title: Twilight's End (Star Trek, Book 77)
author:  Jerry Oltion 
description: Unlike most planets, Rimillia does not spin upon its axis, so its day and night sides are subjected to perpetual extremes of hot and cold. Habitation has only been possible on a thin band of the planet's surface, until now.
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  Twilight
  
  
  **All Stations, Report Status.**
  
  
  Tactical and communications, ready, Bowers said.
  
  
  Science and sensors, ready. ChThane.
  
  
  Impulse engines are online, warp power available on your command. Nog.
  
  
  Life support at optimum. Medical bay standing by. Bashir.
  
  
  The ship is ready, Captain, Dax said. Your orders?
  
  
  Captain, Vaughn thought. A fellow could get used to that. Release docking
  clamps. Aft thrusters at one-quarter, port and starboard thrusters at station-
  keeping. Around them, the ship seemed to change, like a great beast waking
  from its slumber. Ahead of them loomed the great, exotic form of Deep Space 9,
  the station receding gradually before them.
  
  
  Conn, Vaughn said, set course for the wormhole.
  
  
  Course laid in.
  
  
  Ahead one-half impulse, Vaughn said. Take us in.
  
  
  Vaughn felt Defiant leap forward beneath him, charging toward the unknown.
  Their mission to explore the Gamma Quadrant had begun.
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, place