I finished the Terok Nor trilogy a couple hours ago and I enjoyed it a lot. Just some general thoughts on the series without going into details on specific plot points.
You kind of know where things are going and in some cases you really know where things are going but there are so many stories going on at once it really didn't matter to me that much.
I thought the books had a good mixture of new characters and people from the shows. Even if I knew where something was going to end up, like Opaka's son, I wasn't going to know what was going to happen with the original characters.
I liked how even though they spent a fair amount of time around events mentioned or depicted in flashbacks or what ever in the series they never just did a re-telling, it was always those events from a different perspective or how the events in the series would have led to other things not previously mentioned.
I also thought it was great that even though they covered a lot the back story mentioned in the series, not everything single thing was covered. that would have been a bit much. While I was reading the books I was flipping through episode descriptions in memory alpha and thinking they didn't bring this or that up which I thought was a good thing.
The trilogy also did something that a lot of books haven't made me do which was go back and watch some episodes. I just like DS9 so much more than the other series and these books remind me of why. It all takes place at one location so it gets into things in a lot more in depth fashion. Just the fact that you can have some books like this that cover a long era and have so much canon from the series and it wasn't even an era that the series took place in. It just highlights how much good story telling was going on in that series to me.
I will say I thought in the third book they were crossing the line a bit when it came to the connections between the people we met in the series. Sort of small universe syndrome I think it's called but that wasn't that big of a deal.
Overall, I give all three books a thumbs up. They were all pretty good sized and I still went through them fairly quickly which is an obvious site I'm enjoying it.
You kind of know where things are going and in some cases you really know where things are going but there are so many stories going on at once it really didn't matter to me that much.
I thought the books had a good mixture of new characters and people from the shows. Even if I knew where something was going to end up, like Opaka's son, I wasn't going to know what was going to happen with the original characters.
I liked how even though they spent a fair amount of time around events mentioned or depicted in flashbacks or what ever in the series they never just did a re-telling, it was always those events from a different perspective or how the events in the series would have led to other things not previously mentioned.
I also thought it was great that even though they covered a lot the back story mentioned in the series, not everything single thing was covered. that would have been a bit much. While I was reading the books I was flipping through episode descriptions in memory alpha and thinking they didn't bring this or that up which I thought was a good thing.
The trilogy also did something that a lot of books haven't made me do which was go back and watch some episodes. I just like DS9 so much more than the other series and these books remind me of why. It all takes place at one location so it gets into things in a lot more in depth fashion. Just the fact that you can have some books like this that cover a long era and have so much canon from the series and it wasn't even an era that the series took place in. It just highlights how much good story telling was going on in that series to me.
I will say I thought in the third book they were crossing the line a bit when it came to the connections between the people we met in the series. Sort of small universe syndrome I think it's called but that wasn't that big of a deal.
Overall, I give all three books a thumbs up. They were all pretty good sized and I still went through them fairly quickly which is an obvious site I'm enjoying it.
