So I started reading "Star Trek Destiny" and it's a little overwhelming since it stars four different ships full of brand new characters I'd never heard of...
It also feels almost like the second book of the series because they keep referring to a recent encounter with the Borg where they killed a Queen. What book was this, was it any good, and how important is it to "Destiny" do I need to read it before this?
Also, they're already in the middle of a war with the Borg and there have already been multiple attacks. Was this in a book or are they just starting in media res?
Also, having been outside of Trek Lit the past decade, I had some eye openers here...
Picard and Beverly are MARRIED?! And she's PREGNANT?!
Riker and Troi are married and keep miscarrying? (again, this felt like I was reading the second book in the series)
Ezri is a Starship Captain? Worf is the XO of the Enterprise? What happened to being the Klingon Ambassador? I really liked the way the end of DS9 took him back to his Klingon heritage and away from the Federation (as I dimly recall).
I'm only 100 pages into the first book but I'm left wondering why they aren't consulting with Janeway and Seven of Nine, aren't they the resident Borg experts of the Federation?
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Oh and I finished reading "Serpent Among the Ruins" awhile ago. It was pretty good, but I really did not care for Harriman as a character. I just found him extremely uninteresting and wooden. The storyline was very interesting though and felt very important. Since we never saw a proper war with the Romulans I really enjoyed the build up to this, and the secret plan was quite clever. The entire book I was screaming (inside) why in the world would you test-run your brand new warp drive right next to the Neutral Zone?!?!?! But that was part of the plan
I think part of the problem is that after ten years away from Star Trek with modern day television, the vanilla moral whitebread characters of Starfleet just feel very fake to me now... Everyone is so PC and every other character is an alien with a handicap that everyone goes out of their way to accommodate and everyone likes each other... there's no conflict among the crew members. Nobody is trying to kill one another
