{4.5\/5} “‘In Simon Says, the losers don’t get shot in the head.’ ‘They do in the original Klingon version.'”<\/p>\n
Dr. Julian Bashir has been recruited for a dangerous mission — infiltrate the Breen and sabotage their development of the slipstream drive. His accomplice is Sarina Douglas, who works for Starfleet Intelligence — Bashir has met her before and still has strong feelings for her. Ezri Dax\u00a0is now captain of the Aventine — her job is to extract Bashir and Douglas when their mission is done. But the many Breen and Romulan ships blocking her path will make that difficult.<\/p>\n
Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game<\/strong> by David Mack was published in 2010.<\/p>\n Zero Sum Game<\/strong> is the first novel in the Typhon Pact<\/strong> miniseries, a set of Star Trek<\/strong> books continuing the adventures of characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/strong> and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/strong>. In the last few years the Star Trek<\/strong> books set in the 24th century have taken place after the TV and movie series finished. I haven’t kept up with all of of the Deep Space Nine<\/strong> and Voyager<\/strong> books (yet) but I have read all of the Next Generation<\/strong> books that take place after Nemesis<\/strong>, as well as all of the Titan<\/strong> books (Riker is now captain of the starship Titan so he gets his own series). These books have been, on average, great — significantly better on average than books set during the series. In particular, the Destiny<\/strong> miniseries by David Mack was absolutely brilliant.<\/p>\n The Typhon Pact is an alliance that has set itself against the Federation — it includes the Romulans, Tholians, Gorn, and Breen. The Breen were seen in several\u00a0Deep Space Nine<\/strong> episodes — at that time they allied themselves with the Dominion. We get to find out more about the Breen in this book — including why they wear a suit of armour all the time.<\/p>\n Just to warn you in case you’re expecting a\u00a0Deep Space Nine<\/strong> reunion, very little of this book\u00a0takes place on Deep Space Nine and only two main characters from that show are main characters here — Bashir and Dax. Most of the other characters have gone their separate ways, although there are a couple of cameos.<\/p>\n Nanietta Bacco, the President of the Federation, shows up — as she often does in the recent books. Her scenes give an interesting alternative perspective on the events taking place.<\/p>\n I prefer Star Trek<\/strong> stories where they’re exploring strange new worlds rather than waging a cold war. But given that’s what they’re doing this is a great book with interesting details on the Breen culture and the pitfalls of covert missions. It’s a serious mission but there are moments of humour.<\/p>\n David Mack is the author of the Star Trek: Destiny<\/strong> trilogy — those 3 books are on my list of the best 7 Next Generation<\/strong> books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4.5\/5} “‘In Simon Says, the losers don’t get shot in the head.’ ‘They do in the original Klingon version.’” Dr. Julian Bashir has been recruited for a dangerous mission — infiltrate the Breen and sabotage their development of the slipstream drive. His accomplice is Sarina Douglas, who works for Starfleet Intelligence — Bashir has met […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8,59],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11235,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/11235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}