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Star Trek: A Time to... #3
A Time to Sow
Kurz nach der epischen Schlacht des Raumschiffs Enterprise gegen Shinzon nahmen viele langjährige Besatzungsmitglieder von Captain Jean-Luc Picard neue Posten und neue Herausforderungen an.
Unter den vielen Veränderungen war auch William Rikers Beförderung zum Captain und sein neues Kommando, Rikers Hochzeit mit Counselor Deanna Troi und Dr. Beverly Crushers neue Karriere beim Medizinischen Korps der Sternenflotte.
Doch die Geschichte, wie es dazu kam, wurde nie erzählt …
BIS JETZT.
Vor mehr als zwei Jahrhunderten schickten die Dokaalan eine unbemannte Sonde in die Leere des Alls, mit einem Hilferuf an jeden, der den Untergang ihrer Welt verhindern könnte.
Doch die Nachricht erreichte den Föderationsraum zu spät, um den Planeten oder seine Bewohner zu retten.
Zumindest schien es so …
Viele Generationen später entdecken Jean-Luc Picard und die Besatzung des Raumschiffs Enterprise-E erstaunt die letzten der Dokaalan – eine kleine Kolonie, die in einer verlassenen Asteroiden-Abbauanlage um ihr Überleben kämpft.
Auch wenn ihre Heimat vor langer Zeit zerstört wurde, hoffen sie, eines Tages einen nahegelegenen Planeten in eine neue Heimat für ihr Volk zu verwandeln. Doch es existieren erbitterte Spaltungen innerhalb der Gruppe, die zu Sabotage und Terrorismus führen.
Schnell finden sich Picard und die Enterprise inmitten eines eskalierenden Konflikts wieder!
Unter den vielen Veränderungen war auch William Rikers Beförderung zum Captain und sein neues Kommando, Rikers Hochzeit mit Counselor Deanna Troi und Dr. Beverly Crushers neue Karriere beim Medizinischen Korps der Sternenflotte.
Doch die Geschichte, wie es dazu kam, wurde nie erzählt …
BIS JETZT.
Vor mehr als zwei Jahrhunderten schickten die Dokaalan eine unbemannte Sonde in die Leere des Alls, mit einem Hilferuf an jeden, der den Untergang ihrer Welt verhindern könnte.
Doch die Nachricht erreichte den Föderationsraum zu spät, um den Planeten oder seine Bewohner zu retten.
Zumindest schien es so …
Viele Generationen später entdecken Jean-Luc Picard und die Besatzung des Raumschiffs Enterprise-E erstaunt die letzten der Dokaalan – eine kleine Kolonie, die in einer verlassenen Asteroiden-Abbauanlage um ihr Überleben kämpft.
Auch wenn ihre Heimat vor langer Zeit zerstört wurde, hoffen sie, eines Tages einen nahegelegenen Planeten in eine neue Heimat für ihr Volk zu verwandeln. Doch es existieren erbitterte Spaltungen innerhalb der Gruppe, die zu Sabotage und Terrorismus führen.
Schnell finden sich Picard und die Enterprise inmitten eines eskalierenden Konflikts wieder!
314 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 1, 2004
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About the author
Dayton Ward
112 books318 followersDayton is a software developer, having become a slave to Corporate America after spending eleven years in the U.S. Marine Corps. When asked, he’ll tell you that he left home and joined the military soon after high school because he’d grown tired of people telling him what to do all the time.
Ask him sometime how well that worked out.
In addition to the numerous credits he shares with friend and co-writer Kevin Dilmore, he is the author of the Star Trek novels In the Name of Honor and Open Secrets, the science fiction novels The Last World War and The Genesis Protocol, and short stories which have appeared in the first three Star Trek: Strange New Worlds anthologies, the Yard Dog Press anthology Houston, We’ve Got Bubbas, Kansas City Voices Magazine and the Star Trek: New Frontier anthology No Limits. Though he currently lives in Kansas City with wife Michi and daughters Addison and Erin, Dayton is a Florida native and still maintains a torrid long-distance romance with his beloved Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Ask him sometime how well that worked out.
