Book Description Within every federation and every empire, behind every hero and every villain, there are the worlds that define them. In the aftermath of Unity and in the daring tradition of Spock"s World, The Final Reflection, and AStitch in Time, the civilizations most closely tied to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine can now be experienced as never before...in tales both sweeping and intimate, reflective and prophetic, eerily familiar and utterly alien. CARDASSIA: Thelast world ravaged by the Dominion War is also the last on which Miles O"Brien ever imagined building a life. As he joins in the reconstruction of Cardassia"s infrastructure, his wife Keiko spearheads the planet"s difficult agricultural renewal. But Cardassia"s struggle to remake itself -- from the fledgling democracy backed by Elim Garak to the people"s rediscovery of their own spiritual past -- is not without opposition, as the outside efforts to help rebuild its civilization come...