Enterprise: Daedalus' Children by Dave Stern
Blurb:
Crippled by a freak accident, Enterprise has crossed over into an alternate universe -- and into the middle of a civil war set off by a brutal warlord who has used technology stolen from the Daedalus to enslave his people.
Forcibly removed from their ship, imprisoned and brutalized by their captors, Captain Archer and crew soon find themselves confronting an even more immediate challenge than escape -- subtle biochemical differences in this universe that make their continued survival an impossibility. Every hour they spend in this parallel continuum brings them closer to death.
Yet Archer discovers that in order to recapture Enterprise, he may have to cripple his ship once again. And even if he manages to find a solution to that dilemma, one last survivor of the doomed flight of the Daedalus stands between Enterprise and her safe return home....
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My short review from a decade ago:
A good continuation of Daedalus.
In contrast to that novel we experience the plot from multiple perspectives, and through that we get a lot of changes in settings and characters. Some of the road blocks the crew encounters are solved a bit to easy for my taste (or simply never mentioned again) in contrast how big they are blown up at first.
The characterizations are good as well, pretty much all regulars get some action (even Mayweather) and some original characters are also adding to the good impression of the characterization.
All in all a novel beating many of the TV episodes in terms of quality.
Crippled by a freak accident, Enterprise has crossed over into an alternate universe -- and into the middle of a civil war set off by a brutal warlord who has used technology stolen from the Daedalus to enslave his people.
Forcibly removed from their ship, imprisoned and brutalized by their captors, Captain Archer and crew soon find themselves confronting an even more immediate challenge than escape -- subtle biochemical differences in this universe that make their continued survival an impossibility. Every hour they spend in this parallel continuum brings them closer to death.
Yet Archer discovers that in order to recapture Enterprise, he may have to cripple his ship once again. And even if he manages to find a solution to that dilemma, one last survivor of the doomed flight of the Daedalus stands between Enterprise and her safe return home....
________________________________
My short review from a decade ago:
A good continuation of Daedalus.
In contrast to that novel we experience the plot from multiple perspectives, and through that we get a lot of changes in settings and characters. Some of the road blocks the crew encounters are solved a bit to easy for my taste (or simply never mentioned again) in contrast how big they are blown up at first.
The characterizations are good as well, pretty much all regulars get some action (even Mayweather) and some original characters are also adding to the good impression of the characterization.
All in all a novel beating many of the TV episodes in terms of quality.