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No Surrender by Robert Greenberger, Mike Collins, Glenn Hauman, Ian Edginton, Jeffrey J. Mariotte
vingilot's review
4.0
Another excellent collection of SCE stories, pushing forward much of the larger narrative of the series, while offering good episodic content as always. On a side note, I find it hard to rate omnibuses. SO I decided to rate them on the basis of the best stories in it, rather than averaging it out. In this case the best would be No Surrender, and Oaths.
No Surrender
Finally a story where the captain takes the centre stage! This was an excellent read, of a prison escape and uprising involving an old friend of Captain David Gold on a non federation world. I really liked Gold's realisation that his friend is no longer what he once was, and the resolution to the story as a whole. It is not quite a happy ending, but sometimes that is just not possible.
Caveat Empor
What do you get when you combine the Ferengi with the Landru computer from TOS? A hilarious story which even delves into Ferengi history and what hey did with their Karl Marx. Just a fun story, that ties back into a TOS episode which will be expanded on in the next omnibus as well. This book might have been the setup for that upcoming story, but it still works as a standalone.
Past Lives
This takes another one off race in star trek lore, but this one is as background as it gets. The alien delegation on the Enterprise in the beginning of Insurrection> It does expand on them quite a bit, and show how a species' early days of federation membership might go. Especially when parts of that species have their doubts about contact with the larger universe. The problem starts when their culture's creation myth comes in doubt by the find of an alien technology hidden under their very feet.
Oaths
This is it, the conclusion of a story line that has been building from the start of this series. Lense's over reliance on her EMH. I remember reading this for the first time many years ago, that it annoyed me at first. You see I liked Emmet, I liked the concept of Emmet, a hologram being educated like any medical intern. SO it was hard to see it as a bad thing which was hinted at in many books. And then Captain Gold explains his concerns, and shows how unhealthy the behaviour is for Lense. Reading it now as an adult, I was struck by the obvious PTSD being handled in this episode. I suffer from it myself, and I have been in the same hole Lense was. It is great to see her get through it with the help of her captain, and by throwing herself into a planet wide medical crisis. This review is being written during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. So that was rather prescient too.
Like I said, another excellent collection. The SCE crew is getting better established every book, and the authors are hitting their stride in writing great stories involving this crew.
No Surrender
Finally a story where the captain takes the centre stage! This was an excellent read, of a prison escape and uprising involving an old friend of Captain David Gold on a non federation world. I really liked Gold's realisation that his friend is no longer what he once was, and the resolution to the story as a whole. It is not quite a happy ending, but sometimes that is just not possible.
Caveat Empor
What do you get when you combine the Ferengi with the Landru computer from TOS? A hilarious story which even delves into Ferengi history and what hey did with their Karl Marx. Just a fun story, that ties back into a TOS episode which will be expanded on in the next omnibus as well. This book might have been the setup for that upcoming story, but it still works as a standalone.
Past Lives
This takes another one off race in star trek lore, but this one is as background as it gets. The alien delegation on the Enterprise in the beginning of Insurrection> It does expand on them quite a bit, and show how a species' early days of federation membership might go. Especially when parts of that species have their doubts about contact with the larger universe. The problem starts when their culture's creation myth comes in doubt by the find of an alien technology hidden under their very feet.
Oaths
This is it, the conclusion of a story line that has been building from the start of this series. Lense's over reliance on her EMH. I remember reading this for the first time many years ago, that it annoyed me at first. You see I liked Emmet, I liked the concept of Emmet, a hologram being educated like any medical intern. SO it was hard to see it as a bad thing which was hinted at in many books. And then Captain Gold explains his concerns, and shows how unhealthy the behaviour is for Lense. Reading it now as an adult, I was struck by the obvious PTSD being handled in this episode. I suffer from it myself, and I have been in the same hole Lense was. It is great to see her get through it with the help of her captain, and by throwing herself into a planet wide medical crisis. This review is being written during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. So that was rather prescient too.
Like I said, another excellent collection. The SCE crew is getting better established every book, and the authors are hitting their stride in writing great stories involving this crew.
mousie_books's review against another edition
3.0
I liked this one much better than the previous three. I still don't have much affinity for the crew, except for maybe the doctor, but the plots were more entertaining (even if the solutions were cheesy/contrived at times).
'No Surrender' - The DaVinci is dispatched to fix an orbital prison station, which happens to house an old friend of Captain Gold.
'Caveat Emptor' - The DaVinci stumbles across a Ferengi in a lifepod.
'Past Life' - A xenophobic people invite the DaVinci to determine the origins of an ancient artifact buried on their world.
'Oaths' - Captain Gold confronts Dr. Lense (the valedictorian of Julian Bashir's class at Starfleet Academy) about her depression. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew get caught up in a pandemic on Sherman's planet.
I liked 'Oaths' the best although the ending was dubious followed by 'Caveat Emptor' (Ah, Ferengis, the comic relief of the Federation). 'Past Life' and 'Past Life' were interesting, solid stories.
'No Surrender' - The DaVinci is dispatched to fix an orbital prison station, which happens to house an old friend of Captain Gold.
'Caveat Emptor' - The DaVinci stumbles across a Ferengi in a lifepod.
'Past Life' - A xenophobic people invite the DaVinci to determine the origins of an ancient artifact buried on their world.
'Oaths' - Captain Gold confronts Dr. Lense (the valedictorian of Julian Bashir's class at Starfleet Academy) about her depression. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew get caught up in a pandemic on Sherman's planet.
I liked 'Oaths' the best although the ending was dubious followed by 'Caveat Emptor' (Ah, Ferengis, the comic relief of the Federation). 'Past Life' and 'Past Life' were interesting, solid stories.
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