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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Carol Abramowitz, the USS da Vinci's cultural specialist, is on her way to conference on Caliph IX when her leave is cut short by a call from S.C.E.'s Starfleet liaison, Captain Montgomery Scott. Her services are needed on the planet Vrinda where a potentially devastating new technology is in the hands of rival factions. Can a peaceful resolution be found?There is plenty of potential in this story and many appealing ideas. Unfortunately, the author fails to elaborate any of the interesting bits. The alien species, the Varden are intriguing but undeveloped and the character's motivations are left unaddressed for the most part, so it is difficult to care what happens to them. I suppose it was bound to happen eventually. After twenty-five excellent titles so far in the innovative Starfleet Corps of Engineers series, regrettably the latest offering, #26 Age of Unreason by Scott Ciencin fails to entirely satisfy.
Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: Carol Abramowitz, the USS da Vinci's cultural specialist, is on her way to conference on Caliph IX when her leave is cut short by a call from S.C.E.'s Starfleet liaison, Captain Montgomery Scott. Her services are needed on the planet Vrinda where a potentially devastating new technology is in the hands of rival factions. Can a peaceful resolution be found? There is plenty of potential in this story and many appealing ideas. Unfortunately, the author fails to elaborate any of the interesting bits. The alien species, the Varden are intriguing but undeveloped and the character's motivations are left unaddressed for the most part, so it is difficult to care what happens to them. I suppose it was bound to happen eventually. After twenty-five excellent titles so far in the innovative Starfleet Corps of Engineers series, regrettably the latest offering, #26 Age of Unreason by Scott Ciencin fails to entirely satisfy.
Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: Well, I'm sorry to say that I didn't care for this story. Not that the story was awful, I just feel that some points could have been elaborated on. The author really didn't do a good job of making clear the characters' motivations or reasoning. He also didn't do a good job with the alien culture. It's interesting but not fleshed out. The bad thing is, this story had potential. This premise of a device that can allow somehow to seemingly be in more than one place at a time is great and the device's affect on Carol is interesting. Unfortunately, the author drops the ball by failing to get us into the characters' heads and explaining exactly what is going on. All in all, I walked away from this story confused and unfullfilled.
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