This is a stand-alone prose novel, situated right after “Chain of Command” Parts One & Two episodes from ST-TBrilliant idea for a Star Trek novel!
This is a stand-alone prose novel, situated right after “Chain of Command” Parts One & Two episodes from ST-TNG and before “Emissary” from ST-DS9.
Captain’s Log:
The USS Enterprise-D is assigned to arbitrate the negotiations between the Cardassian Union and the Bajoran Provisional Government, after the unexpected annoucement by the Cardassian Civilian Detapa Council ordering to release the planet Bajor and all its population in that world and any other world in the Cardassian Union, along with retiring all military personnel. The diplomatic talks are celebrated at Terok Nor, an uridium ore processing space station orbiting Bajor.
The USS Oceanside, a California-class starship, is assigned to support assistance to the Enterprise-D in the additional mission of giving maintenance to the Terok Nor station and bringing medical help to the Bajoran population at the surface.
Senior Staff:
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Commanding Officer) Cmdr. William T. Riker (First Officer) Lt. Cmdr. Data (Operations Manager & Second Officer) Lt. Cmdr. Deanna Troi (Ship’s Counselor) Lt. Worf (Chief Security Officer) Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge (Chief Engineering Officer) Dr. Beverly Crusher (Chief Medical Officer)
Capt. Tamiko Hayashio (Commanding Officer) Dr. Tropp (Chief Medical Officer) Cmdr. Sarah McDougall (Chief Engineering Officer)
Guest Stars:
Constable Odo (Terok Nor Chief Security Officer) Kira Nerys Garak
LOST CHAPTER
This is indeed a “lost chapter” since this prose novel gives a link between ST-TNG and the beginning of ST-DS9 since it’s situated right after Capt. Jean-Luc Picard was tortured by Gul Madred during the events of Chain of Command and before that Terok Nor would become a Starfleet administered station and be called Deep Space Nine, which I think it’s a great idea for a prose novel in the Star Trek universe.
Where you have the introductions of known characters of Deep Space Nine before of taking their roles, along with reading about the decision of Chief O’Brien of leaving the Enterprise-D but also old minor characters of The Next Generation will return doing priceless cameos, and even character from the “future” of expanded universe prose novels.
PEACE SOMETIMES IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN WAR
After the debacle at Minos Korva where a Cardassian fleet was stopped by the strategy of Capt. Edward Jellico (at that moment in command of the Enterprise-D) the Civilian Detapa Council in Cardassian gives a totally unexpected order of retiring all military presence of the Cardassian Union in the Bajoran system and liberating all Bajoran population in any other Cardassian sector…
…however that order isn’t comply as smooth as you could hope, since the Cardassian Central Command gives indications of damaging all possible Bajoran resources and any Cardassian technology left behind…
…but the worse is that there are secret labour camps in other planetary systems where the liberation order will be changed to extermination process.
It’s up to the Enterprise-D and Oceanside crews to do their best in repairing Terok Nor station, finding the source of a provoked decease in Bajor’s surface, but also finding out about one of those secret camps where an old friend of Ro Laren is kept captive along with many other Bajorans.
Capt. Picard will have his hands full not only dealing with Gul Dukat but also with the now Legate Madred, a very uncomfortable reunion right after their previous torturing meeting. I would wish to have more presence in the story by Ro Laren, and while she does pivotal things in the novel, still I’d love to have her in a more relevant role.
Also, while Garak is on the cover along with Picard, they didn't share any scene and Garak isn't doing really much in the story. (I'd prefer a photo art cover instead of this artistic representation that I guess they don't need to pay to the actors to use them in the cover)
This is a The Next Generation novel but you will have the birth of Deep Space Nine too. Highly recommended for fans of both spin-offs of Star Trek....more
This is a tie-in novel of the numbered books from “Star Trek: The Next Generation” prose novel seriesThe first steps to develop a great character!
This is a tie-in novel of the numbered books from “Star Trek: The Next Generation” prose novel series.
Captain’s Log:
The USS Enterprise-D is ordered to send First Officer Commander William Riker to an away mission to the planet known as “Paradise” due his familiarity with a scientist family assigned there and that they need assistance with a problem of dangerous animals. This coincides with the ordered posting of Commander Quintin Stone as temporary first officer, since he is a loose cannon, with disrespect to authority and no other starship captain is willing to take him.
Senior Staff:
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Commanding Officer)
Cmdr. Quintin Stone (Temporary First Officer)
Cmdr. William Riker (away on a mission)
Lt. Cmdr. Data (Operations Manager & Second Officer)
Lt. Worf (Chief Security Officer)
Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge (Chief Engineering Officer)
Dr. Beverly Crusher (Chief Medical Officer)
Wesley Crusher (Acting Ensign & Helmsman)
BEFORE MACKENZIE, THERE WAS QUINTIN
I wanted to read this novel since I was curious about the character of Quintin Stone since it’s clear that he was a prototype of the eventual Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of Star Trek: New Frontier, also created by Peter David.
