Bennett commits the cardinal Star Trek sin: Writing a Trek story that only nerds or Trekkies could understand or appreciate. Undeniably well researched, this book is filled with geographical and ecological science. But unfortunately this has resulted in pages and pages of dry exposition filled with near incomprehensible scientific jargon and Trek's trademarked technobabble.
Bennett also introduces us to a nonhumanoid race that is truely alien and could never have been realised on the tv shows. But again this results in lengthy, eloborate descriptions of these extra terrestrial creatures that leaves you scratching your head. More importantly, the story lacks tension or excitement and unfortunately the characterization and dialogue of the few Trek characters we know from the series Riker, Troi and Tuvok is off the mark. They sound or act nothing like the characters we've come to know and love.
Best avoided. Author 61 books followers. I am a great fan of Christopher L. Bennett's work. He's one of those rare authors who attempts to take Trek technobabble seriously, which seems a bit like trying to roll Sisyphus' boulder, yet somehow manages to make things make semi-coherent sense.
His Department of Temporal Investigations books incorporate a lot of RL physics to make Star Trek's "time travel runs on the power of plot" almost plausible.
Despite this, the events of the Destiny series are almost incidental to the book. They're not ignored, Captain Riker wonders why they're not rebuilding the myriad devastated worlds left behind, but the book gives an understandable reason for our heroes returning to their mission of exploration.
Actually, let me take that back, the events of Destiny are very important to the plot but reflects on the more personal losses of the crew as opposed to the widespread destruction the Borg inflicted. Members of the crew aren't thinking about the annihilation of Risa but people they knew who were killed, such as Tuvok's son or a family pet. This is an interesting way of handling things and perhaps more realistic than leaving the entire crew with a case of PTSD.
Star Trek: Titan is about exploration and having only one or two crew members broken up by events seems like a superior way of handling things than changing what the books are about. My favorite reaction from the crew is the aforementioned trouble Tuvok has with his son's death. His son chose to sacrifice his life to save others, which Tuvok is angry about. No matter how logical the needs of the many are over the needs of the few, a father knows his son chose to die.
It's a powerful personal story and one which is handled with both dignity and respect. I also liked Christopher Bennett's handling of Tuvok's wife and would have enjoyed hearing more of her opinions on the subject.
There's also fallout from Troi's pregnancy, which was my least favorite plot from Destiny. I felt her behavior during the trilogy was irrational and unprofessional. Unfortunately, this behavior becomes an actual threat to the crew's stability in this book. For a book series which is more 'realistic' than standard Trek, well semi-more realistic, the fact Troi wasn't packed up and sent home for her effect however unintentional on the crew stretched credibility.
Still, the adventure which resulted was hilarious. The main part of the book is another first contact situation where Riker and the crew of the U. S Titan encounter a race of Pre-Warp but extremely advanced in biological sciences aliens. This nicely deconstructs one of the elements of the Prime Directive which has never made much sense to me.
Why is Warp-Travel the definitive "be end all" of civilization? But when their good intentions bring calamity to this new world, Lavena and Captain Riker are cut off from the Titan and feared lost.
Deanna Troi is left to face a life-changing event without Riker, while the rest of the crew must brave the crushing pressures of the deep ocean to undo the global chaos they have triggered. Back to normal for the Titan series. My only wish is now for some of this great material be worked into a direct to DVD or television movie.
I have to admit, on reading his stuff, Bennett was born for writing Trek novels. And a habit of explaining odd scietific loopholes like why the stars streak by.
His annotations on his website help, too. Dunno why. Maybe Kevin Costner knows. The discussions about the Prime Directive in the book are on target. I have said this before and will again. His works are incredibly, dense visual paintings that would serve as the perfect springboard for future filmed episodes or movies. I cannot wait to read anything upon which he puts his literary stamp! I cannot recommend him enough.
One note: I think it is a sad telling comment that a section dedicated to reading gets so few comments, but one where countless readers criticize the look of the new Enterprise gets hundreds.
Are we becoming so passive that we are a people of lookers, but nor readers? Glad to see another Titan book, but before the Destiny trilogy, Titan was thought to have crashed on a planet, and there were crew members scattered through time. I think it was Sword of Damicles.
Does anyone know what the next book was after that and before the destiny series? Had no intention of reading this book until I read the review. Destiny was awesome, but I was never that interested in Titan before. The other books were ok but not OMG. The review makes this one sound awesome.
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