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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Losing the Peace
Fortune has smiled upon Lieutenant Jasminder Choudhury, chief of security on the USS Enterprise. She has survived. But her homeworld, Deneva, one of the planets targeted in the massive Borg invasion, has not. The entire surface has been wiped clean of everything, killing anyone who did not evacuate and rendering the planet uninhabitable. Choudhury is left to wonder whether her family was one of the displaced. Or are they all gone forever?
The Enterprise is just one ship, and Jasminder Choudhury is just one officer, yet her story is being repeated over and over across the galaxy. Hundreds of thousands of displaced persons haunt the space ways, seeking comfort, looking for someplace safe, somewhere, anyway to find solace. Captain Jean-Luc Picard is ordered to do everything he can to rescue and if need be to recover the lost souls from the Borg invasion.
For the first time in generations, citizens of the Federation know want, uncertainty, and fear. Bloodied yet unbowed, the Federation now stands on the edge of a precipice. The captain of the Enterprise finds himself in the unenviable position of wondering whether it is true that those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace.
The Enterprise is just one ship, and Jasminder Choudhury is just one officer, yet her story is being repeated over and over across the galaxy. Hundreds of thousands of displaced persons haunt the space ways, seeking comfort, looking for someplace safe, somewhere, anyway to find solace. Captain Jean-Luc Picard is ordered to do everything he can to rescue and if need be to recover the lost souls from the Borg invasion.
For the first time in generations, citizens of the Federation know want, uncertainty, and fear. Bloodied yet unbowed, the Federation now stands on the edge of a precipice. The captain of the Enterprise finds himself in the unenviable position of wondering whether it is true that those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace.
362 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 2009
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December 29, 2011
I hate it when Star Trek gets preachy. This is one of those books that shows no thought to cosmology, biology or any reasonable likelihood of occurrence. I took it as a lecture to the United States on its immigration policies. If the destruction that occurred in the previous ST stories had happened, there would be drastically different things happening. We are talking about well traveled worlds, not the frontier. There would be hundreds of commercial ships running around the star systems. System based law enforcement/search and rescue ships would be in Pacifica and Alpha Centauri systems. space habitats, mining facilities, orbital shipyards would be as plenteous. Only in the DESTROYED systems would the orbital infrastructure have been destroyed!
If a homeworld were destroyed, refugee ships would make for a colony world of their own species first. It makes sense. Biological needs such as medical attention would be better served by doctors familiar with one's own species than in a multispecies hospital. Think about the species in My Enemy My ally. No human could realistically live on those high gravity worlds that provided the crew of the Inaeu. Scientists say that there are ten's of thousands of Earth-like planets in the galaxy, supposedly. The overflow would be sent to a myriad of undercolonized worlds. They would attempt to use the Genesis Wave to recreate destroyed worlds. There should be thousands of civilian ships involved as well as planetary defense forces like we say in The Best of Both Worlds Part 2. This could have been a lot better if the edutors at Pocket tried for a touch more realism.
If a homeworld were destroyed, refugee ships would make for a colony world of their own species first. It makes sense. Biological needs such as medical attention would be better served by doctors familiar with one's own species than in a multispecies hospital. Think about the species in My Enemy My ally. No human could realistically live on those high gravity worlds that provided the crew of the Inaeu. Scientists say that there are ten's of thousands of Earth-like planets in the galaxy, supposedly. The overflow would be sent to a myriad of undercolonized worlds. They would attempt to use the Genesis Wave to recreate destroyed worlds. There should be thousands of civilian ships involved as well as planetary defense forces like we say in The Best of Both Worlds Part 2. This could have been a lot better if the edutors at Pocket tried for a touch more realism.
February 20, 2021
It's not quite as intense as it wants to be, and it's too busy being a pilot episode for the post-Destiny/Borg-free continuity, but it does manage to successfully launch nearly 10 years of new books that kept Trek fans very happy. It certainly sets the stage for the "Typhon Pact" series that follows, and even though this continuity has been set aside in the post-"Picard" universe, it was very worthwhile while it lasted.
January 9, 2024
Much like Keith DeCandido's A Singular Destiny, Losing the Peace by William Leisner serves as connective tissue between the Star Trek: Destiny trilogy and what comes next. Readers may be disappointed that there are no huge battles, no amazing feats of Starfleet derring-do, but to me, this is a strength of Losing the Peace. With a focus on the characters and their trauma, this novel is a thoughtful and poignant look at issues that are relevant to today's world. I feel like it would be easy for Losing the Peace to be forgotten among the larger "event" novels, but dismissing this story would be a mistake. The novel has a lot to say, and does a very good job of crafting a tale that becomes more relevant with each passing year.
Full review: https://www.treklit.com/2024/01/LtP.html
Full review: https://www.treklit.com/2024/01/LtP.html
January 17, 2013
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Losing the Peace by William Leisner was the other book I was reading during a day of being lazy and indulging pleasures while in the company of old friends. It is one of the books that remind me of episodes like “The Quickening” from DS9. It shows some of the aftermath of a war, it’s slow moving but it also shows off the character strengths and weaknesses.
Losing the Peace takes place after the Destiny Series and before the Typhon Pact books. It was one of the books that are a bit slow moving that is both important to the series progression and a stand-alone book. The book uses a couple threads. First there is Crusher and Kadohata go to Pacifica to help report on the conditions on the refugees. Second is how Worf wants to help his partner Choudhury get over her grief about losing her parents and the lost of all Deneva. Third is how Picard kidnapped two officials and brought them to Pacifica so they could see the conditions of the refugees first hand after they voiced more selfish concerns after the Borg.
I love character books/episodes especially if it’s a character that I like. I’m a huge fan of Beverly Crusher so I love how this book used her. It showed her compassion to medicine and even her fragility after Jack’s passing that nearly took her away from that career that helped her to resonate with refugees on Pacifica. The book also talked about Miranda Kadohata in the same thread and how hard it is on families when one parent has to leave to enter the course of duty. I also loved how Picard was used. He was back to normal Picard who was brazen at times. Plus loved how he used a quote from the Generations movie. And I loved Worf. He was back to being both a protective mate yet at the same time he was trying to be sensitive and not treading on her toes too much. It was the Worf I loved over the years on DS9. The one character that I hated was Trys Chen. She seemed like an immature and extremely narrow minded which really felt wrong since she’s a First Contact specialist.
I actually thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was so deep and well done. It wasn’t forced. It also felt like it parallels to the world right now without being preachy. I liked it a lot.
