Very interesting addition to the series. Ending was not very suspensful. ( )

This is the last of this year's installments in the TNG relaunch, and I don't have much to say about it, beyond that it's basically the ultimate Peter David Star Trek book, with all the positives and minuses that that entails these days. (originally written December 2007)

Peter David's "Before Dishonor" is the TNG equivalent of a Tarantino film, which is to say that it is all over the map, obscure, generally good but with plenty of bad, and leaves you with the unanswerable question of whether or not you've gotten value for your time.

Maybe it's just pale because of comparison to the books immediately before it in the relaunched series. Or maybe it just suffers from "middle-book syndrome".

To me, it feels like one of the older numbered books that you hope will never be brought into canon. The Borg threat was unmoving, red-shirted characters were abundant, the resolution was deus ex technobabble, and the name-dropping for other series and other books was incessant. (I know that's supposed to tie you into the full breadth of the Trek Universe, but in this book it just came off as cheap.)

Oh, and a Trek book should never use the word "spambot". ( )

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