Signal to Noise — memory beta

"Signal to Noise" is a 2007 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine short story by Jim Johnson. It was published in the Strange New Worlds 10 anthology. It was the last DS9 story published in the 1998-2007 run of the Strange New Worlds contest.

Summary

Jack realizes that the universe will explode in roughly sixty trillion years, and he has no idea on how to use his abilities to stop this. It takes the help of a friend from across time and space to help him realize that he should find his own story.

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References

Characters

Julian Bashir • Jack • Lauren (24th century) • Patrick • Benny Russell • Wilson (Doctor) • James Wykoff

Referenced only: Benjamin Sisko

Locations

Bajor • Deep Space 9 • Fire Caves • isolation ward 4

Races and cultures

Human

Referenced only: Bajoran • Prophets

States and organizations

Dominion • Institute • Starfleet

Other references

admiral • airlock • captain • Celestial Temple • commanding officer • computer • doctor • graphite • gravimetric coefficient • infirmary • isolation ward • jumja stick • mutant • Promenade • universe • wardroom • wormhole

Appendices

Related media

DS9 episode: "Statistical Probabilities"
DS9 episode & novelization: Far Beyond the Stars
DS9 episode: "Shadows and Symbols"
DS9 episode: "Chrysalis"
DS9 episode & novelization: What You Leave Behind

Background

The story takes place after the DS9 episode & novelization: What You Leave Behind.

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: So a Horse Walks into a Bar...	Strange New Worlds 10	Next story: The Fate of Captain Ransom
Previous story: So a Horse Walks into a Bar... Strange New Worlds 10	DS9 short stories	Next story: The Façade of Fate Strange New Worlds 2016
Previous story: Home Soil Strange New Worlds 9	Stories by: Jim Johnson	Next story: A Terrible Beauty Mirror Universe : Shards and Shadows
chronological order
Previous adventure: Rising Son chapter 8, section 5	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: This Gray Spirit Mission Gamma
The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2376. The Memory Beta Chronology places events from this story in 1 other timeframe(s):
Previous adventure: The Ends of Eternity pages 8 - 21 Crew	60,000,000,000,000 sections "Roughly 60 Trillion Years Later"	Next adventure: last Star Trek event