Losing the Peace takes place after the Destiny Series and before the Typhon Pact books. It was one of the books that are a bit slow moving that is both important to the series progression and a stand-alone book. The book uses a couple threads. First there is Crusher and Kadohata go to Pacifica to help report on the conditions on the refugees. Second is how Worf wants to help his partner Choudhury get over her grief about losing her parents and the lost of all Deneva. Third is how Picard kidnapped two officials and brought them to Pacifica so they could see the conditions of the refugees first hand after they voiced more selfish concerns after the Borg.
I love character books/episodes especially if it’s a character that I like. I’m a huge fan of Beverly Crusher so I love how this book used her. It showed her compassion to medicine and even her fragility after Jack’s passing that nearly took her away from that career that helped her to resonate with refugees on Pacifica. The book also talked about Miranda Kadohata in the same thread and how hard it is on families when one parent has to leave to enter the course of duty. I also loved how Picard was used. He was back to normal Picard who was brazen at times. Plus loved how he used a quote from the Generations movie. And I loved Worf. He was back to being both a protective mate yet at the same time he was trying to be sensitive and not treading on her toes too much. It was the Worf I loved over the years on DS9. The one character that I hated was Trys Chen. She seemed like an immature and extremely narrow minded which really felt wrong since she’s a First Contact specialist.
I actually thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was so deep and well done. It wasn’t forced. It also felt like it parallels to the world right now without being preachy. I liked it a lot.
August 21, 2014
In the stories that preceded this book, the Federation fought a terrible, bloody war against the Borg, and the Borg laid waste to numerous planets and did incalculable damage to the Federation in terms of both lives and ships. But the Federation prevailed in the end, the Borg were eliminated as a threat, and the Enterprise lost no major characters. So all is well, right? The world goes back to normal?
Of course not, but that's what we would normally expect in this sort of genre fiction. Death and destruction that doesn't directly impact our characters is usually ignored in subsequent stories. Not this time. This book looks at what happens after that devastating war; there are refugee camps of displaced citizens of worlds that were destroyed, and while only a tiny fraction of the populations of those worlds managed to escape in time, (maybe a hundred thousand or so out of billions for each world) that's still enough people to overtax the resources of the worlds that they are seeking refuge on. The Federation has lost so many ships that their resources are not up to the job of evacuating those refugees to new planets, or even keeping the peace when conflict breaks out between citizens and refugees on the afflicted planets. Survivors have lost family and friends, and suffer from survivor guilt, and hostile empires like the Gorn and the Romulans are potentially going to take advantage of the Federation's weakness if it focusses on humanitarian aid and rebuilding rather than maintaining its borders.
How the main characters deal with all of these issues is perhaps more of a test of their worth than how they deal with straightforward hostility and combat. It shows their mettle under long-term strain dealing with ambiguous situations in which there are no cut-and-dried answers to their problems, where they have to deal with moral ambiguity. Simply by addressing these issues, this book is several cuts above most in the genre. The fact that it actually does a pretty good job of examining them in a fair and balanced way makes it even better.
Of course not, but that's what we would normally expect in this sort of genre fiction. Death and destruction that doesn't directly impact our characters is usually ignored in subsequent stories. Not this time. This book looks at what happens after that devastating war; there are refugee camps of displaced citizens of worlds that were destroyed, and while only a tiny fraction of the populations of those worlds managed to escape in time, (maybe a hundred thousand or so out of billions for each world) that's still enough people to overtax the resources of the worlds that they are seeking refuge on. The Federation has lost so many ships that their resources are not up to the job of evacuating those refugees to new planets, or even keeping the peace when conflict breaks out between citizens and refugees on the afflicted planets. Survivors have lost family and friends, and suffer from survivor guilt, and hostile empires like the Gorn and the Romulans are potentially going to take advantage of the Federation's weakness if it focusses on humanitarian aid and rebuilding rather than maintaining its borders.
How the main characters deal with all of these issues is perhaps more of a test of their worth than how they deal with straightforward hostility and combat. It shows their mettle under long-term strain dealing with ambiguous situations in which there are no cut-and-dried answers to their problems, where they have to deal with moral ambiguity. Simply by addressing these issues, this book is several cuts above most in the genre. The fact that it actually does a pretty good job of examining them in a fair and balanced way makes it even better.
October 14, 2022
Reading this book in 2022 is an interesting experience compared to 2009.
The 2015 European Refugee Crisis is an obvious real world parallel. So is Brexit with the fact that the refugee crisis led to that event (or so certain groups claim). The book has a much happier ending, of course, because the people in the Federation are, by and large, much better people than the ones that exist in our world. Certainly, the idea of the government coming together in a crisis and doing their best to make the world a better place is something that I'm glad I can read about since we went through our own Borg Invasion with the nanites involved being significantly more deadly.
Here, though, I believe this is the best possible follow-up for STAR TREK: DESTINY. Just sort of skipping past the consequences is a time-honored Star Trek tradition but not something that is warranted in the case of such an apocalyptic set of books. Refugees, political dissidents, and xenophobia hit so much harder now. But I'm going to show what a selfish-selfish fan of Star Trek that this book REALLY hits hard because of STAR TREK: CODA.
T'Ryssa Chen, Choudhury, and so many other characters in these books are now dead. Worse, they never even existed thanks to the ravages of the Crisis on Infinite UFOPs. Which is a shame since these two have rapidly moved up to become my favorite characters in the Expanded Universe. Christine Vale came back to the "novelverse" thanks to Dark Veil but I haven't yet seen these two (and hope they do). It adds a sense of dread and moroseness to the tale. They're pulling through the worst tragedy in Star Trek history only for an even worse one to claim them in the end.
This doesn't hurt the book but actually adds to the power of it. It's a very low key book about finding survivors, helping refugees, and more -- giving ample character development time for the heavy focus on personalities as well as trauma. It reminds me of the best of DS9 where Kira and other characters dealt with the worst elements of the Occupation.
5 stars.
The 2015 European Refugee Crisis is an obvious real world parallel. So is Brexit with the fact that the refugee crisis led to that event (or so certain groups claim). The book has a much happier ending, of course, because the people in the Federation are, by and large, much better people than the ones that exist in our world. Certainly, the idea of the government coming together in a crisis and doing their best to make the world a better place is something that I'm glad I can read about since we went through our own Borg Invasion with the nanites involved being significantly more deadly.
Here, though, I believe this is the best possible follow-up for STAR TREK: DESTINY. Just sort of skipping past the consequences is a time-honored Star Trek tradition but not something that is warranted in the case of such an apocalyptic set of books. Refugees, political dissidents, and xenophobia hit so much harder now. But I'm going to show what a selfish-selfish fan of Star Trek that this book REALLY hits hard because of STAR TREK: CODA.
