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Plot Summary of Time's Enemy
"Commander Sisko, Jadzia–Dax, and Doctor Julian Bashir are summoned by Star Fleet to examine material recovered from an intercepted block of space-debris. This turns out to be the remains of the Defiant and her crew. But from thousands of years in the past. In a race against time, Sisko and his colleagues have to figure out what happened to the Defiant, and stop the event from happening. "
Charles Smyth, Resident Scholar



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Plot
Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story Yes
Time Travel: - largely forwards/future - largely backwards/past
Plotlets: - preventing an ecological disaster
Tech./$$$/Info hunt Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying - method of transportation
If an invasion, from Earth/human POV: - fighting overt invasion (attacking aliens)
War or Invasion Yes
Major kinds of combat: - hand to hand - guns - spaceship battles
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Time Travel story? Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - explorer
Age: - 40's-50's
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - infantry soldier
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an above average amount

Setting
Terrain - Space, need spacesuit - Asteroid
Spaceship setting: - futuristic human warship - alien spaceship - really, really giant spaceship/station
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - unfriendly aliens
Planet outside solar system? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - a significant amount of technical jargon
Sex in book? Yes
How much dialogue? - significantly more descript than dialog
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