Before Dishonor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
by Peter David
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Author: Peter DavidEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 2007-10-30
ISBN: 1416527427
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Star Trek
Book Reviews of Before Dishonor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Book Review: Total break of Borg character
Summary: 3 Stars
Peter David is an experienced and popular Star Trek author. In this book, however, the exaggeration of Borg capabilities and other gimmicks eclipses the rest of the story.
It turns out the Borg cube that is destroyed at the preceding novel has returned to life in a BIG way and proceeds to create havoc.
Picard, who is facing a mutiny on the Enterprise must deal with his own crew, his admirals, his ridiculous Vulcan counselor and oh yes ... the Borg - now lead by Janeway.
The ties to Star Trek TOS are interesting but only add to the noise.
I was also disappointed in the depiction of some of the characters. In this story, Janeway is a two-dimensional bureaucratic member of the admiralty and Seven has regressed to being as much Borg as human.
The story moves along well but relies too much on gimmicks - mind melding with the Doomsday weapon from STTOS, for example. I won't even mention the planet that is eaten by the Borg cube.
Summary of Before Dishonor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
An enemy so intractable that it cannot be reasoned with. The entire race thinks with one mind and strives toward one purpose: to add our biological distinctiveness to their own and wipe out individuality, to make every living thing Borg.In over two centuries, the Federation has never encountered a greater threat. Twice Starfleet assembled and threw countless starships to stand against them. The Borg were stopped, the price paid in blood. Humanity breathed a sigh of relief, assuming it was safe. And with the destruction of the transwarp conduits, the Federation believed that the killing blow had finally been struck against the Borg.
Driven to the point of extinction, the Borg continue to fight for their very existence, for their culture. They will not be denied. They must not be stopped. The old rules and assumptions regarding how the Collective should act have been dismissed. Now the Borg kill first, assimilate later.
When the Enterprise manages to thwart them once again, the Borg turn inward. The dark places that even the drones never realized existed are turned outward against the enemy they have never been able to defeat. What is revealed is the thing that no one believed the Borg could do.
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