I like Before Dishonour and have read it a few times over the decade since it was published, as for Eternal Tide, I read it once and personally think it is the weakest of the Voyager novels under Ms Beyer.
Well, I guess people are allowed to have there own opinions now. I do think, however, that The Eternal Tide, was one of the weaker Voyager relaunch novels. The only one I liked less was Unworthy, but still I thought both were pretty good.
Your argument makes complete sense. Given that by 2410 every major species can traverse the DQ at ease - even before the Alpha Quadrant Alliance arrived - we can only attribute that to the fast spread of a new propulsion method. Possibly the revival and spread of the Vaadwaur Supremacy through the subspace network weakened the Turei’s control. Or it’s the ubiquitous trabswarp drive(s). The Hirogen arrived in Romulan space in the 2390s, according to STO: The Needs of the Many.
The original plan was to retrofit the Enterprise after the test flights were done. Its planned missions were to have been to deliver the Intelsat V satellite into orbit, as well as two Spacelab; a retrofit was also considered after the Challenger mishap. However, due to massive changes that occurred because the tests, the cost to retrofit was prohibitive.
I thought something said that the Hirogen were suspected of traveling to Romulan space via a wormhole.
There used to be a mission where you encountered Hirogen around a wormwhole, but they removed it a while back when they redid the story arc.
Didn't their communication network Voyager used to call home go all the way up to the border of the Beta Quadrant? I'd always assumed that meant that the Hirogen's territory stretched that far.
Yeah, but I just figured if they controlled the whole network, that probably meant the whole thing was in their territory.