This is my all-time favorite Star Trek novel! L.A.Graf (yes, I know she's really two authors) is a wonderful writer. Unlike some ST novels, I can see and hear and feel everything that is going on in the story. My favorite scene in the book is when Jadzia Dax is communicating with the other symbiont. I would love to see this played by the actors. Of course the whole plot had great possiblities to begin with--all that time travel!
FIRST POST!
1.The time travel plotline sucks! More plot holes than 'Children of Time'.
2. FIRST POST? You must have a very dull life.
Jethro, we don't critique others like that. And we prefer evidence, not just a comment like, "It s*cks!" Thank you.
Bless you, Lee!
L.A. Graf is really two people? That's news to me.
Does it involve a transporter accident?
I think that there is a brief comment about this in the back of "Time's Enemy", but I could be wrong or it might be in the hardcover "Invasion" collection only.
It's in the back of the softcover, too. She's really Julia Ecklar and Karen Rose Cercone. Why they choose to publish as one person is beyond me (although Julia Exclar does have one singular Trek novel, The Kobayashi Maru.)
I never did finish the series. did they ever find out who the race was that fought the furies. (i think that was their name). what did that race look like and what happened to them?
First off I thought this was the second best book of the series. I gave it 9 out of 10.
Re publishing as a single name: I think it would make one person running off with the royalties a bit difficult if L.A. Graf exists as some sort of legal entity that spells out rules for the two writers. Don't know what these two did but it may have saved their friendship. It could happen...
sitroom2: I believe the other race was called the Viroids.
And I don't think I can actually describe what they look like, considering that they digest other individuals. I remember one being describes almost like a big vertical worm, during the scene where a Jem'Haddar was being eaten. Then you had the little critter on DS9 itself, which is described as many times smaller, than the one eating the Jem'Haddar soldier, and then you had the remnants of one, who had the brain stems, including what was left of Prof. T'Kreng. I still don't think it fully described what the Viroids looked like, and I have read the book over and over again. Just goes to show, I love this book many times over. I thought it had great characterization. Just no full describtion of the Viroids.
I think that makes it better. It allows you to picture it yourself, and your imagination will naturally be ten times more scary than anything the authors could have come up with.
I always pictured them kinda like flexible bugs, anyway.
Yeah, this was the best book but only based on premise. The story and ideas behind this novel was incredible although it was kind of difficult to read. There was way way too much technobabble and the story moved at a snail's pace but once it got going, it became pretty good. You HAVE to read it twice to get the full effect, though, but because of its length and its complicated plot, it might not be worth it. The best for a feature film, though. And yes, the bad thing is the time travel - too many plot holes.
It's still my favorite star trek book!
Yeah, they should have cut down on the technobabble.