T'Ryssa Chen, Choudhury, and so many other characters in these books are now dead. Worse, they never even existed thanks to the ravages of the Crisis on Infinite UFOPs. Which is a shame since these two have rapidly moved up to become my favorite characters in the Expanded Universe. Christine Vale came back to the "novelverse" thanks to Dark Veil but I haven't yet seen these two (and hope they do). It adds a sense of dread and moroseness to the tale. They're pulling through the worst tragedy in Star Trek history only for an even worse one to claim them in the end.
This doesn't hurt the book but actually adds to the power of it. It's a very low key book about finding survivors, helping refugees, and more -- giving ample character development time for the heavy focus on personalities as well as trauma. It reminds me of the best of DS9 where Kira and other characters dealt with the worst elements of the Occupation.
5 stars.
October 19, 2019
For some reason this book is not listed among the "must read" or "best Star Trek books," but it should be. This novel explores an essential question that doesn't come up a lot in ST fiction, namely,whether Utopia can live up to its ideals in a time of crisis. Sure, citizens of the United Federation of Planets have evolved into a more enlightened society with almost no crime, no violence, no unemployment, no lack of housing or food. But do their ideals of justice and equality spring from that abundance or do they stand on their own?
In the various iterations of Star Trek from the 23rd and 24th century, utopia is in the background. Whenever Kirk and crew or Picard and crew encounter some primitive civilization, they can safely and smugly say "well, at least we're not like that," or, as Sisko and Bashir blithely remark at the end of Past Tense part II, "it's hard to understanding how people were ever like that," and "how did it get to be that bad?"
But in 'Losing the Peace' we find the Federation in turmoil after the Borg have wrecked everything; destroying lives; leaving billions homeless. At one point, a group of refugees finds themselves in a camp on a member world and, I kid you not, the natives of this planet, so-called enlightened citizens, determine that the best way to deal with their fellow UFP citizens is . . to build a wall to contain them!
Written in 2009, this novel seems as far fetched as Past Tense must have when it first aired in January, 1995 ("Surely we've evolved. That can't possibly happen here!") In 2018-2019 William Leisner's 'Star Trek: Losing The Peace' is more prescient, more relevant, more on point than it was in 2009 or most of the novels on the "must read" list.
In the various iterations of Star Trek from the 23rd and 24th century, utopia is in the background. Whenever Kirk and crew or Picard and crew encounter some primitive civilization, they can safely and smugly say "well, at least we're not like that," or, as Sisko and Bashir blithely remark at the end of Past Tense part II, "it's hard to understanding how people were ever like that," and "how did it get to be that bad?"
But in 'Losing the Peace' we find the Federation in turmoil after the Borg have wrecked everything; destroying lives; leaving billions homeless. At one point, a group of refugees finds themselves in a camp on a member world and, I kid you not, the natives of this planet, so-called enlightened citizens, determine that the best way to deal with their fellow UFP citizens is . . to build a wall to contain them!
Written in 2009, this novel seems as far fetched as Past Tense must have when it first aired in January, 1995 ("Surely we've evolved. That can't possibly happen here!") In 2018-2019 William Leisner's 'Star Trek: Losing The Peace' is more prescient, more relevant, more on point than it was in 2009 or most of the novels on the "must read" list.
March 9, 2015
Part of me misses the days when you could pick up a Star Trek book, and enjoy a gripping story, knowing that in the end, everything would be the same. These arcs that are building up, show that nothing will be the same. I did find parts of the story to be compelling, but some of the decisions seemed rather out of character, which left me feeling cold. The "climax", what little there was got a few giggles, but that was it. At least I now have solid grounding from stories that I've read before and after this one in the arc.
July 30, 2019
Excellent coda to the Destiny trilogy.
April 23, 2024
Summary:
Prologue: the passengers on a transport ship that evacuated Risa due to an imminent Borg attack learn that Starfleet has defeated the invading armada. Everyone celebrates, but eventually begin to wonder why they still haven't turned back towards the planet. The Risan hostess Arandis checks with a security guard who tells her that Risa has been completely razed by the Borg.
Picard and Beverly visit his ancestral home in Labarre while the Enterprise undergoes repairs. He dreams that he reconciled with his father, and assures Beverly that the Borg are completely gone.
Geordi visits his sister Ariana in Africa, but has trouble enjoying his niece's soccer game; he's wracked with survivor's guilt.
Picard goes to San Francisco to debrief with Starfleet Admiralty. Admiral Nechayev informs him that Admiral Jellico has resigned. Picard explains how he felt the Collective's connections sever and free trillions of drones, but the others are not convinced. Seven, now going by Professor Hansen, will not corroborate his statement, saying she's not sure about anything anymore. Picard fears she has sewed uncertainty throughout the Federation.
Worf and Choudhurry are intimate again on the shuttle back from Deneva. Afterwards, she says that this isn't who she really is, but with the horror of recent events, she just needed to feel something. Worf understands and says he'll help search for her missing family.
As Picard, Beverly, and her sister-in-law Marie sit down for dinner, an insectoid alien named Barash, who they rescued 14 years earlier, visits them. He grew up in an orphanage on Earth, and now works for the Displaced Persons Agency. He asks Beverly to help lead an investigative team to Pacifica, which is being overrun by refugees; Starfleet is stretched too thin to help. Picard has reservations, given her condition, but Beverly steamrolls him and says she's going. She says she'll take Kadohata along if it makes him feel better, which it does.
On the shuttle to the Enterprise, Picard apologizes to Geordi for commanding him to build the thalaron weapon. La Forge says it was the hardest thing he's ever done, and that it was hard to respect Picard at that time. Jean-Luc says he hopes Geordi continues to call him out when needed.
Upon his arrival to the Enterprise, Worf informs him that they are still short 29 crew members, and 26 others have requested extended shore leave. Picard says to call them back and refer them to the new ship's counselor, Hegol Den.
In his newly restored ready room, Picard receives a call from President Bacco and Admiral Akaar, who tell him Starfleet is in much worse shape than has been let on: Titan alone will continue its mission of exploration, but Enterprise is needed close to home.
Donald Wheeler, a passenger on the Risian shuttle, awakens with a massive hangover to find that the Risian shuttle is now headed for Pacifica.
Kadohata's husband Vicenzo pleads with her not to go back, saying he's sick of worrying about her, and that she has a duty to her family before Starfleet. As she is beamed aboard Crusher's runabout, he even tries to grab her to stop her from going.
Kadohata confides to Beverly that her husband asked her to go AWOL; Beverly recants how when Wesley was born, Jack technically deserted the Stargazer to be with his son, before she reminded him of his duty. She says ultimately, Miranda can't deny herself or her family of the person she really is. Kadohata says she needs to call her husband.
