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Summary: STV #19 Cloak and Dagger Dark Matters I - A great start!
Review: "Cloak and Dagger" is the first installment in a trilogy of Voyager novels by Star Trek Voyager's premier author, Christie Golden. Going back all the way to her first Star Trek Voyager novel "The Murdered Sun," Christie Golden has quite well proven herself as the "authority" in Voyager novels as she's written several of them to include two relaunch novels that follow up with the crew after their return to Earth.Among the typically more interesting Star Trek novels are those that are loosely or in whole based upon a character or two that appeared in a single episode. This is the formula that Christie Golden chose for this trilogy in which she takes the story told in Star Trek Voyager's first season episode "Eye of the Needle" and primarily the character of Telek R'Mor and expounds on it in beautiful fashion to create yet another great Star Trek Voyager tale. The cover art for this novel is typical of Star Trek Voyager novels at the time in which it was published making it a cut above the majority. The premise: In Voyager's first season episode "Eye of the Needle" Ensign Harry Kim discovers a wormhole and raises his hopes thinking that it might lead the crew of Voyager home to the Alpha quadrant. Unfortunately, their hopes are dashed when they discover that the wormhole is ancient and way too small for Voyager to fly through. By a stroke of "luck" though, a Romulan scientist is experimenting with the wormhole in the Alpha quadrant and they make contact with him only to have their hopes dashed once again when they find out that this scientist, Telek R'Mor is from twenty years in the past and that the wormhole possesses temporal qualities... Jump approximately five years in the future and Christie Golden's Dark Matters trilogy begins with "Cloak and Dagger" as the crew of Voyager find themselves running an obstacle course of multiple wormholes opening up in their path as they're making their way home to the Alpha quadrant... What follows from there is one of the best Star Trek Voyager novels written up to its publishing date in which Christie Golden takes the character and events of "Eye of the Needle" and weaves an extremely well told tale involving Romulan intrigue and subterfuge that rarely falls short in the compelling read category. I highly recommend this novel and the following two in the trilogy to any and all fans of Star Trek fiction as this Star Trek Voyager novel written by Christie Golden is very typical of her high standard of science fiction in which she writes with excellent pacing and characterizations resulting in a highly compelling read! {ssintrepid}
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Summary: STV #19 Cloak and Dagger Dark Matters I - A great start!
Review: "Cloak and Dagger" is the first installment in a trilogy of Voyager novels by Star Trek Voyager's premier author, Christie Golden. Going back all the way to her first Star Trek Voyager novel "The Murdered Sun," Christie Golden has quite well proven herself as the "authority" in Voyager novels as she's written several of them to include two relaunch novels that follow up with the crew after their return to Earth. Among the typically more interesting Star Trek novels are those that are loosely or in whole based upon a character or two that appeared in a single episode. This is the formula that Christie Golden chose for this trilogy in which she takes the story told in Star Trek Voyager's first season episode "Eye of the Needle" and primarily the character of Telek R'Mor and expounds on it in beautiful fashion to create yet another great Star Trek Voyager tale. The cover art for this novel is typical of Star Trek Voyager novels at the time in which it was published making it a cut above the majority. The premise: In Voyager's first season episode "Eye of the Needle" Ensign Harry Kim discovers a wormhole and raises his hopes thinking that it might lead the crew of Voyager home to the Alpha quadrant. Unfortunately, their hopes are dashed when they discover that the wormhole is ancient and way too small for Voyager to fly through. By a stroke of "luck" though, a Romulan scientist is experimenting with the wormhole in the Alpha quadrant and they make contact with him only to have their hopes dashed once again when they find out that this scientist, Telek R'Mor is from twenty years in the past and that the wormhole possesses temporal qualities... Jump approximately five years in the future and Christie Golden's Dark Matters trilogy begins with "Cloak and Dagger" as the crew of Voyager find themselves running an obstacle course of multiple wormholes opening up in their path as they're making their way home to the Alpha quadrant... What follows from there is one of the best Star Trek Voyager novels written up to its publishing date in which Christie Golden takes the character and events of "Eye of the Needle" and weaves an extremely well told tale involving Romulan intrigue and subterfuge that rarely falls short in the compelling read category. I highly recommend this novel and the following two in the trilogy to any and all fans of Star Trek fiction as this Star Trek Voyager novel written by Christie Golden is very typical of her high standard of science fiction in which she writes with excellent pacing and characterizations resulting in a highly compelling read! {ssintrepid}
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Summary: STV #19 Cloak and Dagger Dark Matters I - A great start!
