 | By: Diane Carey Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publisher: Star Trek ISBN: 0671024973 ISBN-13: 9780671024970 Released: 02 Nov 1998 RRP: Average Rating:  |
Book #1 was centered primarily on the players of The Next Generation as well as reuniting some long absent but familiar characters. The groups were split to pursue a variety of missions & overalll the book was very good. This second installlment shifts to Deep Space 9, but shifts again to the players of that space station as they too disperse to pursue their own missions against The Dominion. And also like their counterparts in the first book the traditional Starfleet rules & conduct begin to be bent & disposed of as senior officers decide there are so few of them left that they must either request, coerce, or even take control when the admirals at the rear do little more than send Starfleet Armadas out to be disposed of to limp back to port as barely functioning trash. And those that do come back are a smalll fraction of those that set out.
All of these books present smalller storylines that can often be of great interest & this book is no exception. Both Captain Cisco & Commander Worf are dealing with sons that are no longer children, Cisco with a son that has made a decision to go off on his own to a very hazardous situation, & Alexander who now serves on the same ship as his father. The issues each father deals with are different, but we learn more about each of them, especiallly Worf. Worf's Captain also plays a key role as a grandfatherly type of Klingon, if you can imagine such a being for a moment.
The Dominion & its presumed destruction is not going to come at the hands of a single familiar captain or ship, & this second book lays the groundwork for the variety of individuals & races that will make allliances out of choice or necessity as the situation requires. Like other books that falll in the middle of a multiple book cycle this is not as strong as the first, but I rate it just as highly as book #1. I think these have to be judged as a series, & in that light The Dominion War is well worth reading. I have completed the first two & am now well in to #3. These books will not disappoint Star Trek Fans.
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