Double Helix

[garoo1980]

I just picked these up last week and I was wondering what everyone thought of them. I'm trying to stave off withdrawl until the Typhon books arrives and these came up. Did I waste my money? Thanks!

[Thrawn]

Not to be blunt or anything, but in my opinion, yes you totally wasted your money. The only one that isn't completely forgettable is the Stargazer one, and even it is 7/10 at most.

[21Spike65]

I thought overall the series was pretty good. It gets a little repetitive in the middle books, but I thought they were worth the read.

Infection fit well as a first-season TNG book--I thought it really felt like a first-season TNG episode. That said, first-season TNG wasn't all that great, so neither is the book, but it fits with the time so it worked.

Vectors was a good read. It was cool to see the pre-DS9 Terok Nor interactions, and I thought it was probably the best of the first few books.

Red Sector has had mixed reviews. I'd say it was the weakest of the series, but if you can get through it, it does get better.

Quarantine suffers from being the fourth book in the series. It's the last book before the climax, so it's hard for it to really have its own place when we've already had three books before. Not a bad book overall though, though the ending does kind of feel incomplete.

I thought Double or Nothing was the best book of the series. In typical Peter David fashion, I found myself laughing, and I read it before I read any of New Frontier, and still enjoyed it.

The First Virtue goes back to the Stargazer days, and brings in Tuvok as a guest character. Another solid book in my opinion, probably my second favorite, and just reading a scene with Tuvok, Crusher, and a bath house was priceless.

Hope this helps.

[garoo1980]

That's about what I expected. To be fair I didn't pay much so I'm not too worried. I just started Infection and I was hoping it would be better than the first season of TNG given that it was written in 1999.

I do like Peter David and Michael Jan Friedman so I was optimistic that it would be good. I'll stick it out I think

[captcalhoun]

i've only read DoN anad i love it. it's a Star Trek version of a James Bond movie.

[Dancing Doctor]

They're an okay series. Red Sector is a bit meh, and Quarantine was hard to really care about.

The series has a decent premise, though, and it is interesting.

[Therin of Andor]

21Spike65 wrote:

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I thought overall the series was pretty good. It gets a little repetitive in the middle books, but I thought they were worth the read.

Agreed. I'm one of those who really enjoyed "Red Sector", then joined the Internet world of ST fans and innocently, naively, found I was in a minority.

The NF title, "Double or Nothing" is a fun read!

[UncleRogi]

captcalhoun wrote:

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i've only read DoN anad i love it. it's a Star Trek version of a James Bond movie.

This is my exact reply.
Stick it out, it is ultimately worth it

[David cgc]

It even has Q, who I suspect was intended to be a Q.

[Lonemagpie]

I picked up the omnibus for 50p a couple of weeks ago. Mwahaha....

[Smiley]

The plots in the early novels of the series are of similar types, but they make such effective use of the characters and settings that I don't mind. The last two books provide the climax and then the background, so they are the most appealing.

Be aware that Red Sector is a horrible waste of paper. The Romulus stuff is mildly interesting, but the Stiles stuff is basically unreadable to me.

[Defcon]

It's a decent mini-series. Two good novels, 3 average novels and only one slightly sub-par novel.

My ranking of the novels:

1. Double or Nothing
2. The first Virtue
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3. Vectors
4. Red Sector
5. Quarantine
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6. Infection

[T'Ressa Dax]

It's a pretty good series. Though not having read it for a while I don't have too many distinct memories. First thing that came to mind involved the Cardassians, actually. Don't know why.

[21Spike65]

^The Cardassians played a significant part in Quarantine.

[Dancing Doctor]

^And Vectors.