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A trilogy of novels in the [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]], an epic time-travel adventure featuring the characters of [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]. It doesn't fit entirely into the modern continuity, but given the themes of myriad alternate realities and interlinking timelines, that isn't a problem either way. The three books are ''The Fall of Terok Nor'', ''The War of the Prophets'' and ''Inferno'', and the plot involves a full-scale religious war erupting in an alternate future timeline, the result of an attempt by factions of the Wormhole Aliens to reunite their splintered civilization. Unfortunately, success will mean the end of the universe.
The trilogy shares a great many plot points with the Deep Space Nine computer game, ''The Fallen''.
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* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: The Grigari appear to be a mechanical-organic construct. No-one is sure whether they should be categorized as living beings or an artificial intelligence. They leak a substance that might be blood, or might be cooling fluid.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: When Dr. Bashir asks Garak to aid him in identifying two recently-discovered bodies, Garak responds: “Oh, Doctor, I'm afraid that in matters of mysterious deaths, I am entirely bereft of experience”. No-one is amused.
* [[Blessed
* [[Body Horror]]: Bions - the lobotomized, bio-augmented slave soldiers used by the future Romulan Empire. It's suspected they are former prisoners mutated using Grigari technology.
* [[Brain Food]]: The Medusans, apparently. Quark has certain recipies programmed into the food replicators (quite illegally), should he ever get a visit from a Medusan delegation.
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* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Weyoun. Garak, too, though he doesn't act on the observations he makes, having decided that since Cardassia no longer exists in this future, he has nothing more to fight for. He basically sits this one out, and spends most of his time calmly and somewhat cheerfully making [[Genre Savvy]] comments to annoy Odo.
* [[Dyson Sphere]]: In the alternate future, O'Brien is trapped in one of these for what seems like years, as the [[Fate Worse Than Death]] meted to him by the Pah-Wraiths.
* [[Earth Is the Center of
* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: {{spoiler|Bajor is vapourized in the alternate future - all part of Kai Weyoun's plan. Earth met the same fate some years prior}}.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: The Grigari are so terrifying that the Borg and the remnant Federation are allies in this timeline. It doesn't even seem to be [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]; they're engaged in peaceful technological exchange.
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* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]: The Grigari, who are fanatical and deadly enough to scare the Borg. The Bajoran Ascendancy, which is one giant doomsday cult fighting to destroy the universe. The Wormhole Aliens, which are fighting a three-way war that threatens to tear the mortal realm apart. Even the newly Vulcan-dominated Starfleet. And we mustn't forget Kosst Dukat:
{{quote| Can I have an Amojan?!!}}
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Servant Race]]: The Grigari seem to be servants of the Ascendancy, {{spoiler|yet are actually controlling Weyoun. However, they do seem to be genuine servants of the pah-wraiths}}.
* [[Sibling Team]]: The Andorian sisters Satr and Leen, in the first book.
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: The War of the Prophets is a stable time loop that transcends a single timeline, and connects multiple realities together. It's hinted in the epilogue that ''all'' timelines are linked, and ultimately part of a larger network, that might one day be explored just as the Federation explores space.
* [[The Voiceless]]: Played with but ultimately reaffirmed for Morn. Just as Morn never speaks on screen, so the novels never give him dialogue (despite mentioning how he's actually a chatterbox). In the first book of this trilogy, it briefly looks like Morn has been giving dialogue as part of a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. Turns out it's actually Odo taking Morn's form.
* [[We Come in Peace, Shoot
* [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]]: Quite a few in the [[Crapsack World]] future, including a nova bomb, nanoplagues and planet-destroying "deep time" bombs.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Sisko wonders if Leej Terrell is this. At first she seems nothing more than a megalomaniac and [[Complete Monster]], but Sisko begins to consider if she's actually serious about her proposed "pax Cardassia". The golden age she says she's working for might be a genuine dream - not that it excuses her actions.
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