Fearful Symmetry Fearful Symmetry is a Pocket DS9 novel – part of the – written by Olivia Woods . Published by Pocket Books , it was first released in . Summary . Side One . During an Orb experience , Benjamin Sisko learns that every universe has its own version of himself – its own version of the Emissary of the Prophets . The Prophet s want the Emissary to discover the Bajoran wormhole in every universe . As the mirror universe ' s version of Sisko has apparently only faked his own death , the Prophets ask Ben to go look for him and have him discover the wormhole . On Deep Space 9 , Kira Nerys speaks to the mirror universe ' s version of Iliana Ghemor – and finds out that the counterpart of this our universe , Iliana Ghemor herself , is still a lookalike of Kira , i . e . altered to look Bajoran . She apparently lost her mind and killed Intendant , as she is obsessed with the thought that she is the only person to have the right to bear that name . The mirror Iliana offers her help to stop this madness . Kira and her crew start to trust mirror Iliana only slowly – but after investigations of all of Cenn Deska , Ro Laren , who still suffers heavily from the attack on her by Taran ' atar , and Quark discover that Kira indeed had been to Elemspur Detention Center during the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor – and that her memories there must have been transferred to Iliana . After having established a com - link to , in which his rebel - group is warned about Iliana , the link is broken and Iliana herself appears on screen , still looking exactly as Kira Nerys , threatening that she will kill Kira . Kira and Elias Vaughn manage to beam to the mirror universe – to stop Iliana and her madness . Unknown to the others , Vaughn is on a secret mission of Sisko ' s – he is to discover the mirror Ben Sisko in order to establish the discovery of the wormhole also in the mirror universe . While attending a military ceremony with her parents , Tekeny Ghemor and Kaleen Ghemor , Iliana Ghemor meets with her childhood friend Ataan Rhukal , to which she seems attracted . At the ceremony , she also notices the presence of a mysterious man named Corbin Entek ; Skrain Dukat and his cousin Akellen Macet are also present . She immediately hates Dukat for his words about Bajor and how to treat the Bajorans . Side Two . Soon after , she and Ataan become a couple , but finally , he has to leave for Bajor , serving as a security guard . Entek then first approaches Iliana to ask whether she wants to join the Obsidian Order – an offer she angrily refuses . Iliana receives letters from Ataan , depicting the situation on Bajor . First , he seems to be pleased by the progress he makes – but only until terrorist attacks increase and he struggles to understand the underlying reasons . Finally , her father tells Iliana that Ataan has died in one of these attacks . It is then when Iliana leaves the art school where she studied and decides to really become an agent of the Obsidian Order . In the next two years , Iliana undergoes a heavy agent training . During the last days , she kills her first victim – believing she is in a simulation . After the training , Iliana gets to know her mission – she is to infiltrate the Bajoran resistance by replacing a Bajoran resistance fighter named Kira Nerys . She learns that her memory will be " wiped away " ( but still will be restored after the assignment ) and she will be implanted with Kira ' s memories . She agrees to take the mission , knowing that she will not be herself for two years . However , after having been surgically altered and implanted with Kira ' s memories , she is held captive by Dukat , serving as a mere slave to him . During the last days of the Dominion War , Kira / Iliana , almost destroyed by Dukat ' s cruel slavery , finally manages to flee from the prison . Together with the Kressari Shing - kur , the Tellarite Zhag and the Romulan Telal , she manages to escape – but finds out slowly in the process that she is not Kira Nerys , because she discovers files of the Obsidian Order ' s training in the prison ' s computer system . And finally she regains all of her memories – being split between the resistance fighter Kira Nerys and the agent of the Obsidian Order , Iliana Ghemor , and obsessed with the thought that she is the only person to bear the name Kira Nerys . Characters . References . 2361 ; Cardassian ; intendant ; mirror universe ; mirror universe history