#ds9 relaunch

[timetravellr14]

I just finished reading The Calling today, and, am I going insane or wasn't it published two years before Hollow Men???

How does it have references to things that happened in Hollow Men??? Did Andy and Una go on a writer's retreat together or something???

[spockvarietyhour]

Weyouns, Ranked

Jeffrey Combs is a man of many talents, but perhaps his greatest of all was giving us his star turn as Deep Space Nine's clone confidant.

[trenicat]

Quark in the DS9 Relaunch novels is soooo

i love it tbh (excerpts are from "Avatar: Book One" to "Mission Gamma: Book Two", specific titles in alt text)

[rainaweather]

Kira Nerys’s story throughout the show and throughout the relaunch series is so fucking good. I don’t know if I’ve ever been so satisfied with a character’s journey at every point.

[mailorderfictionalcharacter]

David Mack’s ds9 novels are really really good - they’re just not canon.

[aceholmes]

you: post-canon cardassia

me, an intellectual: gay married space lizards

[keepontrekkin]

I love how in the last DS9 book I read they're like "oh yeah the Founder changelings have no concept of gender, but poor Odo kinda got stuck with one" pfft they even say the "female founder" from the show just took that form when mimicking a humanoid race, not that they actually identify as female the books all vary on gender and sexuality stuff, but it's neat when they mention it even if it's not canon

[timetravellr14]

Recent amazing post-canon fic "The Summing Up" by @melorasalive brought to my attention that Garak's final line in DS9 was most likely a reference to this quote:

"I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us."

...from a book called "The Summing Up" by W. Somerset Maughn, which seems to be a very Garak-esque autobiography...

And since I had just read The Calling (short follow-up to ASIT) before reading the fic, the title jumped out at me, because in that story Garak refers to a particular phenomenon as the "summing up."

So I'm thinking maybe Andy was purposefully channeling/drawing upon this guy's work, either because he knew or became aware of the reference, or maybe, since he did write the journal entries during the show, he imparted knowledge of this work to whoever wrote the line in the show and it ended up in there. If not, this is a lot of coincidence, and you know what Garak says about coincidences...