"Promises Made" is a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine short story. Kira Nerys leads a mission to rescue Tom Riker from Lazon II.

Summary

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References

Characters

Jadzia Dax • Drake • Forbes • Kala • Kerrigan • Kira Nerys • Miles O'Brien • Dalia Parks • Thomas Riker • Ro Laren • Robertson

Referenced only

Benjamin Sisko • Winn Adami

Locations

Badlands • Lazon II

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Cardassia • Deep Space 9 • Demilitarized Zone • Orias

Starships and vehicles

USS Defiant (Defiant-class escort) • Hideki-class • K't'inga-class battlecruiser • Tra'Nor (Keldon-class warship) • Vexon (Galor-class warship) • Vor'cha-class attack cruiser

Races and cultures

Bajoran • Human • Trill

Referenced only

Cardassian • Klingon

States and organizations

Bajoran Militia • Maquis • Starfleet • United Federation of Planets

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Dominion • Founders • Obsidian Order

Other references

bat'leth • disruptor • Klingon-Cardassian War • phaser • raktajino • replicator • uridium

Appendices

Related media

• DS9 episode: "Defiant"
• DS9 episode & novelization: The Way of the Warrior

Background

• "Promises Made" is a sequel to "Defiant". The story takes place after "The Way of the Warrior".
• The author commented: "In the episode Tom Riker steals the Defiant and kidnaps Major Kira. By the end of the episode he's turned over to the Cardassians and sentenced to life in prison. Kira promises to get him out. In the series, they never returned to that, never told what happened to Riker. 'Promises Made' is about Kira trying to rescue him". (Voyages of Imagination)

Connections

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine collected short stories, novellas and short novels
The Lives of Dax	"Second Star to the Right..." • "First Steps" • "Dead Man's Hand" • "Old Souls" • "Sins of the Mother" • "Infinity" • "Allegro Ouroboros in D Minor" • "The Music Between the Notes" • "Reflections" • "... and straight on 'til morning"
Prophecy and Change	"Revisited" • "Ha'mara" • "The Orb of Opportunity" • "Broken Oaths" • "... Loved I Not Honor More" • "Three Sides to Every Story" • "The Devil You Know" • "Foundlings" • "Chiaroscuro" • "Face Value" • "The Calling"
Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Volume One ("Cardassia: The Lotus Flower" • "Andor: Paradigm") • Volume Two ("Trill: Unjoined" • "Bajor: Fragments and Omens") • Volume Three ("Ferenginar: Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed" • "The Dominion: Olympus Descending")
Strange New Worlds	I ("Life's Lessons" • "Where I Fell Before My Enemy") • II ("Research" • "Change of Heart") • III ("Ninety-three Hours" • "Dorian's Diary" • "The Bottom Line" • "The Best Defense..." • "An Errant Breeze") • IV ("Captain Proton and the Orb of Bajor" • "Isolation Ward 4") • V ("Fear, Itself") • VI ("Fabrications" • "Urgent Matter" • "Best Tools Available") • VII ("Infinite Bureaucracy" • "Barclay Program Nine") • 8 ("Trek" • "Gumbo" • "Promises Made" • "Always a Price") • 9 ("Shadowed Allies" • "Living on the Edge of Existence" • "The Last Tree on Ferenginar: A Ferengi Fable From the Future" • "The Tribbles' Pagh") • 10 ("So a Horse Walks into a Bar..." • "Signal to Noise") • 2016 ("The Façade of Fate" • "The Manhunt Pool" • "The Dreamer and the Dream")
Star Trek: Explorer	"A Night In" • "By Special Request" • "The Mission" • "Things Can Only Get Better" • "Frontier Medicine" • "The Victim" • "You Can't Buy Fate" • "Lost and Founder" • "A Year to the Day I Saw Myself Die" • "Academy Acquisition" • "The Snake and the Worm" • "The Needs of the Many"
Misc. short stories	"The Badlands, Part IV" • "The Second Artifact" • "Mirror Eyes" • "Requital" • "The Officers' Club" • "A Terrible Beauty"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"Horn and Ivory" • "Saturn's Children" • "Seeds of Dissent" • "A Gutted World"

Timeline

published order
Previous story: Gumbo	Strange New Worlds 8	Next story: Always a Price
Previous story: Gumbo Strange New Worlds 8	DS9 short stories	Next story: Always a Price Strange New Worlds 8
Previous story: first Star Trek story	Stories by: David DeLee	Next story: A Bad Day for Koloth Strange New Worlds 9
chronological order
Previous adventure: The Thaw	Pocket Books Timeline	Next adventure: For the Cause
Previous adventure: The Muse	Deep Space Nine Adventures	Next adventure: For the Cause