Worf visits Doctor Hegol Den to ask about the crew evaluations. He says he's more concerned about the crew members that haven't come to see him, like Ensign Choudhurry, who just lost her entire family. Worf bristles at this and leaves; Hegol thinks he needs to look into this protectiveness later.
Arandis and the other Risian refugees arrive at Pacifica. The Selkie natives are somewhat rude and overtly apprehensive about the surge of new arrivals as they lead them to a refugee camp on one of the few islands.
The Enterprise patrols for missing ships. Newly assigned Ensign Rosado devises a program to track missing Andorian ships, and Picard orders her and Choudhurry to retool it to work for any ships--particularly for refugees from planets that suffered greater losses, like Deneva.
T'Ryssa Chen gets a call from her estranged father Sylix, who is recovering in a Vulcan hospital. He asks for help tracking down her mother, and she correctly deduces that his near death experience has him wanting to absolve himself from being a bad father and husband; she tells him not to ask her for help and hangs up on in him.
Crusher and her team are taken to Pacifica's underwater capital where they meet Secretary Bemidji, who says the refugees are interfering with the development of the adolescent Selkies, who need to live on land. He says they will protect their own, even if it means leaving the Federation. Crusher says they're only there to assess the situation, and says they better get to it.
Enterprise tracks down the missing Andorian ships just where Rosado's model predicted; they were all destroyed when one of the ships' warp cores breached. Picard speaks privately to the demoralized Choudhurry, but she insists she's fine, that her beliefs are helping her cope with the loss of her world. After Picard dismisses her, she goes straight to her quarters and has a breakdown.
Crusher's team arrives at the refugee camp. The sole officer in charge says there are over 70,000 people. Crusher beams back up to the runabout when a woman presents her with an unresponsive child. She administers an antibiotic for a microbial infection, likely from contaminated water, but it's not enough; she's forced to put him in stasis.
Beverly was on Starbase 32 when Admiral Jerusalmi told her that Jack had been killed in EVA repair accident. After his funeral, Jerusalmi offers her the position of CMO on the U.S.S. Hammarskjold, but instead she resigns to stay with Wesley.
Worf expresses his newfound respect / friendship to Geordi by complementing the efficiency of engineering despite being short-staffed. He asks La Forge for help figuring out what the Denevan president's secret Plan 2757 is, and confides that he and Choudhurry had an intimiate relationship--but agrees with her that it's best to keep things simple. Geordi says good luck with that.
Choudhurry tells Picard that they're expanding the scope of our search protocol. She also mentions that Commander Kadohata logged a call to Cestus III, 30 minutes before the Borg panic took hold. Picard feels foolish for trusting her after her prior mutiny, but ultimately decides she was protecting her family and dismisses it.
Worf and Geordi interrupt to say that they deciphered Plan 2757: the S.S. Libra, a museum ship in Deneva's drydock, was likely used to hold thousands of escapees. Picard fervently decides to track it down.
Crusher is able to produce a counteragent and inoculate both the mother and child, but his organ damage is too extensive to take him out of stasis. She takes the mother back to the infirmary on Pacifica, being maintained by and older EMH Mark III. He can't verify Crusher's credentials, so she has to deactivate it.
Arandis brings in an unconcious S'ti'ach that the older EMH model actually made worse by not knowing how to treat. Crusher heals him, but realizes he was trying to kill himself. She asks Arandis her assistance in innoculating those who got sick drinking the infected water.
A Commandant from Pacifica Security suggests erecting a barrier fence, ostensibly to prevent anyone else from drinking the contaminated water; the civil rights attorney from Crusher's team, Paul Dillingham, says it's against regulations and would make the people feel penned in. Kadohata says he needs to stop citing regulating and actually see the camp first hand. She tells the officer that they could use another industrial replicator, which would help with the fence and shelters.
Enterprise successfully tracks down the Libra, which has 2700 passengers aboard. Picard asks T'Ryssa to act as a diplomatic/contact specialist, which delights the half-Vulcan. Picard also wants Choudhurry on the away team to greet her fellow Denevans, but she opts out without explanation, secretly afraid of who she won't find on the ship.
Trys greets the Denevan leaders on the Lira, but slips up and says they'll be back on their route shortly; when they ask why they've not going to Deneva, Trys sheepishly lets Geordi explain.
Picard shows the Denevan Vice President Tiernan, now president, footage from the probe of Deneva's eradicated surface. Then he puts him in contact with the Denevan Federation Council member, which lifts his spirits. Tiernan asks if Enterprise can escort them to Earth so he can ask President Bacco to expedite the re-terraforming of Deneva, to which Picard acquiesces.
Picard shares a cup of blood wine with Worf to celebrate their small victory, which was due to Worf's intuition. However, he receives an urgent message from Admiral Akaar, who says riots have broken out on Alpha Centauri due to the refugee crisis there. They set course at maximum warp.
An exhausted Beverly beams back to the runabout to get some rest, only to find the other members of the team arguing that they need to submit their report and finish up so the real help can take over. Crusher is indignant, but Kadohata interrupts and says Arandis is having convulsions. They beam her aboard and Crusher finds that the microbe has mutated, meaning all the inoculations issued are now useless. She lands the ship and tells everyone to make themselves at home.
Worf visits Choudhurry in her quarters to ask why she keeps delegating her tasks to others. She is terribly upset knowing that her family would never evacuate Deneva as long as there were others to take their place. Worf consoles her and says she must honor their sacrifice; she thanks him.
Trys gets word from Starfleet Command that her mother was KIA by the Borg. After overcoming her denial, she smashes her computer.
Crusher pieces out the runabout to help the camp, permanently grounding it.
3 years after Jack died: Beverly is practicing in St. Louis when her friend Captain Walker Keel visits. He says his ship Horatio has accommodations for families, and he wants her (and Wesley) to be his CMO. She turns him down at first, but when he says she's hiding from her responsibilities and Jack's death, she reconsiders.
The Selkie Commandant tells Beverly that the refugees are making his troops sick.
The Enterprise arrives at Alpha Centauri and Picard speaks with Governor Barrile, who is quite hostile. He tells Picard he knows of Jellico's orders for Starfleet to scatter if Earth fell to the Borg, and now they're not helping with the refugee crisis either, and are threatening to federalize their mining industry. Barrile says he's planning to call a vote for secession from the UFP.
Crusher calls and says the situation on Pacifica is becoming untenable; Picard decides to help her in spite of the Alpha Centauri situation. When he informs the crew that Barrile is considering withdrawing from the UFP, Trys says he doesn't understand the scope of the Borg's destruction and should be shown; Picard decides to take him along to Pacifica.
