Trill: Unvereinigt

Star Trek - Die Welten von Deep Space Nine #3

by Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin

Sie sind ein Volk mit Geheimnissen. Jahrhundertelang hielten sie ihre wahre Natur verborgen und ergriffen sogar beunruhigende Maßnahmen, um die kleine Population von nahezu unsterblichen Symbionten zu schützen, mit denen ein priviligierter Teil der Trill in Körper, Geist und Seele vereinigt wird. Sie sind ein Volk, das Erinnerungen heilig hält, dennoch verleugnen sie ihre eigene Vergangenheit. Nun, inmitten eines Sturms aus Skandalen, Beschuldigungen und wachsender Unruhe unter den Bürgern, muss Ezri Dax Jahrtausende voller Lügen und Täuschungen durchdringen und wiederentdecken, was niemals hätte vergessen werden dürfen, bevor ihre Zivilisation sich selbst auseinanderreißt.

Die sechsteilige Reihe DIE WELTEN VON DEEP SPACE NINE bildet den Übergang von der achten zur neunten Staffel.

Genres: Star Trek

Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Andy Mangels is an American science fiction author who has written novels, comics, and magazine articles, and produced DVD collections, mostly focusing on media in popular culture. As an openly-gay man, he has been a longtime advocate for greater visibility of gay and lesbian characters in various media, especially comics, including the coordination and moderation of the annual "Gays in Comics" panel for Comic Con International since it was begun in 1988. He is the founder of an annual "Women of Wonder Day" event, which raises funds for domestic violence shelters and related programs. As of 2011 he has had books on the USA Today "best-selling books" list three times. wikipedia

Reviews

[Taaya · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wonder how Trill could've become a member of the Federation at all. Shouldn't a union like this be founded on basic shared values?

So while the story isn't bad, the tone and what we learn about societies in Trek is, as always in the newer books, deeply depressing and downright dystopian. What happened to Star Trek that writers choose to turn further and further away from IDIC and the common good, from the world that once gave hope to so many viewers? Why do they feel that the only way to make a utopia more realistic is to turn it to ashes?

So, this is basically normal, non-Trek SciFi - and not bad at that -, but it only shares names and places with what Star Trek once was. Interchangeable with so many other franchises. Could have been the Alliance in Star Wars in it's beginnings as well.