Review: "Cloak and Dagger" is the first installment in a trilogy of Voyager novels by Star Trek Voyager's premier author, Christie Golden. Going back all the way to her first Star Trek Voyager novel "The Murdered Sun," Christie Golden has quite well proven herself as the "authority" in Voyager novels as she's written several of them to include two relaunch novels that follow up with the crew after their return to Earth. Among the typically more interesting Star Trek novels are those that are loosely or in whole based upon a character or two that appeared in a single episode. This is the formula that Christie Golden chose for this trilogy in which she takes the story told in Star Trek Voyager's first season episode "Eye of the Needle" and primarily the character of Telek R'Mor and expounds on it in beautiful fashion to create yet another great Star Trek Voyager tale. The cover art for this novel is typical of Star Trek Voyager novels at the time in which it was published making it a cut above the majority. The premise: In Voyager's first season episode "Eye of the Needle" Ensign Harry Kim discovers a wormhole and raises his hopes thinking that it might lead the crew of Voyager home to the Alpha quadrant. Unfortunately, their hopes are dashed when they discover that the wormhole is ancient and way too small for Voyager to fly through. By a stroke of "luck" though, a Romulan scientist is experimenting with the wormhole in the Alpha quadrant and they make contact with him only to have their hopes dashed once again when they find out that this scientist, Telek R'Mor is from twenty years in the past and that the wormhole possesses temporal qualities... Jump approximately five years in the future and Christie Golden's Dark Matters trilogy begins with "Cloak and Dagger" as the crew of Voyager find themselves running an obstacle course of multiple wormholes opening up in their path as they're making their way home to the Alpha quadrant... What follows from there is one of the best Star Trek Voyager novels written up to its publishing date in which Christie Golden takes the character and events of "Eye of the Needle" and weaves an extremely well told tale involving Romulan intrigue and subterfuge that rarely falls short in the compelling read category. I highly recommend this novel and the following two in the trilogy to any and all fans of Star Trek fiction as this Star Trek Voyager novel written by Christie Golden is very typical of her high standard of science fiction in which she writes with excellent pacing and characterizations resulting in a highly compelling read! {ssintrepid}
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Summary: One of better Voyager novels.
Review: "Dark Matters" continues and expands the story line began in the TV episode "Eye of the Needle", bringing back the Romulan Scientist Telek R'Mor, accompanied by one of the most implausible pieces of Trek science I ever encountered. The properties of dark matter, its technical application and side effects make very little sense, not to mention the fact that the stuff is purely hypothetical, not a scientific fact as the cover blurb would have us believe. That aside, "Cloak and Dagger" is well-done, by Star Trek novel standards. One of its highlights is the Romulan subplot which gives the reader a rare insight into the higher echelons of the Romulan power structure, introducing characters that the TV shows have so far paid little attention to, such as the Romulan Empress, the Praetor and the Proconsul, and featuring the chairman of the Tal Shi'ar, Jekri Kaleh, in a lead role. Kaleh is a one-dimensional villain at first, but, surprisingly, becomes more interesting and psychologically credible as the story progresses. Eventually, the reader even starts to feel sympathy for her, a feeling that only intensifies in volumes two and three. "Cloak and Dagger" was a page-turner for me, and it left me eagerly waiting for the second volume.
