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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: This book was amazing. I really liked the idea of including Jadzia Dax in this version. The authors are totally into the book and make it amazing to read. I couldn't put it down. I loved it and I recomend it to anyone.
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Summary: A Perfect Nightmare
Review: This is the second book of DS9's Millennium Trilogy, and I wish I could give it a six star rating, for I gave five stars to the first one. This novel is even more brilliant, albeit much darker.It sends the Defiant and her crew 25 years in the future (from a sixth season point of view), a twisted future in that everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. It is a future so bleak, so hopeless, that its description is of a nightmarish quality that will force you to read on and on... more horrified and delighted with every page. Imagine a universe without the Klingons. And virtually no humans left either (Earth was destroyed). Cardassians? They too are tragic victims of a holy war between what is left of Starfleet and the Ascendancy, a Bajoran/Romulan/Grigari Empire run by no one less than Kai Weyoun, Emissary to the Pah-wraiths. In this timeline, there are actually two wormholes. Weyoun's plan is to merge the two, thereby achieving perfect and ultimate order; the destruction of the entire universe is merely a side-effect. To stop that mad plan, Admiral Picard (95 years old and suffering from Irumodic syndrome) and his trusted Captain Nog are building the Phoenix, the largest starship ever conceived. Due to Admiral Seven (who negotiated a peace treaty between the Borg and the Federation) it is equipped with Borg transwarp technology. The crew members of the Defiant are seperated at the very beginning of the novel; several of them (including Captain Sisko) become Weyoun's prisoners, while the remaining crewmen try to help Picard and Nog. This book is full of surprises: we even meet our favorite lunatic Dukat and pay a brief visit to the Mirror Universe. And Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens were right when they said in a recent interview that the cliffhanger of the second book is the biggest one in Star Trek history. This book is the perfect read for every DS9 fan. It really is the best Star Trek novel I have ever read. But be warned: unlike the Double Helix novels the Millennium Trilogy can not be read seperately, you'll have to read "The Fall of Terok Nor" first.
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Summary: THE BEST DS9 BOOK BY FAR
Review: This maybe the best DS9 book so far. This book has it all action,drama,and cameos from other trek series. The best part is that the books are so self-contained they can be read out of sequence. This book is one of the best trek books to ever be printed.
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Summary: Suprisingly good.
Review: This novel has an engaging story and excellent characterization (except Garak, IMHO). The future events are extremely twisted and the villains are... very villainous. Gregari even outvillain the Borg. There are especial commendations to the "Voyager" cameous. I have not read the "Fall of Teraknor", but now I am looking forward to reading both the prequel and the sequel to the "War of the Prophets". Recommended.
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Summary: Suprisingly good.
Review: This novel has an engaging story and excellent characterization (except Garak, IMHO). The future events are extremely twisted and the villains are... very villainous. Gregari even outvillain the Borg. There are especial commendations to the "Voyager" cameous. I have not read the "Fall of Teraknor", but now I am looking forward to reading both the prequel and the sequel to the "War of the Prophets". Recommended.
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Summary: A Dark and Interesting Look at Deep Space Nine
Review: War of the Prophets is a GREAT book. Of course, the Fall of Terok Nor was a mystery, romance, religous look of a book. The War of the Prophets is a great, CROSSOVER type book. You have the Defiant crew trapped not in the past but 25 years in the future! Starfleet is involved in a religous war involving Bajor. The Enterprise-E destroyed and a new Enterprise still exist but without Picard for hes at Utopia Planita with Nog. Kassidy killed. The Founders, humans, and Klingons gone. The Borg have an alliance with the Federation due to Seven of Nine and the EMH; Voyager returned home and everyone from Voyager seems to be an Admiral; Seven, EMH, Janeway. This is a great book... all the DS9 regulars are in it. It even holds some truth in how Kai Winn departs... Dukat is in it too. With all these characters involved in one war effort to destroy Bajor, you will defently want to read it. Buy it!