In addition to the numerous credits he shares with friend and co-writer Kevin Dilmore, he is the author of the Star Trek novels In the Name of Honor and Open Secrets, the science fiction novels The Last World War and The Genesis Protocol, and short stories which have appeared in the first three Star Trek: Strange New Worlds anthologies, the Yard Dog Press anthology Houston, We’ve Got Bubbas, Kansas City Voices Magazine and the Star Trek: New Frontier anthology No Limits. Though he currently lives in Kansas City with wife Michi and daughters Addison and Erin, Dayton is a Florida native and still maintains a torrid long-distance romance with his beloved Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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July 4, 2025
A Quickie Review
Enjoyable for Star Trek fans like me.
Enjoyable for Star Trek fans like me.
October 19, 2018
A big improvement over the first duology in the A Time To series. A Time to Sow sets us up nicely for part two with a fascinating alien race and a menacing threat that hides in plain sight. I found myself really curious about who exactly the "big bad" is, but unfortunately that will have to wait for book two of this duology, A Time to Harvest. Definitely a strong start here, however, with great character work and an exciting mystery.
Full review: https://www.treklit.com/2018/10/ATtS....
Full review: https://www.treklit.com/2018/10/ATtS....
January 28, 2022
[3.5/5] A better offering than the first two books in this series. This gives itself time to build up and feels more like a bigger episode of the TV show. It's also better written. The entire first third of the book just concerns the crew hanging out with each other and being themselves, and it's very welcome. There are some fantastic character moments all throughout these early sections.
The central plot of the novel is about an unexpected first contact situation and while it's not totally thrilling it does continue to build up with layers of mystery and eventually action. Most importantly, the book dedicates good amounts of time to each member of the crew and shows their strengths.
The central plot of the novel is about an unexpected first contact situation and while it's not totally thrilling it does continue to build up with layers of mystery and eventually action. Most importantly, the book dedicates good amounts of time to each member of the crew and shows their strengths.
September 11, 2015
Was a little less interesting than the first. story dragged.
March 7, 2024
Da dies der 1. Teil eines Doppelromans ist, werde ich eine Review erst nach der Lektüre des 2. Bandes abgeben...
October 21, 2020
Began reading this series when it came out in 2004! Struggling with crime fiction at the moment so comfort reading Star Trek.
November 18, 2025
*** 1/2 (Much easier read than the previous two books. A weak cliffhanger hurts it a little but looking forward to the conclusion.)
July 18, 2016
A marked improvement over the first two parts of the "A Time To" series. The authors have a far stronger grasp of the Next Generation characters and effortlessly capture their personalities, inner thoughts and dialogue.
The slower pacing (especially of the first half) is a welcome change to Vornholt's incoherent romp in the first duology. I enjoyed the quiet introspection that the principal characters each get to enjoy - there are some really touching scenes here which are more than believable for the era this book is meant to represent.
Picard's inner doubts are subtle yet telling. Of course he's reeling from the lack of respect and support the Enterprise has received from Starfleet after the Ontailian mission, but he does so stoically in a typical Picard manner.
There's a rather poignant scene between Geordi and Data as the ramifications of the emotion-chip removal start to manifest themselves. This is the kind of material I love to see, and there's no doubt that this kind of scene could easily have been written for the series itself.
I liked the overly cautious attitude of Picard and the crew when they finally encounter the Dokaalan. They do their best to prepare for every eventuality, keeping their guard up from the start. This is a captain and crew who have learned from their past mistakes and are at pains to make sure they don't fall foul of them again. Yet despite their best efforts, they must still accept that no amount of caution can truly insulate them from tragedy or disaster, especially when actors of malicious intent are involved.
The Dokaalan plot itself is interesting enough, and I especially liked how the authors introduced it through the setting of the original Enterprise NX-01. There's some rather clever weaving of canon early on in the book.
