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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Before Dishonor by [Peter David]

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An enemy so intractable that it cannot be reasoned with. The entire race thinks with one mind and strives toward one purpose: to add our biological distinctiveness to their own and wipe out individuality, to make every living thing Borg.

In over two centuries, the Federation has never encountered a greater threat. Twice Starfleet assembled and threw countless starships to stand against them. The Borg were stopped, the price paid in blood. Humanity breathed a sigh of relief, assuming it was safe. And with the destruction of the transwarp conduits, the Federation believed that the killing blow had finally been struck against the Borg.

Driven to the point of extinction, the Borg continue to fight for their very existence, for their culture. They will not be denied. They must not be stopped. The old rules and assumptions regarding how the Collective should act have been dismissed. Now the Borg kill first, assimilate later.

When the Enterprise manages to thwart them once again, the Borg turn inward. The dark places that even the drones never realized existed are turned outward against the enemy they have never been able to defeat. What is revealed is the thing that no one believed the Borg could do.

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Peter David is a prolific New York Times bestselling author whose career, and continued popularity, spans more than two decades. He has worked in every conceivable media—television, film, books (fiction, nonfiction, and audio), short stories, and comic books—and acquired loyal followings in all of them. In the literary field, he has had more than a hundred novels published. He lives in New York with his wife and four children. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN : B000UZNSCW
Publisher : Pocket Books/Star Trek (30 October 2007)
Language : English
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Print length : 402 pages

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I S Warner

Tragi-Comic Surreal Insanity!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 June 2018

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This is a major part of the post Nemesis narrative the Star Trek novels have given us dealing with some very dark and story-world shattering events and yet, as its Peter David, it is also probably one of the most hilarious Star Trek novels ever written. Considering that David's New Frontier (watch out for the cameo from a very confused Calhoun) has some of the most pants-wettingly amazing sequences committed to paper in any fiction series that is quite the achievement but from the Statler and Waldorf style wise-cracks of Admirals Nechayev and Jellico, Spock and Seven of Nine engaging in a constant quip contest drier than Vulcan itself and more Q than should be legal; this book is packed with belly laughs and yet never pulls its emotional gut punches as the Universe extracts the ultimate price from a certain reality breaking Rear Admiral.

This works as a stand alone read for anyone familiar with the Federation after the fall of Shinzon with any continuity quickly brought in to focus without breaking the narrative stride which, for those willing to take that next step, leads to the ultimate fate of the Borg in Star Trek Destiny. (Whatever you do don't skip Greater than the Sum though, the utter disaster zone that is the Enterprise's new contact specialist is amazing)

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Wibble

A lot of fun!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 December 2018

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If you're a Star Trek fan you will enjoy this. The characters from the screen come alive and act out as you would expect, with discussions on morality and the differences between species peppered throughout: just as a thoughtful counterpoint to the high octane action you would want with another encounter with the Borg!

It is an easy and entertaining read. Take it for what it is. And be swept along with the narrative.

mr c j earley

A good story throughout

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 January 2017

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A good story throughout. Every chapter maintains a constant build up towards the end and the characters are very believable. My only criticism is that the end happened so quickly that I felt there could have been more content to flesh it out. Whilst I felt like I was reading an awesome Star Trek movie-style story all the way through, the final confrontation felt like it lost some heart and just appeared rushed. I would still recommend people to buy it as it does kick off a massive change in the expanded universe of Star Trek.

Spanky

SPOILER FREE REVIEW - An uncomfortable read at times

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 November 2009

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I've struggled at times whilst reading this book. It's not that it is written badly but I struggled to accept a lot of the things going in it. Now I'm not going to ruin any plot points here because, even if you're reading this review I expect you'll probably want to read the book anyway. Despite what this book is like, it is followed by other books by other authors developing the Star Trek universe even further and I'd read this book for that reason alone.

As you will have guessed, the Borg play a big role in this book. However, the way they come to be a menace and the way in which they 'adapt' seems pretty far fetched to me, even for Star Trek.

By far my biggest gripe is that this author doesn't appear to have actually read the previous two Next Generation books in this line, i.e. Resistance and Q&A. The Leybenzon in this book is fairly different and Kadohata may as well be a different person entirely. Interactions and feelings that occurred in those previous books are ignored. It is as if Peter David couldn't be bothered to read the books and so just asked what the names of the new characters are and left it at that.

The story in this book also felt to be far too destructive in terms of the Next Generation universe. It's as if Peter David felt he could get away with anything. Certain things happen that would lead to some serious long term negative effects on the environmental and orbital stability of planets used several times in Trek episodes - several things and people from canon Trek and the real life universe are changed beyond belief in the matter of a few pages.

Some of the characterisations were uncomfortably off although not all. Spock is very well done indeed for one. The bridge crew have their moments in being accurate but it comes and goes. At times Worf is spot on. At other times it just isn't right (especially if you've read the last two novels).

Maybe the disappointment I'm having is my fault. I only read the last two books about a month ago and so they are fresher in my mind than they would have been had I read these books at release. I expected something very different from this book as a whole - something more similar to Resistance for example. I was also hoping the book franchise would use this opportunity to recycle some more of the Voyager cast. They've already used one cast member in the Titan line (with great results in my opinion) and so I was hoping this book might add someone else familiar to the Enterprise crew. Maybe there's hope for that yet though. I certainly wasn't expecting this book to have such an impact on the Star Trek universe - especially since (and this is another big gripe of mine), the events of this book would *certainly* have had to come up in the book "Articles of the Federation" which spans the same year in which these events happen.

At times when reading this book I've wanted to give it 1 star. Sometimes there have been flashes which I'd rate 4 but on the whole my rating has wavered between 1 and 3 stars so I'm settling on 2. Don't let this put you off Peter David's work as a whole though. I loved his Q-Squared and I,Q books and his Imzadi books were great fun too. I just hope that next time he writes a book for the TNG line he (at the very least) spends a couple of days reading the books prior to his or speaks to the writer of the previous book if it isn't out yet so as to check things out.

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The Borg are coming ... again

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 March 2013

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The Borg are heading for earth ... again, and the Enterprise crew are the only one's who can stop them ... again. If this sounds familiar than that's because it is, they did all this two books ago in Resistance.

The story's not bad, just overly familiar. There's never any real doubt that the Borg will be defeated its just a question how and who won't make it (there's at least one major casualty in this novel).

As is becoming a trend in these post-Nemesis novels, continuity comes thick and fast. Although two characters introduced in the previous novel, Q&A, have completely different personalities here. It doesn't really matter as all the new enterprise crew are pretty unlikeable and their actions in this novel do little to endear them to the reader.

Overall, not a bad novel but let down by an overly familiar plot and some poor characters.

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