Book Review Mack, David, Destiny 01: gods of the night. cross cult, 2008/2010.
Story: Once again knocking on the door Borg the Federation.
No, this picture is not quite true.
again So
The Borg come by unannounced, did not even ring when entering and tear down even the whole porch.
better already!
To the motives and motivations of radicalized Borg to get to the bottom, the scrutiny of the reader is directed to the events on board four ships, which only at first glance have nothing in common. So I just throw
four different times of contents into the race: first
The Columbia NX-02 is located right in the 2156 battle against the Romulans . The insidious blood relatives of the Vulcans use an insidious computer virus to take control of the onboard systems of the vessel and forcing the crew to destroy their own vessels. Only just the Columbia but can still escape and in a twelve-year-long sub-light speed travel, the reach next system. developed turn out to arrival at destination, the natives to be so high as to deny the dinky intruders in the interest of their own privacy, the onward journey. After all, they know the under-developed gossip passion species! Captain Erika Hernandez found so quickly in a golden cage and are no longer makes much hope on ever seeing their homeland again. Only a few of their subordinates, not just throw the gun into the grain and are planning a fateful mutiny.
second in 2281, the hypermodern USS Aventine examined under the command of Captain Ezri Dax 'the crash site of Columbia NX-02 in the Gamma Quadrant. There is little evidence on what happened to the crew and the uncertain feeling that the wreck would haunt unsettled the team. But Captain Dax has a clue that the presence of this ship could be in this place with the recent Borg ideas relating to it the post of commanding officer, have become possible.
Suddenly, two of her crew members die in a brutal manner and on the USS Aventine a crewman on a similarly cruel way is eliminated, the young captain is clear that an unknown intruder drives on board on the loose.
third Meanwhile murky dark Clouds the married life of Rikers. Their combined efforts to produce offspring threaten, in a further miscarriage for sending and the already ailing relationship by refusing Deanna a let carry (at least for her) vital abortion, aggravated. The chain of command begins to falter and to top it all can be in the immediate area will find information on Transwarpkanal the Borg, or at least something very similar. But the closer the target, the titanium, the more obvious it becomes that the perpetrators of these anomalies do not want to be disturbed.
4th At the same time fighting the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E as one of the ships in the front line the desperate battle against the Borg. To the annoyance Picard is the Enterprise the only ship of Starfleet in possession of a weapon that is able to destroy Borg cubes. But the enterprise can not be everywhere and the continuing attacks by the Borg are a huge test for the Federation and Picard is desperately trying to make the attacks Ursprungort find ...
praiseworthy aspects : Finally! Probably not a Star Trek novel series has been feverishly awaiting as bad as the Destiny trilogy and now it's finally here! And already
with the first pages it starts to convince all along the line and beat the gentle reader in its spell. Jump in skilled jumps the action like a billiard ball on the bonds: back from Dax to Picard in Picard to Riker from Riker to Hernandez and Hernandez to Dax.
That sounds at first like a lot Wuselei sure, but the miracle child David Mack succeeds impressively, the different narrative levels, not only independence but also to give a common denominator. It quickly becomes clear that this is a larger whole, which all the protagonists can only interaction get wise.
and David Mack, not David Mack, he would not show on every page, how well he knows about the matter 'Star Trek'. He juggles playing with the big themes of this novel, which is nothing other than a huge crossover of Enterprise, Titan, TNG and Deep Space Nine. Numerous references, short references and reviews refer to the expertise of the author and it would be pointless to list them all, after all, there were works of Mack as " Harbinger " or " harvest the storm ," which set the correspondingly high standard the now de rigueur for all those who heard the self-publish a novel want.
should therefore serve today even a different criterion as a measure of Mack's empathy for the series and movies. To this end we allow a common (admittedly half-hearted) look outside the box: In the Futurama episode " The last Trekkie " has Fry attention to one of the central paradigms of the original series TOS:
"The is common in every episode. Someone appears, with a complicated plan, then he explains it with a simple analogy "
fact, such a thing as a brazen call tradition, not only the TOS, but TNG and later following series used to give the audience not to give the feeling of being full of techno-babble suspended completely.
"What works on the screen, can not hurt in a book, must have thought David Mack, as he wrote the following exchange between Rennan Konya, Beverly Crusher Geordi LaForge and on the page 139:
" The basic problem is that the phases are designed to synchronize energy flows, and transphasische build weapons to the contrary. "
" apples and oranges. "
" well more like apples and trout. "
Aha! No idea what the sensitive betozoide security Rambo is talking about really, but the doctor and the chief engineer can bring light into the darkness: The procedure described differs not only as much as pome fruit crops of citrus fruits , but even like fish of fruit! Meat and green stuff! Very obvious!