I wasn't overly fond of the Lt. Diix / Data strand of the story. This felt all too convenient and slightly unbelievable, especially given the ease at which security was breached. On the flipside, LaForge and Taurik's adventures on Ijuuka were well crafted and full of suspense.
So thank you Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore... you've ignited my attention in this book series after John Vornholt almost destroyed it before I'd even started! Looking forward to "A Time to Harvest" and to see how things are resolved!
The slower pacing (especially of the first half) is a welcome change to Vornholt's incoherent romp in the first duology. I enjoyed the quiet introspection that the principal characters each get to enjoy - there are some really touching scenes here which are more than believable for the era this book is meant to represent.
Picard's inner doubts are subtle yet telling. Of course he's reeling from the lack of respect and support the Enterprise has received from Starfleet after the Ontailian mission, but he does so stoically in a typical Picard manner.
There's a rather poignant scene between Geordi and Data as the ramifications of the emotion-chip removal start to manifest themselves. This is the kind of material I love to see, and there's no doubt that this kind of scene could easily have been written for the series itself.
I liked the overly cautious attitude of Picard and the crew when they finally encounter the Dokaalan. They do their best to prepare for every eventuality, keeping their guard up from the start. This is a captain and crew who have learned from their past mistakes and are at pains to make sure they don't fall foul of them again. Yet despite their best efforts, they must still accept that no amount of caution can truly insulate them from tragedy or disaster, especially when actors of malicious intent are involved.
The Dokaalan plot itself is interesting enough, and I especially liked how the authors introduced it through the setting of the original Enterprise NX-01. There's some rather clever weaving of canon early on in the book.
I wasn't overly fond of the Lt. Diix / Data strand of the story. This felt all too convenient and slightly unbelievable, especially given the ease at which security was breached. On the flipside, LaForge and Taurik's adventures on Ijuuka were well crafted and full of suspense.
So thank you Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore... you've ignited my attention in this book series after John Vornholt almost destroyed it before I'd even started! Looking forward to "A Time to Harvest" and to see how things are resolved!
July 12, 2020
I’m immensely enjoying these Nemesis prequels. They are setting up the stats quo post-Nemesis but also telling some fun and action packed space mysteries.
This novel is the first off presumably a two-novel arc continuing from the events of the first two A Time To... stories. Fresh off taking the fall for the Ontalian incident tragedy in the previous two novels, Picard and crew are sent to follow up on the second of two probes discovered by a presumed extinct race in an unexplored sector of space, the first of which was discovered by Vulcans contemporary to the NX-01 Enterprise.
What they find when they arrive at the probe’s origin is both fascinating and eventually mysterious, and introduces a new clandestine villain that has its nefarious designs for the solar system and the newly arrived and meddling Enterprise-E!
There’s some great character development with Dr. Crusher and also Geordi who is featured on the cover art. I look forward to picking up the presumed conclusion in book 4 of the series.
This novel is the first off presumably a two-novel arc continuing from the events of the first two A Time To... stories. Fresh off taking the fall for the Ontalian incident tragedy in the previous two novels, Picard and crew are sent to follow up on the second of two probes discovered by a presumed extinct race in an unexplored sector of space, the first of which was discovered by Vulcans contemporary to the NX-01 Enterprise.
What they find when they arrive at the probe’s origin is both fascinating and eventually mysterious, and introduces a new clandestine villain that has its nefarious designs for the solar system and the newly arrived and meddling Enterprise-E!
There’s some great character development with Dr. Crusher and also Geordi who is featured on the cover art. I look forward to picking up the presumed conclusion in book 4 of the series.
September 28, 2010
This would be a tolerably well-written book -- nothing spectacular, but not bad -- were it not for the fact that it ends on a cliffhanger. If you do not share my dislike of books which fail to contain an entire storyline within one pair of covers, consider this a three to four star review. But given that we not only don't complete the story here, but we don't even find out who the bad guys are, this is a truly annoyingly incomplete story. I'm not objecting to the fact that the storyline has continued on into this book from the previous one, as that book completed its primary plotline; what carried over into this book is essentially subplots, which is always acceptable. But to leave the primary storyline so completely up in the air is to beg a grade of, at best, "incomplete".
