Greater Than the Sum
was a book that filled in so many holes in the Star Trek chronology for
me. It was a pretty good book.There was a couple problems but overall it was strong.
This book takes place just prior to the Destiny
series. This book really lays into the
place the current Enterprise-E crew. Picard is ordered into a nebula to prevent
alien technology from falling into the Borg’s
hands. The Borg were starting to evolve their tactics where they were slightly
more deadly than before since they were starting to anticipate people’s
attacks. So the last thing the Federation wanted was for potential slip stream
technology from the Borg.
Greater Than the Sum
also brought back Hugh. It was a fun to see him return with his friends. This
brought in the other theme to the book: making babies. The Liberated (Hugh’s
resistance fighters) wanted to reproduce.
The book could be dry at sections but that does seem
to be expected whenever reading a Christopher L. Bennett. But he does a great job with the characters
for the most part. Tyrs (T’Ryssa) always
seemed to act way too immature for a Star Fleet Officer. But it was great
seeing the relationship issues between Crusher and Picard. It was also good to
see Geordi trying to interact with the crew. Although at times it seemed like
the females on the ship were trying to take his friendship for flirtation a
little too quickly. Really liked seeing
Guinan again. Her guidance was perfect. I never quite get enough of Guinan.
Overall, I liked this book. It was great to see the
set up for Destiny. It really helped to explain some of the gaps with the Borg
on why they went much more violent against the Federation in the next few
books.
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