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Deep Space Nine versus interstellar pirates!
Proud Helios is a Pocket DS9 novel – #9 in the numbered series – written by Melissa Scott. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in February 1995.
Summary
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- From the book jacket
- The free flow of traffic to the Gamma Quadrant is vital to the recovery and survival of the planet Bajor and to Federation interests as well. When a mysterious cloaked ship begins raiding wormhole shipping, cleaning out holds and killing entire crews, Commander Benjamin Sisko of Deep Space Nine acts at once to stop the menace.
- Commander Sisko has unexpected aid: the cloaked vessel has been striking Cardassian ships as well, and the Cardassian commander Gul Dukat intends to destroy the ship at all costs. Their unlikely alliance works well – until two of Sisko's crewmen are captured by the raiders. Gul Dukat will stop at nothing to gain his victory; now Sisko must locate the predator ship, hold off the Cardassians long enough to rescue his people – and prevent an interstellar war.
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Background information
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- This is the first Star Trek novel by Melissa Scott.
Characters
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- Canon characters listed below are linked to the main article about them. Non-canon characters are not linked, but those that recurred, appearing or being mentioned in more than one story, are defined further in Pocket DS9 characters.
Regular and recurring characters
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- Benjamin Sisko
- Starfleet commander, the CO of Deep Space 9.
- Kira Nerys
- Odo
- Julian Bashir
- Jadzia Dax
- Quark
- Jake Sisko
- Miles O'Brien
- Dukat
- Elim Garak
- Keiko O'Brien
- Molly O'Brien
External links
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- Proud Helios at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Proud Helios at Wikipedia
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