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Star Trek: Slings and Arrows #2
The Oppressor's Wrong
The Enterprise is assigned to ferry demolition experts from Deep Space 9 to Starbase 375, but just as they arrive. Admiral Leyton declares martial law on Earth and the Federation is put in a state of emergency. On the starbase, Admiral Hahn has gone missing, and there are several unexplained events -- and one of the demolition experts, Lieutenant Daniels, isn't convinced that it's necessarily Dominion treachery. Picard and the Enterprise crew must learn the truth -- about the martial law declaration and what happened to Admiral Hahn -- before the Enterprise itself becomes the next casualty...
135 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 1, 2007
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Phaedra Weldon
155 books362 followersSometimes credited as Phaedra M. Weldon.
Born in Pensacola, Florida, Phaedra is the eldest of four children. She began writing in notebooks with her best friend in middle school.
After leaving college for a job in the Graphic Arts industry, Phaedra continued her love of writing in her spare time and was lucky enough at a writer's conference to meet Dean Wesley Smith, who later became her writing mentor, along with his wife, the bestselling mystery/fantasy/romance/science fiction writer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Phaedra lives in Atlanta, Georgia. When not writing, she and her daughter spend their time playing games, letterboxing, or watching anime.
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Born in Pensacola, Florida, Phaedra is the eldest of four children. She began writing in notebooks with her best friend in middle school.
After leaving college for a job in the Graphic Arts industry, Phaedra continued her love of writing in her spare time and was lucky enough at a writer's conference to meet Dean Wesley Smith, who later became her writing mentor, along with his wife, the bestselling mystery/fantasy/romance/science fiction writer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Phaedra lives in Atlanta, Georgia. When not writing, she and her daughter spend their time playing games, letterboxing, or watching anime.
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* Zoe Martinique
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January 13, 2025
Admiral Leyton orders Picard to deliver demolition experts from DS9 to Starbase 375. When martial law is declared on Sarth, Picard begins to suspect that all may not be as it seems.
A tense plot which works well on its own, but is a solid sequel to Book I and also ties neatly into Season 4 of 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'.
A tense plot which works well on its own, but is a solid sequel to Book I and also ties neatly into Season 4 of 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'.
December 3, 2018
A solid entry in the Slings and Arrows series. Not spectacular, but it achieves its purpose of showcasing the Enterprise crew dealing with one of the biggest crises the Federation faces during the year prior to Star Trek: First Contact. It was fun to have the TNG and DS9 crews interacting somewhat, and it was especially good to learn more about the criminally-underused security chief from First Contact and Insurrection. I mean, this is a man who wasn't even invited to the staff meeting when Picard briefs his crew about a current Borg invasion of the Federation! I bet he was really happy when Worf just waltzed onto the bridge and took over tactical...
Full review: http://www.treklit.com/2015/03/SA2.html
Full review: http://www.treklit.com/2015/03/SA2.html
July 6, 2022
Summer 2022 Reading Entry #6. "The Oppressor's Wrong" ("Star Trek: The Next Generation: Slings and Arrows, Book 2: The Oppressor's Wrong") by Phaedra Weldon (2007). The second of a six-book series of ebooks (still not available in print form as of this time) released in 2007-2008 as part of Pocket Books' commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" television series.
Each of the books in this series is written by a different author (or team of authors), and they all take place in the first year of service of the U.S.S. Enterprise-E (so, following the film "Star Trek Generations", in which the Enterprise from the tv series, NCC-1701-D, was destroyed, and prior to the following film, "Star Trek: First Contact", in which its replacement, the Enterprise NCC-1701-E, was introduced).
This second book in the "Slings and Arrows" series deals with the crew of the Enterprise-E, fresh off the events of book one, "A Sea of Troubles", being assigned to transport a team of Starfleet demolitions experts to Starbase 375 after an explosion there resembles that of one that had just happened on Earth at Antwerp, Belgium, at a conference there. Starfleet suspects the Dominion to be behind both bombings. Lt. Pádraig Daniels, one of the members of that team, begins to suspect that that's not actually case. Meanwhile, the forces behind the attacks step up their plans once Captain Picard and the Enterprise-E arrive, and Picard also loses contact with Captain Benjamin Sisko (of Deep Space Nine), who has been temporarily reassigned to Earth to oversee security there (paralleling events seen on the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" tv series).