And without a doubt, Quintin Stone was the first draft to the better defined and better developed Mackenzie Calhoun, even both have facial scars!
But, thankfully, Peter David did a better job with Calhoun, since Stone is interesting to read, I like better Calhoun.
FAIR ADVENTURE BUT NOT A GREAT MISSION
The book is a fair reading but nothing too awesome.
You have the Enterprise-D dealing with the reckless personality of Quintin Stone, and even sometimes I feel odd that the crew was so hostile to him keeping saying him in his face how good is Riker and how he would do the things better than Stone. I don’t think that the civilized and respectful crew of The Next Generation would act like that.
The other part of the story is Riker travelling to “Paradise” planet where a scientist family that he knows from his home at Alaska, and discovering that they were experimenting creating wild animals that become a menace to the research lab.
So, it’s well written (Peter David is my favorite Star Trek authot) but in this novel, there isn’t much exciting or epic challenges, resulting in a fair reading but nothing much spectacular.
Still, definitely it’s a relevant book, since it’s obvious that it was key to Peter David to play with the idea of the character and making the right adjustments for making it to work perfectly as Mackenzie Calhoun.
This a biography about Patrick Stewart’s real life
PICARD VS STEWART
I am huge fan of the character of Captain Jean-Luc PicarNot what I expected
This a biography about Patrick Stewart’s real life
PICARD VS STEWART
I am huge fan of the character of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and easily he’s my favorite TV character, I have like seven different action figures (eight if you count a Funko Pop) in my Star Trek collection, and also I like his performance as Professor Charles Xavier on X-Men franchise.
The first thing that I didn’t expect about this book is that the part when he is casted for Star Trek: The Next Generation didn’t appear but until more than half the book has already passed. I know that he wants to talk about his previous life, childhood, early works, etc… but it wasn’t that interesting (no offense) taking in account that it’s obvious that if people wants to read a biography about him, well, it’s thanks that he was Captain Jean-Luc Picard on TV, and I guess that I’d like to engage into the Star Trek part sooner in the book.
But what I didn’t expect at all, not in a million years, it was that he cheated on his two previous wives, first, he cheated on his first wife which he had two kids after a whole life together, and later with a second wife which he was married only like three years, he cheated again. I understand that the actor is one thing and his characters is another, but I never thought that Sir Patrick Stewart could cheat on his two previous wives, he admitted that those are his two biggest regrets on life, and well, that’s something to ponder about, but cheating is something that I don’t like at all. He is currently married with his third wife and I hope he’d learned the lesson already.
The stuff that he told about his phase working on Star Trek: The Next Generation, I already knew it through previous video documentaries that I watched and I didn’t get much further insight about it, even I expected to read something about the struggle in the middle of Third and Fouth seasons where there was a heavy salary negociation and he almost never returned to the TV series, and nothing was mentioned.
I thanked that the biography is so updated that he mentions his ternure on the recent Star Trek: Picard but it was too brief and the few stuff, I already knew it through internet articles.
So, the stuff about his childhood and theater career that I didn’t know, well I didn’t care that much (no offense again) or I didn’t approved (the cheating) and I could prefer doesn’t know (but I do appreciate his honesty about it and acccepting that it was his fault in both occasions) and the cool stuff (Star Trek and X-Men) was info that I already know, therefore I’d wish to rate better the book, but I think that 3-stars is my honest rate due the reading experience with the book.
Still, if you are really interested about Patrick Stewart real life beyond his iconic roles in TV and films, I am sure that this must be the best book in the market that you can buy.
This book is a tie-in prose novel of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”.
CANON OR NOT CANON
Always there is a gray area about the tie-iBajorans clash!
This book is a tie-in prose novel of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”.
CANON OR NOT CANON
Always there is a gray area about the tie-in novels in a franchise if those are canon or not, since at best what they do is writing stories that basically don’t contradict anything showed in the films or TV series, however, the problem arises when after being written the novel, something is developed in the films or TV series and it’s impossible to keep valid what was written in the tie-in novel. And even there is the situation when they make canon prose novels (or comics) and something written there complicates the continuity of some past tie-in novel.
AND believe it or not, it can also happen that a new film or TV series leaves some prose canon works, giving back the continuity of a past tie-in novel.
Hard to follow, right?
Well, there is the case of this very tie-in novel, due the situation of using a major guest character to Ro Laren (first introduced in Star Trek: The Next Generation, as a Starfleet officer and later she decides to join the Maquis, a rebel group against the Cardassians) that the initial plans were that the character will pass to then incoming Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and serving as first officer of the space station, but Michelle Forbes (the actress who portrayed the character) didn’t accept the offer and then the character of Kira Nerys was created to substitute her.