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Summary: Wow. Wow wow. Wow wow wow.
Review: Well, so far, the Reeves-Stevens clan is definitely making me re-think my aversion to Star Trek books, mentioned in my review of "The Fall of Terok Nor". This second chapter of the "Millenium" trilogy is also a winner. One of the most interesting things about the DS9 TV show was its ability to include the topics of faith, religion, spirituality and mysticism in the Star Trek universe, topics that were rarely touched upon in the original series and Next Generation. This book's primary focus is on those topics, which puts a fascinating spin on the events that unfold. The second book brings on the titular "War of the Prophets", as the crew of the crippled Defiant, after witnessing the destruction of Deep Space Nine by a *second* wormhole at the end of the first book, finds itself in a distopian future (25 years ahead of the "real" Star Trek universe), with a Bajoran/Romulan-led Jihad consuming the entire galaxy. Starfleet is in tatters, humans, Klingons, Cardassians, and Founders are all but extinct. The leader of the Bajoran Ascendancy, Kai Weyoun (! ), is claiming he is the Emissary to the True Prophets (the Pah-Wraiths), and that Sisko's appearance heralds nothing less than the end of the universe itself. In the meantime, Captain Nog and Admiral Jean Luc Picard race against time and apocalypse, embarking on an extremely dangerous plan to change the past without destroying the present ... or the future. Whew! This book had a LOT to keep track of, with no less than four major plotlines interweaving with each other, as well as numerous side plots or character asides to keep things interesting. Yet the story never gets unwieldy, even though I felt I was being propelled at warp speeds through the action. Once again, certain characterizations are spot-on. Jake and Garak shine again, and Gul Dukat was pretty horrifying, but the authors really have got the obsequious (and now galactic messiah/warlord) Weyoun down cold. I miss seeing that smarmy little Vorta every week! :) However, again, Kira serves little more purpose than to provide strident counter-point to the less-than-spiritual Bajoran Commander Rees, which is a shame, given the fact that in this future, her people have become every bit as despotic as the Cardassians she fought to drive from her homeworld in the series. A couple of characters, most notably Picard and some of the Voyager crew, feel like they were little more than pointless cameos, though I reserve final comment on their use until the third volume. The book ends with an even more jaw-dropping cliffhanger than the first volume. With the two wormholes in the Bajor system now joined, it seems the true "war of the Prophets" will be fought on a battlefield where time literally has no meaning. The final volume of this so far outstanding series has a lot to live up to, and if it does, this trilogy should go down as one of the best.
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Summary: Wow. Wow wow. Wow wow wow.
Review: Well, so far, the Reeves-Stevens clan is definitely making me re-think my aversion to Star Trek books, mentioned in my review of "The Fall of Terok Nor". This second chapter of the "Millenium" trilogy is also a winner. One of the most interesting things about the DS9 TV show was its ability to include the topics of faith, religion, spirituality and mysticism in the Star Trek universe, topics that were rarely touched upon in the original series and Next Generation. This book's primary focus is on those topics, which puts a fascinating spin on the events that unfold. The second book brings on the titular "War of the Prophets", as the crew of the crippled Defiant, after witnessing the destruction of Deep Space Nine by a *second* wormhole at the end of the first book, finds itself in a distopian future (25 years ahead of the "real" Star Trek universe), with a Bajoran/Romulan-led Jihad consuming the entire galaxy. Starfleet is in tatters, humans, Klingons, Cardassians, and Founders are all but extinct. The leader of the Bajoran Ascendancy, Kai Weyoun (! ), is claiming he is the Emissary to the True Prophets (the Pah-Wraiths), and that Sisko's appearance heralds nothing less than the end of the universe itself. In the meantime, Captain Nog and Admiral Jean Luc Picard race against time and apocalypse, embarking on an extremely dangerous plan to change the past without destroying the present ... or the future. Whew! This book had a LOT to keep track of, with no less than four major plotlines interweaving with each other, as well as numerous side plots or character asides to keep things interesting. Yet the story never gets unwieldy, even though I felt I was being propelled at warp speeds through the action. Once again, certain characterizations are spot-on. Jake and Garak shine again, and Gul Dukat was pretty horrifying, but the authors really have got the obsequious (and now galactic messiah/warlord) Weyoun down cold. I miss seeing that smarmy little Vorta every week! :) However, again, Kira serves little more purpose than to provide strident counter-point to the less-than-spiritual Bajoran Commander Rees, which is a shame, given the fact that in this future, her people have become every bit as despotic as the Cardassians she fought to drive from her homeworld in the series. A couple of characters, most notably Picard and some of the Voyager crew, feel like they were little more than pointless cameos, though I reserve final comment on their use until the third volume. The book ends with an even more jaw-dropping cliffhanger than the first volume. With the two wormholes in the Bajor system now joined, it seems the true "war of the Prophets" will be fought on a battlefield where time literally has no meaning. The final volume of this so far outstanding series has a lot to live up to, and if it does, this trilogy should go down as one of the best.