While I found "A Sea of Troubles" enjoyable enough, I liked "The Oppressor's Wrong" more. It was probably mostly just a personal preference for Weldon's writing style, but I also found myself more interested in Daniels (this book's primary point of view character) over Lt. Hawk (who, aside from Captain Picard, was basically the feature character in "A Sea of Troubles"). Weldon does a good job of telling this story primarily from Daniels' point of view (although not entirely, as the story does require scenes also to be shown where Daniels is not present). And Daniels just has more personality than Hawk had in the previous book.
I also like that this story is written more like a procedural investigation/mystery over the more straight "action" tone of the first book. Although, I have to admit, there were some passages where the technobabble was so deep, especially the ones where Daniels and his team are discussing with Picard and the others aboard the Enterprise (including Riker, La Forge, Data, and Barclay, the latter two most actively assisting Daniels and his team) exactly how they are going to modify the ship's sensors to interact with their own very complicated computer program and then feed that into one of the ship's holodecks to create an investigative simulated "amphitheater" inside that holodeck, that at times I basically had to just "push through" those passages without entirely understanding exactly what they were saying. However, it did add an additional feeling of authenticity, which was good.
One can read "The Oppressor's Wrong" without having read "A Sea of Troubles". References are made to events that happened in the first book, enough to get the gist of what happened prior to this story. This is very much a separate story, not a continuation of the first, aside from the overarching threat of impending war with the Dominion and of Changeling spies perhaps being in their midst. One of my favorite lines in "The Oppressor's Wrong" is when Picard says, "We have a Changeling on board. Again. I want it caught and contained."
Again, I liked this book, a bit more so than the first book in the series. I gave it a four out of five stars on GoodReads.
Next up is book three, "The Insolence of Office" by William Leisner, when appears will focus primarily on Deanna Troi and Georgi La Forge (and apparently will detail exactly the circumstances of La Forge's switching from his VISOR, which he still has in these first two "Slings and Arrows" books) to the ocular implants he has starting in the "Star Trek: First Contact" film).
"The Insolence of Office" is also the first of the books in the "Slings and Arrows" series to have a very small page count, eighty-five pages. The first two books both had close to one hundred fifty pages. All of the subsequent books in the series are under one hundred pages. The shortest in the series will be book four, "That Sleep of Death", which is only forty-four pages long. Page count alone is no judge of quality, of course. However, I know some would be quite irritated to pay the $6.99 cost per book without first realizing just how short some of them are. I'm reading these courtesy of my local public library's (Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library) "OverDrive" ebook checkout service.
(Previous Summer 2022 Reading Entries: #1: "Star Trek: Avenger" by William Shatner (1997; novel); #2: "Batman vs. Ra's Al Ghul" by Neal Adams (2019-2021, six-issue comic book limited-series; 2021 collected hardcover edition); #3: “Superman: Birthright” by Mark Waid, Leinil Francis Wu, and Gerry Alanguilan (twelve-issue comic book limited series; 2003 to 2004; read on DC Universe Infinite, also available in hardcover and softcover editions); #4: "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Slings and Arrows Book 1: A Sea of Troubles" by J. Steven York and Christina F. York (2007; novella), #5: "The Orville Season 1.5: New Beginnings" by David A. Goodman and David Cabeza (2019, four issue comic book limited series; 2020 collected trade paperback edition).
Each of the books in this series is written by a different author (or team of authors), and they all take place in the first year of service of the U.S.S. Enterprise-E (so, following the film "Star Trek Generations", in which the Enterprise from the tv series, NCC-1701-D, was destroyed, and prior to the following film, "Star Trek: First Contact", in which its replacement, the Enterprise NCC-1701-E, was introduced).
