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Zero Sum Game is a Star Trek: Typhon Pact novel – the first novel in the series – written by David Mack. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in October 2010.
The novel features Julian Bashir and Ezri Dax's crew of the USS Aventine (β) and explores the culture and society of the Breen.
Summary[]
- From the book jacket
- A spy for the Typhon Pact – a new political rival of the Federation – steals the plans for Starfleet's newest technological advance: the slipstream drive. To stop the Typhon Pact from unlocking the drive's secrets, Starfleet Intelligence recruits a pair of genetically enhanced agents: Dr. Julian Bashir, of station Deep Space 9, and Sarina Douglas, a woman whose talents Bashir helped bring to fruition, and whom Bashir thinks of as his long-lost true love.
- Bashir and Douglas are sent to infiltrate the mysterious species known as the Breen, find the hidden slipstream project, and destroy it. Meanwhile, light-years away, Captain Ezri Dax and her crew on the USS Aventine play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a Typhon Pact fleet that stands between them and the safe retrieval of Bashir and Douglas from hostile territory.
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Background information[]
- Zero Sum Game introduces a storyline that continues with Disavowed, A Ceremony of Losses and Control.
- The novel was announced at the Shore Leave convention on 10 July 2009. It was originally scheduled to be the second novel in the series, but swapped with Seize the Fire in the schedule.
- The cover art was revealed by Mack on 4 May 2010. Mark Rademaker designed the Aventine for the cover.
- Cover art and design by Alan Dingman.
Characters[]
- Julian Bashir
- Ezri Dax
- Elias Vaughn
- Sarina Douglas
- Ro Laren
- Quark
- Alynna Nechayev
- Leonard James Akaar
- Jack
- Patrick
- Lauren
- Simon Tarses
External links[]
- Zero Sum Game at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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