December 21, 2015
See my review of the other edition.
December 22, 2022
This is the first of a two part storyline. Discovering a probe with a plea for help, the Federation sends the Enterprise-E to the source of the probe which is considered to be a destroyed world. Instead, the crew finds that there have been survivors and that they live on asteroids where their limited technology has allowed them to survive. Things take a turn when one of these asteroids explodes and it appears that it was not an accident.
Two-thirds of this is the build to the new alien race, how they have survived, and the occasional interruptions from the leader through his journal. It's fine, but it's a lot to get through, especially all the technobable to explain how they've survived. It's only in the last third where the action begins with a saboteur causing trouble using a very interesting piece of technology. How's it end? Cliffhanger, with A Time to Harvest creating a conclusion.
This will appeal to Trek fans, like me, but new readers might be put off by the science and how it long it takes for tension to appear.
Two-thirds of this is the build to the new alien race, how they have survived, and the occasional interruptions from the leader through his journal. It's fine, but it's a lot to get through, especially all the technobable to explain how they've survived. It's only in the last third where the action begins with a saboteur causing trouble using a very interesting piece of technology. How's it end? Cliffhanger, with A Time to Harvest creating a conclusion.
This will appeal to Trek fans, like me, but new readers might be put off by the science and how it long it takes for tension to appear.
June 10, 2021
This is the first full length Trek novel from Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore, and a lot of their tropes that appear even today, 17 years later, are evident in the writing, such as having each character remind themselves of their entire past before uttering a single word, but this is a really well constructed novel and really kicks the A Time To series into gear after the heaping pile of crap dished up by John Vornholt in the first two volumes. Tying TNG to ENT with extreme ease, our characters actually feel like themselves, and the Dokaalan are an interesting 'species of the week'. I enjoyed it very much.
April 24, 2025
I love star trek TNG, so I will always love a book about the characters, but this book had a lot of filler. It kept going back to events in the TV show and summarizing events that happened as if the character was reminiscing. This might be good for someone new to Star Trek, but I am willing to bet someone new to it will not be picking up this book as their introduction. Instead it felt like a waste of space and reading time, like the author needed to make the book longer.
August 1, 2012
This is the third book of a nine book Star Trek series that chronicles the time between the two movies Insurrection and Nemesis, explaining how the crew ended up separated and, for many of them, off the Enterprise. Actually, the nine book series is composed of four sets of duologies, each written by different authors, and one final book closing it out, so this is really the first book of the duology written by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore.
The premise is that a society on the verge of discovering warp technology (they've built prototypes, essentially) discovers that their world is tearing itself apart. They send out a distress call in the form of three ships. One ship is found two hundred years before Picard's Enterprise (during the time of Archer as captain), but it's decided that Starfleet can't afford to send their only viable long-distance ship to investigate a planet that by the time they found the distress call would already have ripped itself apart. That distress call is forgotten as Starfleet runs into the Romulans, Klingons, etc. Now, two hundred years later, one of the other two distress calls is found and Picard and crew is sent to investigate what happened. It's essentially a "make work" job to get Picard out of the limelight after "taking one for the team" in the Rashanar system in order to preserve relations with the Ontailians (the first two books in this series). Picard heads out . . . and they discover that the Dokaalans who sent the distress call have managed to survive in part by evacuating a few thousands of their people to the asteroid belt in their system, where they've built up a precarious society. Their world was destroyed, but they now have plans to terraform another planet in their system. Picard's "make work" assignment has suddently turned into First Contact.
This first book is pretty much all set-up for the second book in the duology. Picard arrives with the Enterprise, and during the long journey we get to see the mindsets of some of the crew, the beginnings of their transitions to other ships and careers in Starfleet. For example, Dr. Crusher has been offered to head up Starfleet Medical, a job she has turned down numerous times after doing it for a year earlier on. She doesn't want to accept the job now, because Picard needs her support and she doesn't want it to appear that she's "abandoning ship" in his time of need. Meanwhile, with a nudge from Worf, Riker is thinking that maybe the best way to help Picard is to finally accept the offer of his own ship, since friends in more influential positions could only benefit Picard.
