{"id":21174,"date":"2023-05-01T20:15:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T00:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=21174"},"modified":"2023-05-01T22:20:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T02:20:31","slug":"worlds-of-ds9-3-the-dominion-ferenginar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/worlds-of-ds9-3-the-dominion-ferenginar\/","title":{"rendered":"Worlds of DS9: The Dominion \/ Ferenginar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;He tried to help the Link see that their refusal to consider themselves connected to other, non-changeling lifeforms, and their rejection of the possibilities afforded by amity rather than distrust, should be regarded as antithetical to a species that exulted in self-change. The Founders seemed capable of any transformation, he maintained, but not in their own view of the universe.&#8221; (from <strong>The Dominion: Olympus Descending<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Volume Three<\/strong>, published in 2005<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ferenginar: Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed<\/strong> by Keith R. A. DeCandido<\/p>\n<p>A group of Ferengi businessmen come to Quark&#8217;s bar &#8212; now embassy &#8212; to discuss the future of Ferenginar and they went Quark in on the meeting. Meanwhile, on Ferenginar, Grand Nagus Rom is dismayed when Liquidator Brunt is appointed to his Economic Congress of Advisors.<\/p>\n<p>This story features Ishka, Nog, Ro, and Zek.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about family, and doing what it takes to find the truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Dominion: Olympus Descending<\/strong> by David R. George III<\/p>\n<p>Odo has returned to the world of the Founders and to the Great Link, still trying to convince them about his ideas of peaceful coexistence with solids. Then he discovers that his people have their own god &#8212; and they believe it has returned.<\/p>\n<p>This story features Laas, Taran&#8217;atar, Weyoun, Kira, and the female Founder who was their leader.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about people who are ruthless, people who are generous, and people who are confused.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a beautiful conversation between Odo and Kira.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve read 4 novels plus 1 graphic novel by Keith R. A. DeCandido. I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/star-trek-the-art-of-the-impossible\/\"><strong>Star Trek: The Lost Era \u2014 The Art of the Impossible<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve read 16 novels by George. I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/star-trek-deep-space-nine-the-34th-rule\/\"><strong>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine \u2014 The 34th Rule<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The previous book in the miniseries is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/worlds-of-ds9-volume-two-trill-bajor\/\"><strong>Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Volume Two<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;He tried to help the Link see that their refusal to consider themselves connected to other, non-changeling lifeforms, and their rejection of the possibilities afforded by amity rather than distrust, should be regarded as antithetical to a species that exulted in self-change. The Founders seemed capable of any transformation, he maintained, but not in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8,59],"class_list":["post-21174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21174"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21190,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174\/revisions\/21190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}