The Austrian chief mechanic of the USS Columbia, Karl Graylock goes, in his remarks on page 299 unblumigen even further:
" The platform creates an intense Subraumphasenstörungsfeld. And the pulses inside the column are solitons, as Inyx said. I think this thing that sends the waves through the Subspace and used as a drill to create a hole [...] The phase interferer operates as nut and bolt and pulls together the two ends of the hole until they meet. ""
Bravo! Simple metaphors to understand even a moderately technically gifted man is capable of! S wanted to illustrate with a drill, screws and nuts, the functioning of an artificial wormhole, is already an achievement that requires appropriate assessment.
This is not, however, said that the level had lowered to the level of an apprentice electrician with learning disabilities. Quite the contrary!
William Shakespeare (see p. 314), Walt Whitman (see p. 260) and even Bertolt Brecht (p. 7), whose "Mother Courage " here contributes the introductory quotation find a appropriate training in the context and require from the reader at least something worthwhile research. Rewarding as it is also the view of the image Pierre Drolet that the Author David Mack at all to drive to write this very interesting work.
criticisms made aspects : David Mack stays true to itself. Once again, he leaves his fan base a book that lacks an end. The almost 400 pages by in a pass, but in the end be found on page 403 those nasty assertion that can be, just fueled by the recent developments described above, does not want to admit:
STAR TREK - DESTINY
continues in
Book II
" Ordinary mortal "
Neeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiin! Rates were similar as in the fourth titanium band sword of Damocles "and the fifth TNG relaunch work" More than the sum "the total mood killer! Now the waiting time for the next volume Although straightforward, but just because of the addictive qualities I must point out that you should start reading this book to improve a time when the publication of the third volume of the series is imminent.
Despite his reads at first sight large extent to the Gods of the Night "that is almost by themselves. But the reader must pay
for this relentless tension a deadly price. Acamar , Ramatis , Barolia, Korvat and Admiral Owen Paris must bless for the maintenance of the drama this life. For my taste the erase about as radical as the idea, like the entire planet volcano , younger by only a few To lure filmmakers to the movies. But if you read Destiny, they see Abrams step in the eleventh movie quickly as a logical development of that radicalism which is already in this book began. An excess of such radically
have to concede in this work also the MACO s. Compared to its counterpart on the Enterprise this crisis reaction forces of Columbia act downright fanatic!
I had previously presented them to me more like a more adult version of the GSG9 , they suddenly appear here as a Maoist guerrilla-terrorist squad of the Colombian drug-jungle. The mindless characters somewhere between blind obedience and guide delusion in any case rarely remember their role models from "Enterprise". Only when the two-parter "The dark side of the mirror " to include in the group of possible models, one can draw some parallels, but the strong suspicion that this was not the intention of the author.
to persons such as Foyle, Yacovino Pembleton or manifest for the first time a problem that one would not expect such at David Mack: A number of important figures revealed significant weaknesses.
therefore acts out of episodes like " home," "The Visitation " or "The deviation " known captain of the USS Columbia only as a Shadow of previous plotting. Somewhat bleak, weak and weary command does the woman like a miscast in the command chair and is rarely equal to the friendly and competent image to right that was drawn on celluloid by it.
a similar slip miscast in a managerial position with 'Captain' Ezri Dax. So honestly, this character always seems so uncertain, anxious and excited that I even fear, would take this woman as a passenger at night in a tank through Berlin! It offers none of that clear authority as they exude Kirk, Picard, Sisko , Janeway Riker and even in abundance.
At this point brings Jadzia its successive host probably too much. The character played by Terry Farrell Jadzia was actually an ideal cast by this item have been, but with the change to Ezri and Nicole de Boer it also meant major changes for the new entity that emerged from the union of Symbiont and host. He should be entitled to an own way, a life of its own and its own decisions. Very reason for the decision Ezris Bashir and Worf to was so interesting: they stressed the difference. should enter
Ezri Dax Jadzia But in too big shoes, the character is compared to unfair and will only moderate. The tough commander of a new super space ship you can - remove limited - despite the descriptions of "revelation .
But even those figures, a thousand times were clearly described losing its visibility and accountability. Picard needs of his new wife only to be beaten to reason (cf. p. 260), Riker howls with thick crocodile tears before his first officer, which already has said everything from the beginning (see p. 64) and the trained psychiatrist Deanna Troi fights apparently with prenatal depression (see p. 68ff.). A terrible subplot that the already difficult for us Europeans understandable abortion debate in the U.S. more bad than good deals, for the corresponding plot on the titanium knitted so disgusting clear that even can imagine a moderately imaginative Rosamunde Pilcher-boyfriend problems that Caeliar it at the end but still a help successful pregnancy and maternity are rosy.
Just a shame that with T'Ryssa the animating element of the recent TNG novel was unfortunately displaced in a thankless supporting role. Its minimal brief appearance (p. 201) is neither the figure nor the potential right that is in the Halbvulkanierin.
seems a bit strange also to the choice of name, for there play at least two old friends. Alone on the kamikaze ship USS Ranger is not only Nero (see p. 183), but also Schultheiss (see p. 185)!
