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Bezig met laden... Time's Enemy (Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Invasion, Book 3) (editie 1996)door L. A. Graf (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkInvasion!: Time's Enemy door L. A. Graf
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Entertianing ( ) This is easily the best Deep Space Nine I have read and it has held up over the five or so times I have read it. To me this novel feels like an actual episode in all the best ways. It takes advantage of the written word having no budget to include cool scenes like a zero g spacewalk through a destroyed starship. The character interactions seem very genuine and I appreciate that the authors took the time to show some of Kira's struggles with overcoming her freedom fighter past and contrasting with her current job of dealing with the day to day running of the station. Time's Enemy only expands the Invasion! story tangentially and I suppose some could hold that against it but in my opinion the story holds up on its own and using the Furies as a backdrop allows this story to flesh out a bit more of the Furies motivations. Overall I highly recommend this novel. Of the three DS9 books I've read so far, this one-- for obvious reasons-- fits the series the best. While my books for S1 and S2 were set early in their respective seasons, Time's Enemy actually takes place in the S3/4 gap; Sisko is a captain, but he still has his hair. The book has a strong grasp on all the characters. Sisko, Dax, Bashir, and Kira are the focuses, but just like in the show at this point, Odo, Quark, and O'Brien shine even though they just have brief appearances. I especially liked the protracted sections told from Kira's perspective; Graf really gets Kira's mix of hot-headedness, persistence, and professionalism, and balances her terrorist past with her administrator present very well. I'd have liked to have seen her tackle a Kira-focused novel. The book really captures the nuances of the DS9 world better than preceding ones, with references small and big; it's definitely the most interested in Bajor of the ones I've read so far. Kai Winn is in it (not quite her first prose appearance; Memory Beta tells me she appeared in Objective: Bajor first), and her schmarmiess is perfect. Though to be honest, her role really should have been taken by Shakaar (who is mentioned as Kira's former Resistance leader, but not in the context of being First Minister). The only thing that feels off is that there's very little worry about the Dominion; no one suggests that they might be responsible for an attack on the wormhole, or the destroyed ships they find. They are used well as an ancillary threat, though. In terms of plot, this is also a good book. There's a real sense of desperation, both from the time paradox that begins the whole thing, and from the unclean/viroids themselves, who are really creepy enemies-- not really sentient, but very determined space locusts. They're very effective, especially in the early sections of the book, where our protagonists keep on coming across ships with their crew and power sources missing. The book stands alone from the rest of Invasion! easily; I haven't read that for over a decade, but all you really need to know is that the Furies used to control local space and are trying to take it back, and the unclean kicked them out. Graf is surprisingly deft with the science stuff, which actually feels "real" for the most part-- too much Star Trek science comes across as substanceless babble. There's some neat stuff with the wormhole, especially; I really liked it when they realized the wormhole was opening and closing, but they couldn't see it because its light had moved out of the visible spectrum. Continuity Points:
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This was a helluva complicated storyline. Things going on both sides of the wormhole. Various time periods crashing together, not to mention lots and lots of Trill action. This last thing is what I liked best about the book, one of my favorite characters in the DS9 universe is Jadzia Dax (emphasis on the Jadzia) There are so many levels to the character. There's the host and there's the symbiote and then there's the memories from the previous hosts that makes the Trill one of the most interesting Star Trek species. I do wish that there had been more Chief Miles O'Brien. He seemed to be being used more like an extra than an integral part of the crew. Crazily enough it also seemed that way with how much Ben Sisko was used too. Another slightly weird thing was that this is supposedly a series about the Furies and they too don't have a humongous role in the story either. But, it was an interesting and engaging plot. A solid three star book. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Millenia ago, an apocalyptic battle was fought in the Alpha Quadrant. The losers were banished, but what became of the victors? The Federation is threatened by this ancient mystery when a battered and broken version of the Defiant is found, frozen for five thousand years, in an icy cloud of cometary debris. Captain Sisko and the crew of Deep Space NineTM are summoned to answer the most baffling question of their lives: how and when will their ship be catapulted back through time to its destruction? And does its ancient death mean that one of the combatants in a primordial battle is poised now to storm the Alpha Quadrant? Only the wormhole holds the answer -- and the future of the Federation itself may depend on the secrets it conceals. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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