{"id":25412,"date":"2025-09-08T20:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T00:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=25412"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T00:04:24","slug":"star-trek-deep-space-nine-the-long-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/star-trek-deep-space-nine-the-long-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine &#8212; The Long Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;If anyone else identified it, they would have a riot on their hands. So Dax decided to create one of her own. &#8216;Drinks on the house!&#8217; she shouted. &#8216;Rom will take orders.&#8217; A huge cheer went up and extended to the farthest reaches of the bar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine &#8212; The Long Night<\/strong> by Dean Wesley Smith &amp; Kristine Kathryn Rusch, published in 1996<\/p>\n<p>When Dax recognizes a statue someone is trying to sell Quark, she immediately informs Commander Sisko. She believes someone has found the Nibix, a legendary ship full of riches &#8212; and people. Nog and Jake are playing baseball when a ball hits the bulkhead and causes a dent. Jake realizes that this area behind the metal is hollow and he wonders what&#8217;s behind it.<\/p>\n<p>This novel is about what happens when a secret is leaked, and when an 800-year-old ship with the ruler of his people on it is found.<\/p>\n<p>The regulars are joined by semi-regulars Rom, Nog, Gul Dukat &#8212; and Grand Nagus Zek.<\/p>\n<p>This writing duo always comes up with an interesting story.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve read 9 novels by Rusch and 10 by Smith (plus 6 anthologies he edited). I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/star-trek-the-rings-of-tautee\/\"><strong>Star Trek: The Rings of Tautee<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;If anyone else identified it, they would have a riot on their hands. So Dax decided to create one of her own. &#8216;Drinks on the house!&#8217; she shouted. &#8216;Rom will take orders.&#8217; A huge cheer went up and extended to the farthest reaches of the bar.&#8221; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine &#8212; The Long [&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-25412","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\/25412","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=25412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25429,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25412\/revisions\/25429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}