But the temptation of having Ro Laren in DS9 was quite a lot and this tie-in novel appears and everything goes well, until the “Relaunch” novels (DS9 novels then accepted as CANON in the future after the ending of the TV series, and there, they eventually put Ro Laren (again a Starfleet officer and now a captain) as commanding officer of DS9, but then it was stated that it was the first time that Ro Laren and Kira Nerys meet, therefore leaving this very novel as totally non-canon…
…BUT!!!…
…in Star Trek: Lower Decks was established that Kira Nerys is still commanding officer of DS9 and in Star Trek: Picard was established that Ro Laren is again a Starfleet officer, so the Relaunch novels were changed to be considered an alternate universe and THIS VERY NOVEL return to the merry gray area of tie-in novels that they aren’t totally canon but nothing there contradicts it… once again.
DESPERATE TIMES MADE UNUSUAL ALLIANCES
Bajor is attacked with a contagious plague that Bajorans soon enough started to call “The Wrath of the Prophets” and Kai Winn ask for help to Captain Sisko and the crew of DS9.
Then, while Dr. Bashir is quite busy trying to find a cure, a couple of unusual alliances are forged to find clues to the origin of the plague (that it was established that came to Bajor through infected generic matter to be used in tampered replicators)…
…Captain Sisko uneasly joins Quark to go to Orion space aboard the Defiant and find the illegal vendor who provides the matter and replicators…
…while Kira Nerys reluctanly joins forces with Ro Laren, on the surface of Bajor through old mates of Kira during the Cardassian occupation, to find the clues of whom bought the so-called compromised matter and tampered replicators which originates the deadly plague on Bajor.
Initially the plague was only affecting Bajorans but Morn (the usual client at Quark’s) is presenting the illness, provoking a new level of threat, one, not only Bajorans are susceptible to the virus, and two, DS9 isn’t quaratined anymore to the plague, leaving no place safe to go.
Ro Laren is one of my favorite Star Trek characters, therefore it was a really cool reading!...more
This book is a tie-in prose novel of “Star Trek: The Original Series”.
GOOD BOOK BUT PREDICTABLE MYSTERY
This is a Star TElementary, Dear McCoy!
This book is a tie-in prose novel of “Star Trek: The Original Series”.
GOOD BOOK BUT PREDICTABLE MYSTERY
This is a Star Trek story but using a detective angle since Captain Kirk must investigate a couple of murders in not other than the Vulcan Academy Hospital…
…and the clock is ticking since Spock’s mother can be the next victim!
I enjoyed a lot reading this novel but since the beginning my prime suspect was at the end the real culprit (no, I won’t spoil it) and it’s not like I am such great detective but I guess that after reading Sherlock Holmes and Hercules Poirot, a murder mystery at Star Trek wasn’t the challenge that I expected.
However, as I told you, this a very well written book, where you can appreciate it as a “sequel” to the events of the classic episode “Journey to Babel” and “Amok Time” where you can enjoy to read how Sarek is already comfortable with Spock’s decision to go to Starfleet but also how Kirk and T’Pau can understand each other after their lastest clash. Also it’s cool to have Dr. M’Benga at least as a minor character here (that since his cast role in Strange New Worlds, he became a popular character) interacting a bit with Dr. McCoy.
An Enterprise crewmember is mortally wounded and his only option is an experimental medical procedure at the Vulcan Academy Hospital and since the Enterprise will be on repairs for several weeks, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy take the crewmember to be attended there, but soon enough patients are starting to die at the Hospital and the unthinkable is happening…
…murders at Planet Vulcan!
And since Vulcan society isn’t used to have such violent crimes anymore, there isn’t any police force able to handle such kind of investigation, so Captain Kirk needs to become a detective.
This book is a tie-in work and the first original prose novel of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”.
GOOD The human adventure…continues once again!
This book is a tie-in work and the first original prose novel of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”.
GOOD POINT TO SET THE STORY
The story is set during of the first season of the TV series, between the episodes The Serene Squall and The Elysian Kingdom, which I think it’s a great point to locate the book since it’s almost at the end of the season, therefore the characters have been already well developed and their interconnections have been well established, moreover the whole crew (main and recurrent) doesn’t have any change in its status quo yet, so all of them are available to be used in the story.
A STRANGE NEW WORLD INDEED
If you want a story to exemplify the title of the spin-off TV series, well, you couldn’t ask for a better one since the world in the story is without a doubt a “character” for the story to work, not just someplace where the characters landed, also it’s a new one since it’s a planet never used before and certainly it’s one of the most strange worlds to be created in the franchise (and that’s to say a lot).