This second book in the "Slings and Arrows" series deals with the crew of the Enterprise-E, fresh off the events of book one, "A Sea of Troubles", being assigned to transport a team of Starfleet demolitions experts to Starbase 375 after an explosion there resembles that of one that had just happened on Earth at Antwerp, Belgium, at a conference there. Starfleet suspects the Dominion to be behind both bombings. Lt. Pádraig Daniels, one of the members of that team, begins to suspect that that's not actually case. Meanwhile, the forces behind the attacks step up their plans once Captain Picard and the Enterprise-E arrive, and Picard also loses contact with Captain Benjamin Sisko (of Deep Space Nine), who has been temporarily reassigned to Earth to oversee security there (paralleling events seen on the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" tv series).
While I found "A Sea of Troubles" enjoyable enough, I liked "The Oppressor's Wrong" more. It was probably mostly just a personal preference for Weldon's writing style, but I also found myself more interested in Daniels (this book's primary point of view character) over Lt. Hawk (who, aside from Captain Picard, was basically the feature character in "A Sea of Troubles"). Weldon does a good job of telling this story primarily from Daniels' point of view (although not entirely, as the story does require scenes also to be shown where Daniels is not present). And Daniels just has more personality than Hawk had in the previous book.
I also like that this story is written more like a procedural investigation/mystery over the more straight "action" tone of the first book. Although, I have to admit, there were some passages where the technobabble was so deep, especially the ones where Daniels and his team are discussing with Picard and the others aboard the Enterprise (including Riker, La Forge, Data, and Barclay, the latter two most actively assisting Daniels and his team) exactly how they are going to modify the ship's sensors to interact with their own very complicated computer program and then feed that into one of the ship's holodecks to create an investigative simulated "amphitheater" inside that holodeck, that at times I basically had to just "push through" those passages without entirely understanding exactly what they were saying. However, it did add an additional feeling of authenticity, which was good.
One can read "The Oppressor's Wrong" without having read "A Sea of Troubles". References are made to events that happened in the first book, enough to get the gist of what happened prior to this story. This is very much a separate story, not a continuation of the first, aside from the overarching threat of impending war with the Dominion and of Changeling spies perhaps being in their midst. One of my favorite lines in "The Oppressor's Wrong" is when Picard says, "We have a Changeling on board. Again. I want it caught and contained."
Again, I liked this book, a bit more so than the first book in the series. I gave it a four out of five stars on GoodReads.
Next up is book three, "The Insolence of Office" by William Leisner, when appears will focus primarily on Deanna Troi and Georgi La Forge (and apparently will detail exactly the circumstances of La Forge's switching from his VISOR, which he still has in these first two "Slings and Arrows" books) to the ocular implants he has starting in the "Star Trek: First Contact" film).
"The Insolence of Office" is also the first of the books in the "Slings and Arrows" series to have a very small page count, eighty-five pages. The first two books both had close to one hundred fifty pages. All of the subsequent books in the series are under one hundred pages. The shortest in the series will be book four, "That Sleep of Death", which is only forty-four pages long. Page count alone is no judge of quality, of course. However, I know some would be quite irritated to pay the $6.99 cost per book without first realizing just how short some of them are. I'm reading these courtesy of my local public library's (Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library) "OverDrive" ebook checkout service.
(Previous Summer 2022 Reading Entries: #1: "Star Trek: Avenger" by William Shatner (1997; novel); #2: "Batman vs. Ra's Al Ghul" by Neal Adams (2019-2021, six-issue comic book limited-series; 2021 collected hardcover edition); #3: “Superman: Birthright” by Mark Waid, Leinil Francis Wu, and Gerry Alanguilan (twelve-issue comic book limited series; 2003 to 2004; read on DC Universe Infinite, also available in hardcover and softcover editions); #4: "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Slings and Arrows Book 1: A Sea of Troubles" by J. Steven York and Christina F. York (2007; novella), #5: "The Orville Season 1.5: New Beginnings" by David A. Goodman and David Cabeza (2019, four issue comic book limited series; 2020 collected trade paperback edition).
January 22, 2025
Not liking this book very much. First reason is the first quarter of the novel which is just filler, some people trying to install a program. This part could have missed, it doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the book. The second reason is inserting Picard and Enterprise in a DS9 plot from an episode, I didn't think stealing their thunder was acceptable. Also the subplot of Data and the arts was weak.
