Summary: Season 2, 31st story

When fifteen deadly planet-busting missiles are stolen, a vast interplanetary empire must break its isolationist policy and warn the key powers of the Alpha Quadrant of the impending danger...

Two portals connecting two entirely separate galaxies are the gateways upon which these missiles will threaten the Alpha Quadrant...

A woman who left one life behind to return to her people finds herself once more returning to the place where she formerly worked...

The crew of Deep Space Nine will soon be faced with an unprecedented situation...

The destruction of an insignificant backwater world will herald the rekindling of a conflict -- long in the making -- between two powerful empires...

The focal point of this conflict will be the Alpha Quadrant...

Warnings: Adult situations and mortal peril.

Chapters: 9    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Dax, Ezri, Felpes, Megan, Holo, Kira Nerys, Odo, Weatherby, Max
Genre: Action/Adventure
Warnings: Adult Situations, Violence
Series: Star Trek: The Approaching Shadow...
Completed: Yes    Word count: 39542    Read Count: 734

Summary: What happens when someone you really loved, someone who is your twin, turns bad?

Max recounts his experiences and memories of Coplin, Max's twin brother, and how they changed Max forever as a person and left him today with so many conflicting feelings and soul-searching questions...

Chapters: 4    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Expanded Universes
Characters: Weatherby, Max
Genre: Angst, Drama, Family, Friendship
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Violence
Challenges: July 2012 Challenge - A Page from History
Series: Star Trek: The Approaching Shadow...
Completed: Yes    Word count: 9376    Read Count: 570

Summary: Season 2, 28th story

Ezri becomes reacquainted with Worf when he arrives, in an ambassadorial function, to a Federation/Klingon conference on Deep Space Nine. Worf also encounters an unusually knowledgeable Klingon clerk called Sortek.

At a special dinner though, a prominent Klingon ambassador is fatally poisoned by one of the special dishes he consumed. The immediate suspect is Jake, and things look even worse when evidence is found to suggest he was responsible.

Meanwhile Worf becomes more intrigued by Sortek and then makes a shocking discovery; Sortek is the return of Kahless, as alluded to by the scarred texts...

Warnings: Adult situations.

Chapters: 8    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Dax, Ezri, Holo, Kira Nerys, Odo, Quark, Weatherby, Max, Worf
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Warnings: Adult Situations
Series: Star Trek: The Approaching Shadow...
Completed: Yes    Word count: 28650    Read Count: 1404

Summary: Season 2, 26th story

Undertaking a daring mission to infiltrate the main facility of the Federal Information Database located in the United States of America. The whole mission carries with it both foreseen and unforeseen consequences for Earth and the future. Ezri starts to have serious concerns about the lengths to which she must alter events in 2053 to ensure First Contact goes ahead and her timeline is preserved.

Warnings: Adult situations, strong swearing, mortal peril, graphic gore and some apocalyptic stuff.

Chapters: 9    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Dax, Ezri, Holo, Kira Nerys, Seven of Nine, Weatherby, Max
Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Character Death, Violence
Series: Star Trek: The Approaching Shadow...
Completed: Yes    Word count: 29229    Read Count: 1308

Summary: Season 2, 22nd story

After the Federation colonies in the Soterin cluster are attacked by Jem'Hadar, in the Gamma Quadrant, the Federation orders an evacuation of these colonies. The Defiant and fifty other Starfleet vessels are involved with guarding the transport ships. Suspecting foul play from either the Dominion or the rebel Jem'Hadar, Ezri asks Odo to come along to determine which side attacked the Soterin cluster's colonies.

However when the Dominion flagship intercepts the Defiant, Weyoun contacts the Defiant, and offers to Ezri an interesting proposal. Together Ezri and Odo go along with Weyoun's proposal, and in the process a shocking truth is discovered...

Warnings: Scenes of strong violence, one scene of very graphic violence, occasional moderate swearing, adult situations, and themes of mortal peril.

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Chapters: 9    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Dax, Ezri, Holo, Kira Nerys, Odo, Weatherby, Max, Weyoun
Genre: Action/Adventure
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Violence
Series: Star Trek: The Approaching Shadow...
Completed: Yes    Word count: 30173    Read Count: 1867

Summary: Season 1, 1st story.

On a remote planet in the Badlands called Tau Primia, and in the middle of nowhere, Megan Felpes and her colleague Jack Smith observe a prison manned by rebel Cardassians. But what starts as a simple mission goes horribly wrong, when she and Jack are captured and imprisoned, and for the next two years Megan's life becomes a living hell...

Fast forward two years and captain Ezri Dax is the new commander of Deep Space Nine, and on a personal level there are many challenges to overcome, as she comes to terms with her long term break-up with Bashir, and the friends she lost contact with during the many years away from the station. However shortly after arriving, Ezri faces a new problem when a fleet of Cardassian warships arrive at DS9.

Upon being contacted by one of the ships, Ezri encounters Garak, the president of the Cardassian government and general commander-in-chief of the Cardassian Union. During a private meeting, Garak gives to Ezri a very unusual offer...

This soon morphs into Ezri's first mission as captain to carry out a daring rescue operation to free the prisoners on Tau Primia...

