Star Trek: Destiny

Well holy crap. I expected it'd take some serious deus ex machina to solve the Borg threat and I was right. But it was very well done. Very glad to see the Borg finally dealt with. After the end of the Voyager TV series it was unclear just how badly they'd been damaged. But it always seemed like they were still out there. No more. The origin story for the Borg was nice. When the Caeliar proposed 'merging' with the surviving Columbia crew I wondered if that the Borg would be the result. Really cool how it all went full circle.

As with the other books, I enjoyed that he brought back characters that were previously guests on the series, like Melora Pazlar and Simon Tarsis.

The only criticisms I feel I can level is that the Voyager and its show more crew was done a disservice. I was surprised in the previous books to see that the ship was still in service and not a museum. I was surprised, pleasantly, to see that Chakotay and Paris ran the ship. I expected it to be featured a bit more, but then it gets absolutely wrecked and pretty much forgotten about. When the Enterprise, Titan and Aventine meet up, they help each other repair. They know the Voyager is out there - its mentioned before, but no one goes to help them....

Also, David Mack WRECKED the Federation, Klingon Empire, Romulans. So many known worlds absolutely destroyed. How do you follow that act? I guess I'll find out!

Took me about 2 and a half weeks to get through the 810 combined pages of all 3 books. That's pretty fast for me. I had a hard time putting the book down. show less

Good read that begins to really slow down and less cohesive by book two. The scale and breadth of the events of book 3 could be a trilogy unto it's self and thus many things are overlooked and make less of an impact than expected.