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Not only Mere Mortals but the complete trilogy "Destiny" is great. The way that so many questions are answered regarding the borgs and how the whole ordeal is close is creative, sound and interesting. I will recommend this for every TNG fan even though the Picard that is presented is a shadow of the one I remember from the TV series...of course all fits according to the history but is the one thing that kept me sometimes wondering... this somber and pesimistic guy is just not the same captain I recall but the story is great.
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Although slightly darker than Book 1: Gods of Night, Book 2: Mere Mortals retains the excitement, the emotion, and the storytelling excellence that I've come to expect from works by Trek novelist David Mack.
The characterizations were genuine and the plot was captivating from page one onward. Mack has an impeccable understanding of the Star Trek universe and uses it to make the book come to life with believable dialogue and detailed narration. For instance, during a triage scene, the meticulous use of futuristic medical-babble made it seem like I was really in a 24th-century sickbay.
If you enjoyed the first Star Trek: Destiny novel, this book is for you! (If you haven't read Book 1: Gods of Night, do so before picking up this book.) Enjoyment is guaranteed.
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After the events in the first novel, I eagerly downloaded this book to my kindle. This book delivers.
This book is well written, David Mack knows what he's doing. The action is good, the plot development comes at a nice pace. The characters almost all interesting, though I cant help but feel a couple of them have lost some personality, that might be on account of the scope of the series.
Get this one, and the next one, it really is great.... I'm just not sure why they didnt put them all in one book?
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Middle entries in trilogies tend to be full of boring filler. Volume I raises the questions that will be answered in Volume III, leaving Volume II to do ... what, exactly? A successful Volume II deepens the story, answering a few of the questions raised in Volume I and posing some new ones. In the initial STAR WARS trilogy, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK does this successfully, and MERE MORTALS, the second entry in the STAR TREK DESTINY trilogy, does it as well.
The highlight of the novel is the thread focusing on Columbia NX-02 Captain Erika Hernandez's trials and travails as a captive of the advanced, insular, and annoyingly obtuse Caeliar. The extended focus on Hernandez, her disagreements with her Columbia crew mates, and her growing relationship with the Caeliar scientist Inyx gives the novel an emotional center that is lacking in the other novels. What she learns and becomes will prove pivotal in Volume III.
Most of the excitement in MERE MORTALS comes in a mission that finds Picard's Enterprise and Dax's Aventine working together. Having discovered the nexus of subspace tunnels that allowed the Borg easy entry into the Alpha Quadrant, the captains must either seal the tunnels or, failing that, explore them in hopes of bringing the fight to the enemy's home territory. In the process, they encounter some nasty aliens whose tactics will inadvertently give Dax a hint about how to deter the Borg in Volume III.
Overall, this was just an OK book, which is why I gave it a 3-star rating, the same rating I gave to Volumes I and III. If Amazon allowed us to rate products on a more nuanced scale, I'd give GODS OF NIGHT a 3.0, MERE MORTALS a 3.7, and LOST SOULS a 3.3 rating. Amazon doesn't, so 3 stars it is.
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Star Trek: Destiny, Mere Mortals, could not be a better continuation of the adventures started in book one. As one reads, the details of the story seems to come together slowly, boiling down to a specific idea/climax.
The characters are very real, with the author painting an authentic picture of how the Federation would deal with a threat to it's existance.
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