A female Selkie guard comforts a struggling human male, but when another Selkie sees her, she swings her rifle and accidentally strikes him. He yanks it out of her hands, and a riot threatens to breaks out. Kadohata intervenes, disarming one of the Selkie guards, which results in 30 more of them aiming at her. Luckily Enterprise arrived just then, and Choudhurry beams down with a security team to break things up.
Barrile and Tiernan are shocked and appalled at the conditions on Pacifica; Picard says they needed to see it first hand so they would stop being so provincial.
Crusher transfers the EMH Mark IX from Enterprise to the new infirmary on Pacifica. She learns that the baby in stasis has survived surgery and she feels much better.
Akaar contacts Picard and berates him for leaving Alpha Centauri to help his wife on Pacifica. Just as he's about to issue new orders, the transmission is cut; Choudhurry and Kadohata tell him they salvaged the comm relays for the camp, and didn't realize they were in use. He pretends to chide them, silently satisfied that his new crew is building chemistry together.
On the Enterprise, Worf receives a call from Captain Cukovitch, who says she's been ordered by Akaar to arrest Picard. She'll be in orbit in 2 hours.
Kadohata "fixes" long-range communications. Barrile transmits himself in front of the refugee camp and says that without Picard's brash actions, he wouldn't have seen the true scope of the crisis. He recommits to the ideals in the Articles of the Federation and no longer wishes to withdraw.
Cukovitch arrives and relieves Picard of duty, placing Worf in charge; however, she says she'll forego taking him back to Earth and coordinate relief efforts with Enterprise. Worf says Picard should be confined to quarters, and Beverly with him for dismantling her runabout.
Secretary Bemidji relieves the security guard who assaulted the refugee, in an attempt to save face.
Arandis has fully recovered and has no idea what her future holds.
Vincenzo calls Kadohata; he saw Barrile's address and apologizes, saying he understands how important her work is. She tells him she's asked for leave from Enterprise to continue to help on Pacifica--which is only a few days away by runabout. Aoki is beside herself that her mom will be home for her birthday.
The Enterprise escorts over 9000 refugees, 3000 over rated capacity, to Ingraham B, a rather inhospitable planet. Kadohata asks Gar Tiernan if her family survived, and he says almost everyone from their region selflessly refused to board the escape shuttles. He says the new planet will never be the same as Deneva. Worf comes to check on her and she takes his hand.
Trys calls her father to let him know her mother died. He tells her he is sorry, and she can tell he means it. She tells him if he wants to contact her again, she wouldn't be averse to it.
Admiral Akaar arrives personally at Ingraham B to meet with Picard. He tells Jean-Luc that since he doesn't understand the chain of command, he has no choice but to promote him. Picard declines the promotion, citing Kirk's words to him from years ago: never her them take you off the bridge of your ship. Akaar, who was saved by Kirk a century ago, says there's no arguing with that, and that perhaps what Starfleet needs is another Kirk right now.
Epilogue: Picard is recalled when the Gorn, Romulan Star Empire, Tzenkethi, Tholians, Breen, and Kinshaya form the Typhon Pact.
Review: 3.5 stars. A necessary change of pace from the Destiny trilogy, but it was a bit slow in the middle; it got much better in the last 1/3.
Prologue: the passengers on a transport ship that evacuated Risa due to an imminent Borg attack learn that Starfleet has defeated the invading armada. Everyone celebrates, but eventually begin to wonder why they still haven't turned back towards the planet. The Risan hostess Arandis checks with a security guard who tells her that Risa has been completely razed by the Borg.
Picard and Beverly visit his ancestral home in Labarre while the Enterprise undergoes repairs. He dreams that he reconciled with his father, and assures Beverly that the Borg are completely gone.
Geordi visits his sister Ariana in Africa, but has trouble enjoying his niece's soccer game; he's wracked with survivor's guilt.
Picard goes to San Francisco to debrief with Starfleet Admiralty. Admiral Nechayev informs him that Admiral Jellico has resigned. Picard explains how he felt the Collective's connections sever and free trillions of drones, but the others are not convinced. Seven, now going by Professor Hansen, will not corroborate his statement, saying she's not sure about anything anymore. Picard fears she has sewed uncertainty throughout the Federation.
Worf and Choudhurry are intimate again on the shuttle back from Deneva. Afterwards, she says that this isn't who she really is, but with the horror of recent events, she just needed to feel something. Worf understands and says he'll help search for her missing family.
As Picard, Beverly, and her sister-in-law Marie sit down for dinner, an insectoid alien named Barash, who they rescued 14 years earlier, visits them. He grew up in an orphanage on Earth, and now works for the Displaced Persons Agency. He asks Beverly to help lead an investigative team to Pacifica, which is being overrun by refugees; Starfleet is stretched too thin to help. Picard has reservations, given her condition, but Beverly steamrolls him and says she's going. She says she'll take Kadohata along if it makes him feel better, which it does.
On the shuttle to the Enterprise, Picard apologizes to Geordi for commanding him to build the thalaron weapon. La Forge says it was the hardest thing he's ever done, and that it was hard to respect Picard at that time. Jean-Luc says he hopes Geordi continues to call him out when needed.
Upon his arrival to the Enterprise, Worf informs him that they are still short 29 crew members, and 26 others have requested extended shore leave. Picard says to call them back and refer them to the new ship's counselor, Hegol Den.
In his newly restored ready room, Picard receives a call from President Bacco and Admiral Akaar, who tell him Starfleet is in much worse shape than has been let on: Titan alone will continue its mission of exploration, but Enterprise is needed close to home.
Donald Wheeler, a passenger on the Risian shuttle, awakens with a massive hangover to find that the Risian shuttle is now headed for Pacifica.
Kadohata's husband Vicenzo pleads with her not to go back, saying he's sick of worrying about her, and that she has a duty to her family before Starfleet. As she is beamed aboard Crusher's runabout, he even tries to grab her to stop her from going.
Kadohata confides to Beverly that her husband asked her to go AWOL; Beverly recants how when Wesley was born, Jack technically deserted the Stargazer to be with his son, before she reminded him of his duty. She says ultimately, Miranda can't deny herself or her family of the person she really is. Kadohata says she needs to call her husband.
Worf visits Doctor Hegol Den to ask about the crew evaluations. He says he's more concerned about the crew members that haven't come to see him, like Ensign Choudhurry, who just lost her entire family. Worf bristles at this and leaves; Hegol thinks he needs to look into this protectiveness later.
Arandis and the other Risian refugees arrive at Pacifica. The Selkie natives are somewhat rude and overtly apprehensive about the surge of new arrivals as they lead them to a refugee camp on one of the few islands.
