Section 31: Cloak (Star Trek)

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Summary: Section 31 review and spoilers
Review: When they introduced the Section 31 concept in DS9 I thought it was pretty cool thing. An organization that is ruthless as the other alien groups they have encountered made sense to me. Even though the Federation is idealistic you have to have some folks that are realist. Anyway bought all four books and this one was my second favorite in the series. The first one for me was Abyss. Anyway it was interesting to see Kirk and company take on Section 31 since we saw this in DS9 a couple of times. The story is about these scientist trying to create this molecule that will give off unlimited energy or something to that effect. The only bad thing about it is if you screw up (highly unstable) the entire quadrant practically will be screwed in warping around. Space travel will be impractical and that would be bad! :) These scientist though are being manipulate by Section 31 operatives and according to the novel she is good looking and falls for Kirk. They naturally stumble onto to this when they are investigating a starship that its whole crew is dead. The novel connects incidents from "The Enterprise Incident" in TOS, Admiral Cartwright in ST VI, and the episode in Voyager dealing with the Omega Molecule, the story when McCoy got the fatal disease and how he reacted and finally how section 31 got its name and mandate. If you saw that episode you know how this will end. The story is good the characters right on.

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Summary: Doesn't really belong in the miniseries
Review: While claiming to be part of this multi-franchise miniseries regarding Section 31, the Federation's centuries-old amoral secret police, it's really background material for the VOYAGER episode "The Omega Directive." Unlike the other three books, the Section 31 contribution in here is negligible to nonexistent, consisting of nothing but a reconstructed message reading "from 31" and Kirk showing some of his fellow starship captains the paperwork creating Section 31 in the Starfleet charter. It's a good story, but it was advertised wrong and should have been kept separate from the miniseries.