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Summary: DS9 #20 Wrath of the Prophets - A true page turner!
Review: Over the years in Star Trek novels there have been several novels that were written by multiple top Star Trek authors that either worked very well or fell flat in the dialogue and overall story, "Wrath of the Prophets" can definitely be counted among the ones that worked extremely well. Of course, given the authors of this novel in Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman and Robert Greenberger, this novel should have and does work well in bringing the characters and story alive, given the feeling of a well made show.One of the better things about having read so many Star Trek novels by these great authors is that you can pretty much; with a fair amount of certainty tell which parts were written by which author. Overall, the plot setup and execution is done extremely well, the pacing of the novel is phenomenal and the characterizations are done extremely well, especially the "first time" pairing of Major Kira Nerys and former Starfleet officer Ro Laren. The cover art for this novel, while still coveting the image of two major characters, is a pretty good one and much better than the majority of the novels that were published at the same time as this one. The Premise: A fatal disease starts ravaging Bajor and eventually spreads to Deep Space Nine itself. Captain Sisko finds that he must turn to former Starfleet officer, Ro Laren in order to find the source of the alien plague. What follows from there is an extraordinarily well written novel that involves the better part of the crew to solve to mystery as Dr. Bashir struggles to find the cure and somewhere in Dax's past one of her previous hosts has run into this virus. The dialogue between Kira and Ro in this novel is utterly phenomenal and completely believable as to what it might've been had they met on screen. Overall, I highly recommend this Star Trek Deep Space Nine novel to any and all fans of Star Trek fiction as it is a highly imaginative and wonderfully intriguing story. {ssintrepid}
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Summary: Decent
Review: The Ro-Kira interaction was enjoyable. Same goes for the Sisko-Quark scenes. The story was just interesting enough to keep reading, but it was only mildly entertaining. It was informative on the Bajoran provisional government. It included alien species that we've encountered on previous missions.
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Summary: Wrath of the prophets - one of DS9's best!
Review: This book, in my opinion is probably THE best Deep Space Nine novel, ever written. It was written in tandem with three of trek's finest writers, and the story is just great! It is set immediatly after Sisko earns his rank of captain - so Worf isn't in it - that's the only downpoint
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Summary: Sparks fly when Kira meets Ro
Review: This book, which is a plot based around the first meeting of Kira and Ro Laren, is really good. I enjoyed their interactions a lot - they tease each other, act deliberately irritating, and say sarcastic things to each other, just like I'd imagine they would. But, eventually they realize they are more alike than different, which is as it should be. The plot was interesting - a plague caused by replicators, which is actually kind of a twist on the first season episode "Babel". I enjoyed the nice balance of action and character development. There weren't many problems, just two glaring ones - why were Kira and Ro hiking around Bajor on foot? Don't they have hovercars or something? The only explanation I can think of is that they wanted to be really, REALLY incognito. The other was that Sisko took only Quark as his crew on the Defiant. Surely the warship needs more than one person and one Ferengi to run it! And taking that fancy ship with its cloaking device into Orion space? That's just inviting them to steal it. They really should've taken a runabout! However, the writing quality was good, and it was a fun adventure to read. I recommend this novel to any DS9 or Ro Laren fan.
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