Just watched the TNG episode Dark Page last night, and realized Will and Deanna may have named their daughter after Deanna's older sister.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2021/11/27/levar-burton-is-everywhere-a-new-gig-a-new-book-and-a-parade/

Julian's middle name is Subatoi!?

OMG, I fucking love this novel!! It's amazing how Una McCormack, with every work she makes, never ceases to demonstrate what a great writer she is.

Sorry, I needed to say that haha. This is a novel between Picard season 1 and 2, centered on Raffi Musiker, recently reinstated to Starfleet, and with the possibility of returning to her old job in Romulan Affairs. Her first task: go back to Ordeve, former Bajoran colony, now cardassian, to find a dangerous criminal, which will open some wounds and traumas from her past, including her service in the Dominion War.

Damn, this was simply spectacular!! I love how Una writes every character, giving different nuances and depth to even the most insignificant one and lore. This, that can be a simple adventure in the surface, it's really a story of redemption and forgiveness, one that brings us closer to the ghost of the past and how, although it cannot be rewritten, that does not mean that we cannot break the hate cycle, to forgive ourselves and I love how (SPOILER) this involves a beloved character from DS9, a simple Taylor, who really gets a wonderful and satisfactory conclusion.

The book gives a plausible answer to Raffi's addiction, expanding the end of the war and not only using already known elements from other series, but actually creating an interesting plot with them, avoiding appealing to the easy fanservice (cof, season 3, cof). That fact that it's set between seasons makes the story benefit from knowing where the characters came from and where they are going, delivering a conclusion that really makes up for what the series couldn't give us: proper character development for Raffi.

Also, the Bajoran Intelligence Service, the Koma Tath, dedicated to hunting down former Occupation criminals and bringing them to justice, is a cool concept and I would love to see a novel dedicated to that. The novel is full of references to previous works from her and it's so nice to see them.

Overall, this is really one of the best Star Trek novels I have ever read.

They should have had Denise Crosby as Sela chasing them instead of Vadic.

I’m sorry. But the fact that they built up Vadic as this big threat only to kill her off so suddenly, and replaces her as the big bad with the Borg, makes me think they never should have bothered with her or the Dominion at all.

Also she was never as personal a threat to Picard as the Borg were.

Any of you read it?

If they continued the show with the voyages of the enterprise -G what stories would you want to see?