And the coolest thing is that the world is the conception of the Skagarans, an alien species appearing in North Star, an episode of the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise. I always liked when an author finds a cool way to call back a species already used in the franchise but not exploited enough or in this case, only appearing once previously. Moreover, John Jackson Miller (a good sci-fi author with already other works in this franchise but also in Star Wars too) showed a good knowledge of the lore of the franchise using nods to other stuff in the franchise like movies but even making connections to his previous prose novels in the franchise which I always liked when an author made that.
TECHNOLOGY…NO MORE!
A key element in the Star Trek franchise always has been the technology, therefore when the USS Enterprise meet a world where the technology just doesn’t work, you can bet that the challenge to success will be high and quite complicated.
A landing party, made of Captain Pike, First Officer Una, Mr. Spock and Cadet Uhura, crashlanded and got separated, and they have to employ all their survival training but specially knowledge of the past when technology wasn’t so attached to the everyday life, to make their own journeys through a patchwork hostile world, to find themselves once again.
Moreover, the rest of the crew desperately need to find a way to help their lost crewmates, with the crutial dificulty that the starship can’t get near to the planet of they may suffer the same fate of the crashlanded shuttlecraft.
I think that, since I am not too fond about stories where the cast is separated, and one of the things that I love about Star Trek franchise is how the crews work together while trying to solve a problem, could be reasons to make me difficult to enjoy to the fullest this cool first prose novel of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, oddly enough once they got reunited again, I think that the story should be solved more quickly and it’s like lasting more than it should at the “climax”, but definitely is a really great book that a Trekker can enjoy fairly enough.
This book is the second one in the “Coda” trilogy. Each book is written by a different author.
LITERARY CLOThe end of an era… finally concludes!
This book is the second one in the “Coda” trilogy. Each book is written by a different author.
LITERARY CLOSURE
In this Coda trilogy, three different authors, Dayton Ward, James Swallow and David Mack wrote each a book, and without a question they are part of the best authors of expanded universe in Star Trek, however in my personal taste, it was a bummer that Peter David didn’t write any of those three entries, since he is my favorite Star Trek author, where easily five of my personal top ten favorite Star Trek novels were written by him, curiously the odd numbers if I define them in order or preference, but also I understand that Peter David has been too focused on his own Star Trek spin-off New Frontier, so it’s quite logic to select authors more involved in the big picture of the expanded universe of Star Trek that it’s given a closure in this Coda trilogy.
As I already commented in previous reviews of the first two books, I am truly glad that the Star Trek expanded universe didn’t lose totally its canon status but technically deviate to a reality happened in an alternate timeline, that honestly is a better option than turned them into “legends” as happened with the expanded universe novels of Star Wars, since “legends” sound like something that didn’t occured per se.
ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
Many heroes have fallen (no, I won’t spoil which ones) and many others are falling here in this final entry, and nobody is safe since the crews of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine (there are very few characters of Voyager due the way that that spin-off ended in its own expanded universe saga) come to the grimm conclusion that their reality isn’t meant to continue that there is a “prime reality” with bette chance to survive, therefore, they will do anything in their power to save that “prime reality” even if that means that they won’t continue to expand anymore (certainly a powerful and creative way to give sense why the new TV series have different events than the ones evolved in the expanded universe novels).
They will die to give a chance to survive to the TV & Film timeline.
However, the Devidians are insidious enemies and it won’t be easy to find a way to defeat them, since now they aren’t the only foes to be worry about but also…
…THE BORG!!!
Since, they find out that their “literary” timeline “expanded” due the events on Star Trek: First Contact, where the events after that in Insurrections and Nemesis plus the active TV series back then happened relatively the same, but obviously right after Nemesis, the “prime” TV & Film reality and the literary expanded reality started to deviate in huge proportions and now only the TV & Film reality is the one with a fair chance to survive.
Obviously, in the book they don’t refer those realities as “TV & Film” of “literary”, I am choosing to refer to them in that way, since it’s a lot easier to understand. I am truly glad that William Riker is “cured” and getting back as a hero instead of an antagonist, since he is one of my favorite characters and I wouldn’t enjoy to have him as foe in the final book of the expanded universe.
What I find sad is that the USS Enterprise-E didn’t play a role in this third book since, again, it’s the final entry of the expanded universe, so having Captain Jean-Luc Picard using another starships is kinda bummer.
However, in general, it’s an exciting book that gives (along with the other two novels in the trilogy) a respecful closure to the awesome expanded universe that many outstanding authors wrote giving to the universe of Star Trek an amazing bunch of adventures meanwhile there wasn’t any project on air during those many years.
This book is the second one in the “Coda” trilogy. Each book is written by a different author.
