The Law of Averages

   

In the far future, the Dax symbiont faces death when its host is killed.

SummaryEdit

Following an accident with the transwarp core on a Federation ship in the Gamma Quadrant, the Dax symbiont is left in stasis. With chances of reaching the Trill homeworld slim, Dax ponders its brief existence without host, and prepares for oblivion. Captain Grayson's ship rushes towards the Bajoran wormhole, and Dax unknowingly enters into a communion with a disembodied Benjamin Sisko. Helping out the Old Man once more, Grayson's ship emerges at the Trill homeworld instead of Federation Portal 1 in the Bajoran system, in time for Dax to be returned to the symbiont pool.

ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

Dax • Grayson • Kelly • LaMoigne • Sheffield • Benjamin Sisko

Referenced only 

Cretia • Curzon Dax • Ezri Dax • Joran Dax • Verad Kalon • Janra • Kans'let • Neema

LocationsEdit

Alpha Quadrant • Bajoran wormhole • Gamma Quadrant • Trill system

Referenced only 

Bajor • Deep Space 9 • Delta Quadrant • Federation portal 1 • Trill • Vulcan

StarshipsEdit

31st century Federation Starfleet starship

Races and culturesEdit

Human • Trill symbiont

Referenced only 

Jem'Hadar

States and organizationsEdit

Starfleet • United Federation of Planets

Referenced only 

Borg Cooperative • Trill Symbiosis Commission

Other referencesEdit

bat'leth • Borg-Federation Treaty • holoscreen • transwarp core

ChronologyEdit

AppendicesEdit

Related storiesEdit

• Dax recalls the events of "Invasive Procedures" and "Equilibrium".

ConnectionsEdit

published order
Previous story: Guardians	Strange New Worlds VII	Next story: Forgotten Light
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Shockwave 31st century	Pocket	Next Adventure: The Last Tree on Ferenginar: A Ferengi Fable From the Future