Re: Before Dishonor -- comments & opinions ****SPOILERS****
In fairness, while there is much to complain about regarding this book, the depiction of Starfleet's reaction to the threat (in terms of ship deployments) was fairly reasonable. Remember that with things in space, there's always a time-distance problem, i.e. it takes X days to travel X distance. Accordingly, there's no requirement to insert gratuitous cameos of the Defiant, Voyager, Da Vinci, Titan, or any other regularly featured ship as it's quite likely they were simply too far away to get there until after the events of the novel had run their course. As for the other Alpha Quadrant powers, in addition to the time-distance problem, they would also have their own legitimate concerns, i.e. "if we send out fleet to defend the Federation, what if we're attacked by another Borg ship", etc. As for not hearing or seeing other ships, we heard of a total of four Federation ships by name ( Enterprise, Excalibur, Nautilus, Freedom) that were involved in responding to the threat, together with dozens of unnamed Starfleet ships that were also involved in the engagements described.
Maybe some of us don't think any Trek novel should read like a comic book. If I wanted a comic book plot, I'd read one of the many Trek comic books published over the years (there are many available). A novel should read like a novel.
Also, in reference to the last few posts, please put an additional spoiler warning if you're going to reference definitive events in a different book than the one mentioned in the thread heading. Not all of us have read the A Time To... series, and the Admiral Ross thing was a major giveaway.
In fairness, while there is much to complain about regarding this book, the depiction of Starfleet's reaction to the threat (in terms of ship deployments) was fairly reasonable. Remember that with things in space, there's always a time-distance problem, i.e. it takes X days to travel X distance. Accordingly, there's no requirement to insert gratuitous cameos of the Defiant, Voyager, Da Vinci, Titan, or any other regularly featured ship as it's quite likely they were simply too far away to get there until after the events of the novel had run their course. As for the other Alpha Quadrant powers, in addition to the time-distance problem, they would also have their own legitimate concerns, i.e. "if we send out fleet to defend the Federation, what if we're attacked by another Borg ship", etc. As for not hearing or seeing other ships, we heard of a total of four Federation ships by name ( Enterprise, Excalibur, Nautilus, Freedom) that were involved in responding to the threat, together with dozens of unnamed Starfleet ships that were also involved in the engagements described.
Maybe some of us don't think any Trek novel should read like a comic book. If I wanted a comic book plot, I'd read one of the many Trek comic books published over the years (there are many available). A novel should read like a novel.
Also, in reference to the last few posts, please put an additional spoiler warning if you're going to reference definitive events in a different book than the one mentioned in the thread heading. Not all of us have read the A Time To... series, and the Admiral Ross thing was a major giveaway.
