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defcons_treklitAn acceptable novel.
The better part of the story is undoubtedly the characterization part. The only major exception is Keru, who gets more and more annoying, since he gets whole chapters dedicated to him, although he is the most uninteresting and one-dimensional member of the Titan-Crew. The problem with him is, that although he gets so much prominence in the stories he basically isn’t developing / showing any new character traits. He still is a 08/15 security chief who isn’t over the loss of his mate. That in itself is not the main problem, rather that he shows the same reactions since he was introduced years before this novel and shows no signs of character growth since then. Especially for Riker Mangels and Martin did some good work in shaping out what kind of captain he is, though. One complaint I have is, that once again most of the Titan crew play only bystander roles at best. Like in the first novel only a handful of characters (and partly the same handful) are featured heavily while the others have only cameos.
The better part of the story is the Tuvok/Akaar relationship, the Neyel part is decent, but rather unoriginal. With the exception of featuring them it is a rather customary story, especially the last part of the story about the evacuation is rather generic. While the Tuvok/Akaar plot isn’t really innovative either it’s written well and does more for the Tuvok character then most other Voyager novels (maybe with the exception of Jeri Taylor’s books) combined. So I like the fact that he’s staying on board and isn’t returning to the Voyager Relaunch.
Overall a novel with some good character work, but a rather unexciting plot part.
”Defcon’s TrekLit” Rating :
Story : *** of *****
Characterization / character development : **** of *****
Originality : ** of *****
Writing style : *** of *****
Cover : *** of *****
Overall : 69 %
