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defcons_treklitThe last of the three Janus Gate Books holds the quality level of the previous two installations.
But like with the others, here too the authors weren’t able to fully use all possible potential in my opinion. Here I think they could have done more with the team up of Kirk with his father, which fell a bit to short for my taste. One of the best scenes of the novel was, when Future - Chekov killed Future - Sulu in order to give the Enterprise crew the chance to retrieve their Captain from the past. The aliens who wanted to prevent further usage of the Janus Gate device were somewhat easy opponents, in the end they more or less weren’t much more than a nuisance. So they appeared as some kind of filler for pages to me, which could have been spent better, for example like I mentioned above for some additional George Kirk – adult Jim Kirk stuff.
But the characterizations and character driven scenes that are there are good and interesting. The major “problem” with the characterization throughout the whole trilogy is that the authors doesn’t fully use the chemistry which they create between different pairings, it’s if they don’t trust their own skills in constructing character driven scenes.
Overall an adequate conclusion for an O.K. trilogy, which had potential for more, but nonetheless offers some hours of entertainment.
”Defcon’s TrekLit” Rating :
Story : *** of *****
Characterization / character development : **** of *****
Originality : *** of *****
Writing style : *** of *****
Cover : ** of *****
Overall : 72 %
But like with the others, here too the authors weren’t able to fully use all possible potential in my opinion. Here I think they could have done more with the team up of Kirk with his father, which fell a bit to short for my taste. One of the best scenes of the novel was, when Future - Chekov killed Future - Sulu in order to give the Enterprise crew the chance to retrieve their Captain from the past. The aliens who wanted to prevent further usage of the Janus Gate device were somewhat easy opponents, in the end they more or less weren’t much more than a nuisance. So they appeared as some kind of filler for pages to me, which could have been spent better, for example like I mentioned above for some additional George Kirk – adult Jim Kirk stuff.
But the characterizations and character driven scenes that are there are good and interesting. The major “problem” with the characterization throughout the whole trilogy is that the authors doesn’t fully use the chemistry which they create between different pairings, it’s if they don’t trust their own skills in constructing character driven scenes.
Overall an adequate conclusion for an O.K. trilogy, which had potential for more, but nonetheless offers some hours of entertainment.
”Defcon’s TrekLit” Rating :
Story : *** of *****
Characterization / character development : **** of *****
Originality : *** of *****
Writing style : *** of *****
Cover : ** of *****
Overall : 72 %
