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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 NineTM. 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.… (more)
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There were the normal bumps in a novelization. The fact that the station
On the other hand the writer, Dillard, gets other things pitch perfect, like the interaction between Jadiza Dax and Ben Sisko.
Odo and Kira come off as a bit stand offish and Julian Bashir as totally clueless, but that was pretty well aligned with how they were on the actual pilot too.
DS9 was a series (and the series of books too) that was both the darkest thematically and the most religious of the Star Trek serieses. This book was a good novelization of the start of that.