59: The Rough Seas of LoveMission Gamma:
Twilight.
When Deep Space Nine premiered, the stated goal of the Starfleet
presence on the station and the purpose Sisko's mission was to
prepare Bajor for Federation membership. As the series went on,
this came close to happening once; but a warning from the Emissary
put the issue on the backburner. Then the Dominion War happened.
With all of that now in the past—and with other loose ends from
"What You Leave Behind" either wrapped up or at least
addressed—Mission Gamma sets Bajor back on a course for Federation
membership and provides DS9 with a new TOS-like initiative to seek
out new life and strange new worlds.
In the episode of Literary Treks hosts Matthew Rushing and
Christopher Jones are joined by Dan Gunther to continue our look at
the DS9 relaunch series and kick off discussion of the four-part
Mission Gamma. We discuss the character stories involving Bashir
and Ezri, Vaughn and Prynn, how Kira is dealing with the Attainder,
and what the future holds for Bajor and the United Federation of
Planets.
In our news segment we get an update on Keith R.A. DeCandido's
The Klingon Art of War, a New Frontier for Peter David, Dayton
Ward's new TNG book Armageddon's Arrow, and we review the second
issue of IDW's I, Enterprise comic.
# Star Trek DS9Deep Space Nine, a Star Trek series which depicts the challenges faced by its characters and the political dynamics of Bajor.