Anyone read DS9: Vengeance?

[Cronos6939]

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I started reading it myself the other day, but I had to put it down. It feels like the author worked from a few pages of character guides and hasn't really seen the show. Plus there's some inconsistency within the book itself.

Four people beam over to the mostly-destroyed ship and four people beam back to the Defiant, yet there are five main characters present on the away mission.

Sisko doesn't want to leave the very-pregnant Kira in charge of DS9 in case any problems arise on the station in his absense. So he takes her on a potential suicide mission to find a possible joint Klingon-Dominion fleet in the Gamma Quadrant. He doesn't bring a doctor and the whole ship is somehow crewed by 6 people.

At various points, the station feels like it's been deserted by all but a dozen people. Though I guess it might as well be, since no one (security teams included) seems to be aware of Klingon boarding parties until they're being shot at.

The Klingons, who are among my favorite of species, are a big disappointment. And Rodek/Kurn, who is on the cover and who is one of the main reasons I got this book, has only been seen for about two lines in the first hundred pages.

So, those of you who have read the book, is it worth finishing? Or could you just spoiler-post a basic synopsis of the resolution for me?

 

[LightningStorm]

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[DarKush]

I read it years ago. I don't remember much about it except that it didn't impress me. I was expecting more of a showdown between Worf and the main Klingon villain.

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

That one's on the not particularly memorable list...

 

[Thor Damar]

The passage about Cardassian humor was good and Garak was pretty entertaining but on the whole not the greatest trek novel. (too many Klingons.)

 

[Shakaar]

I have to say I remember being very disappointed. I picked this up just after having read Dafydd ab Hugh's previous DS9 novel, the amazing Fallen Heroes but this one seemed to be written much earlier or something. Characterization was all over the place. One thing that really bothered me, if I remember correctly was the amount of numerous errors, both little and otherwise. For example, at one point it was an issue that the Defiant had run out of torpedos, but then the ship comes through the wormhole and starts firing them. I think that was this book, anyway.