Finished Terok Nor Trilogy (no spoilers)

[Admiral_Young]

I finished reading Dawn of the Eagles...I love S.D. Perry...thought it was a fitting conclusion to an outstanding trilogy that made me realize my love for Deep Space Nine even more. I've been waiting for a book that covers the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor and now we have three. Yes it wasn't really a miscommunication I was implying but more of a result of Cardassian military arrogance and Bajoran naitivee that resulted in the occupation, it was much the fault of an unprepared Bajoran government who through a lack of space travel wasn't fit to deal with an agressive species like Cardassia. I liked how the Federation was pretty much handcuffed by the Prime Directive and the treaty with Cardassian and couldn't interfere. I want that much overdue Tkenzhzi War book now (yes yes I know that I mispelt it). Great trilogy and now I'm on to Fearful Symmerty that is coming from the library in a couple of days.

 

[donners22]

I've just got Dawn of the Eagles from my library, so I'll be going through it shortly. Sounds promising though.

 

[Sxottlan]

I eventually enjoyed the first book. It took a very long time to get going, but once it did, it was fantastic.

Books two and three. Geez. Big disappointments. Character work is fine. The narrative was just a disaster for me.

Given the scope of the era being covered, you can't really expect the trilogy to tell a single story.

I don't know. I thought it a reasonable expectation that the trilogy be a cohesive story.

 

[KRAD]

^ I was commenting to Marco yesterday that I was amused at the fact that if you read the following four books in this order, you get a straight shot of five decades of Cardassian history:

Day of the Vipers
The Art of the Impossible
Night of the Wolves
Dawn of the Eagles

It was coincidence, really, that TAOTI begins just as Vipers ends and that Wolves begins just as TAOTI ends, but it's an amusing coinky-dink...

 

[Christopher]

It was coincidence, really, that TAOTI begins just as Vipers ends and that Wolves begins just as TAOTI ends, but it's an amusing coinky-dink...

If anything, it's cutting things a bit close. It seemed that when Kell appeared as a legate in TAOTI, it couldn't have been more than a couple of weeks since he left Terok Nor to accept a promotion to legate in DOTV.

 

[Damask]

Okay I've finished the first two and am nearly at the end of DotE. However one thing is bugging me

Spoiler

In necessary Evil I always felt that this was how Dukat, Odo, Quark and Kira all met. It made sense and the use of the murder investigation to do so was great.
However in the books Dukat knows who Kira is long before this. It threw me out of the book that the great scene in NE where Dukat asks Odo if Kira was the murderer is diminished in the book. The actual scene from NE doesn't appear in the book (and I understand why) but from the books POV it would appear that Dukat was just toying with Kira in that scene. Disappointing.

 

[JD]

Yeah, but him knowing about Kira early makes alot more sense though, he was in a relationship with her mother for several years after all.

 

[Christopher]

Yeah, but him knowing about Kira early makes alot more sense though, he was in a relationship with her mother for several years after all.

Except the fact of that relationship didn't make much sense. I wish that episode had never been written. It was too big a retcon, pushing back Dukat's prefecture of Bajor much earlier than had originally been implied, and directly contradicting "Babel" on when Terok Nor was built. It was also too contrived and Dickensian having Dukat in a relationship with Kira's mother. Although the trilogy did a good job of salvaging that contrivance and presenting the situation in a way that made sense.

 

[Sxottlan]

I wish that episode had never been written.

Agreed. Terrible episode. Seemed like Kira wanted to kill her mother after something like 15 minutes. Just didn't buy it at all.

 

[Damask]

Yeah, but him knowing about Kira early makes alot more sense though, he was in a relationship with her mother for several years after all.

Sure but does that translate into an obsession with her daughter? Anway it's just a minor thing for me but it's annoying. Eh

Spoiler

maybe it's the "small universe" that's annoying me more. Elias was the one who warned the Bajorans? What are the chances! On the other hand Dukat "getting" Odo to come to Terok Nor was spot on.