EVERYBODY IS INVITEDThe end of an era… continues!
This book is the second one in the “Coda” trilogy. Each book is written by a different author.
EVERYBODY IS INVITED!
The saga giving a closure to the Star Trek expanded universe continues.
Certainly this trilogy is offering a better way to deal with the “canon” topic of prose novels to the Star Trek franchise than the decision made with Star Wars where they just relegated its prose novels (not all of them) to a status of “legends” leaving them totally non-canon, however in Star Trek cleverly they are using this very saga to explain that they exist in a different parallel universe, at least the books about the 24th century set after the events of the ending of the previous TV series and films, since nowadays with the existence of Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Prodigy, even Star Trek: Lower Decks (in the case of Star Trek: Discovery isn´t affecting so far), the lives of characters like Jean-Luc Picard, Kathryn Janeway, Benjamin Sisko and their crews are now totally different in comparison with their adventures during the so-called “expanded universe”.
Another cool thing is that everybody is invited to this closure since in this second novel you get references not only to Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager but also to Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: Enterprise, along with even Star Trek: Lower Decks. Some elements are widely exposed, others are some brief reference, but all of them are there.
THE STAKES IS HIGHER AND HIGHER
The Devidians, villains that appeared in ST:TNG in the two-parter episode “Time’s Arrow” are proving to be one of the most dangerous threats ever faced by any Star Trek crew, since they are putting at risk the very existence of not only this literary universe at hand but also multiple parallel universes, even time-manipulating races like the Krenim aren’t able to stop the Devidians.
Captain Picard and Wesley Crusher aren’t getting the assistance expected from Starfleet Command so they are leaving with not other choice than dealing the menace of the Devidians themselves, becoming renegades, with the support of a small group of friends and allies, including Captain Sisko and his former crew…
…BUT…
…William Riker isn’t one of those friends or allies! Maybe this is the only one thing that I didn’t enjoy in this second book, since while there is an explanation of why Riker is acting that way, still I am not thrilled with the concept of having Riker as an antagonist in the story (not a villain, but certainly a fearsome antagonist).
Since this is the ending of the so-called “expanded universe”, in the first book many characters died, most of them were literary characters created during the expanded universe but there was one truly big and important of the characters from the TV series, and in this second book, the deaths continue, where you have even more characters from TV series dying and not limiting to characters but also iconic elements of the franchise are no more.
The stakes are higher and higher since this the end of a (literary) era!
This book is the first one in the “Coda” trilogy. Each book written by a different author.
ALL GOOD ENDGAMES THAT YOU The end of an era… begins!
This book is the first one in the “Coda” trilogy. Each book written by a different author.
ALL GOOD ENDGAMES THAT YOU LEAVE BEHIND
I am truly glad of the TV series Picard but I don’t understand why they had to set the TV series in a date coliding with the one used on the expanded book universe (Relaunch novels). I think that they could easily put the TV series like 5 years in the future, leaving breathing space for the expanded book universe to close their own storylines…
…BUT…
…they didn’t do it that way and that provoked that the expanded book universe wasn’t canon anymore, but at least they turned it in a parallel universe and not “legends” like in another certain popular sci-fi franchise.
Star Trek: Voyager wasn’t greatly affected since they had time to make their own planned ending, it was clear that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine still had some stories to tell; but the real affected one was Star Trek: The Next Generation since the expanded book series was starting a new narrative era where the series was exploring a vast new sector.
At least they are making this Coda book event to have a proper closure of this expanded book universe.
And so far I understand the future of TNG, DS9 and VOY new novels will be to publish new adventures BUT set in the time of their TV seasons. That’s not something really bad but certainly is sad to witness the end of this wonderful and exciting expanded book universe.
TIME TO END, NO ONE IS SAFE
This Coda trilogy is a book event taking to a closure the main three 24th Century Star Trek expanded book series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, dealing with a threat menacing the fabric of time itself and the very existence of not only this expanded book universe but also several other parallel realities.
An unlikely foe from the past appears again and the whole multiverse is in real peril of disappearing.
But, also a friend from the past returns to help our heroes.
There are many situations but the main narrative in this first novel of the event is focused in the crews of the USS Enterprise-E and the USS Aventine.
However, since this book event is properly ending the expanded book universe, no character is safe, not only the obvious secondary characters only existing in books but even main characters from the former three TV series.
I understand that they want to make it an event with impact, and some meaningful death always helps to make memorable a crisis, but I don’t like when too many characters starting to fall like flies in big way.
Death isn’t the only way to end a book series…
…since Life goes on.