August 19, 2017
Fun
The Slings and Arrows series of books have been fun so far. It was a quick read. You see what the Enterprise was up to during the DS9 two parter Homefront & Paradise Lost. I wish it had focused more on the Next Generation cast rather than the new character of Daniels.
The Slings and Arrows series of books have been fun so far. It was a quick read. You see what the Enterprise was up to during the DS9 two parter Homefront & Paradise Lost. I wish it had focused more on the Next Generation cast rather than the new character of Daniels.
October 25, 2017
If you can get over the ridiculous amount of sci-fi technobabble, there's a pretty fun story buried in here. I was surprised that this focused more on Lt. Daniels than the main character, but he's quite an enjoyable addition to the crew.
October 16, 2018
Terrific, I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish
July 6, 2021
Don’t think it’ll be a series standout, still enjoyed nonetheless.
January 8, 2014
This, the second book in the Slings and Arrows series, is one of those quick reads that really enriches stories that we've seen onscreen. Of course, one of the purposes of the series is to bridge the gap between Generations and First Contact, chronicling the shakedown cruise of the new Enterprise-E. The Oppressor's Wrong, however, also adds a very interesting "elsewhere in the Alpha Quadrant" component to the DS9 episodes "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost." What was the Enterprise doing when Admiral Leyton was attempting to take control of Earth? Turns out there was a lot of far-away action taking place—directly connected to the coup on Earth.
Weldon does a good job with the voices, brings in familiar faces and new characters, and throws in a few nice callbacks to Trek of old—including The Wrath of Khan. (Don't worry, Data doesn't yell "KHAAAAAAANNNN!!!!"
While the threat of Dominion infiltration is the A story here, Weldon manages to work a B story into very limited space that explores Data's struggle with his emotion chip.
We discussed Book I in the Slings and Arrows on Literary Treks episode 44, which you can hear at http://trek.fm/lt44. And while I enjoyed that book, written by J. Steven York and Christina F. York, I was also disappointed by the transparency of the plot and the mystery of the Changeling. In this book, Weldon handles the plot twists more deftly. Some elements are still transparent, but there are enough twists to keep things interesting through to the end. We'll be discussing The Oppressor's Wrong on Literary Treks episode 46.
Weldon does a good job with the voices, brings in familiar faces and new characters, and throws in a few nice callbacks to Trek of old—including The Wrath of Khan. (Don't worry, Data doesn't yell "KHAAAAAAANNNN!!!!"
While the threat of Dominion infiltration is the A story here, Weldon manages to work a B story into very limited space that explores Data's struggle with his emotion chip.
We discussed Book I in the Slings and Arrows on Literary Treks episode 44, which you can hear at http://trek.fm/lt44. And while I enjoyed that book, written by J. Steven York and Christina F. York, I was also disappointed by the transparency of the plot and the mystery of the Changeling. In this book, Weldon handles the plot twists more deftly. Some elements are still transparent, but there are enough twists to keep things interesting through to the end. We'll be discussing The Oppressor's Wrong on Literary Treks episode 46.
February 6, 2017
There has been a Dominion bombing on Earth, and the Enterprise has to ferry some bomb experts around Federation installations to check there are no more bombs. This is set in the middle of the Dominion war where everyone is very paranoid. This feels like a detective novel, with a crime to solve, and a culprit to find. It is pretty obvious from early on what is going on which is a shame. A good read.
January 7, 2013
I found some of the technical writing a little rushed, it seemed as if the author was on a page or platform a little off kilter from mine. My own fault for not being up with SCE, of course. The Daniels introduction was very good, being in his head for a swathe of the book was quite enjoyable and a most worthy part of this intriguing miniseries.
January 13, 2015
Quite a nice story, giving us a better look at a new member of the Enterprise, whom we had a tiny glance at in "First Contact". The story also nicely interlaces with DS9 the show timeline, placing the Enterprise in the tapestry of the events.
August 27, 2016
Decent mystery with decently clunky writing.
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