Star Trek: Voyager — Echoes
{5/5} “The statue’s expression was a gentle half-smile made strange by the disturbing filmy eyes. What this balding creature was doing, or what he represented, was beyond Janeway’s comprehension. But the entire feeling from the statue was one of a people Janeway felt she might have liked. So where had they gone? What had happened to an entire planetful of people?”
Star Trek: Voyager — Echoes by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Nina Kiriki Hoffman, published in 1998
When Voyager starts vibrating and then they get a distress call, Captain Janeway gives the order to change course. When they arrive at the planet they find it’s the source of the subspace pulses. It’s an early warp civilization, and the person who answers their call is happy to see them. They find a debris field whose contents are shocking.
It is partially a sequel to the episode “Deadlock.”
It’s about people from different universes working on the same problem. It’s about continuing to work while knowing about an unthinkable number of deaths.
This is a special one — if you’re a fan of Voyager you’ll want to read it.
I’ve read 7 novels by Rusch and 8 by Smith (plus 6 anthologies he edited). I previously reviewed Star Trek: Voyager — The Escape.
This is the 1st book I’ve read by Hoffman.