The title of this story and the location of Lake Cataria are evocative of the drowning death of Kestra Troi described in "Dark Page".
- The Battle of Betazed (TNG novel)
- This story serves as a prequel to the novel, using several of the characters established there.
- Mission: Gamma (DS9 miniseries)
- The character Thriss, and her time on Betazed, was first established in this series.
Connections
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| Previous story: Night of the Vulture |
Tales of the Dominion War
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Next story: Blood Sacrifice |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous Adventure: Vis à Vis |
Next Adventure: In the Pale Moonlight | |