The Enterprise patrols for missing ships. Newly assigned Ensign Rosado devises a program to track missing Andorian ships, and Picard orders her and Choudhurry to retool it to work for any ships--particularly for refugees from planets that suffered greater losses, like Deneva.
T'Ryssa Chen gets a call from her estranged father Sylix, who is recovering in a Vulcan hospital. He asks for help tracking down her mother, and she correctly deduces that his near death experience has him wanting to absolve himself from being a bad father and husband; she tells him not to ask her for help and hangs up on in him.
Crusher and her team are taken to Pacifica's underwater capital where they meet Secretary Bemidji, who says the refugees are interfering with the development of the adolescent Selkies, who need to live on land. He says they will protect their own, even if it means leaving the Federation. Crusher says they're only there to assess the situation, and says they better get to it.
Enterprise tracks down the missing Andorian ships just where Rosado's model predicted; they were all destroyed when one of the ships' warp cores breached. Picard speaks privately to the demoralized Choudhurry, but she insists she's fine, that her beliefs are helping her cope with the loss of her world. After Picard dismisses her, she goes straight to her quarters and has a breakdown.
Crusher's team arrives at the refugee camp. The sole officer in charge says there are over 70,000 people. Crusher beams back up to the runabout when a woman presents her with an unresponsive child. She administers an antibiotic for a microbial infection, likely from contaminated water, but it's not enough; she's forced to put him in stasis.
Beverly was on Starbase 32 when Admiral Jerusalmi told her that Jack had been killed in EVA repair accident. After his funeral, Jerusalmi offers her the position of CMO on the U.S.S. Hammarskjold, but instead she resigns to stay with Wesley.
Worf expresses his newfound respect / friendship to Geordi by complementing the efficiency of engineering despite being short-staffed. He asks La Forge for help figuring out what the Denevan president's secret Plan 2757 is, and confides that he and Choudhurry had an intimiate relationship--but agrees with her that it's best to keep things simple. Geordi says good luck with that.
Choudhurry tells Picard that they're expanding the scope of our search protocol. She also mentions that Commander Kadohata logged a call to Cestus III, 30 minutes before the Borg panic took hold. Picard feels foolish for trusting her after her prior mutiny, but ultimately decides she was protecting her family and dismisses it.
Worf and Geordi interrupt to say that they deciphered Plan 2757: the S.S. Libra, a museum ship in Deneva's drydock, was likely used to hold thousands of escapees. Picard fervently decides to track it down.
Crusher is able to produce a counteragent and inoculate both the mother and child, but his organ damage is too extensive to take him out of stasis. She takes the mother back to the infirmary on Pacifica, being maintained by and older EMH Mark III. He can't verify Crusher's credentials, so she has to deactivate it.
Arandis brings in an unconcious S'ti'ach that the older EMH model actually made worse by not knowing how to treat. Crusher heals him, but realizes he was trying to kill himself. She asks Arandis her assistance in innoculating those who got sick drinking the infected water.
A Commandant from Pacifica Security suggests erecting a barrier fence, ostensibly to prevent anyone else from drinking the contaminated water; the civil rights attorney from Crusher's team, Paul Dillingham, says it's against regulations and would make the people feel penned in. Kadohata says he needs to stop citing regulating and actually see the camp first hand. She tells the officer that they could use another industrial replicator, which would help with the fence and shelters.
Enterprise successfully tracks down the Libra, which has 2700 passengers aboard. Picard asks T'Ryssa to act as a diplomatic/contact specialist, which delights the half-Vulcan. Picard also wants Choudhurry on the away team to greet her fellow Denevans, but she opts out without explanation, secretly afraid of who she won't find on the ship.
Trys greets the Denevan leaders on the Lira, but slips up and says they'll be back on their route shortly; when they ask why they've not going to Deneva, Trys sheepishly lets Geordi explain.
Picard shows the Denevan Vice President Tiernan, now president, footage from the probe of Deneva's eradicated surface. Then he puts him in contact with the Denevan Federation Council member, which lifts his spirits. Tiernan asks if Enterprise can escort them to Earth so he can ask President Bacco to expedite the re-terraforming of Deneva, to which Picard acquiesces.
Picard shares a cup of blood wine with Worf to celebrate their small victory, which was due to Worf's intuition. However, he receives an urgent message from Admiral Akaar, who says riots have broken out on Alpha Centauri due to the refugee crisis there. They set course at maximum warp.
An exhausted Beverly beams back to the runabout to get some rest, only to find the other members of the team arguing that they need to submit their report and finish up so the real help can take over. Crusher is indignant, but Kadohata interrupts and says Arandis is having convulsions. They beam her aboard and Crusher finds that the microbe has mutated, meaning all the inoculations issued are now useless. She lands the ship and tells everyone to make themselves at home.
Worf visits Choudhurry in her quarters to ask why she keeps delegating her tasks to others. She is terribly upset knowing that her family would never evacuate Deneva as long as there were others to take their place. Worf consoles her and says she must honor their sacrifice; she thanks him.
Trys gets word from Starfleet Command that her mother was KIA by the Borg. After overcoming her denial, she smashes her computer.
Crusher pieces out the runabout to help the camp, permanently grounding it.
3 years after Jack died: Beverly is practicing in St. Louis when her friend Captain Walker Keel visits. He says his ship Horatio has accommodations for families, and he wants her (and Wesley) to be his CMO. She turns him down at first, but when he says she's hiding from her responsibilities and Jack's death, she reconsiders.
The Selkie Commandant tells Beverly that the refugees are making his troops sick.
The Enterprise arrives at Alpha Centauri and Picard speaks with Governor Barrile, who is quite hostile. He tells Picard he knows of Jellico's orders for Starfleet to scatter if Earth fell to the Borg, and now they're not helping with the refugee crisis either, and are threatening to federalize their mining industry. Barrile says he's planning to call a vote for secession from the UFP.
Crusher calls and says the situation on Pacifica is becoming untenable; Picard decides to help her in spite of the Alpha Centauri situation. When he informs the crew that Barrile is considering withdrawing from the UFP, Trys says he doesn't understand the scope of the Borg's destruction and should be shown; Picard decides to take him along to Pacifica.
A female Selkie guard comforts a struggling human male, but when another Selkie sees her, she swings her rifle and accidentally strikes him. He yanks it out of her hands, and a riot threatens to breaks out. Kadohata intervenes, disarming one of the Selkie guards, which results in 30 more of them aiming at her. Luckily Enterprise arrived just then, and Choudhurry beams down with a security team to break things up.
Barrile and Tiernan are shocked and appalled at the conditions on Pacifica; Picard says they needed to see it first hand so they would stop being so provincial.