Once the Enterprise reaches the Dokaalan system, they're instantly put into service as the power generator for a mining operation threatens to explode. Picard swoops in to save as many miners as possible. Thus begins First Contact. As Picard and the Federation are introduced to the Dokaalans, they learn of the terraforming project, an astounding undertaking considering the Dokaalan's technology level. Picard offers to help, of course, but the Dokaalans are a proud people and want to accomplish this on their own . . . although any help Picard can give that would speed up the terraforming using the Dokaalans tech would be appreciated. But as they continue to talk, Geordi La Forge begins to find hints that something else is going on in the Dokaalan system. The mining accident might not have been an accident, and there are elements in the Dokaalan society that don't believe they should be terraforming another planet to suit their needs. The book ends with various members of the crew scattered over the Dokaalan system, each finding hints of something more sinister going on beneath the surface.
Overall, the plot of this book is spectacular, with a return to what Starfleet was meant for after the years of war between the Borg and the Dominion, where the principles of exploration were set aside in order to focus on defense. First contact, discovering new worlds, going where no one has gone before, etc, is at the heart of this book. I love the plot and the way the characters are being handled. The writing is smooth, easy to follow, and there are no plot holes as far as I can see. As I pointed out in my previous reviews in this series, the quality of the writing for these Star Trek books has greatly improved. My only real complaint for this book--and it's part of the style of these two authors, so it's not much of a valid complaint--is that they tend to be a bit wordy, in the sense that they overexplain some of the actions and thoughts of the characters. In essence, they rely on "tell" more the "show" in some instances, where the "tell" isn't necessary at all, they've already "shown" it. They have the characters discussing something, and it's clear in the dialogue what the characters are thinking/intending, but then after the conversation (or perhaps in the middle of it) they go into a long paragraph of explanation of WHY the characters are saying what they're saying, etc, when it was already clear. But that's the writer in me coming out.
The series continues on a great note, though, and I certainly want to find out what's really happening here in the Dokaalan system by reading the next book.
The premise is that a society on the verge of discovering warp technology (they've built prototypes, essentially) discovers that their world is tearing itself apart. They send out a distress call in the form of three ships. One ship is found two hundred years before Picard's Enterprise (during the time of Archer as captain), but it's decided that Starfleet can't afford to send their only viable long-distance ship to investigate a planet that by the time they found the distress call would already have ripped itself apart. That distress call is forgotten as Starfleet runs into the Romulans, Klingons, etc. Now, two hundred years later, one of the other two distress calls is found and Picard and crew is sent to investigate what happened. It's essentially a "make work" job to get Picard out of the limelight after "taking one for the team" in the Rashanar system in order to preserve relations with the Ontailians (the first two books in this series). Picard heads out . . . and they discover that the Dokaalans who sent the distress call have managed to survive in part by evacuating a few thousands of their people to the asteroid belt in their system, where they've built up a precarious society. Their world was destroyed, but they now have plans to terraform another planet in their system. Picard's "make work" assignment has suddently turned into First Contact.
This first book is pretty much all set-up for the second book in the duology. Picard arrives with the Enterprise, and during the long journey we get to see the mindsets of some of the crew, the beginnings of their transitions to other ships and careers in Starfleet. For example, Dr. Crusher has been offered to head up Starfleet Medical, a job she has turned down numerous times after doing it for a year earlier on. She doesn't want to accept the job now, because Picard needs her support and she doesn't want it to appear that she's "abandoning ship" in his time of need. Meanwhile, with a nudge from Worf, Riker is thinking that maybe the best way to help Picard is to finally accept the offer of his own ship, since friends in more influential positions could only benefit Picard.
