That last Enterprise novel was real good but also it was the final hours for Porthos :(((
It also shows that not everything happens linearly, and just because there’s been discussions and meetings about a noninterference directive after recent events with the Vertians (The Aliens from Silent Enemy) and the Ware (The Self Repairing Station from Dead Stop). The Section 31 plot line mostly gets resolved (while operating within the larger framework established in DS9′s Control) but Trip is more alone than ever even with Devna (an Orion Slave Girl turned intelligence operative who’s still trying to figure things out) but we know how it ends with Trip. A least we think we do (there was an epilogue at the end of the Romulan War books where he was living with T’Pol as a Vulcan).
There’s some pure science and exploration stuff too as T’Pol’s Endeavour is called by a Boomer captain to figure out if a race of walking trees are sentient or not, while Hoshi grapples with her fiancee Kimura’s injuries and disabilities.
There’s also the 31-adjacent plotline of the ongoing crisis on Sauria (a Federation member world in the 23rd Century), where a dictator has taken over the world in a few short years. That doesn’t quite get resolved yet but it is kept interesting. Tucker also gets to realize better people than him can get the job done in an open way without falling for 31′s games.
The epilogue was great.
