I feel like I have the same complaint with all the "Young Adult" books in this series. (I use the quotation marks there because these books are more suited for ten year olds, I reckon.) I get that the authors want the teen characters to go on exciting adventures, but those adventures are so ludicrous that it's hard to treat them with any credibility whatsoever. In this one Jake and Nog stowaway on a trip to Bajor, believing (quite rightly, as it turns out) that no one will notice Jake missing for several days because his dad's away from the station. Like Dax and Keiko O'Brien wouldn't be checking in on him regularly!

Anyway, down on Bajor they get involved in a kidnapping and a plot to assassinate a Vedek, and by routinely doing the stupid thing (i.e. not calling DS9 and asking for help) it all turns out alright. Maybe if I were reading this as a ten year old I'd have more sympathy for this type of thing, but I'm not and I don't. Which is a shame, because it seems like there should be plenty of scope for characters like Jake and Nog to have more realistic adventures, but they rarely do.