Once the Enterprise reaches the Dokaalan system, they're instantly put into service as the power generator for a mining operation threatens to explode. Picard swoops in to save as many miners as possible. Thus begins First Contact. As Picard and the Federation are introduced to the Dokaalans, they learn of the terraforming project, an astounding undertaking considering the Dokaalan's technology level. Picard offers to help, of course, but the Dokaalans are a proud people and want to accomplish this on their own . . . although any help Picard can give that would speed up the terraforming using the Dokaalans tech would be appreciated. But as they continue to talk, Geordi La Forge begins to find hints that something else is going on in the Dokaalan system. The mining accident might not have been an accident, and there are elements in the Dokaalan society that don't believe they should be terraforming another planet to suit their needs. The book ends with various members of the crew scattered over the Dokaalan system, each finding hints of something more sinister going on beneath the surface.
Overall, the plot of this book is spectacular, with a return to what Starfleet was meant for after the years of war between the Borg and the Dominion, where the principles of exploration were set aside in order to focus on defense. First contact, discovering new worlds, going where no one has gone before, etc, is at the heart of this book. I love the plot and the way the characters are being handled. The writing is smooth, easy to follow, and there are no plot holes as far as I can see. As I pointed out in my previous reviews in this series, the quality of the writing for these Star Trek books has greatly improved. My only real complaint for this book--and it's part of the style of these two authors, so it's not much of a valid complaint--is that they tend to be a bit wordy, in the sense that they overexplain some of the actions and thoughts of the characters. In essence, they rely on "tell" more the "show" in some instances, where the "tell" isn't necessary at all, they've already "shown" it. They have the characters discussing something, and it's clear in the dialogue what the characters are thinking/intending, but then after the conversation (or perhaps in the middle of it) they go into a long paragraph of explanation of WHY the characters are saying what they're saying, etc, when it was already clear. But that's the writer in me coming out.
The series continues on a great note, though, and I certainly want to find out what's really happening here in the Dokaalan system by reading the next book.
October 31, 2019
My review would not be fair, as I am going back to reading the books that took place in the time period between Star Trek" Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis, having already read all but a couple of the Star Trek books following that time period.
Still, I've enjoyed all the Star Trek novels, since Insurrection, and enjoyed this one as well.
Still, I've enjoyed all the Star Trek novels, since Insurrection, and enjoyed this one as well.
May 27, 2021
Den här boken är gjord av två personer som gjort en del inom Star Trek-genren. Jag kan inte minnas att jag tidigare läst något av dem, men inser att jag nog måste börja med detta nu. Denna bok samt uppföljaren A Time to Harvest håller läsaren i ett järngrepp men missar ändå inte att beskriva skönheten, lugnet och tankarna i mötet med en ny ras, och denna beskrivning gör de dessutom på ett mycket bra sätt. Sedan är storyn dessutom hållbar och genomtänkt.
July 24, 2021
My full review will be up soon on Roqoo Depot. While Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore show their love and dedication to the franchise in this book, their writing skills are still underdeveloped. 2 out of 5.
January 31, 2022
I don’t know what it is, but I find Dayton award to be one of the weaker authors in Trek. Which is a shame because he seems so nice.
Compared to the political gamesmanship of the previous A Time to… duology, this one feels a bit low-stakes.
Compared to the political gamesmanship of the previous A Time to… duology, this one feels a bit low-stakes.
July 13, 2023
What a relief after the last book. Ward and Dilmore take a more relaxed approach, but it allows the characters to feel more sketched in.
There's also absolutely no reason this should be a duology. It kinda just ends in the middle of the story.
There's also absolutely no reason this should be a duology. It kinda just ends in the middle of the story.
March 30, 2019
It’s a good start to the 2 parter.
July 18, 2019
Sharp. Crisp. Good plot. Good characters. Good ideas being explored. Nice twist with 25% left, which I hope sets up the follow-up book for success.
May 12, 2020
a thousand times better than the last book in the series.
June 15, 2020
Captain Picard’s leadership is put to test again!
June 4, 2021
This one's a bit of a slow burn.
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February 19, 2025
Didn’t grab me quite as much as the first two books.
