Dawn of the Eagles along with the first two parts of the trilogy Day of the Vipers and Night of the Wolves provides a nice backstory to the Star Trek Deep Space Nine series.

If you DS9ers ever wondered how the occupation of Bajor of the Cardassians took place, you can wonder no more. This series provides a good idea of what might have happened to the Bajorans and how things came about as they tried to get out from under the Cardassians and headed for their future with the Federation.

The books also give a bit of background on characters that were major players for both the Bajoran race and the DS9 series. ( )

I thought the final installment in the Terok Nor trilogy was stronger than the second, but still not up to the standards of the first. It didn't feel so much like a series of unconnected incidents as Night of the Wolves did, probably because there was actually an endpoint being driven to here, the Cardassian withdrawal from Bajor. (Also, there were less random members of the Bajoran Resistance who I did not care about.) It's somewhat hard to evaluate this book as a whole, since it's more like a series of isolated vignettes than anything else. Despite some good bits, the whole thing feels vaguely pointless-- the closer we get to the start of Deep Space Nine, the more we already know about what happened, and the less it feels like a story that actually needs to be told.