The Long Mirage

The Long Mirage is a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel by author David R. George III, released in February 2017. The novel is a follow-up to Revelation and Dust, Sacraments of Fire and Ascendance.

Description[]

More than two years have passed since the destruction of the original Deep Space 9. In that time, a brand new, state-of-the-art starbase has replaced it, commanded by Captain Ro Laren. Still, the crew and residents of the former station continue to experience the repercussions of its loss.

For instance: Quark continues his search for Morn, as the Lurian—his best customer and friend—left Bajor without a word and never returned. Quark enlists a private detective to track Morn down, and she claims to be hot on his trail. Yet the barkeep distrusts the woman he hired, and his suspicions skyrocket when she too suddenly vanishes.

At the same time, Kira Nerys emerges from a wormhole after being caught inside it when it collapsed two years earlier. She arrives on the new DS9 to discover Altek Dans already there. While inside the Celestial Temple, Kira lived a different life in Bajor’s past, where she fell in love with Altek. So why have the Prophets moved him forward in time… and why have They brought him and Kira together?

Summary[]

Kira returns to Deep Space 9, where Kai Pralon attempts to minimise the effect her and Altek's appearance will have on religious tensions on Bajor. Their reunion also derails Altek's romance with Ro. They both insist on joining the scientific expedition to Endalla. The fact that the moon does not exist in Altek's time adds to the theory that it was constructed. However, it is then realised that Altek comes not from the past but from a parallel present, and since the wormhole still exists in his universe, the falsework must serve another purpose.

Quark has hired a private detective, Mayereen Viray, to search for Morn. However, when Mayereen is apparently abducted during one of their conversations only to turn up again, Quark suspects she has cheated him. He heads for Mericor, accompanied by Ro, who feels guilty about abandoning their relationship. There, they locate both Morn and Mayereen just before Morn is taken into custody by Mayereen's "abductors": Two agents of Federation Security.

Nog has managed to get Vic's programme working so he and John Candlewood enter it. There, they find Vic being kidnapped by mobsters and are "shot", meaning the programme regards them as dead. Felix provides them with a back door to re-enter the programme but they only have a week to find Vic before the programme re-initialises, erasing the person he has become. With help from dabo girl Ulu Lani, they learn that Vic went guarantor for Morn's gambling debts only for the station to be destroyed before Morn could repay him. His attempts to keep himself out of financial difficulty led him to get into trouble with mobster Bugsy Calderone. Morn's crime is constructing a mobile emitter to try and get Vic out of the holosuite.

The station detects a ship en route to the wormhole from Dominion space and Odo is asked to investigate. He discovers Weyoun and Rotan'talag transporting four thousand refugees who no longer wish to live under Dominion rule.

Nog manages to pay off Vic's debt with money won from the casinos but Calderone aims to maim him as an example. Ro's group return to the station and enter the holosuite, with Ro using the mobile emitter to get Vic to safety. However, it fails to work long-term and he has to return to the programme, where he relocates to Paris.

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Occupations and titles[]

abolitionist • accountant • admiral • adrenaline • agent • aide • alarmist • archaeologist • artist • assistant chief engineer • associate director • bassist • bellman • captain • cashier • chemist • chief botanist • chief engineer • chief medical officer • chief of operations • chief science officer • colonel • comedian • commander • Commander-in-Chief of the Federation Starfleet • commanding officer • computer specialist • concierge • cook • crewman • dabo girl • dal • dalin • director • doctor • Eminence • Emissary of the Prophets • engineer • ensign • Ferengi Ambassador to the Republic of Bajor • First minister • first officer • gambler • Grand Nagus • gul • Hand of the Prophets • jockey • kai • lawyer • liaison • librarian • lieutenant • lieutenant commander • lounge singer • manager • material scientist • minister • Minister of Defense • Minister of State • mobster • monk • morale officer • musician • observer • overseer • physicist • pilot • poet • President of the United Federation of Planets • private investigator • professor • psychiatrist • ranjen • refugee • scientist • second-in-command • security officer • senior chief petty officer • sensor • sergeant • server • singer • Starfleet Chief of Operations • stevedore • strategic operations officer • tactical officer • temporal theorist • vedek • waiter • waitress • watch officer • zealot

Science and classification[]

acanthite • adding machine • android • artificial intelligence • artificial heart • asymmetric wave • atmosphere • bioneural circuitry • blood • bomb • calculus • CAS buoy • chronometric radiation • chroniton • combadge • comet • communicator • computer • constellation • duotronics • electromagnetism • electromechanical • environmental suit • epidermal cell • evolution • forcefield • galena • genetic engineering • gravity • hologram • holographic matrix • holographic projector • holographic recorder • holophoto • holoprogram • holosuite • impulse drive • inertial dampener • isolinear chip • isolinear core • isolinear rod • isolytic subspace weapon • ketracel white • mathematics • medical tricorder • metabolism • microwave oven • mobile emitter • morphogenic virus • multitronics • neutrino • nuclear force • optical grid • padd • phased-polaron emitter • phaser • physical science • physics • proton • quantum torpedo • radio • refrigerator • remote controller • replicator • scanner • shields • simulation tester • slot machine • spectrographic analysis • stochastic process • subspace distortion • subspace purveyor • substrata • telephone • television • terrestrial science • thermostat • thoron shield • tractor beam • transponder • transporter • type-1 phaser • universal translator • virtual scanner headset

Other references[]

