This is where I just completely gave up keeping the series sequence straight, especially taking crossovers and different timelines into account. There are even crossovers with Dr. Who or The Green Lantern. There is no particular sequence or ordering in the below table other than the order in which I read them.

	Title The Q Conflict Author Scott Tipton, David Tipton Illustrator David Messina Publisher IDW Publishing - 2019 First Printing IDW Publishing - 2019
	Title Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Fool's Gold Author Scott Tipton, David Tipton Illustrator Fabio Montovani Publisher IDW Publishing - 2010 First Printing IDW Publishing - 2010
	Title Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Too Long a Sacrifice Author Scott Tipton, David Tipton Illustrator Greg Scott Publisher IDW Publishing - 2020 First Printing IDW Publishing - 2020
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The Q Conflict

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Fool's Gold

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Too Long a Sacrifice

The Q Conflict - Q stories are always fun, even if the humour can very quickly degrade into something very dark. My favorite part though wasn't Q himself, but the fact that Q chose characters from four different crews, then had them all mixed up and sent back to their respective ships. So you have Kirk giving orders to people and going "...and whoever you are..." to O'Brien. Or Kirk going "Umm, excuse me, what's the Borg?". Seeing the different characters having to interact with each other, and having to learn the quirks of each other's ships and available tech. We also got to drag in a bunch of other powerful beings, Trelane, the Prophets, other Q we've met up with along the way, Guinan, Wesley Crusher as Traveller (who gets a very different ending compared to the Picard TV series). And of course, just little things like at the end Trelane has a horse and it's Picard standing around petting it. Unfortunately Quark was underused, I think he got a single line of dialog, you'd think there would be more to say when placed on Kirk's Enterprise, but then, only so many pages, which I felt also explained why the crews of the Enterprise went along with things so easily (plus at the start I think they were kind of having fun).

Fool's Gold - The premise was a little silly, suddenly a whole bunch of unsavory characters start coming to Deep Space Nine on "vacation". So the chanllenge is to figure out why they are all at the station for and how to finally get rid of them. But it made a pretty decent mystery trying to figure out what's going on. As in the next book, didn't love the artwork for all the characters but wasn't terrible.

Too Long a Sacrifice - I really liked this one, it would have worked perfectly as an actual episode. There is a terrorist attack on Deep Space Nine, followed by some murders and Odo is baffled until a Betazoid detective is sent, having a telepath on your side certainly helps make interrogating suspects easier! But everything flowed well, the perpetrator made perfect sense, the only thing I wasn't thrilled about was the artwork at times but a minor complaint.