I do hope that in the other two novels from this event, they’d be able to make a more creative way to give a worthy closure, to the expanded book universe, beyond of just killing characters for not being used by other authors later. ...more
A good companion to Star Trek: Picard - First Season
A MISSION OF MERCY... THAT NOBODY WANTS TO DO
This is a tie-in novel for the current (MarchA good companion to Star Trek: Picard - First Season
A MISSION OF MERCY... THAT NOBODY WANTS TO DO
This is a tie-in novel for the current (March 2020) Star Trek: Picard TV series, setting while he was leading the mercy mission to take Romulan Empire's refugees to planets out of the incoming Romulus' Sun going into supernova.
You can read about the troubles in both sides of politics that Picard has to face since not only from the Federation, there are many people against to give so many resources to this situation, since also powers from the Romulan Star Empire are struggling to this event.
You can read too about why and how the Synths risen in the Federation a much needed workforce.
The only thing that I was sad that I couldn't read was about the Artifact project, since that was what I was most interested to know about.
However, this novel is still a fair good reading if you are looking for some insight in the background of the new streaming series.
Due events on the novel Control, with actions made by Dr. Bashir along with Section 31's under trial and space adventure!
SECTION 31 IS FALLING
Due events on the novel Control, with actions made by Dr. Bashir along with Data and Lal, it seems that the secretive Section 31 is finally under the light of the entire galaxy and influent Starfleet admirals like Ross, Nechayev, Jellico and Nakamura are put under arrest and waiting trial...
...but not all people will be comfortable with just a day in court...
...willing to take more dramatic...
...and deadly...
...actions!
The moral values that helped to make the Federation are shaking with sad consequences.
Even Captain Jean-Luc Picard is questioned due his involment in what resulted in a Section 31 operation taking down a corrupt Federation president...
...but Picard didn't know that Section 31 took further actions after his involment in the operation changing totally the situation.
MORE SPACE ADVENTURE
However, while the heart of the Federation is in turmoil...
...the USS Enterprise-E and its new deep space mission encounter a massive space vessel...
...but while they are investigating the purpose of that said ship...
...they got under attack of scavenging space cruisers interested in claiming what the massive vessel might offer...
...however, what the massive vessel is offering can be more than anyone can handle!...more
Dr. Julian Bashir's history with the insidious Section 31 has been rocky and dark, and his personal and professional life has Section 31's climax!
Dr. Julian Bashir's history with the insidious Section 31 has been rocky and dark, and his personal and professional life has turned into irreversible paths.
But something is clear for him...
...Section 31 must be stopped!
And he has tried once and again, without real success.
This time, he will find out about the REAL brain behind the operations of Section 31 and it turns too big for him to handle...
...therefore he will get unexpected assistance from familiar faces of TNG to deal with his most perilous mission trying to destroy Section 31 once and for all.
This is quite an unusual book of Star Trek not only since you get it from the perspectivA book inside of a book!
WAR IS WRITTEN BY THE VICTORS!
This is quite an unusual book of Star Trek not only since you get it from the perspective of the Klingons (several years before that such angle would become more often), but also because this is "novel" inside of this very novel.
The USS Enterprise crew during a shore leave met a novel recounting how the Klingons saved the Federation from insidious action by high officials of Starfleet, and the reading of such became soon enough a trendy topic on the vessel.
Even a relative of Dr. McCoy and a young Spock can be found in the pages of the said novel.
Due that the real book was written several years ago, some stuff about Klingon culture and its historic development have changed in the various TV series, but since the tale is a "piece of fiction with creative license", you can argue that those "incongruities" can be intentional for purposes of storytelling.
A daring "chess" game with "living pieces" is played in the space scenario, lasting decades with the clear target to find a most-needed balance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire to avoid an open out war.
This novel is quite relevant since it was the first stone to build the modern image of the Klingon culture and its sense of honor.
This is the third book in a trilogy titled “String Theory”, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of “Star TrThe String Theory trilogy comes to an end!
This is the third book in a trilogy titled “String Theory”, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of “Star Trek: Voyager” (in 2005), each book written by a different author. The whole story is set after events of the TV Fourth Season Finale (“Hope and Fear”) but before the events of the TV Fifth Season Premiere (“Night”) of the original run of the “Star Trek” Spin-off TV series.
CHOICE AND CHANCE
The crew of USS Voyager never has been so fragmented and wounded!
A key member is brain dead! Another is trapped in another dimension! And other two are stranded!
The remaining crew of the Voyager will need to get the better of its lower ranks to fill the huge void provoked by the absence of four senior staff, along with making anything possible to make its family a whole again!
The secret about the Monorhan System is out!
And the whole existence in the universe is risk!
Any choice causes consequences, that its outcome can be altered by chance. A constant about the mechanics of the balance in the universe, along with other dimensions.
And now is clear that Captain Janeway should leave alone the Monorhan System!
