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.


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Star Trek: Titan - Sword of Damocles

Pocket Books, A Division of Simon & Shuster, Inc.

Written by Geoffrey Thorne

Copyright 2007

In Sword of Damocles, the starship Titan is stranded in space by a planet that sent out a massive warp pulse that disabled the Titan's engines. The pulse is in response by the inhabitants to a celestial body that the inhabitants are in fear of. While sending a shuttlecraft down to the planet, another pulse sends some of the shuttlecraft's crew to the surface - and the rest of the crew into the planet's past.

With some of the crew stuck in the past, the issues of fate and predestination come into play with one of the Titan crew's religious beliefs. Religion is rarely dealt with in the Star Trek universe, unless the religion is part of an alien race. It is difficult to believe all the major religions of Earth have been disbanded in only a couple of centuries, which makes Starfleet and the Federation a little sterile, so the issues brought up by one of the Bajoran crew member adds more texture to the Star Trek universe.

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