Crusher transfers the EMH Mark IX from Enterprise to the new infirmary on Pacifica. She learns that the baby in stasis has survived surgery and she feels much better.
Akaar contacts Picard and berates him for leaving Alpha Centauri to help his wife on Pacifica. Just as he's about to issue new orders, the transmission is cut; Choudhurry and Kadohata tell him they salvaged the comm relays for the camp, and didn't realize they were in use. He pretends to chide them, silently satisfied that his new crew is building chemistry together.
On the Enterprise, Worf receives a call from Captain Cukovitch, who says she's been ordered by Akaar to arrest Picard. She'll be in orbit in 2 hours.
Kadohata "fixes" long-range communications. Barrile transmits himself in front of the refugee camp and says that without Picard's brash actions, he wouldn't have seen the true scope of the crisis. He recommits to the ideals in the Articles of the Federation and no longer wishes to withdraw.
Cukovitch arrives and relieves Picard of duty, placing Worf in charge; however, she says she'll forego taking him back to Earth and coordinate relief efforts with Enterprise. Worf says Picard should be confined to quarters, and Beverly with him for dismantling her runabout.
Secretary Bemidji relieves the security guard who assaulted the refugee, in an attempt to save face.
Arandis has fully recovered and has no idea what her future holds.
Vincenzo calls Kadohata; he saw Barrile's address and apologizes, saying he understands how important her work is. She tells him she's asked for leave from Enterprise to continue to help on Pacifica--which is only a few days away by runabout. Aoki is beside herself that her mom will be home for her birthday.
The Enterprise escorts over 9000 refugees, 3000 over rated capacity, to Ingraham B, a rather inhospitable planet. Kadohata asks Gar Tiernan if her family survived, and he says almost everyone from their region selflessly refused to board the escape shuttles. He says the new planet will never be the same as Deneva. Worf comes to check on her and she takes his hand.
Trys calls her father to let him know her mother died. He tells her he is sorry, and she can tell he means it. She tells him if he wants to contact her again, she wouldn't be averse to it.
Admiral Akaar arrives personally at Ingraham B to meet with Picard. He tells Jean-Luc that since he doesn't understand the chain of command, he has no choice but to promote him. Picard declines the promotion, citing Kirk's words to him from years ago: never her them take you off the bridge of your ship. Akaar, who was saved by Kirk a century ago, says there's no arguing with that, and that perhaps what Starfleet needs is another Kirk right now.
Epilogue: Picard is recalled when the Gorn, Romulan Star Empire, Tzenkethi, Tholians, Breen, and Kinshaya form the Typhon Pact.
Review: 3.5 stars. A necessary change of pace from the Destiny trilogy, but it was a bit slow in the middle; it got much better in the last 1/3.
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July 28, 2011Not a bad ST:TNG book at all, but it's really going to be hard for anyone to follow-up on David Mack's incredible three-part epic "Destiny". Mack totally changed the ST:TNG universe, and now other authors are diving in and playing along, writing stories about the "clean up", as it were. This one was not one where ANYTHING really monumental or even particularly memorable happens, but it was well-written and paced, and the characters were accurate. I especially liked that Captain Picard continues to disobey the Admirals who order him around (many of whom have much less experience then him). What was really priceless was when they offered to make HIM an Admiral and he said "well thank you but I really must decline"!
July 24, 2015
One of the better Star Trek books I've read. Sure, it isn't nearly as positive as old school TOS or TNG stories, but I like how it follows up on the dramatic events of the Destiny trilogy, and shows that the work has only just begun, even though the war may be over. Star Trek is exactly the kind of universe for telling stories of diplomacy and relief efforts, and not just stories of violence and war.
March 14, 2016
A good follow up to the Destiny trilogy. The crisis situation had an interesting set up as tensions grew, however it resolved in typical TNG fashion, I just wish it kept raising the stakes, and sort of gave the situation a typical TNG easy out. The book also sets up the next group of books so we will see where it goes from here.
April 13, 2020
I'm a fan of books that include character moments, and this book is full of them. As a novel, this book is written in such a way that I had little trouble imagining it as an episode. It's nice to see something written in the philosophical vein that is Next Generation. We all could benefit from stepping back and looking at the costs of our victories and what we do next.
August 19, 2015
Awesome look at the Federation post Destiny in the refugee camps!
August 7, 2017
Possible spoilers ahead.
The Federation is licking its wounds after the Borg razed many of its planets in the epic Star Trek: Destiny trilogy, and millions, maybe billions, are now refugees. This novel examines the fallout from the events of that trilogy, including some of the political ramifications.
While I found nothing particularly special about this novel, there was nothing that really disappointed me either. It is by no means a thriller or adventure novel, but is more of a contemplative and steadily-paced story of how tragic events affect different people. The survivors of the Borg attacks must come to grips with the destruction of their planets, and Starfleet officers themselves are often among those now without a planet. From the back cover of the physical book (yes, I read real paper books whenever I can), you can see that Lieutenant Jasminder Choudhury is one of these. Her home planet, Deneva, was completely destroyed by the Borg, and she is clinging to the small hope that her family was among the few refugees. The book doesn't spend as much time on her as the description suggests, though, and her story is overshadowed by the refugee crisis on the Federation word Pacifica, which several of the Enterprise crew are sent to handle. There are a few political undertones as well, giving us an idea of the effect of the Borg invasion on the Federation presidency and admiralty.
This was a pretty enjoyable book, and I think it is worth three stars out of five. It won't blow you away, but it will be worth your time.
The Federation is licking its wounds after the Borg razed many of its planets in the epic Star Trek: Destiny trilogy, and millions, maybe billions, are now refugees. This novel examines the fallout from the events of that trilogy, including some of the political ramifications.
While I found nothing particularly special about this novel, there was nothing that really disappointed me either. It is by no means a thriller or adventure novel, but is more of a contemplative and steadily-paced story of how tragic events affect different people. The survivors of the Borg attacks must come to grips with the destruction of their planets, and Starfleet officers themselves are often among those now without a planet. From the back cover of the physical book (yes, I read real paper books whenever I can), you can see that Lieutenant Jasminder Choudhury is one of these. Her home planet, Deneva, was completely destroyed by the Borg, and she is clinging to the small hope that her family was among the few refugees. The book doesn't spend as much time on her as the description suggests, though, and her story is overshadowed by the refugee crisis on the Federation word Pacifica, which several of the Enterprise crew are sent to handle. There are a few political undertones as well, giving us an idea of the effect of the Borg invasion on the Federation presidency and admiralty.
This was a pretty enjoyable book, and I think it is worth three stars out of five. It won't blow you away, but it will be worth your time.
