The Tempest (Star Trek Deep Space Nine, No 19) (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 19)

"The Tempest" is author, Susan Wright's third novel in Gene Roddenberry's universe. While I enjoyed this story tremendously I wouldn't go so far as to say it was her best work in the Star Trek universe which was "The Best and the Brightest." As with every one of her novels I've read so far, her writing extremely well paced, the characterizations are dead on and the overall plot set up and execution are in good order. What truly knocks this novel back a notch for me, is that it more or less falls into the category of common place within frameworks of early Star Trek Deep Space Nine stories, either in print or on the actual television show, as this type of story was done way too often.While the author probably has little to do with the cover art, Pocket Books takes another hit on the cover art for this novel as with most at the time of this novels publishing. They just didn't seem to care too much for putting too much effort into the novels in this period.The Premise:A violent plasma storm rolls into the Bajoran system and Deep Space Nine suddenly finds itself over populated with people seeking refuge leaving Odo and Lieutenant Commander Worf struggling to maintain control on the station. The more interesting aspect of this novel reveals itself in the Dax and Keiko story where they must take a runabout into the heart of the plasma storm and what they discover there...What follows from there is a well written story, as with most from this author, that only suffers in that this type of story has been done way too many times in the Deep Space Nine story line. I would still highly recommend this novel to any and all fans of Star Trek fiction for the sake of the author as I've found her stories to be among the best in the Star Trek universe. {ssintrepid]

You will like this book! Take it from me, it is never boring, a "don't put me down" book.

It's funny when Worf and Cali are fighting, and the part with Dax and Keiko are investigating the plasma storm is pretty cool too. Odo babysitting Molly is pretty amusing too. Pretty accurate too. A must-read for anyone who likes Deep Space Nine.