Great Book!

Really interesting text body.

I loved the mission patches for the WorkerBees, Runabouts, and Defiant.

ANP

The book is great. Loved to see things in color. I also liked those hybrid ships in the back. There were a few things I noticed that were odd, though.

It was written in the first chapter that DS9 was assigned two runabouts, some type-6 shuttles, and a couple of workbees. DS9 has always had three runabouts at a time. I don't think we have ever seen a type-6 shuttle, but of course that doesn't mean they aren't there.

They also said that Bajor is only a little over four light-years from Cardassia Prime. I only mention it because before Sisko leads the invasion of the Chin'toka system, he says something like "We'll fight until we surround their headquarters on C.P. and force them to surrender." This makes Cardassia seem far away to me.

One of the Okudagrams in the Defiant section gives the registry as NX-74204! Also, Rick Sternbach presumably didn`t know that the "Intrepid-class starship variant" is actually called Yeager-class.

I liked this book, but not as much as the Next Gen one. It didn't have as many labeled diagrams of things like the station, Rio Grande, and Defiant like in the Next Gen one.

Some useful facts:

-First: The 47's are everywhere!
-Latinum cannot be replicated because of it's high fieldvacuum energy potential.
-The subspace relais on the gamma-side of the wormhole has been destroyed by the Dominion.
-The starting point of Voyager, the gamma-side of the wormhole and the Federation form a triangle with ca. 70000 ly side length.
-Distance from Bajor: Cardassia 5.25 ly, Badlands 3.3 ly, Federation center (Earth?) about 50 ly (6 days at Warp 9.92), Ferenginar 65 ly (?), Starbase 375 30 ly.
-The Denorios Belt is not an asteroid but a plasma belt, orbiting Bajor-B'hava'el (Bajor's "sun") at a distance of 300 mio. km (2 AU) and needs 13.1 years for one revolution. The wormhole is in the belt and needs 13.5 years for one revolution which leads to periodic plasma turbulences
around DS9 (as seen on the show).
-A Bajoran day has 26 hours and given the radius of the stationary orbit of 37576 km you can compute Bajor's mass.
-DS9 rotates (for thermic balance).
-DS9's fusion reactor has a maximum output of 790 terawatts.
-Photon torpedoes use the good old matter-antimatter annihilation for the kaboom, the new quantum torps use a quantum vacuum effect (with explosive particle generation) for even bigger yields.

If it's only 50 lightyears to the Federation Center, why is it DEEP SPACE 9?

It's nearly deep in enemy territory.

It's nearly deep in enemy territory (and at the edge of the Federation).

The section on phaser rifles mislabels the type 3b compression rifle (from First Contact)as a type 3a. Below it says in the paragraph that the type 3a rifles (seen in Caretaker) weren't deployed on DS9 but WERE deployed on some starships (like Voyager).

One of the ships is labelled as an Excelsior/Constitution class variant when it looks to be made strictly from Excelsior parts.

The nacelles are Constitution nacelles on their sides (but they`re much too long).

The nacelles are Constsitution nacelles on their sides (though they`re much too long).

The Akira class starship has planets spelt planeats or planaets on its side

I wonder if the Akira class ships have pictures of Kaneda, Tetsuo, and other characters on their dedication plaques.

If Sisko had as large a part in designing the Defiant as DS9 suggests, why isn't his name on the dedication plaque?

Personally, I never thought he had a hand in designing it. It seemed to me that he was simply familiarized (sp?) with it right before "The Search."