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Enigma Tales is a Pocket DS9 novel – part of the Deep Space Nine relaunch series – written by Una McCormack. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in June 2017.
Summary[]
- From the book jacket
- Elim Garak has ascended to Castellan of the Cardassian Union… but despite his soaring popularity, the imminent publication of a report exposing his people's war crimes during the occupation on Bajor looks likely to set the military against him. Into this tense situation comes Dr. Katherine Pulaski – visiting Cardassia Prime to accept an award on behalf of the team that solved the Andorian genetic crisis – and Dr. Peter Alden, formerly of Starfleet Intelligence. The two soon find themselves at odds with Garak and embroiled in the politics of the prestigious University of the Union, where a new head is about to be appointed. Among the front-runners is one of Cardassia's most respected public figures: Professor Natima Lang. But the discovery of a hidden archive from the last years before the Dominion War could destroy Lang’s reputation.
- As Pulaski and Alden become drawn into a deadly game to exonerate Lang, their confrontation escalates with Castellan Garak – a reluctant leader treading a fine line between the bright hopes for Cardassia's future and the dark secrets still buried in its past…
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Background information[]
- The author had planned a sequel, but the launch of Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard led to the post-finale TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT novels ending. She commented: “I did have a final book in mind about Cardassia, a follow-up to Enigma Tales, which, amongst many other plotlines, would have wrapped up Natima Lang’s story. In my mind, she is the Castellan after Garak. I think I made it clear in Enigma Tales that was coming, but there would have been a great deal more about the transition from Garak to Lang. (We would have met Lang’s husband too, a Mathenite who looks uncannily like Quark.)” [1]
- The events of this novel follow on from those in A Stitch in Time, The Crimson Shadow, the Star Trek: Section 31 novel Control and the DS9 novel The Missing.
- Cover design by Alan Dingman.
Cover gallery[]
Audiobook cover
Characters[]
External link[]
- Enigma Tales at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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