Hi Una! My question: is Enigma Tales ever going to get a sequel? Not sure if you're allowed to answer that. Also, Happy Halloween!

Hi there! The short answer is that the litverse which contained Enigma Tales wrapped up with the Coda trilogy, so it won’t get a sequel. The book range is now rebooted, which means that new books don’t take previous beta canon into account.

I did always have a third book in mind of what I thought of as a Cardassia trilogy (The Crimson Shadow, Enigma Tales, and this one), but that won’t happen now.

However!

My new book Star Trek: Picard - Second Self involves a certain, ahem, favourite character, and tells some of the story (albeit very recast) that I would have told in that final book.

Also: that final book (which is titled The End of This Day’s Business) is more or less completely plotted in my mind, and in fact I wrote 50k of it for my own amusement during winter lockdown 2020. It would have dealt with:

1. The nature of Garak’s activities under the occupation, and what would constitute justice.
2. A main plot involving Garak and Peter Alden on Ab-Tzenketh.
3. A subplot with Arati Mhevet and Akret carrying out an investigation on Bajor.
4. Natima Lang’s ascension to the castellanship.
5. Bashir’s attempts to grow roses.
6. And, finally and obviously, a resolution to the Garak-Parmak-Bashir story.

It’s all there in my head. I have no idea whether I’ll ever get a chance to finish it, or whether it could ever see the light of day, but in the meantime, everyone has the space and the freedom to tell their own version of events.