May 27, 2021
De flesta Star Trek-böcker har tre olika nivåer av sin berättelse: övergripande berättelse, grundberättelse och personlig berättelse. William Leissner är en författare som aldrig tappar taget om den personliga nivån och berättar gärna om allas tankar och känslor gentemot varandra och visar på så sätt hur de hanterar en kris som för oss svenskar måste kännas helt ofattbar. Många, många, miljarder medborgare har dödats och Federationens stjärnflotta är till stora delar krossad. Mitt i allt detta möter vi flera personer som på olika sätt lider i en omöjlig situation.
Grundberättelsen här är USS Enterprises uppdrag att reda upp små trådar i den stora väven som är resterna av Federationen. Det är inget fel på den berättelsen, utan den tvärtom engagerar och intresserar mig som läsare. Det som är det stora minuset med denna bok är den övergripande berättelsen som jag inte får någon kontakt med. Den känns inte närvarande, den haltar och den tar bort för mycket av fokuset och gör att boken sjunker i värde. Då kvittar det att den övriga delen av boken är riktigt bra, för det sammantagna betyget blir lågt för att boken i helhet blir rörig.
Grundberättelsen här är USS Enterprises uppdrag att reda upp små trådar i den stora väven som är resterna av Federationen. Det är inget fel på den berättelsen, utan den tvärtom engagerar och intresserar mig som läsare. Det som är det stora minuset med denna bok är den övergripande berättelsen som jag inte får någon kontakt med. Den känns inte närvarande, den haltar och den tar bort för mycket av fokuset och gör att boken sjunker i värde. Då kvittar det att den övriga delen av boken är riktigt bra, för det sammantagna betyget blir lågt för att boken i helhet blir rörig.
July 25, 2021
Much slower paced than the previous action and emotion packed Destiny and Full Circle books, but not in a bad way. This book looks at the refugee crisis facing the Federation in the aftermath of the Borg invasion and also shows some of the losses/consequences on the Enterprise crew: Chen, Choudhury, Taurik, Kadohata. It dawned on me about halfway through that this would be Miranda's goodbye, which was a bit of a relief as her character has been hard to connect with. I enjoyed seeing flashbacks to Crusher's life after Jack's death, although personally I thought the author made him sound like quite a selfish partner.
Excited to finally get some hints at the Typhon Pact. Having hated Akaar since Avatar, I hope we see the back of him soon!
Excited to finally get some hints at the Typhon Pact. Having hated Akaar since Avatar, I hope we see the back of him soon!
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July 20, 2023
This ST novel felt like reading a summary report. The decsriptive parts of the situation after the Federation invasion by Borg were providing an enumeration of the aftermath of the conflict which led to devastation of several worlds, discribing the erosion of Federation, unwillingnes of member planets to help in the refugee situation but dived also into some of U.S.S. characters, e.g Beverly Crusher, Jasminder Choudhury. Despite the fabula, developement felt like scuttling on one place until few last chapters at the end. The novel remains an important link between the events during the Borg invasion and upcoming Typhon pact era books as it creates the political and social frames for the following ST post-nemesis novels.
June 21, 2022
this is not one of my favorite books. Although the writing is well done, and the characters are there, I personally thought that the story line was weak. It did not have the usually sweeping story line of other books. This book should take a page from the new start trek spin off tv show "Star Trek: Strange New World." where they episode is a standalone story, where travel among the stars exploring new worlds. What this provided is just a state of the federation after the Borg invasion, So i am only going to ask that star trek books get back to the roots the made the show and the franchise awesome.
August 15, 2018
If the Destiny cycle took its cues from big episode epics like TNG's 'Best of Both Worlds', Voyager's 'Endgame' or movies like First Contact is more inline with TNG episodes like 'Family' or 'Data's Day'. There is a lot going on here. One of the many plots is a little telegraphed but very well told. Really, the only reason it get's demoted a star is two small typos which probably came about because of last minute changes that were put in place because of Destiny and/or the ending of Singular Destiny. Still over all, it would have made a pretty good set of episodes.
March 12, 2023
Following the end of the Borg Threat in the Destiny Trilogy, the Federation is in a state of crisis. In Destiny, the Borg came not to assimilate, but to annihilate, resulting in the devastation if not destruction of multiple worlds. Now the Enterprise has to start helping in the aftermath, while the crew deals with their own losses. Beverly Crusher is sent to help at a refugee camp where tensions are rising between the refugees and the natives, while Picard works to deal with local crises and search for lost survivors.
June 11, 2023
I really enjoyed this story. I know some may not like it because there isn’t a save the galaxy problem. In this novel we get to see the postwar recovery and resilience, and we are reminded that Starfleet isn’t just meant to be in battle. We are also reminded that refugees should not be treated as lesser beings and that being in Starfleet includes kindness and finding ways to reduce suffering. War is so wasteful of life and energy and resources. Let there be peace.
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July 17, 2019
...won the war against the Borg, only to lose the peace to our own complacency.
Excerpt from: "Losing the Peace" by William Leisner.
It’s hard to follow those Destiny novels but Someone had to do it. The Federation isn’t so saintly once they don’t have their replicators and other privileged necessities. I loved the back story of my favorite Doctor.
Excerpt from: "Losing the Peace" by William Leisner.
It’s hard to follow those Destiny novels but Someone had to do it. The Federation isn’t so saintly once they don’t have their replicators and other privileged necessities. I loved the back story of my favorite Doctor.
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August 2, 2022
This was a good (and rather quick, though I forgot to mark it done) read. I liked the relationship moments in the book. I think the lesson that we're supposed to learn here is pretty obvious, too.
I can't say that this was my favorite Star Trek book that I've ever read, but I did enjoy this one.
I can't say that this was my favorite Star Trek book that I've ever read, but I did enjoy this one.
November 26, 2022
Dealing with the immediate fallout from the Destiny trilogy. Was an interesting book, but very slow pace in which very little happened. Personally would've found it more interesting to see this from a more political and social POV, similar to Articles of the Federation, although was good to get some perspectives from those on the ground.
October 24, 2021
Not a fun read
I am not a fan of the newer Star Trek books. Star Trek was intended to be a positive and essentially upbeat vision of the future, but the books in recent years have been decidedly dystopian.
Just not fun to read.
I am not a fan of the newer Star Trek books. Star Trek was intended to be a positive and essentially upbeat vision of the future, but the books in recent years have been decidedly dystopian.
Just not fun to read.
February 12, 2019
It's pretty much a given...if it's a Star Trek novel...I'll like it...
April 2, 2023
An interlude between the end of the Borg and the Rise of the Typhon Pact
May 26, 2023
This was fine, I guess. Felt more like a transitional book following the Destiny trilogy.
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