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Rating:  -
I've read easily over a hundred Star Trek novels throughout the years, mostly while during my college years. I continue to read them here and there when I get time. In general, I love the characters and find them a good read, or I wouldn't keep reading.
With this book, I think the overall story is good, but I do have some criticisms. First, there are just too many characters. I ended up caring for none of them really. Some character development would have been nice, but with three crews it's a bit hard to find the time I suppose.
Another criticism was the Riker and Troy story line. Some parts of it had me rolling my eyes. It's not that I don't have sympathy for the characters dilemna, but rather I found his reaction to be out of character and hence unbelievable. Troi's behavior on the other had seemed consistent with her character but equally annoying.
And last, while some of the writing was good, I thought it was a bit inconsistent with some passages seeming amateurish.
These are just my opinions however. No offense to anyone who found it five out of five stars. I will download the preview for the next book in the series to my iphone before deciding whether or not to buy it.
Incidentally, this is the third disappointing Star Trek book I've read in the last two months. Too bad.
Rating:  -
I have progressed through several layers of Trekker-hood. Initially, I scoffed at Trek offerings beyond the orignal series cast. The seventh Trek film, featuring Captains Kirk and Picard, was my first exposure to the Next Generation. My fondness for all things Federation forced me to admit that I enjoyed it. I was hooked, and soon became enthralled by the superior story arc of Deep Space Nine. In short order, my love for Trek grew to include all of the television shows. But all series eventually end, and once Enterprise was cancelled, I tried to fill the sad and sudden void through reading. To my dismay, many of the authors seemed more interested in showing off their knowledge of science than in tearing off a ripping good story. The Star Trek: Destiny trilogy has decisively changed all that, and it begins with the first book, Gods of Night. Present here are extensively developed characters and cultures both familiar and brand new. Readers will encounter events separated by centuries--and sometimes millenia--but with a clear impact on one another. There are gasp-inducing encounters with arch enemies, genuine and serious moral dilemmas, exasperating political maneuverings, and finally, loads of ACTION!!!!! Star Trek: Destiny is no physics textbook; it's about multiple species trying to overcome their own frailties and survive the machinations of ruthless and implacable enemies. David Mack puts to work all of familiar features that true Trekkers crave to create an entirely new direction for the Federation to follow. Longstanding fans should find this trilogy, and the subsequent books that have sprung Athena-like from it, a joyful addition to the canon.
Rating: -
I've watched all of the Star Trek shows and movies and am old enough to have seen ST:TOS in first run as a kid, but I've never been real big on Trek novels. I've enjoyed some of the classics, such as SPOCK'S WORLD and FEDERATION, and even read some more recent novels, such as TAKING WING, the first in the Titan series, but I'm no more than a casual reader. This review is aimed at people like me.
You probably already know the outlines of the story: The Borg have for some reason decided attack Federation colonies, annihilating rather than assimilating their populations. Picard's Enterprise and Riker's Titan (yes, he has a command) become caught up both in trying to defend the Federation and in trying to discover why the Borg have changed their goals and how they have managed to slip deep into Federation space. Ezri Dax's Aventine (yes, she has a command, too) is investigating an old mystery that might have some relevance to fighting the Borg: How did the USS Columbia, a contemporary of Capt. Archer's Enterprise, end up wrecked in the Gamma Quadrant, much farther from Earth than it could traveled in two centuries at warp 5? The answers to all of the novel's mysteries apparently involve some heretofore undiscovered aliens who are advanced, shy, pacific, and not perhaps as bright as they think they are.
You might think that bringing together characters from Enterprise (Capt. Hernandez of the Columbia was a colleague and sometime lover of Capt. Archer), The Next Generation (Worf, etc.), Deep Space 9 (Dax), and Voyager (Tuvok) would be loads of fun. It's really not. When put together with a full cast of supporting characters, there are just too many people to keep track of, much less care about. When Mack focuses on individual characters, the result is sometimes engaging, as when he details Ezri Dax's insecurity in her new position, but it is sometimes unnervingly awkward, as when Ra-Havreii tries to follow through with his crush on Pazlar (two Titan officers), and sometimes jarring, as when he delves into well-meaning efforts by the Titan's XO and doctor to convince Troi to terminate her pregnancy. And then there's Beverly Crusher's pregnancy ... The combination of too many characters and too much Gray's Anatomy is not all that appealing to me.
Then there are the aliens -- the "new life and new civilizations" that are a must for any Star Trek tale. They may be able to do as many as six impossible things before breakfast, but they're wan, foolish, and disappointing, with not one-tenth the whoa! factor of the Borg or even the Q.
In any event, do not be fooled by the five-star reviews others have given: this novel is OK, but it is no classic. If you're like me, you will not be deeply disappointed, but you will still find yourself skimming some parts and rolling your eyes at other parts. Keep that in mind and you'll be fine.
Rating: -
I must say that first and foremost I am a Star Trek Voyager fan before I am a Star Trek fan. I have been restless that the publishers of Pocket Books have given lots of touches to Titan, DS9, and the TNG after Nemesis, but little or no attention at all to Voyager and "Enemey of my Enemey" with what was I thought to be the last of Voyager's relaunch novels. I am a little displeased they 'borrowed' Voyager's characters since then, but have yet to write another relaunch novel. One of the only reasons I even bought into the Destiny trilogy was because I was curious to see how events after Admiral Janeway's death in "Before Dishonor" played into and news of the upcoming Star Trek Voyager Full Circle novel. But things have shaped up in the Alpha Quadrant since Nemesis, and Destiny begins the long journey of devastating attacks of the Federation with the Borg, (using Voyager's experimental quantum slip stream for the Aventine, and transpahsic torpedoes for the Enterprise) as their last defense in defying their old foe. It's about time the Trek universe was shaken up. It's also a relief that this story is being told by the crews of the Enterprise-E, Titan, and the Columbia. It was only inevitable that with the Federation expanding and the Borg Collective that they would have to have a duo, and as Picard says "the clashing of civilizations has begun" changing forever the fate of the post Nemesis Trek universe.
Rating: -
I bought this book because of all the great reviews the Destiny Trilogy received. I only made it through 4 chapters before i ordered Mere Mortals and Lost Souls. This is a book even casual trek fans like myself should not miss. I hope that you enjoy it as much as i did.
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