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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).
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Summary: Excellent, but very dark
Review: Without doubt, the Millenium series has to be one of the best Star Trek novel series ever written. At first, I thought these books were just some ridiculous marketing effort by pocket books with the whole y2k theme when these books were released, but thakfully they are not. Full credit to Judith and Garfield Reeves Stevens(J&G from now on), for coming up with an excellent plot, not only for this book, but for books I & III also. The book directly continues from book I, jumping into a whole new situation for the Defiant, twenty five years in the future. I won't reveal too many details about the plot, but suffice to say the Federation is fighting a losing war against an evil Bajor, which is allied with the mysterious Grigari. Sisko and the crew are split up during their arrival to the new timeline, between Starfleet and Bajor. In this book, we see a very dark vision of the future for the galaxy, most of the major powers are gone, and the Dominion are out of the pciture. In one of the darkest notes of the book, Earth has been destroyed along with most of TNG crew, and thus Starfleet sold out on the Prime Directive. It seems to me, that J&G, after their recent effort with Spectre, have become addicted to writing these sort of disaster stories, where Earth has been wiped out, and nothing Starfleet can do will help the good guys prevail. How much further can they violate the Star Trek story? A lot further. The new Bajoran relgion based upon the Pah wraiths, believes the two Bajoran wormholes will combine, and the ultimate reckoning will occur, as the year 2400 goes to 2401. When this happens, the resulting shockwave will not just destroy the Bajoran sector, the Alpha Quadrant or even the galaxy, but the whole UNIVERSE. So, Starfleet is desperate to stop this from happening. J&G use that magical Grigari(from 'Federation') race to explain why Starfleet is losing the war. Starfleet has betrayed the Prime Directive to stop the reckoning, and try anything to go back in time, and unfortunately the old slingshot routine won't cut it anymore. The now Fleet Admiral Picard(now 95 years old) has come up with a plan to build a huge starship which will go back in time through the Bajoran wormhole and plant bombs on Bajor, which will go off after the ship entered the wormhole. The plot is incredibly complex, and full points to J&G for the characterisations, everyone has a part, Garak, Quark, Nog, even O'Brien has more than his usual engineering talk. Throughout the book, we learn more of what happened during the twenty five years past, and the story grows from bad to worse. It seems that Starfleet's efforts to stop the reckoning have all failed. I refuse to believe there was not SOME way they could go back in time, I mean, te Borg can do it easily (in First Contact'), and Starfleet now has an alliance with the Borg. Also, Voyager found a way to get into the Q continuum in 'The Q and the Grey' using supernovas, why not use that to contact Q? However, once this is overlooked, the story is excellent. The ending is another thing however, and I won't reveal it in this review, suffice to say it leads on to book III, which goes on to solve the mysteries from book I. My advice, buy this book, as it's probably the best Star trek series in the last few years, and be prepared for a thrilling but extremely dark story.
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