Spoilers DS9: Gamma: Original Sin by David R. George III Review Thread

Just got my copy. Hopefully going to start it tonight

 

Glad to see that the votes so far have been average+!

 

I read it last week.

I'm not terribly invested in the DS9 side of Trek novels these days, but...I guess Oriignal Sin was alright. It was nice to finally see details of the kidnapping finally fleshed out, but I feel that the Glant and the revelation/further detail of Rebecca could have been explored more. Best wait for David R. George III's next novel I guess.

Now she may be just a child, and an unusual one given who she is, but am I the only one who finds Rebecca's unwillingness to talk just plain bratty after multiple novels of it?

 

The book itself is not bad, it’s a decent Star Trek story. What’s missing is that it doesn’t feel like DS9. Sisko may be in the book but everything else about DS9 is missing. The DS9 series has floundered for a while as the station has lost so may of the people that made up the series. It’s unfortunate and it’s made the books less enjoyable. Voyager has most of it’s members in the series, TNG has enough of the characters we knew on the Enterprise to feel like the show, Titan has Riker and characters we grew to love because of the books and even though the ENT books don’t have all the characters on the ship anymore, we’re continuing to follow them and they interact frequently. DS9 on the other hand seems to have no anchor anymore. We need to have Sisko back on the station soon so that reading the books actually feels like a DS9 book.

 

I've been really enjoying this so far, George's prose is very lovely in how he describes things. The opening chapter was very evocative, very lovely at capturing new and different sides of Bajor - the kind of feel that reminds me of Fragments and Omens, which is a definite good thing.

Also who was J. Noah Kym?

 

It's never been revealed I can't even remember what the speculation was, back in the day.

 

Could it have been DRGIII, or Marco?

 

I've often wondered if it was Marco. Although Mack went with the Sara Shaw name because he already had a story in the first MU book, so I guess they could have done the same thing with DRGIII since he also wrote Olympus Descending.

 

I seem to recall some speculation, based on the Voyages of Imagination entry for "Fragments and Omens," that "J. Noah Kym" was Jeffrey Lang and Heather Jarman.

 

I hadn't come across that theory before. I'm pretty impressed that we still haven't heard for sure if J. Noah Kym is a pseudomyn and if so, for who.

 

I'm not hating this novel sofar. But, it also doesn't feel grounded in anything yet. The only thing making this a DS9 novel is the fact that it's covering the Rebecca kidnap from the DS9 relaunch. Other than that, it could have been about any Starfleet ship with kids being abducted. I'll reserve final judgement untill I'm done.

 

I checked and Voyages of Imagination said on p. 275 that "[Kym's] good freinds Heather Jarman and Jeffrey Lang [...] gave [him] some much needed perspective"

 

That definitely does sound like "he" could be them.

 

I decided to give this a try, thought it was total shite and gave up by the 10% mark. It would be nice if Pocket handed the DS9 stories over to someone else.

 

*cough* @Una McCormack *cough*

 

If you mean the Tarellians from "Haven," they look entirely human. If you mean the Terellians mentioned in various episodes, they have four arms but nothing else is known about their appearance. There are also Tyrellians, appearance unknown, and two kinds of Terrellians, one from the Alpha Quadrant and one from Delta. Why the writers of TNG-era Trek were so in love with that name is a mystery. It's like Rigel for TOS.

 

I absolutely agree with this and I finished the book. The DS9 series of novels feels so scattered and in some ways there is nothing to differentiate it from the rest of the series, it's lost that DS9 feeling for the most part.

 

A little bit yeah. Doesn't mean they're bad books. Just, doesn't feel the same. When the Relaunch started, it really felt like DS9 to me.