Read this yesterday, a quick e-novella set not long after Riker was promoted to Rear Admiral (Rear Admiral Riker, that sounds like a bad pun). I was a bit disappointed in this, I’d read a review that stated the author hadn’t quite captured the crew’s voices, something he rectified by the time he got to Takedown, which is next on my trek reading list. There’s also the nagging feeling that something doesn’t quite add up to the other Typhon-Pact set novels either.

But for all that theres’ a lot of good, we get to see Morn’s race, well, a splinter group they and another race have been warring over a single island on former vulcan mining planet (althought that in itself isn’t original it’s still well executed, despite the occasional odd tone). Riker adjusting to be The Man (a la Brigadier Jack O’Neill) and trying desperately not to be like one of the TOS Commissioners (catching himself screaming “THIS IS ABSURD and nearly biting his own fist and what came out of his mouth). It’s a transistion tome, Christine Vale is acting captain only and if she, for example, gets Riker killed, that might not look so good. 

Tuvok gets some decent time here too, especially trying to reconcile the nature of phase cloak on a person and why he simply doesn’t tumble off into space. there’s some good scifi stuff there trying to wrap around a television conceit.