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Title: Lesser Evil (Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Mission Gamma, Book 4) by Robert Simpson ISBN: 0-7434-1024-6 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: ST-DS-9: Mission Gamma: Lesser Evil
Comment: Star Trek- Deep Space Nine: Misssion Gamma-Lesser Evil written by Robert Simpson is the fourth in a series of four books of Mission Gamma.
This series started out with "Twilight, then This Gray Spirit and Cathedral" all richly written with a very descriptive narrative. Now, comes the fourth in this series and it does tie-up some of the loose ends found in the first three books. But, this volume also sets up the continuation of the series relaunch by incorporating items that need to be resolved in the future.
I found this to be very clever from the author's point of view too guarentee the continuation of the series. As you know from reading the earlier volumes in the Mission Gamma Series that there are two distinct plots within this series. One on Deep Space Nine and the other on the Starship Defiant. Colonel Kira Nerys in this book is in a dangerous chase into the heart of the Federation as she is in hot pursuit of a killer. The second plot revolves around Commander Elias Vaughn and the Defiant crew as they make it back through the wormhole to Deep Space Nine and makes a startling discovery. Vaughn's discovery shakes him to the core, as the truth is unvailed as to what was behind his tragic mission in the Gamma Quadrant. Now, you have Nerys and Vaughn both searching indepentantly for the truth.
This book has some really good set-up to continue the series and good action-adventure. The set-up of the characters was excellent in these first three books and it carried through to this volume making for some very interesting reading.
There is doubt cast on the final outcome of the Gamma Quadrant mission by Vaughn and Nerys' seeks to avenge a crime that has some very far-reaching implications... what is the secret that could divid the Alpha Quadrant?
This is an excellent well-written series and is highly recommended. The next books in this series are; "Rising Son and Unity" both written by S.D. Perry and the "Lives of Dax" written by various author's is coming out in Mass Paperback in January of 2003.
The next books to arrive at my door are the Star Trek "The Brave and the Bold" series of two books. Looks like I'll be reading TREK for awhile... See you around the galaxy... warp-on... engage.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Conclusion to ST: DS9 Mission Gamma series
Comment: After being hooked by the second and third installments in this series, I was determined to read "Lesser Evil", the concluding installment. Although it is not nearly as densely written as the previous books, it does have its own share of surprises. Commander Elias Vaughn and the crew of USS Defiant stumble upon the wreckage of a Dominion warship and its pursuer, bringing back unexpected memories of a disastrous mission led by Vaughn years before. Colonel Kira Nerys resumes her Starfleet commission, joining forces with Starfleet in search of a cloaked ship and a Trill assassin heading back to his homeworld. Or does he? The search leads to the discovery of a conspiracy first unmasked by Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise years before. And Lieutenant Ro Laren must come to grips with the assassination of one of Bajor's most important politicians during the ceremony celebrating Bajor's admission into the United Federation of Planets. Last, but not least, in a surprising conclusion, one of the major characters from "Star Trek Deep Space Nine" returns, bringing with him an exiled Bajoran religious leader.
Rating: 2
Summary: Why in such a durned HURRY?
Comment: The first three books in this series were superb, especially Book Two, MISSION GAMMA: THIS GRAY SPIRIT, by writing neophyte Heather Jarman (more! more!). Book Four seemed to have been written on the back of old scratch pads on a commuter train, as if the author couldn't wait to end it. The story moves along, but moves far too fast. There was little character development, and what little there was tended to be sketchily drawn or reflect negatively on characters like Vaughn.
And God forbid, they brought the Borg back in to assimilate what might otherwise have been a good novel. Haven't they learned? The Borg were the most snoring-boring of all Star Trek villains, among whom only Hugh on TNG and those semi-Borgs on VOYAGER remain somewhat interesting. I couldn't stand "Seven of Nine" and never again watched Voyager after Kes departed. The "Borg Queen" in the Star Trek movie FIRST CONTACT was downright embarrassing, the concept unworthy of intelligent life. As for Picard as a temporary Borg, give me TNG's THE INNER LIGHT any old time. The only good thing ever to result from the Borg was actress Alfre Woodard's comment in FIRST CONTACT: "Borg? Sounds Swedish." It cracked up the theater audience, including me.
No paragraph appears at the end, giving us this weak author's credentials. I refuse to believe that this "Robert Simpson" is one of my top favorite writers, the "Frederic Brown of Canada," Robert J. Simpson, multiple prize-winning author of ENEMY ALIEN and other must-read sci-fi and mystery novels.
At least I hope not! If so, he's either going senile or has treated this assignment as nothing more than a commercial money-maker in between real novels. Does anyone know?
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Title: Rising Son (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) by S. D. Perry ISBN: 0743448383 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Avatar Book One of Two (Star Trek Deep Space Nine) by S. D. Perry ISBN: 074340050X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Unity (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) by S. D. Perry ISBN: 0743448405 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Avatar Book Two of Two (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) by S. D. Perry ISBN: 0743400518 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Section 31: Abyss (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) by Jeffrey Lang, David Weddle ISBN: 0671774832 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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