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NOVEL
Time's Enemy
Attribution

Starfleet finds an ancient version of the Defiant near Earth, prompting fears of the Furies using the Bajoran wormhole to invade the Alpha Quadrant again.

Introduction

Millennia ago, an apocalyptic battle was fought in the Alpha Quadrant. The losers were banished, but what became of the victors?

The Federation is threatened by this ancient mystery when a battered and broken version of the Defiant is found, frozen for five thousand years, in an icy cloud of cometary debris. Captain Sisko and the crew of Deep Space Nine are summoned to answer the most baffling question of their lives: how and when will their ship be catapulted back through time to its destruction? And does its ancient death mean that one of the combatants in a primordial battle is poised now to storm the Alpha Quadrant? Only the wormhole holds the answer -- and the future of the Federation itself may depend on the secrets it conceals.

Summary

References

Characters

Julian Bashir • Jadzia Dax • Kira Nerys • Miles O'Brien • Odo • Quark • Benjamin Sisko • Michael Eddington • Alynna Nechayev • Rom • Winn Adami • Fernandez • Gerjuoy • Goldman • Judith Hayman • Hovan • Kaddo'Borawn • Kirschbaum • Maile • Manan'Agar • Nes • Pak Dorren • Heather Petersen • Pritz • P'sel • Hajime Shoji • T'Kreng • Yevlin Meris

Referenced only 

:Curzon Dax • Joran Dax • Torias Dax • Elim Garak • Nog • Keiko O'Brien • Molly O'Brien • Jean-Luc Picard • Regitz • Shakaar Edon • Jake Sisko • Jennifer Sisko • Solvik • Stel • Sterchak

Locations

Alpha Quadrant • Bajor • Bajoran wormhole • Deep Space 9 • Operations center • Oort cloud • Starbase 1 • Gamma Quadrant

Referenced only 

Andor • Badlands • Brin Planetarium • Brundage Station • Cochrane Memorial • Earth • Furies Point • Kotar killing field • Okana shipyard • Organia • Pluto LaGrangian colonies • Qo'noS • Rigel sector • Sol • Terok Nor • Trill • Veska Province • Vulcan

Species and cultures

Bajoran • Changeling • Ferengi • Human • Jem'Hadar • Prophets • Trill • Vulcan • Unclean

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Andorian • Borg • Cardassian • Elasian • Furies • Klingon • Lethean • Orion • Romulan • Tellarite • Tholian

Starships and vehicles

USS Breedlove • USS Defiant • USS Mukaikubo • USS Platte • USS Rio Grande • Sreba

Referenced only 

USS Enterprise • USS Saratoga

Starship classes

Corsair-class • Danube-class • Defiant-class • Galaxy-class • Jem'Hadar fighter • Kronos-class • Vinca-class

States and organizations

Bajoran Militia • Dominion • Starfleet • United Federation of Planets • Vulcan Science Academy

Referenced only 

Bajoran Trade Commission • Founders • Maquis • Obsidian Order • Shakaar resistance cell • Starfleet Academy • Starfleet Command

Other

ansible technology • Antenna • Antigen • Artificial wormhole • Billy the Brontosaur • Carapace • Cerebral cortex • Class 5 sector emergency • Conference room • Dabo • Death icon • Deep space station • Déjà vu • Emissary of the Prophets • English language • Euthanasia • Event horizon • Ferengi language • Ferengi Rules of Acquisition • Grakh'rahad • Haslev-Rahn disease • Honored Professor • Jem'Hadar station • Jil-bird • Journal of Quantum Medicine • Kai • Klingonese • Latinum • Mactru fever • Mitochondrial DNA • Menorah • Nobel Prize • Occupation of Bajor • Pedone's Law of Imaginary Energy Usage • Pharoah • Priority 1 • Quantum chronodynamics • Refit • Rehk'resen • Shesh caste • Shore leave • Space station • Springball • Subspace Physical Reviews • Tartha pox • Temporal displacement • Tinnitis • Tongo • Vegan choriomeningitis • Vertigo • Viroid • Vole • Wormhole • Xenobiology • Zee-Magnees Prize

Substances and materials

Boromine citrate • Diazradol • Difluorine • Dilithium • Dilithium crystal • Duranium • Hematite • Iron • Isoboramine • Nickel • Plutonium • Rritium • Transparent aluminum • Tritium

Technology

Cloaking device • Defense sail • Engineering tricorder • Fusion bomb • Hydrogen bomb • K'fken probe • Osteodermal regenerator • Phaser bank • Photon torpedo • Portable replicator • Quantum torpedo • Tactical plasma warhead • Thermal diffuser • Thermonuclear bomb • Universal translator

Foods and beverages

Argelian mocha sorbet • B'stella • Chaat juice • Chfera stew • Chocolate • Couscous • Elasian cloud apple • Ghiachan brandy • Raktajino • Redfruit • Rigellian chocolate • Redfruit

Information

• In Voyages of Imagination, Julia Ecklar and Karen Rose Cercone state that they consider Time's Enemy to be their best novel.
• Time's Enemy is also one of David R. George III's favorite novels. [1]

Related stories

• After the crew discover a Jem'Hadar creche, Sisko recalls Quark finding the Jem'Hadar youth in "The Abandoned".

Connections

• Time's Enemy article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.