The consequences of the actions of the USS Voyager at the Monorhan System isn’t only affecting the future of the Nacene, but also is coming to the attention of higher powers, since the very fabrics of existence and reality are in risk to be no more, and while maybe humanity is too insignificant to realize the gravity of its actions…
…superior beings definitely will be affected in the long term of things.
Surprising and priceless appearances of very dear characters!
This isn’t just another literary event…
…this is the Tenth Anniversary Event of Star Trek: Voyager!!!
This is the second book in a trilogy titled “String Theory”, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of “Star Trek: VThe String Theory trilogy continues!
This is the second book in a trilogy titled “String Theory”, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of “Star Trek: Voyager” (in 2005), each book written by a different author. The whole story is set after events of the TV Fourth Season Finale (“Hope and Fear”) but before the events of the TV Fifth Season Premiere (“Night”) of the original run of the “Star Trek” Spin-off TV series.
NACENE STRIKES BACK!
Just when Captain Kathryn Janeway and the crew of the USS Voyager thought that their adventure in the Monorhan space system has finished…
…it was just beginning!
And members of one of the species that affected the most the fate of Voyager is back!
The Nacene!
The same powerful alien species that The Caretaker (the responsible of bringing the Starfleet and Maquis crews along with their ships to the Delta Quadrant) and Suspiria (The vengeful mate of the Caretaker).
Few alien species aside of the Borg and Species 8472 fill with fear and caution to the crew of Voyager than meeting once again a Nacene.
And this time, it’s a Nacene with an insidious agenda and with powers so great that she’ll be able to make believe that she has been a member of the crew, and not only any member but…
…Phoebe Janeway… Kathryn Janeway’s sister!
“Phoebe” altered the memories of the crew along with the main computer databanks and nobody, not even Captain Janeway will have any doubt that “Phoebe” has been since the beginning of their epic journey through the Delta Quadrant.
However, that’s just the half of their problems, since Lt. Cmdr. Tuvok has been “summoned” by a mysterious entity to go to a large space array, full of secrets and danger!
This time the crew of USS Voyager won’t be able to remain unscathed or…
This is the first book in a trilogy titled “String Theory”, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of “Star Trek: The String Theory trilogy begins here!
This is the first book in a trilogy titled “String Theory”, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of “Star Trek: Voyager” (in 2005), each book written by a different author. The whole story is set after events of the TV Fourth Season Finale (“Hope and Fear”) but before the events of the TV Fifth Season Premiere (“Night”) of the original run of the “Star Trek” Spin-off TV series.
WELCOME TO MONORHAN SPACE
After the huge disappoinment involving the supposedly USS Dauntless and the insidious revenge of Arturis, the general morale onboard the USS Voyager is quite down and Captain Kathryn Janeway is more than reluctant to divert their course to Earth for any curious sensor signal or space phenomenon…
…it’s time to focus in their challenge to reach home as soon as possible…
…but Janeway is more than anything…
…a Starfleet Officer…
…and her duty is to offer help to others and her innate scientific curiousity take the best of her…
…when a humongous space ark with an odd propulsion system almost collide in front of Voyager after taking a small detour to analyze something that shouldn’t be scientifically possible…
…a planet sustaining life orbiting a white dwarf…
…Captain Janeway soon offers help to the peculiar crew of the strange vessel, but…
…the road to hell is paved of good intentions, and Janeway ignores that her offering of assistance will lead to a catastrophe…
…also, the communication between Starfleet personnel and the new species won’t be easy, since those uses a “secondary speech system” that universal translator is unnable to process…
…moreover, the space system works with physics’ rules totally different than anything that Starfleet has ever encountered before, making impossible the warp travel there, along with the threat that a single moment without energy shields can provoke havok onboard Voyager.
Never the Voyager’s crew has ever been more pressed up, literally without chance of sleeping, each senior staff member will have to work without rest, having to think totally out of the box, and even having to implement extreme measures, for not saying that some of them, with totally opposite personalities, they will have to learn how to work as a team in levels that they never thought possible…
…with the fate of an entire civilization in their hands!
This particular Star Trek prose novel became quite popular at its time of publicatiGoing truly where no has gone before!
THE SKY IS... SOARING!
This particular Star Trek prose novel became quite popular at its time of publication, to the point that it was adapted to a TV episode BUT for Star Trek: The Next Generation in the episode Where No One has Gone Before, that it became a key episode about the character of Wesley Crusher and his future role in the franchise.
Diane Duane, the author, she possess an amazing imagination for the creation of non-humanoid aliens, that since it's a prose novel, why limit it to humanoid-like alien, that it's understandable due the limitation of fx and budget for a TV series previous to CGI technology,...
...but in a prose novel?
Sky is the limit!
