Fantastic book. Voted "outstanding". So much goodness.
The only part of the book that I had an issue with--if you can call it that--was the part where Chekov and his team attempted to apprehend, er, Jenochek? (Sorry, name escapes me, and I don't have the book right here. The drug addict who was working for the Red Man.) It just seemed a little odd to me that Starfleet was not only doing the job of local law enforcement, but was actively trying to thwart them from doing their job. If, say, the present-day US Navy had acted similarly by trying to capture a suspect that the Boston police were trying to apprehend, how well would that go over? Not that it was badly written, or anything, it just felt... extralegal. But perhaps Federation law is different, and allows for this sort of thing.
For the record, I had no idea Beggs Hansen was named for the actor. I just read it, thought, "that's an odd name", and moved on.
And the one thing that I thought was an easter egg, turned out not to be! While I was reading, I just assumed Councillor Prang was the namesake for the ship that was sent to escort the
T'Ong in "The Emissary"... but I checked MA afterwards, and it turns out that the ship was the
P'Rang, so I guess not!