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Set eighteen years after the Dominion War, this story sees the return of some the main characters from DS9: Kira, Odo, Bashir, Quark and Ezri. This universe is NOT based on the DS9 relaunch books, this is my own interpretation of events after the end of the Dominion war. This is DS9 but radically tweaked...

Warning: Contains occasional strong violence, mild swearing, adult situations and emotive mush.

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Chapters: 10    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Dax, Ezri, Felpes, Megan, Garak, Elim, Holo, Kira Nerys, Odo, Quark, Weatherby, Max
Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama
Warnings: Adult Situations, Violence
Series: Star Trek: The Approaching Shadow...
Completed: Yes    Word count: 53619    Read Count: 3794

Summary: Season 2, 19th story

On the suggestion of a counsellor, Max visits Coplin, who is under tight guard in a starbase. During his conversations with his twin brother, Max discovers from Coplin a shocking piece of information about the Tren trying to capture Megan, and that the Tren believe Megan is not human.

When Max returns back to DS9, he tells Megan this. Megan is deeply intrigued and asks Bashir to run a DNA test on her. After painstaking analysis, Bashir discovers a shocking truth; Megan is not human. Not only that, but the clue to Megan's origins lies beyond a subspace rift close to the Bajoran star system...

Warnings: occasional adult situations and one use of moderate swearing.

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Chapters: 7    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Dax, Ezri, Felpes, Megan, Holo, Kira Nerys, Odo, Weatherby, Max
Genre: Drama, Family, Friendship, Mystery
Warnings: Adult Situations
Series: Star Trek: The Approaching Shadow...
Completed: Yes    Word count: 22492    Read Count: 1519

Summary: Season 2, 16th story

While the head of the Tal Shiar, Eret Toshen, plans a coup to take over the Romulan government. The Breen and Federation are entering negotiations over trade rights. Ezri, Kira and Odo join the Federation delegation.

However disaster strikes, the Breen assault the Federation delegation, leaving half of the delegation's members dead, and most of the rest captured. While Ezri escapes back to the Defiant, Kira and Odo try to evade capture from the Breen.

But for Kira and Odo they must survive not only the Breen attempts to capture them, but also the harsh climate, inhospitable to nearly every humanoid.

Warnings: contains some moderate violence, and scenes of mortal peril.

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Chapters: 10    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Dax, Ezri, Felpes, Megan, Holo, Kira Nerys, Odo, Weatherby, Max
Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama
Warnings: Adult Situations, Violence
Series: Star Trek: The Approaching Shadow...
Completed: Yes    Word count: 38913    Read Count: 3125

Summary: Season 1, 11th story.

This is the first story of the four-part Apocalypse story arc, and season one's finale.

After an attack on DS9 by an Apocalypse ship, Ezri and four others are abducted off the station.

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Chapters: 7    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Dax, Ezri, Felpes, Megan, Holo, Kira Nerys, Odo, Weatherby, Max
Genre: Action/Adventure
Warnings: Adult Situations, Violence
Series: Star Trek: The Approaching Shadow...
Completed: Yes    Word count: 22628    Read Count: 3007

Summary: Season 2, 13th story.

This is the third part of the Apocalypse story arc. While Starfleet prepares an attack on Apocalypse, Team UFP must survive the dangers and rigours of life as Apocalypse gladiators. Unbeknown to Starfleet, Apocalypse's chairman, Coplin, is quietly implementing a plan that will rock the Federation to its very core...

Warning: Contains strong, gory and sometimes graphic violence, and one use of strong swearing.

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Chapters: 8    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Dax, Ezri, Felpes, Megan, Holo, Kira Nerys, Weatherby, Max
Genre: Action/Adventure
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Violence
Series: Star Trek: The Approaching Shadow...
Completed: Yes    Word count: 36507    Read Count: 2523

Summary: Season 1, 10th story.

Working with Max on a research project, Megan finds it harder to ignore her feelings for Max. Complicating matters is when Max's former girlfriend Tanya Dawson arrives. Megan realizes that if she doesn't make her move soon she may never have a relationship with Max.

Warning: One use of strong language, a few sexual references.

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Chapters: 8    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Dax, Ezri, Felpes, Megan, Kira Nerys, Weatherby, Max
Genre: Drama, Friendship, Romance
Warnings: Adult Situations
Series: Star Trek: The Approaching Shadow...
Completed: Yes    Word count: 22357    Read Count: 3283

Summary: Season 1, 8th story.

When the Defiant discovers an abandoned Dominion retrovirus factory, an awayteam comprising of Kira, Max, Nog, Holo and two engineers are sent down to salvage spare components. However when Kira and Max accidently trip a security device, a deadly virus is released leaving the humanoid members of the awayteam to fight for their lives. While Bashir struggles to find a cure, the awayteam are quaranteened to a shuttle. In there Holo must care for the awayteam, while he watches them all slowly die...

Warnings: Adult situations, mortal peril.

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Chapters: 8    Table of Contents
Categories: Deep Space Nine, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Dax, Ezri, Felpes, Megan, Holo, Kira Nerys, Odo, Weatherby, Max
Genre: Drama, Family, Friendship
Warnings: Adult Situations
Series: Star Trek: The Approaching Shadow...
Completed: Yes    Word count: 26816    Read Count: 3195