Template:Realworld In the aftermath of the death of Intendant Kira Nerys in the mirror universe, Iliana Ghemor makes her next move.
Summary
- From the book jacket
- A surprising tale of doubles, secret pasts, and alternate realities. In our universe, a Cardassian sleeper agent – Iliana Ghemor – was once surgically altered to resemble and replace Bajoran resistance fighter Kira Nerys. That plan never reached fruition, and the fate of the agent remained unknown... until now.
- Robbed of the past sixteen years, and on the brink of madness, Iliana is back with a vengeance. She has already made one attempt on the real Kira's life, and the heroes of Deep Space Nine must now stop the false Kira without derailing the delicate flow of history that must unfold if two universes, and countless others are to survive.
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Side one
During an Orb experience, Benjamin Sisko learns that every universe has its own version of himself - its own version of the Emissary. The Prophets want the Emissary to discover the Bajoran wormhole in every universe. As the mirror universe's version of Ben has apparently only faked his own death, the Prophets ask Ben to go look for him and have him discovering the wormhole.
On Deep Space 9, Kira Nerys speaks to the mirror universe's version of Iliana Ghemor - and finds out that the counterpart of this our universe, Iliana Ghemor herself, is still a look-a-like of Kira, i. e. altered to look Bajoran. She apparently lost her mind and killed Intendant Kira, as she is obsessed with the thought that she is the only person to have the right to bear that name. The mirror Iliana offers her help to stop this madness.
Kira and her crew start to trust mirror Iliana only slowly - but after investigations of all of Cenn Deska, Ro Laren, who still suffers heavily from the attack on her by Taran'atar, and Quark, they discover that Kira indeed had been to Elemspur Detention Center during the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor - and that her memories there must have been transferred to Iliana.
After having established a com-link to Smiley O'Brien, in which his rebel-group is warned about Iliana, the link is broken and Iliana herself appears on screen, still looking exactly as Kira Nerys, threatening that she will kill Kira. Kira and Elias Vaughn manage to beam to the mirror universe - to stop Iliana and her madness.
Unknown to the others, Vaughn is on a secret mission of Ben's - he is to discover the mirror Ben Sisko in order to establish the discovery of the wormhole also in the mirror universe.
Side two
Side two deals with Iliana Ghemor's history - how she became an agent of the Obsidian Order, how she was surgically altered to look like Kira Nerys, and then kept as a slave by Skrain Dukat and finally got mad.
Detail summary will follow
Background Information
- Intendant Kira was killed by this universe's Iliana Ghemor - who is alive, still looking like Kira and has gone insane. The mirror version of Iliana is trying to stop her.
- The prophets are aware of the mirror universes - there is an Emissary in every universe, and it's always Ben Sisko. For unknown reasons, the prophets want the Emissary to discover the wormhole in every universe
- The title of this novel comes from a line in William Blake's poem "The Tyger".
- The novel is in a "flip" format – the book has two covers, and the story is separated into two parts, one from the "front" to the middle, the other from the "back" to the middle.
- It was announced that this novel would also have formed part of the Star Trek: Mirror Universe series of novels. However, the cover as published does not carry the Mirror Universe title.
- Fearful Symmetry was originally scheduled to be released in April 2007. It was then pushed back to August after a reshuffling of the 2007 release schedule, before being announced as being delayed in May 2007. At the Shore Leave convention in July 2007, the novel was announced as being scheduled for July 2008, with Leanna Morrow being replaced as author by Olivia Woods.
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Characters
- 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
Side one
- Kira Nerys
- Captain of Deep Space 9
- Iliana Ghemor (mirror)
- On a mission to stop Iliana Ghemor from our universe
- Elias Vaughn
- First Officer of Deep Space Nine and Commander of the USS Defiant
- Benjamin Sisko
- Starfleet captain, returned from the Prophets and currently off-duty
- Ro Laren
- Security chief of Deep Space 9
- Ezri Dax
- First Officer of the USS Defiant
- Julian Bashir
- Chief medical officer of Deep Space 9
- Simon Tarses
- A doctor on Julian Bashir's staff
- Nog
- Chief of operations on Deep Space 9 and chief engineer of the USS Defiant
- Garak
- Former tailor and agent of the Obsidian Order, now on Cardassia, working on the rebuilding of the Cardassian society
- Prynn Tenmei
- Chief helmsman of the USS Defiant and Commander Vaughn's daughter
- Treir
- Orion Dabo girl employed at Quark's
- Quark
- Bartender on Deep Space 9 and Ferengi ambassador to Bajor
- Kasidy Yates
- Benjamin Sisko's wife
- Cenn Deska
- Deep Space 9's liaison officer to the Bajoran Militia
- Odo (mentioned)
- A Founder who sent Taran'atar to the Alpha Quadrant to learn about peace and cooperation
- Taran'atar (mentioned)
- A Jem'Hadar who seriously injured Captain Kira and Lieutenant Ro
Side two
- Iliana Ghemor
- A Cardassian Obsidian Order agent, surgically altered to look like Kira some 15 years ago
- Skrain Dukat
- Prefect on Terok Nor during the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor
- Corbin Entek
- An agent of the Obsidian Order
- Tekeny Ghemor
- Iliana's father
Other characters
References
2361; Cardassian; intendant; mirror universe; mirror universe history
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