Dead Man's Hand

Real-world

"Dead Man's Hand" is a 1999 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine short story by Jeffrey Lang. It was published in the The Lives of Dax anthology.

Tobin Dax and Skon of Vulcan have to save a human ship and the prototype transporter from Romulans.

Summary

References

Characters

Tobin Dax • Burgwin • Heyes • Jarman • Mira Laasa • Katie Lo • Monsees • Skon • Williams • unnamed Romulans
Referenced only
Lela Dax • Wild Bill Hickok • Solkar

Starships and vehicles

escape pod •
Heisenberg

Locations

Alpha Centauri • Earth • Mars • Trill • Vulcan

Races and cultures

Human/Terran • Martian • Romulan • Trill • Vulcan

States and organizations

Cochrane Institute of Alpha Centauri • Symbiosis Evaluation Board • Symbiosis Institute

Other references

99 Great Card Tricks You Can Learn in Your Spare Time • airlock • antimatter • artificial gravity • bomb • bridge • cargo hold • chronometer • computer core • "Dead Man's Hand" • deck • deflector • disruptor • Earth-Romulan War • engineering • EVA suit • gamma shift • hull • intermix chamber • Jefferies tube • padd • pattern buffer • playing card • poker • rebreather • running light • scanner • solar wind • thruster • transporter • warp core • warp drive • warp nacelle

Appendices

Background

  • Jeffrey Lang commented "We all often talk about how the Trek universe is such a positive view of the future, but we also all know that this imagined future has its roots in the very real present. How did this world - our world - become that world? It didn't all start out being bright and shiny. There had to be some grungy, unpleasant moments in there where ideas and attitudes were tested and tempered". (Star Trek: Communicator Issue 126: "Thrilling Trill: The Lives of Dax", page 60)
  • Internal references set this story during the Earth-Romulan War. Star Trek: Enterprise (and in particular the episode "Daedalus") contradict this timeframe. The Enterprise Romulan War novels feature both Tobin Dax and Skon based on "Dead Man's Hand", ignoring the contradiction.

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:
First Steps 		The Lives of Dax
LivesofDax
Next story:
Old Souls
chronological order
Previous Adventure:
The Great Starship Race
Prologue 		Pocket Next Adventure:
Starfleet: Year One

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