Sisko uses the fake name of Marcus Garvey.

When Odo asks why Sisko tells him "You need to study more Terran history."

Marcus Garvey was a real historical figure.

In just ten years following his emigration to the United States as a laborer in 1917, Marcus Garvey rose to lead the largest black organization in history, was taken to prison in handcuffs, and was eventually deported ( )

I'm probably getting to the point where I can't remember the Deep Space 9 novels that I have read, and I am not actually sure whether I read this and Proud Helios, but I will include it in the list of books that I have read (actually, no, I definitely did read them because I do remember the titles very clearly). I have read more DS9 books than any of the other Star Trek books out there, probably because I liked the premises behind the television series. It gets even better when they introduced the Dominion story arc, though once again it reeks a little too much of Babylon 5. Obviously there was always the intention to explore Odo's background, and the way that they stretched it out was quite good, however it once again reeks a little too much of Babylon 5. Obviously I thought that Babylon 5 was a much better series.
I did briefly look through the blurb of this book and the reviews but there was nothing much that jumped out at me. Apparently most of the story is set in the Gamma Quandrant, where a ship yard is being built and some antimatter is stolen, so they have to go and find it. Okay, no murder or murderer let lose on DS9 and Odo having to track it down, but that would have probably put a lot of people off (other than the die hard Star Trek fans who read anything and everything to do with Star Trek). However, the reviews of these books don't seem to be coming back all that good. In a way I wonder why people would keep on reading a series that is producing bad books, but then again I have, and I guess one of the main reasons behind these books is the Star Trek franchise.
Antimatter is not a science fiction concept, it is a fact, and I believe that some has even been produced, however it is generally found in the vacuum of space. That is a good thing, a very, very, good thing, because antimatter, as you would suspect, is the opposite of matter. However, for those non-scientific people out there, if antimatter and matter collide (I learnt this from Doctor Who, so I could be wrong) then both cancel each other out. However, there is an even nastier catch. The laws of physics state that things simply cannot be destroyed and cancelled out, so if matter and antimatter collide, and cancel each other out, there must be a release of energy to correspond with the cancelling out. The next catch: back in Year 12 physics (I loved physics) we learnt the calculations of how to work out the amount of energy that is released in a nuclear explosion. Now, I have those calculations somewhere in my collection of school notes, but it has been a very long time since I played around with them, so I would not be able to reproduce them for you for the purpose of this commentary.
The calculations for the nuclear reaction involves splitting apart atoms, but when that happens, the sum of the two separate atoms would be less than that of the original atom. That means that there was a loss of mass, and since mass does not, and cannot, simply disappear, it must turn into something. This is where the theory of quarks comes in. However the other theory is that the mass loss is turned into energy, and this is the energy that powers nuclear plants and causes whopping nuclear explosions. However, when you apply the same calculation to a matter-antimatter reaction, we don't have a minor loss of mass, we have a massive loss, and this massive loss results in a humongous bang. It would make modern nuclear weapons (apparently 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima) look tiny in comparison.
Hey, what I have written above could be completely wrong. I have not studied physics since 1995, and that was over 15 years ago. A lot has changed since then, and a lot of new ideas and theories have come in an superseded the old ones. However, one thing about scientists is that they do not like new ideas. They like expanding on old ones rather that throwing away the book and starting from scratch (and that is probably because it would involve too much work). However, it has happened in the past, with Planc and with Einstein. However, I think I will finish off here because I could probably write heaps more about physics, and in the end, it has a lot less to do with this book than is necessary. I simply wanted to say that an antimatter bomb would be one whopping great big bomb. ( )

The Bajorans are building a Federation Ambassador Class Starship in their Planet based shipyards. Of course, it's the Bajorans, so there are more factions for and against it than colors of the rainbow.

The Antimatter that's destined for the Starfleet ship, that's already been named Hannibal, gets taken and then taken through the wormhole. Of course, Dax, Sisko and Odo go after it, and they find it on a planet full of bugs. Ugh, what is it with all these Star Trek stories with bugs in them?

It's an interesting novel and I have to say, it, for the most part, had most of the canon facts correct (though Nog was a bit nicer than he usually is) and the story didn't take long to get into, which can be a problem with some of the Star Trek novels. And, something that happens even less often, I found myself wondering about the futures of some of the non-canon (i.e. not on the TV show) characters and that almost never happens. This is a solid three star book, almost knocking on the door of four stars. ( )