1930s • 1960s • 1970s • 4th century • 20th century • 22nd century • 29th century • Advanced Tactical Training • Aladdin Resort & Casino • alva • Andorian red wine • Andorii • Antarean playing cards • Apex Chair • apple pie • apron • Attainder • Bashir 62 • bass • bean • beetle purée • beret • betting parlor • bettor's folly • black seven • blackjack • The Book of Sighs • bracelet • breathing bar • brig • brown rice • Bruce Street • bucket • bureaucracy • candy • canvas duffel • capitalism • card counting • Cardassian language • cardigan • cave • cela tea • Charleston Boulevard • cheese • chocolate syrup • choritzed • cigar • communications hub • craps • cream • Crown of Bajor • cucumber • currency • dabo • Deauville Diner • decapus salad • Denobulan language • Desert Inn • diplomacy • dollar • dom-jot • Dominion War • The Dream/Le Rêve • dream whisper • duffle • Dunes • duty shift • End of the Rainbow Casino • engineering • envelope • esani • extradition • eyeglasses • Federation Charter • Federation Standard • Ferengi Rules of Acquisition • Finagle's Folly • fizzbin • Flamingo Las Vegas • fraud • Fremont Street • Fremont-Sunrise Hotel • French language • French roast • fried chicken • fusionstone • gambler's ruin • ginger ale • Goldsill Rye • gork • grass • gun • handkerchief • hasperat • headlamp • horrocked • horse • horse racing • jack-in-the-box • jumja syrup • Kendra Valley varietal • keno • kidu • koris-tahn • kulloth • ladder • Las Vegas Boulevard • Las Vegas Review-Journal • Las Vegas Sun • latinum • library • linoleum • Lissepian Lottery • loafer • lokar bean • lorpa • map • matches • mattock • meatloaf • medkit • menu • milaberry pancakes • milk • moba • nerak • Non, je ne regrette rien • newspaper • Occupation of Bajor • Ohalu Prophecies • Ophiucan five-bellied water lizard • Orb • Orb experience • Orb shadow • pad • pagh • pagh'tem'far • pamphlet • Passyunk Avenue • pawn shop • pen • pencil • pepper shaker • photograph • pickax • plant • playing cards • pooncheen • pooncheenee • pradooshed • Premier Chair • prison • prohibition • purse • quarters • Racing Form • racism • radish • raid • raktajino • real estate • refresher • relotho • renfor • Restricted Technology • Riviera • robe • roulette • salad • saloon • salt shaker • Sands Hotel • Scalosian Sling • seitan wrap • seltzer bottle • sexuality • Shining Oasis • shovel • shuttlebay • Siege of AR-558 • Silver Lode • Silver Slipper • slacks • slavery • slug steak • snail • snail juice • sneedered • Songs and Silence • soup • speakeasy • spoon • Stardust • statue • stone • sugar • sugar pourer • sunglasses • Sunrise Avenue • tapestry • Temple Comet • Temporal Prime Directive • theater • thermoconcrete • think tank • Thunderbird • toasted tubeworm • tome • Tropicana • tube grub • vegetable • Vinny's Desert Steakhouse • violin • Vulcan Love Slave • Warp core breach • warrant • water rights • wheel of fortune • When the Prophets Cried • wine • wristwatch • Yridian language • Songs and Silence

Appendices[]

Background[]

The Long Mirage was the first of five DS9 themed releases of 2017.
The author wrote about The Long Mirage in his blog, in the article "The Process: From Manuscript to Article". [1]
The next novel by the author was originally expected in January 2018. The release, Original Sin, was later brought forward to September 2017.
The book is dedicated to Mark Gamello, the author's best man.

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Connections[]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine relaunch publications and stories
Novels	A Stitch in Time • Avatar, Book One‎ • Avatar, Book Two • Abyss • Demons of Air and Darkness • Twilight • This Gray Spirit • Cathedral • Lesser Evil • Rising Son • The Left Hand of Destiny, Book One • The Left Hand of Destiny, Book Two • Unity • "Cardassia: The Lotus Flower" • "Andor: Paradigm" • "Trill: Unjoined" • "Bajor: Fragments and Omens" • "Ferenginar: Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed" • "The Dominion: Olympus Descending" • Warpath • Fearful Symmetry • The Soul Key • The Never-Ending Sacrifice • The Missing • Sacraments of Fire • Ascendance • Force and Motion • The Long Mirage • Enigma Tales • Original Sin
Miniseries and anthologies	The Lives of Dax • Divided We Fall • Mission Gamma • Worlds of Deep Space Nine (Volume One, Two & Three)
Short stories and novellas	"Horn and Ivory" • "The Officers' Club" • Lust's Latinum Lost (and Found) • Rules of Accusation • I, The Constable
Comics	N-Vector • "Crossfire" • "No Quarter" • "All Fall Down" • "United We Stand"
Omnibuses	Twist of Faith • These Haunted Seas
Related	Star Trek: Section 31 • Star Trek: Terok Nor • Star Trek: Destiny • Star Trek: Typhon Pact • Star Trek: The Fall • Star Trek: Coda

Timeline[]

published order
Previous novel: Force and Motion	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Next novel: Section 31 Control
Previous story: Ascendance	Stories by: David R. George III	Next story: Original Sin

Translations[]

2019: German : Lichter im Dunkel, translated by René Ulmer. (Cross Cult)

External link[]

The Long Mirage article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki

The Long Mirage

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