{5\/5} “Every glimmer of life that fell from the starless sky represented a sentient being’s anguish and torment; each spark that rained down was another life stolen, another soul murdered, all to feed a hunger that had grown like a cancer until it became insatiable. Millions of brilliant motes descended on the horde like a blizzard; not a single shining bit ever touched the ground.”<\/p>\n
Star Trek: Coda — Oblivion’s Gate<\/strong> by David Mack, published in 2021<\/p>\n Captains Picard and Sisko have stopped the Devidians for now, but at terrible cost. And the war is not over. Having escaped from Starfleet in the cloaked Defiant, they seek a place to regroup. Doctor Bashir has a way of contacting the mirror universe and he suggests they go there. Once there they request asylum from Captain Luc Picard and Commander K’Ehleyr, and assistance from Memory Omega’s Director Saavik.<\/p>\n I wasn’t sure whether I would embrace this type of storyline, but the authors of this trilogy did it extremely well. They rose to the occasion and delivered a stunning conclusion<\/a> to this story of the 24th century.<\/p>\n It’s also a sequel, although there are a bunch of stories in between, to the TOS<\/strong> episode “Mirror, Mirror.” We find out what happened to mirror universe Spock.<\/p>\n We see Captain Sonya Gomez, as well as novel series characters Captain Christine Vale and Doctor Ree aboard the Titan.<\/p>\n Among many great things: Picard and Sisko working together, possibly for the only time. Riker coming back to his bridge after getting rid of an invader in his head. A conversation between Data and Lal. Worf meeting the mirror universe K’Ehleyr.<\/p>\n