Trial by Error

Quark's greed brings Deep Space Nine under attack!

Trial by Error is a Pocket DS9 novel – #21 in the numbered series – written by Mark Garland. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in November 1997.

Summary

From the book jacket

After Quark brokers a too-good-to-be-true trade for gold-pressed latinum, Deep Space 9 is under fire from at least three different alien races, each accusing the others of theft, piracy, and worse. Then angry Klingons get involved, and so do the Ferengi – placing the entire station in the middle of a shooting war that might consume all of them.

Memorable quotes

"You know, Jake, it sounds as if you think that women are a lot harder to handle than runabouts". - Sisko

Background information

• The novel is set after the events of "Bar Association". Jake mentions the events of "Explorers".
• The author commented that the novel was: "was actually two different ideas that one day came rushing together quite handily when I considered doing a Deep Space Nine story. It's really a character story, a very fastpaced one. And the characters on DS9 were terrific". (Voyages of Imagination, p. 127)
• This novel coins the term trellium many years before Star Trek: Enterprise did.

Characters

Canon characters listed below are linked to the main article about them. Non-canon characters are not linked, but those that recurred, appearing or being mentioned in more than one story, are defined further in Pocket DS9 characters.

Regular and recurring characters

Benjamin Sisko

Starfleet captain, the CO of Deep Space 9.

Kira Nerys

Odo

Julian Bashir

Jadzia Dax

Quark

Worf

Jake Sisko

Miles O'Brien

Elim Garak

Rom

External link

• Trial by Error at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works