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Books : Science Fiction & Fantasy : Authors, A-Z : C : Carey, Diane
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine finally draws to a close with the double-length episode What You Leave Behind. Diane Carey's novelisation transfers the story very effectively to the printed page, taking us inside the characters' minds as they face the climactic conclusion to their seven-year adventure aboard DS9. Carey adds a couple of extra scenes and some new dialogue, as well as the characters' thoughts and feelings, while remaining close to the television script. The action is handled well, with some excellent descriptions of the battles.While the starship 'Defiant' leads a combined Federation, Klingon and Romulan fleet against the Dominion and its Cardassian and Breen allies, Kai Winn and Gul Dukat head for the Fire Caves where they intend to release the Pah-wraiths, false Prophets who they believe will give them immense power. Captain Sisko is central to both story lines. As the Starfleet commander of DS9, he is one of the leaders of the fleet, but he is also the Emissary of the Prophets, and only he can stop Winn and Dukat.
Everyone has something to do in this final adventure, and most of the plot threads are neatly tidied up. After seven years, it's hard to say goodbye, but this story does it well, bringing DS9 to a satisfying, if poignant, conclusion. --Elizabeth Sourbut
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This substantial volume brings together six novels, all set in The Captain's Table, a bar where ships' captains from many worlds throughout history can gather to drink, talk and brawl. The price of the first round of drinks is always a story. And so each captain settles back and spins a yarn.Captains Kirk and Sulu meet some unusual reptilian aliens in an intriguing adventure, while Picard goes undercover in search of a missing Starfleet officer and a legendary Cardassian treasure in a fast-moving tale. Sisko's brush with a mysterious race of invisible aliens, on the other hand, is slow and talky. The pace picks up again as Janeway describes her experiences as a deck-hand aboard the ship of a comparatively low-tech culture where, marooned, she has to work her way up from the bottom. Peter David's creation, Mackenzie Calhoun, relates his experiences as First Officer of the Grissom under the vengeful Captain Kenyon, and Christopher Pike searches for the origins of a species of space-faring whales.
Most of these adventures are well-written, with some excellent aliens, and their first-person narration gives a more intimate feel than most Star Trek novels. Weighing in at a hefty 1143 pages, it's very good value for money.--Elizabeth Sourbut
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Book two of the Gateways series, Chainmail, introduces a story apparently independent of the first book, One Small Step. It features Commander Nick Keller and the hybrid crew of the "Challenger", first seen in the New Earth series when Keller took over guardianship of the colony Belle Terre from Captain Kirk. Keller is trying to rescue his first officer, the Blood Shucorion, and bosun Zane Bonifay from an alien vessel, whose strange interior resembles a metallic jungle filled with thousands of metal-embalmed bodies. But getting his crewmen back is only the start of his problems. Shucorion claims that Bonifay disobeyed a direct order, and by Blood law he must face execution. Keller can't afford to go against the treaty between the Blood and the Federation, but how can he abandon his own crewman to a death penalty? While he grapples with this dilemma, a mysterious Gateway opens in empty space, and an immensely powerful alien craft comes through, crewed by people who have been toughened by hundreds of generations struggling to tame the environment of an inhospitable metal planet. Diane Carey has created some truly alien environments on the metallic planet and within the mysterious alien ship, and the combination leads to a book that stretches the Star Trek universe in interesting ways. The "Challenger" is much less squeaky clean than most Starfleet vessels, and Keller is a comparatively uncertain commander still struggling to find his own power, which adds to the tension. The story will be continued in a later volume of the series, but this is an intriguing beginning. --Elizabeth Sourbut
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