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“Best laid plans” entry here. While perusing Trek books on Amazon.com a while ago, I discovered that there was a Voyager<\/em> book, written by Christie Golden, all about Seven of Nine. It was called…Seven of Nine.<\/a><\/em> Based on the creative title alone, who wouldn’t want to buy a copy of this book, right?<\/p>\n

Yeah, okay, I’m being unduly snarky and I’m barely into this review. Bet you can tell how this is going to turn out, right?<\/p>\n

Anyway, I thought, wouldn’t it be nice to have a Seven of Nine book on my shelf, right next to that novel all about Captain Janeway?<\/a> Janeway and Seven, together again.<\/p>\n

It would be nice. But it ain’t happening with this book.<\/p>\n

I’m beginning to get a little bit frustrated with Trek novels in general. Minus the joy that the DS9 Season 8 books have brought me, I haven’t really loved any of the Trek books I’ve read in a long time. Even Mosaic<\/em> was barely a notch above meh, which either means that my tolerance for Trek cheese is diminishing or the books are declining in quality (I suspect it’s a little bit of both, with possibly a smidgen more of the latter…I still loves me some cheese).<\/p>\n

I’d say this particular novel is noteworthy only for the fact that it’s a discordant amalgamation of several different Trek plot lines, stuck together with duct tape, chewed gum, and kite string. Just off the top of my head, I’d say that this had aspects of “Violations,” “The Raven,” “Infinite Regress,” “Hard Time,” “Ex Post Facto,” “Phantasms,” and “The Survivors.” Plus, bits and bobs from pretty much every major Seven of Nine-specific Voyager<\/em> episode made up to the point of this book’s writing.<\/p>\n

Additionally, I’ve read so much Voyager<\/em> fanfiction (there’s a confession for you all) that most of the time I was reading this book I was thinking: A) Most of the fanfic I’ve read was better written; and B) Why aren’t the characters in this story behaving the way they do in the fanfic I like? Because, honestly? I think most of the fanfic writers have a better understanding of the Voyager<\/em> crew than Golden seems to have.<\/p>\n

But maybe that’s just me.<\/p>\n

Whatever the reasons, I simply didn’t like this book. Didn’t like the plot. Didn’t like the character depictions. Didn’t like. Period.<\/p>\n

Final Verdict: <\/strong>Alas, poor Captain Janeway will have to remain by herself on my virtually Voyager<\/em>-free bookshelf for a bit longer. This book shall not pass. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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