Archive for the ‘Reviews of books’ Category
Star Trek: TNG — Diplomatic Implausibility
{4.5/5} “But you — you make us all look like we lead dull lives. Your ship’s destroyed by the Jem’Hadar, you’re captured by the Breen, tortured by the Cardassians, rescued by Cardassia’s biggest folk hero, and then for good measure you kill the Klingon chancellor and appoint his replacement, help win the worst war of […]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — Ring of Fire
{4.5/5} “I’ve lived most of my life haunted by the knowledge that I killed that beautiful horse… for nothing. Which I might have lived with, if I hadn’t made the same… mistake at Marbas, sixteen years ago Just like with Sable, I pushed too fast and too hard, all to impress some authority figure and […]
Star Trek: SNW — Toward the Night
{4.5/5} “‘Are you willing to pay that price?’ La’An looked Rix in the eye. ‘All it takes is one tiny alteration right now, and we might never be born.’ She took in Pike and the others with a gesture. ‘A war that was averted might not be stopped. Lives that we preserved because of missions […]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — Asylum
{4.5/5} “What I’m saying is you don’t want to find yourself locked into a particular course of action because of rules. Sometimes, you have to follow your instinct. You work the situation that’s unfolding before you, not look for an example in the book.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — Asylum by Una McCormack, published […]
Star Trek: Picard — Firewall
{4.5/5} “‘Help us get the intel we need, and we’ll get your citizenship restored, as well as pull strings with the Starfleet brass to get you the commission yo deserve. With any luck, you’ll be a serving line officer on a capital ship by the end of the year.’ It was a more tempting offer […]
Star Trek: Picard — Second Self
{5/5} “She had not liked him (was it possible to like a Tal Shiar agent?), but their working relationship during the Dominion War had been mutually beneficial. She hadn’t trusted him (was it possible to trust Tal Shiar?), but she had respected him. He’d understood the gray area in which they operated, and how to […]
Star Trek: Picard — Rogue Elements
{4.5/5} “The ship was already freedom, and that was all Rios had wanted in the first place. It was the only reason he had bothered with the Iotians at all. He’d gotten what he wanted from them, and he’d made enough warp jumps to ensure they’d never find him. That was that.” Star Trek: Picard […]
Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes
{4.5/5} “The doctor thought about it for a moment. But would Jim understand? This was a man for whom space was a passion — for McCoy it was an escape. How could Kirk understand that McCoy felt he didn’t belong here and never had?” Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes by Michael Schuster and Steve […]
The Shattering Peace
{4.5/5} “‘The Conclave citizens have some latent bigotries to work out.’ ‘They don’t like humans?’ ‘No one likes humans,’ Ran said. ‘This is well-known.’” The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi, published in 2025 Humans and aliens are at peace. But part of the deal between Earth, the Colonial Union, and the Conclave was that there […]
Star Trek: Discovery — Die Standing
{4.5/5} “The people of this continuum were different from the residents of hers; many, she still thought, were much inferior. But a current of hope ran through this universe, encouraging lightweights to seek responsibility — and giving those with dark pasts a shot at something other than incarceration.” Star Trek: Discovery — Die Standing by […]