- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1 Aug 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671798588
- ISBN-13: 978-0671798581
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,354,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Commander Benjamin Sisko is just recovering from the death of his wife when he is assigned command over the former Cardassian, but new Federation space station, Deep Space Nine. This space station is strategically located not only because of its orbit about Bajor, but also because of its proximity to the only known stable wormhole in the galaxy. After meeting the other Bajoran and Starfleet personnel assigned to the station, including a former Bajoran freedom fighter and a shapeshifter, Sisko finds himself in that very wormhole and in the midst of a metaphysical experience as the alien inhabitants of the wormhole question the concepts of time and love. Sisko, filled with humanistic hubris, begins to explain these experiences, and resolve his painful past.
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Format:Paperback
Mainly of interest to collectors of the book series who want to have a complete collection as this isn't half as good as the actual TV episode. It's more of a curio to see the earlier draft ideas before things were ironed out and improved than something great in its own right. Lots of things don't ring true, such as O'Brien being called Ensign or some of the action with Jake and Nog, and Keiko and Molly, but that's the point of a novelisation, to add scenes and detail that didn't make it into the filmed version. The story is strong enough that the quality still shines through in places, such as in the scenes with Sisko facing his anguish, but as it was written before the episode was completed it doesn't improve the story as a novelisation should. Admittedly that would have been hard to do. As a book on its own, assuming the reader hasn't already seen the episode it makes a reasonably entertaining read, but I would recommend watching the actual episode much more.
Format:Hardcover
As a fan of Star Trek, and DS9 in particular, I thoroughly enjoyed this audio version of the first episode in the DS9 series. It was clearly and expressively read by Nana Visitor.
Format:Paperback
Based on Michael Piller's early draft of "Emissary", J.M Dillard does an excellent job of novelizing "Emissary", the pilot episode of DS9. Some of the scenes not in the episode is a flashback to the events of the Setlik III (TNG: "The Wounded") by O'Brien, Picard making a vow to be an anonymous benefactor to both Sisko and Jake, scenes featuring Keiko and Molly O'Brien, Bashir mentioning his error in confusing a postganglionic nerve with a preganglionic fiber in his exams (later mentioned in the series in "Q-Less"), Sisko contemplating about returning to Earth to teach and several scenes with Jake and Nog.
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