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Summary: Enjoyable but repetitive
Review: Christie Golden is an excellent and descriptive writer, and this trilogy was full of never before thought of ideas. However, the reason I only gave it 3 stars is because you could literally pick up the 3rd book and know what went on through the entire trilogy. It gives a review of what has been happening in the second and third books at the begining for the first few chapters. That was sort of an annoyance to me. I felt I was re-reading unnecessary things. At least you can never get lost in them. The idea for a dark matter cloak was a great one, and the characters, even the "bad guys" (or gals) were very likeable. Except Lhiau, I never liked him, and that's what was so great about these books. Lhiau genuinely thought what he was doing was the right thing, and to me, that makes a good villain. The characters all had their own complications they had to work through. The trilogy in general was a good read.
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Summary: Dark Matters, Light Reading
Review: Cloak and Dagger is yet another great Voyager book written by one of the best authors in the Star Trek genre, Christie Golden. This first book in the Dark Matters series begins slowly and in the past. Remember Telek R'Mor, the Romulan doctor who traveled across a micro-wormhole that spanned not just light years but also time (from the television episode 'Eye of the Needle')? When he returned to Romulus, his government was very interested to hear of his encounter with Voyager and her crew. With the assistance of a sinister new race called the Shepherds, they set out to capture Voyager in its own timeframe by using Telek's wormhole technology and the Shepherds' ability to manipulate dark matter. If successful, the Romulans would have a great advantage over the Federation and its Starfleet of the past. But does the Shepherd's help come at too great a price? Dark matter can mutate, becoming highly lethal and able to infect anything it comes into contact with. After the Voyager crew becomes deathly ill and the ship's systems begin to fail, Captain Janeway sets out to find the Shepherds of her time. And then an even greater mystery surfaces when a planet flips in and out of existence, crew members go missing and a 'magical' orb in the hands of a determined Voyager crew holds the fate of the entire Universe. I hope I didn't give too much away! ;-) Author Christie Golden is excellent at creating fascinating stories with intriguing plots. The suspense in this novel is palpable, and it reads as smoothly as watching a television episode. I can't wait to get to the final two books in the Dark Matters series!
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Summary: Very, very good book...
Review: Even though, as an Original Series fan, I tend to lean only to books dealing with Kirk, Spock, McCoy, etc., sometimes I read other incarnations of Star Trek, such as The Next Generation and, in this case, Voyager. And this book certainly lived up to the legend we know as Star Trek. I have added it to space opera and sci-fi books such as: "2001", "Rendezvous with Rama", "Childhood's End", "Foundation", "Ringworld", "Advent of the Corps", and so forth.
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Summary: Lucifer meets Star Trek
Review: I don't worry too much about ST continuity with the books, so although, as the person said below, the Romulan government was already discussed in "Vulcan's Heart" and is presented differently here, I don't hold it against Golden for not using this information. (And just a note: In said book the Emperor is all powerful so I'm not sure why he/she was complaining below about the Empress not following the set perameters for a Romulan ruler. ST has many continuity problems, especially in the books that are not, except in few miraculous occasions (See "Reunion"), considered cannon or become cannon.) What I found disturbing was her Coda at the end of the third book. All throughout the book there is the theme of the old Christian/Hebrew/(Zorastrian?) war in heaven where Lucifer falls - it is nearly transparent, but done well enough that it didn't bother me. It wasn't annoying within the story, but when she desided to have Janeway listen Telek R'Mor's final statement that he left behind it was too much--too clear exactly what myth she used to base her story on and it even got a little preachy, especially if you knew what you were reading. Liauh (sp!) the badguy, is so much like the Christian Devil and his aims and powers are so nearly the same that it felt like Golden was trying to make Christianity's beliefs fit into the Star Trek universe by giving it a scientific spin. That was my only complaint. The rest of the 3 part series was great. R
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Summary: Dark Matters
Review: I f you want to have fun, get this one, N0 20 and No.21 you will get a great ride
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Summary: And they haven't made this one into an episode?
Review: I have read nearly all the Voyager books and by far this trilogy is IT! This author nails it from start to finish with her style. I have read many a books that either spend way too much time with discriptions or way to little. This author discribes everything just enough to place me in the story as it unfolds and glues me to every page.
Let's face it, any author that can make me root for a Romulan is the author for me.
Here, here Ms. Golden... where's your next Voyager book?
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