A Schultheiss to Nero and the suicide of the Ranger Crew!
Less recognition offer many references to previously published books. The volumes of the titanium and the TNG relaunch series is a must read and also the reading of "The Laws of the Federation " recommended to the first section of Chapter 15 classified correctly. References to titles such as " The Brave and the Bold, Book II "(p. 143), the Voyager's novel" Full Circle "(cf. S.271ff.) And of course the obligatory" A time to ... "series (see p. 197f.) To the German public, open only hesitantly, if at all, since such works have not yet appeared in the local language.
are all been exceptionally fade this time the "encores". About the dubious value of low-informative "Time Line" (p. 420/421), I missed me already in its review of "More than the sum". But the lists of "occurring crew members of ships USS Columbia (P. 404), USS Enterprise (S.405), USS Titan (p. 406) and USS Aventine (p. 407), is an equally bad joke, because both the Columbia (Karin Gunnardóttir, Sidra Valerian, Brynn Melia), Enterprise (Gary Weinrib, Rennan Konya), the Titan ( Sariel Rager , For Hachesa, Aili Lavena) and Aventine (Nevin Riordan, Naomi Darrow, Ensign Hockney missing) some, some action-relevant name in the list.
self Julian Wangler review of the chronology of the Borg attacks (vgl.S. 411ff.) cares not for limits of irrelevance, because if you do not already own on the information available, they can also be problem-free research on the web.
Translation: When you read you feel a bit on the long overcome believed flair reminiscent of Heyne translation. Not only that you come across the word " Terran " (p. 10) in the various series is actually the mirror universe people reserved, the " Scots " (p. 382) celebrate an unnecessary revival where not even the tribe is meant by the British Isles, but the majority of "Schott " although was used in all the different series of the plural " bulkhead.
have in all these series and films, I heard also never use the adjective " subspaces " (p. 11); very freely translated terms like " space frame " (p. 22) " door bell " (p. 62 ) " cargo bays " (p. 311) to mention.
There are also some minor bugs. We read on page 314 " stüzen " and on page 141 " rum. What sounds like the genitive plural of alcoholic beverages or listen to, serve in reality as onomatopoeic term for an explosion, despite the fact that any reasonably informed picture viewer Merry paperback know it correctly, " Rummy! should be ". In addition, can be found more careless, as in this sentence on page 136:
"If Choudhury is right, we are the Borg in a few hours to see again. "
Yes, even the use of the genitive, which I guess really a lot and even quite effusive about a place, I must find fault this time:
" I have because of what happened to Yott and Komer, asked for an extension, but I would not count on it. "
Since " because" in this case (p. 149) refers to something already past, would have here is clearly the dative form " the " are, even in southern Germany, the second case, the third often repressed.
displacement should give some other translation errors, the ignorance of the matter, Star Trek. Thus, a " Orione" (p. 326) is actually rather be known as "Orion " and the plural of " petaQ " right to write, should actually not be a major problem (see S . 270).
Particularly surprised me the address on page 347 " foyer. Yacovino talks seriously with an entrance hall? Or as the translator verwurschtelte Stephanie margins, the two protagonists' Foyle "and" Thayer "to a person in order to save characters? Or even commented " fire"? A mystery whose education spans remains are guilty.
Now I will not complain only. The arbitrary pairing of " accident" and "random " (p. 270) that in the English language so can not give is yes, very clever and shows an action will, I would have liked in the aforementioned analogy with the apples and oranges (see p. 139), because in German there is a similarly worded phrase: compare apples to oranges.
From left to right: apple, orange, pear, trout
anachronisms : Who knows Vanguard already know that are anachronisms in David Mack's work is the exception rather than the rule. Intensive research and strong knowledge of the author prevent the contradictions of this kind can be found despite intensive searches ever. However
is "Gods of the Night" just the starting point a three-part, has made much contribution to the case, so I reserve until the last volume of "lost souls" a final statement.
Conclusion: How not happy to be expected, the buyer of David Mack "Gods of the Night" with an exciting, well-tuned and authentic start to a trilogy of epic proportions.
But Mack goes for his goal of billions of dead bodies and raging in the popular Star Trek universe, like a madman - a comparison with Abram's eleventh feature film is not necessarily absurd.
The big weaknesses are unusual for the author, however, the weaknesses in the figure representation and a translation, the unpleasant memories of Heyne can be monitored.
Memorable quotes :
" you see the battlefield, Jean-Luc. I need to see the war. "
Admiral Nechayev , p. 136
" In essence, it is so, Madam President, if the Federation would have what is called in the history of the earth a 'Doomsday Clock', their hands stands now at a minute before midnight. "
Admiral Akaar , p. 267
other day shortly before midnight in the Federation
Review: A promising start with unusual defects.
Further reading list :
Destiny 01: gods of the night
Destiny 02: ordinary mortals
Destiny 03: Lost Souls
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