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Gorkon encounters a critically injured Torias Dax.

Summary

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References

Characters

Dax • Curzon Dax • Torias Dax • Gorkon, son of Toq

Referenced only

Audrid Dax • Emony Dax • Nilani Kahn • Toq

Starships and vehicles

shuttlecraft

Locations

Makrecha IV

Referenced only

Qo'noS

Races and cultures

Human • Klingon • Trill

States and organizations

House of Makok • Klingon Empire • Starfleet • United Federation of Planets

Other references

2285 • bantag • bat'leth • disruptor • d'k tahg • Federation Standard • gamma radiation • targ • Treaty of Organia

Appendices

Related media

• TOS movie, novelization & comic adaptation: The Undiscovered Country
• DS9 episode: "Equilibrium"
• DS9 episode: "Rejoined"

Background

• The author commented: "This story, 'Trek,' allowed me to put my ideas forward on why the Klingons of TOS differed from the later Klingons (putting a political spin on it.) I was also intrigued by The Lives of Dax anthology, which gave me the idea of using Torias' shuttle accident as Dax's introduction to Klingons, as an inciting incident to drive the Klingon story, and to explain how Joran Dax might have come about". (Voyages of Imagination, p 80) The short story "Infinity" in The Lives of Dax offers a different depiction of Torias' death, but both are set around the time of The Search for Spock.

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: Final Flight	Strange New Worlds 8	Next story: Gumbo
Previous story: The Officers' Club Tales from the Captain's Table	DS9 short stories	Next story: Gumbo Strange New Worlds 8
Previous story: first Star Trek story	Stories by: Dan C. Duval	Next story: most recent work
chronological order
Previous adventure: Countdown Strange New Worlds IV	Pocket Books Timeline	Next adventure: Allegro Ouroboros in D Minor The Lives of Dax
Previous adventure: Countdown Strange New Worlds IV	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: The Smell of Dead Roses section 2 Strange New Worlds 10