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decent book but cant we have the focus on the main people of the enterprise please. there was to many caracters i didnt know or care to.
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If you enjoyed the trilogy "Destiny" then this is a must to read book. It is interesting to realized the possible effects of the whole borg ordeal in the Federation as not always it is just a manner of turning the page.
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This Star Trek novel is an interesting aftermath novel. This is the sequel the 3 part Destiny trilogy. Capt Picard and the Enterprise crew are tasked with providing relief for a Federation that has been devastated by a Borg annihilation effort.
What I liked most: minor characters such as Donald Wheeler, Arandis, and Peggy are brought to life. You know that before the Borg invasion they probably considered 20th Century Earth akin to the Dark Ages. They are having to grapple with the lack of food, potable water, and even antibiotics. The novel also illustrates that idealism is easy in prosperity. Picard must contend with planetary governments that want to secede from the Federation or fence in refugees.
What needs to improve: it didn't go far enough. I know I'm spoiled by nuBSGBattlestar Galactica: The Complete Series [Blu-ray]The novel did not really show the very best or worst that could be brought out in these situations. The dilemmas seemed to be too tied up in neat little bows(daughter wants to reach out to estranged father, colonists are happy with new planet, rebellious planetary governor sees the light, etc...) To give credit the writer did come up with a problem at the end with the Typhon Pact. This was a good enough teaser to make you want to read any sequels.
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I see other reviewers have spared me the need to be wordy. That said, I loved the story, mainly because it contained a gritty realism that made perfect sense in the aftermath of the Borg invasion. Federation citizens living in refugee camps is not something you normally expect to read about in a Star Trek novel, and I appreciated the fact that the author was unfraid to tackle the kinds of problems the Federation HAD to have been experiencing after this invasion.
And, yes, well, I liked the P/C. Sue me. We never got it in the series; I'm glad we're finally getting it in the books!
And, yes, well, I got to meet the author at Shore Leave this year. He's very nice to his fans, *and* he autographed my book. That counts for me.
Oh, and yes, well, I liked the cover. I especially liked the look on Worf's face. Credit for "cover art" was given to John Blackford; "cover design" to Alan Dingman. Not sure why such a distinction, but kudos to both for whatever their contributions.
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In this book, the Enterprise is detailed by Starfleet command to deal with "brushfire" situations closer to Earth in the aftermath of the victory over the Borg. Neither Picard nor Worf (Picard's new Number One) see this job that pretty much turns the ship into "neighborhood cop car" as all that honorable, given their history of being a front-line battlewagon. Then Dr. Beverly Crusher-Picard is sent off separately on a medical mission to refugee camps in a runabout. In the process, the Enterprise finds a ship from the destroyed planet Deneva that had been used by that world as an orbital museum until Denevan authorities do a hurried conversion of the old tub into a "lifeship" for a couple of thousand people. Until Picard's vessel discovers that ship, no one had known it had even been sent off from the doomed world, much less that it or anyone aboard had survived. As Star Trek has always done, there are allegories to the Earth we know all over this book. Like a quasi-"human rights" leftist zealot who is afraid that the refugee camps might look too much like prison camps. The fact that survival is the main issue involved is apparently moot to this spoiled purist bureaucrat. There's also no shortage of local grumbling reminiscent of the way German skinheads in the 1990s responded to Balkan refugees with a hostile "Auslander Raus!". The refugees themselves are no better--they're a lot like the pampered Americans who got brattish and petulant in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and to this day blame the whole thing (not neccessarily excluding the storm itself) on the klutzy George W. Bush. We get to meet a half-Vulcan officer who is the result of her human mother being impregnated in a fit of pon farr by her Vulcan father, then Dad disavows mother and child and takes a hike. This is bound to be a bit "say what?" to readers and viewers used to Mr. Spock's transcendent dignity--a Vulcan first committing rape, then doing the "deadbeat Dad" number. As a former Rochester N.Y. native (apparently so is author Leisner), I couldn't help but take notice that Crusher's runabout Genesee is named after my old hometown river. Although a lot of my former neighbors would say it's named after the beer.
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