Star Trek: The Next Generation - Greater Than The Sum

Pocket Books

A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Written by Christopher L. Bennett

Copyright 2008 by CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.




In Greater than the Sum the Starship U.S.S. Rhea finds unusual life forms on a planet with the ability to mimic anything, when they are attacked by the Starship U.S.S. Einstein - which is now controlled by the Borg. As she is about to be assimilated by the Borg, Lt. T'Ryssa Chen, a half-Vulcan, is suddenly somehow sent two thousand light-years away.

With the Einstein cut off from the rest of the Borg, instaneous transportation - controlled by the new life forms - must be kept from the deadly Borg. Lt. Chen joins Captain Picard on the Enterprise as they search for a way to stop the Einstein.

Having T'Ryssa Chen being a half-Vulcan who embraces her human half appears a little odd to me. Actually I like the idea that the young Chen rebels against her Vulcan half, but it just makes her seem like another human and nothing really that special - except for the fact that she is half-Vulcan. Captain Picard takes Chen under his wing as a sort of protege. I look forward to Chen growing as a character in future books.

Pancho
All people smile in the same language.

Star Wars - Coruscant Nights II - Street of Shadows

A Del Rey Books Mass Market Original

Writen by Michael Reaves

Copyright 2008 by Lucasfilm Ltd.



In Street of Shadows, is the second book in the Star Wars Coruscant Nights series written by Michael Reaves. Former Jedi Knight Jax Pavan is now a private investigator who is hired by a rich woman, along with Jax's supportive team of misfit associates, to help her search for the one who has killed her artist lover - while Darth Vader hires an aggressive bounty hunter to find Jax.

It seems that Jax is almost too settled into his role as a private investigator, and is not concerned at all about being discovered as a Jedi Knight - until the confrontation by the bounty hunter. The subplot of Senator Padme Amidala's former head of security, Captain Gregar Typho, driven to find out what had really happened to Padme when she was killed almost makes you want Typho to discover that it was really Anakin who had killed Amidala, and it seems a little unethical that Typho is using innocent Jax in order to kill Darth Vader in revenge.

Pancho
All people smile in the same language.

Star Trek - Destiny Book I God of Night

Pocket Books

A Division of Simon & Suster, Inc.

Written by David Mack

Copyright 2008 by CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The first book of the Star Trek - Destiny trilogy, Gods of Night is the story of what happened to the old Earth starship Columbia after the discovery of it's wreckage way out in the Gamma Quadrant after the Columbia has been missing for 200 years.

While the U.S.S. Enterprise deals with the Borg and the U.S.S. Aventine searches for the secret of the Columbia's propulsion, we learn the story of how the Columbia wound up in the hands of the alien race Caeliar - and how and why half of the Columbia's crew mutinied against the leadership of Captain Erika Hernandez in order to return home.

Although it is believable that the MACO's would instigate the mutiny in Columbia, it is also hard to accept that they would go against their captain. It shows that the MACO's were never really a part of the Columbia's crew.


Pancho
All people smile in the same language.