August 20, 2025
Classic Trek Adventure
This book is like one of the better STNG episodes. The characters are right, and the type of adventure works quite well. Great writing from the authors. My only complaint is it ends on a cliffhanger! Oh, well, it’s a great two parter. 🙂👍🏻
This book is like one of the better STNG episodes. The characters are right, and the type of adventure works quite well. Great writing from the authors. My only complaint is it ends on a cliffhanger! Oh, well, it’s a great two parter. 🙂👍🏻
November 19, 2020
Fairly well done, but I would say it was "minor" Trek, at least so far. Its a fairly low-level mission where things only start coming to a head towards the end, and then it's a cliffhanger to the next book. I'm not sure the story deserves two books, but we'll see.
October 13, 2015
I liked the concept for the story very much. However, there were some issues with the book that really dragged the book down to the level of "just an okay book." The primary issue was that the author took far, far too long to set the plot in motion. There were over 100 pages at the beginning of this book that were absolutely unnecessary, and an obvious filler. This is a pretty severe case of "starting your book too early" and I found it boring and it made me lose motivation to continue.
We have a pointless flash back chapter during Enterprise. There's a chapter dedicated to Picard worrying about events in the previous book. We then have a chapter with Worf (who isn't even on the ship, or involved in the story in any way) worrying about Picard, worrying about previous events. There's a chapter about Geordi worried about Data, which could be a bit understandable. However, then there's a chapter about misc. crew members worrying about Geordi because he's worrying about Data. Then there's a chapter about Crusher worrying about her career. Then a chapter with Riker, who is worried about Picard. And then the plot/story finally starts!
After the first 100 pages, the book does get interesting. I really like the concept, I think the characters are portrayed well, and the environment is interesting and colorful. There are other issues that annoy me, however. The author constantly diverges from the story with little anecdotal segments where he talks about events that transpire on separate episodes of the show. That would be fine if the information pertained to the story, or added something to the current situation, however, they rarely do and read as filler at best, and even as Trekkie knowledge bragging at worst. It's a minor gripe, and it only distracted me from the story to a small degree.
Another possible issue is the book has no resolution at all. It doesn't bother me quite so much, but I know that there are readers out there that demand that every novel needs to have some sort of resolution even if it's just a minor resolution, and even if the book is part of a series.
I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series. I expect it to be much better, considering I don't have to sit through another 100 pages of filler in the next book most likely. I would have looked into other works by the authors, since I think they do a good job of telling a tale, but their constant use of filler makes me concerned and cautious that their other works might be similar.
We have a pointless flash back chapter during Enterprise. There's a chapter dedicated to Picard worrying about events in the previous book. We then have a chapter with Worf (who isn't even on the ship, or involved in the story in any way) worrying about Picard, worrying about previous events. There's a chapter about Geordi worried about Data, which could be a bit understandable. However, then there's a chapter about misc. crew members worrying about Geordi because he's worrying about Data. Then there's a chapter about Crusher worrying about her career. Then a chapter with Riker, who is worried about Picard. And then the plot/story finally starts!
After the first 100 pages, the book does get interesting. I really like the concept, I think the characters are portrayed well, and the environment is interesting and colorful. There are other issues that annoy me, however. The author constantly diverges from the story with little anecdotal segments where he talks about events that transpire on separate episodes of the show. That would be fine if the information pertained to the story, or added something to the current situation, however, they rarely do and read as filler at best, and even as Trekkie knowledge bragging at worst. It's a minor gripe, and it only distracted me from the story to a small degree.
Another possible issue is the book has no resolution at all. It doesn't bother me quite so much, but I know that there are readers out there that demand that every novel needs to have some sort of resolution even if it's just a minor resolution, and even if the book is part of a series.
I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series. I expect it to be much better, considering I don't have to sit through another 100 pages of filler in the next book most likely. I would have looked into other works by the authors, since I think they do a good job of telling a tale, but their constant use of filler makes me concerned and cautious that their other works might be similar.
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