Inferno (Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Millennium Book 3 of 3)

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Summary: Best Trek books in years
Review: Well, that was a fun ride. This trilogy is the best Trek prosestory in years. Please let the Reeves-Stevens write more Trek. Thistrilogy feels much more "epic" in scope than most Trek series, even the other multi-book series. The multiple time jumps are quite a feat of editing, and the way everything finally falls together reminded me a bit of the end of Back to the Future II. The writers and characters do a wonderful, dizzying tap dance around past events, creating a nice interlocking puzzle that must be unravelled. If you've been avoiding the Trek books due to the feeling that they were getting repetitive, give these a try. If you've been following them all along, be prepared for a wake-up call. MILLENIUM raises the bar on what Pocket should be publishing from now on.

Rating:
Summary: Best Trek books in years
Review: Well, that was a fun ride. This trilogy is the best Trek prosestory in years. Please let the Reeves-Stevens write more Trek. Thistrilogy feels much more "epic" in scope than most Trek series, even the other multi-book series. The multiple time jumps are quite a feat of editing, and the way everything finally falls together reminded me a bit of the end of Back to the Future II. The writers and characters do a wonderful, dizzying tap dance around past events, creating a nice interlocking puzzle that must be unravelled. If you've been avoiding the Trek books due to the feeling that they were getting repetitive, give these a try. If you've been following them all along, be prepared for a wake-up call. MILLENIUM raises the bar on what Pocket should be publishing from now on.

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Summary: One of the best!
Review: Well, this book was a worthy ending to the Millenium epic, it's good to see some high quality books being published. It continues straight on from book II, and the 'hell' as such is very well done. Since I haven't read the first book, I came into the trilogy blind, which doesn't help when you're trying to decipher through masses of chronobabble as another reviewer called it. If you think you know about time travel, think you know exactly what is happening in the time travel episodes, read this book for the ultimate challenge. The writers, J&G for simplicity, must have degrees if not doctorates in physics for all this stuff. The book wraps up the trilogy nicely, particularly with having the action in different locations. All the characters were well done, particularly Jake, who has never had a major role in the series. All the things about the red orbs, it's really fascinating, and the little 'conspiracy' as such that surrounds them. If you are looking for a good read, buy this book.

Rating:
Summary: One of the best!
Review: Well, this book was a worthy ending to the Millenium epic, it's good to see some high quality books being published. It continues straight on from book II, and the 'hell' as such is very well done. Since I haven't read the first book, I came into the trilogy blind, which doesn't help when you're trying to decipher through masses of chronobabble as another reviewer called it. If you think you know about time travel, think you know exactly what is happening in the time travel episodes, read this book for the ultimate challenge. The writers, J&G for simplicity, must have degrees if not doctorates in physics for all this stuff. The book wraps up the trilogy nicely, particularly with having the action in different locations. All the characters were well done, particularly Jake, who has never had a major role in the series. All the things about the red orbs, it's really fascinating, and the little 'conspiracy' as such that surrounds them. If you are looking for a good read, buy this book.

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Summary: Terrific Trilogy
Review: When I first began the Millenium trilogy, a scant two weeks ago I was a little disappointed. The first book has so much going on from so many vantage points that I didn't know how it related to either the overall premise or the forthcoming continuing novels. Boy was I surprised by Book II which at some points reminded me of Stephen King's The Stand where the DS9 crew is reduced to watching helplessly as their universe past/present/future crumbles at the hands of Kai Weyoun. Book III---Inferno goes even further because it tackles what is at the heart of understanding The Prophets, the Celestial Temple, Capt. Sisko's existence, the whole DS9 mythos which boils down to non-linear time. The concept of time having to be first explained to the Prophets and then their comprehending it enough so that they can teach/reveal/manipulate Sisko that what is always has been, what shall be is and that there is no what and that there always has been a thought that is staggering for a tv series/serial novel to accomplish. But the authors pull it off with an aplomb and yet a technical knowledge of physics and technobabble that makes it all comprehensible. It's good to see that the DS9 crew all experience different ideas of faith, belief in whether or not the Prophets are true "Gods" or merely interferring/insane aliens because it fosters a belief that all beliefs should be respected. One man's religion being anothers science. Even at the most desperate of times, Sisko and crew fight against the Pah-Wraiths destructive intent but never they're right to believe, a critical distinction. And the crew, particularly Sisko and to a heavy science bent Jadzia Dax and the surprising twist character of Commander Arla continuously question the Prophets, their pre-destined path for him and the world of Bajor that allows this final installment to securely lock with the two before into a terrific, wryly funny, dark, poignant story about faith and how the universe is bigger than any one crew. The DS9 crew (including Quark (who is both heroic and understandibly terrified, Nog (a boy/future Captain who risks literally everything to becming one of teh progenitors of all Bajoran faith with admiral Jean Luc Picard and the thief/vamp Vash, the hilariously dark Garak and Rom (who Garak secretly suspects is a master Ferengi scientist hiding as a dimwit)hurled through time, non-time, space, life and death have an intrinsic bond of group humanity/integrity/humor that makes them rival the original Star Trek Enterprise crew. A nice point about these novels is that it occurs a year in DS9 time before the final show so lots of plot points and foreshadowings are filled in to make the time spent with this crew even more rich to the serious fan. I am a serious Sisko fan, Avery Brooks fan, from way before DS9 but he embodies a captain, a father, a man, and to some degree though it isn't overtly stated, a Black man (the thought of Sisko being a discriminated against sci-fi writer of the early 20th century who is merely imagining/scrawling the DS9 adventures on a wall that Sisko's son, Jake will one day write as a book himself four hundred years in the future about a man in the 1950's who is a discriminated against Black sci-fi writer who writes about DS9 is chilling, non-linear and equisitely managed and bent and twisted and toyed with so that you actually leave with several fully co-existing, non-conflicting, non-linear beliefs about exactly what's going on. Forget STTNG, DS9 would be the hit Star Trek film Paramount is looking for! Makes you wonder what's going on with Voyager (Seven, Janeway and the Doctor pop up here too).