Diane Duane wrote one of my top favorite Star Trek novels, Dark Mirror, using the TNG crew and employing the Mirror Universe, way before that it would be re-introduced in DS9, and in there, she created an awesome dolphin-like alien.
Here, in The Wounded Sky, she created two cool aliens, one traditionally humanoid-like, but the other is one cool medusa-like alien which is the center character in the story.
WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE
The Hamalki, are an alien race, so smart than even Vulcan have troubles to keep up with their experiments in "creative physics", and K't'lk is one member of that alien race and she is developed an "Intergalactic Inversion Drive" which would allow to a regular Warp-powered starship to reach other galaxies in few hours.
The USS Enterprise has been chosen to test the revolutionary engine, and the plans are to reach the Magellanic Clouds, just outside of the Milky Way. Spock and Scotty are assigned to assist to K't'lk in the installation and execution of the Intergalactic Inversion Drive on the Enterprise.
Such daring tech project was hard to keep in secret and the Klingon Empire sends an entire squadron of battlecruiser to attack the Enterprise and steal the advanced engine.
However, that military menace is the least of troubles for Captain James T. Kirk and his crew, since while the engine works as expected, there will be unpredictable after effects, as well in the inner senses of the crew, as in the outer fabric of time and space.
Boldly going where no one has gone before, never has been so literal and never has been so dangerous to the entire universe...
It’s highly recommended to watch the TV episode “The Conscience of the King” from “Star Trek: The OrigiThe sequel to “The Conscience of the King”!
It’s highly recommended to watch the TV episode “The Conscience of the King” from “Star Trek: The Original Series.
And if you like this novel, I can suggest to check "Star Trek: Discovery - Drastic Measures" by Dayton Ward, since it's a prequel related to Kodos, the Executioner.
LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER
A young James T. Kirk was spared to be part of the 4,000 people murdered in Tarsus IV due an insane drastic measure taken by the Governor Adrian Kodos to deal with an unexpected hunger crisis due an out-of-control fungus plague in all food crops, reserves and even processors, since it was thought that Starfleet wouldn’t be able to arrive with supplies on time.
But James Kirk not only was spared but also he was able to look the face of the mysterious and seclusive, newly appointed governor, Kodos, along with other kids and inhabitants, where Thomas Leighton was a close friend of Kirk, and Kevin Riley, there were quite a few, but all were able to indentify Kodos if necessary, but since Kodos was declared dead after the Starfleet manhunt organized against the mad governor, that seemed not necessary…
…but was it Kodos really dead?
Year later of the traumatic event, James T. Kirk became Captain of the USS Enterprise, Thomas Leighton, a medical doctor in the Planet Q, and Kevin Riley, a Starfleet officer at the USS Enterprise under command of Kirk.
But the doubt about that Kodos was really dead surged again…
…and the murders surged again.
Kodos found a cruel twist of poetic justice and his daughter, Lenore Karidian, interned in a Federation psychiatric facility.
Now, years later of that second event about Kodos, right after the rocky maiden voyage of the USS Enterprise – NCC-1701-A dealing with the rogue Vulcan, Sybok, half-brother of Spock,…
…Captain James T. Kirk is assigned to assist Federation Ambassador Kevin Riley to mediate peace conferences between Pavak and Oyolo, two worlds in the same solar system, non-Federation but both asked the arbitration of the UFP to find a way to end a war between those two worlds.
In the middle of the Federation relief workers, there is a woman named “Lyla Kassidy” but…
…she isn’t other than Lenore Karidian!
And the murders surged again!
SCI-FI DETECTIVE TALE
This is a great Star Trek story since not only a sci-fi tale but also a detective novel since Captain James T. Kirk has murders performed in his own vessel and he needs to solve them as soon as possible if there is any chance to find a longing peace between Pavak and Oyolo.
Of course, you have to keep in mind that this is above all a Star Trek novel so…
…the who and how won’t be so easy to deduce.
The USS Enterprise-A crew is exploited in a good way where everybody has a moment to shine, Sulu and Uhura are maybe the less used, but even they have their fair share of spotlight in the narrative.
Spock and Scotty are in an away mission related to the peace talks, and they will have to deal with an insidious operation related to the murders aboard the Enterprise-A.
Meanwhile, Chekov as Security Chief is under pressure to conduct an investigation in the middle of a volatile diplomatic situation, along with the assistance of Dr. McCoy in the medical affairs of the murders and Kirk, as responsible of everything happened on his starship.
During the narrative you have priceless comments about iconic moments at the The Original Series, and even some amusing glimpses of the following The Undiscovered Country film.
The surviving diplomats, Kevin Riley, and obviously Lenore Karidian, everyone can be a suspect, and everyone could have an angle of benefit to the murders…
…but the whole peace future of an entire solar system is in the balance!...more
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