Positively Trek Book Club: Dayton Ward Joins Us to Talk About TNG: Pliable Truths!

Positively Trek 273: Book Club: The Story We Didn’t Know We Wanted
Dayton Ward: Pliable Truths
When Star Trek: Deep Space Nine hit our television screens in 1993, we were introduced to the planet Bajor, the end of the Cardassian Occupation, and a cast of colorful characters that were very different from the sanitized Starfleet environment of the Enterprise-D on Star Trek: The Next Generation. But what happened just before “Emissary”? How did Starfleet establish a presence in the Bajoran system? How was the withdrawal negotiated? Why did O’Brien decide to transfer to DS9? All of these questions and more are finally answered, over 30 years later, thanks to Dayton Ward’s latest Star Trek novel.
In this episode of the Positively Trek Book Club, hosts Dan Gunther and Bruce Gibson are once again joined by New York Times Bestselling author Dayton Ward to discuss his new novel, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Pliable Truths. We talk about the story of the transition from TNG to DS9 that we have been waiting decades to read!
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Chapters
Opening (00:00:00)
Spoiler-free Discussion (00:02:37)
Admiral Nechayev (00:12:04)
The Aftermath of “Chain of Command” (00:15:11)
“The Great Escape” (00:23:33)
The USS Oceanside (00:33:38)
Remember That Guy? (00:37:57)
Patreon Shout Out (00:41:59)
O’Brien’s Big Move (00:42:28)
Picard’s Relationship with Bajor (00:48:54)
Ensign Ro Laren (00:51:34)
Setting up Deep Space Nine (00:55:59)
An Explosive Ending (00:58:25)
Closing (01:06:46)
Hosts
Dan Gunther
Bruce Gibson
Guest
Dayton Ward
Production
Dan Gunther (Editor and Producer)
Barry DeFord (Producer)

[@daryl9237]

Looking forward to reading this but can't put down $25.99 Canadian on it but want a physical copy. Hopefully will drop in price at some point!

[@modelkittrove8311]

This is on my "to-read" list, but I am also thinking about first reading the Terok Nor trilogy (the first book by James Swallow and the second two books by S.D. Perry) which is a prequel series about the occupation of Bajor before DS9 (and assumably Pliable Truths). If you (or anyone in the comments) have read the Terek Nor trilogy and Pliable Truths can you tell me if the background history in both works about what happened between the Cardassians and Bajorinas (and even the Federation) is consistent between the works? I am just wondering if the Terek Nor trilogy would complement Pliable Truths or if they have conflicting details when digging into the particulars of the history of Bajor and the Cardassian occupation.

[@KertratsP]

The very end does cross over timeline-wise with the end of Terok Nor, but I don't recall any particular discontinuities.