Tag: startrek

I will try not to spend too much time on this book here since I'm rather pissed right now. When "Warpath", which was released in March 2006, ended it was quite clear in what direction the next book would go: the mirror universe and the whole story behind Iliana Ghemor. This book does at least the later, but leaves the first one open to the next books ... and that's my problem with "Fearful Symmetry" by Olivia Woods. The book doesn't really progress the story. It answers basically all questions you could have had about Illiah, but the actual timeline progression is veeery minimal. I guess I couldn't even spoil anything here even if I tried.

If you remember how the TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror" ended it had introduced a whole new universe to the world of Star Trek: The mirror universe, where everyone was more or less the evil counterpart of the universe Star Trek fans were used to. When 30 years later the Deep Space Nine episode Crossover) continued the plot, it just gave small hints of what happened in between and between the Enterprise double-episode In a Mirror, Darkly and "Mirror, Mirror". And this is exactly where the two "Mirror Universe" books, Glass Empires [OL] and Obsidian Alliances come in.

One of the longest story-lines in the Star Trek universe is definitely the one about those almighty beings called the Q. They, together with their most well known representative Q (portraid by John de Lancie), had their first appearance right in the first episode of the second Star Trek show: Star Trek: The Next Generation and since then appeared in not only a couple of other TNG-episodes (including the last one) but also in DS9 and Voyager. With Q & A Keith R.A. DeCandido extends the world surrounding the Q Continuum with another story that brings Q again down onto Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to finally explain some things.

Next book in my travel to Star Trek literature and again a TNG book. Death in Winter is set right after the end of Nemesis or even I guess after Trust yourself when all men doubt you, the last story in the TNG anniversary anthology The Sky's the Limit with Captain Picard trying to deal with his close friend and secret love (secret for whom isn't really the question here, I guess) transferring over to SF Medical.

So Star Trek: The Next Generation is now 20 years old (which probably makes it just a little bit last generation ...) and CBS and Simon & Schuster take this anniversary as an opportunity for releasing a couple of TNG-related books. The first one I got is Star Trek: TNG: The Sky's the Limit

The second book of the "Vulcan's Soul" trilogy is once again a book for those of you out there, who might want to get to know the Vulcan people a little bit better. Or especially their history, for that matter. Luckily it's now also available as paperback, so you can save some money compared to the horrendously expensive hard-cover version

Another book of the Star Trek: Vanguard series finished "Summon the Thunder" is the second book after Harbinger and also continues only a few months after the end of the first book of the series and also integrates the Romulans into the story line.

"Star Trek: Vanguard" (VAN) is a new book series telling a story about a space station in the timeframe or Kirks first 5-year mission. Starbase 47 "Vanguard" is one of the latest space stations of the UFP build in a border region more or less between the Klingon and Tholian empire called the Thaurus Reach. And no: In my opinion this isn't really a DS9 clone. True, both are about a space station somewhere on the edge of known space etc. but while DS9 has Bajor to put most of its plot in relation to, Vanguard seems to live from the exploration of a whole sector but with more or less known enemies like the Klingons and the Tholians. But the plot will probably also introduce a new power ... In DS9 it was also very clear from the beginning, why the UFP wanted to get a foothold in this sector, while in VAN it's a secret that only the reader and some people of the command staff know about. VAN in my opinion smells more like a spy/thriller story to me than the more soap oriented DS9

First of all, sorry that there haven't been any reviews for the last 22 days, but I've been more busy with reading books and doing stuff for work and university than writing about books So at least you can now look forward (if you want to that is ) to reviews of "Daeadalus" and "Daedalus's children" by Dave Stern as well as "Missing in Action" by Peter David. If I find the time I will perhaps also write a short review of the first book of the Deep Space Nine Millennium series which I'm currently re-reading (because it took Amazon too long to deliver the third book of the "Worlds of Star Trek Deep Space Nine" series ).

All the "Worlds of Star Trek Deep Space Nine" books consist of two stories around one planet each. The first story of this book takes place on Cardassia where Chief Miles O'Brien and his family are trying to make a new home and helping the Cardassian people. During this story the reader also meets some other familiar faces like Garak and the former Gul Macet. Nice story but in my opinion nothing really special. Especially the ending somehow simply was too quick.