Rise Like Lions

Rise Like Lions is a novel in the Star Trek: Mirror Universe series. Written by David Mack, and released in, the novel brings the "Memory Omega" storyline running through the series (as well as the Pocket DS9 novels Warpath, Fearful Symmetry and The Soul Key) to a climax.

Summary

 * Solicitation blurb
 * ''In the Mirror Universe...


 * Miles "Smiley" O'Brien struggles to hold together his weary band of freedom fighters in their war against the overwhelming might of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. Each day pushes the rebels on $𝜇$ one step closer to defeat, but with nowhere left to run, the time has come to make their last stand.


 * Light-years away, Mac Calhoun and his Romulan allies harass Klingon forces with devious hit-and-run attacks. But Calhoun has a grander ambition: he intends to merge his fleet with the Terran Rebellion and lead it to victory–or die trying.


 * Meanwhile, a bitter feud threatens to shatter the Alliance from within. The old rivalry between the Klingons and the Cardassians erupts into open warfare as each vies for the upper hand in their partnership.


 * Manipulating events from its hidden redoubts, Memory Omega–the secret operation initiated by $𝜇$ a century earlier–sees its plans come to fruition sooner than expected. But striking early means risking everything–and if the revolution fails, Spock's vision for the future will be lost forever. 

Background information

 * The project was inadvertently revealed with the release of the previous Mirror Universe novel, The Sorrows of Empire, when it was featured as one of Mack's forthcoming projects. It had been expected that the story would have been approved by the release of that novel, but editorial reorganisation at Simon & Schuster, amongst other factors, had prevented that, and the reference was missed in final editing. The project was ultimately approved and contracted in, being announced as the release in Star Trek Magazine issue 154. Delays to the New Frontier novel, Blind Man's Bluff, brought the release date forward.
 * Rise Like Lions begins just after the events of the Pocket DS9 novel The Soul Key.
 * This novel features the mirror universe counterparts of K'Ehleyr and Selar. Both of these characters were played by Suzie Plakson. She played the former in and  and the latter in.
 * Of all the mirror universe counterparts of established characters featured in the novel, $𝜇$, $𝜇$, $𝜇$, $𝜇$ and $𝜇$ are the only ones to have appeared on screen.