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Greater than the Sum (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
The "Starship Rhea" has discovered a cluster of carbon planets that seems to be the source of the quantum energies rippling through a section of space. A landing party finds unusual life-forms inhabiting one of the planets. One officer, Lieutenant T'Ryssa Chen -- a half-Vulcan -- makes a tenuous connection with them. But before any progress can be made, the "...more
Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
Published
July 29th 2008
by Star Trek
(first published July 2008)
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This book seems like an unfortunate combination of good writing and poor editing. It follows up on several other novels and comics, but it provides enough of a recap that you should be able to follow the story if you haven't read them first. However, at this point my main reaction is "What, really? The Borg, again?"
There's quite a bit of retconning going on here, so that the writer can sort out the inconsistencies from various stories. Normally I'd say that's a good thing, ...more
There's quite a bit of retconning going on here, so that the writer can sort out the inconsistencies from various stories. Normally I'd say that's a good thing, ...more
I love Star Trek: The Next Generation, but it's still strange to read about the books post-Nemesis.
Like all post-Nemesis TNG books, there's a lot more conflict than on the show and a whole bunch of new characters. Sometimes those characters can be hit or miss but Tryss was interesting. She was like Spock but instead chose to shun her Vulcan side. Even though she's the central character of the book, the story isn't about her.
It's about the Borg. Actually, it's not but the ...more
Like all post-Nemesis TNG books, there's a lot more conflict than on the show and a whole bunch of new characters. Sometimes those characters can be hit or miss but Tryss was interesting. She was like Spock but instead chose to shun her Vulcan side. Even though she's the central character of the book, the story isn't about her.
It's about the Borg. Actually, it's not but the ...more
It's been eight years since I last read a Star Trek novel and I'll admit I'm a bit rusty on the particulars of where all the characters are supposed to have ended up by this point in the Star Trek timeline, but I was still able to enjoy this book. At face value this is the story of the crew of the Enterprise-E trying to do battle with the Borg (with the help of Hugh, remember him?) while also negotiating first contact with a new super intelligence. But really this was a story of family and bab...more
Another sort-of decent Christopher Bennett book, but again totally plagued with "hey remember that Trek episode" syndrome. Every plant reminds someone of some other similar plant they saw in an episode once. Some reviews have said that there were passages in here to correct certain "character inconsistencies" from previous books, like "Before Dishonor". Nothing I read seemed out of character, unless they mean out of character for the changes that they've made in the...more
I am really digging these post-Nemesis books. Technically this is a TNG title, but in a lot of ways it is a continuation of Voyager as well. This Borg arc they've been doing is really interesting. Basically the Borg has had enough and decides that the Federation is more trouble than it's worth. Lot's of good character development. It was nice to see Guinan, Hugh and 7 of 9 show up. Helps to fill the gap left by Riker, Troi and Data. Overall this book was a bit light on the action but made up for...more
"Greater Than the Sum" suffers from "middle child syndrome."
The story is set between last year's 20th anniversary set of TNG novels and this year's big Trek publishing event by David Mack, set to hit stores in October. This leaves the usually reliable Christopher L. Bennett with a conundrum of a book that is supposed to set up the next set of novels and try to reconcile some of the inconsistencies of last year's set of stories, especially the rather disappointing...more
The story is set between last year's 20th anniversary set of TNG novels and this year's big Trek publishing event by David Mack, set to hit stores in October. This leaves the usually reliable Christopher L. Bennett with a conundrum of a book that is supposed to set up the next set of novels and try to reconcile some of the inconsistencies of last year's set of stories, especially the rather disappointing...more
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Excellent read. Continues the post-Nemesis TNG storyline...involving the Borg and tying in several of the episodes and characters from them as well, most notably "Hugh" - the leader of "The Liberated" faction of the Borg. The only bad thing I have to say about this book is that the Epilogue was basically the Prologue for David Mack's upcoming "Destiny" trilogy, which looks awesome but won't be available for a couple of months.
I hated it so much I removed it from my Kindle.
Bennett has tremendous promise as a writer, but after reading this, I can safely say he doesn't know dick about the philosophies of Star Trek: TNG. I have read fan fiction with truer understanding of both universe and characters, although with worse grammar and style.
I'm really too disgusted to write anymore about this book.
Bennett has tremendous promise as a writer, but after reading this, I can safely say he doesn't know dick about the philosophies of Star Trek: TNG. I have read fan fiction with truer understanding of both universe and characters, although with worse grammar and style.
I'm really too disgusted to write anymore about this book.
I was disappointed with the story in this one, although it had some good contributions to the advancement of the plot in the post-Nemesis Trek. I love the places they're going with it, overall, but this book felt more like a stopover on the way than anything with real substance.
This Star Trek: The Next Generation novel comes 4 books earlier than the last one I read and posted a few weeks ago. (Don’t you hate reading series stuff out of order? Or is that just me?) It was a good read and did a great job of introducing new and viable characters.
This was the follow up to Before Dishonor and quiet frankly, it was dishonorable. The author made a good attempt, but just told way too much backstory that had no effect on the character outcomes. Still, worth the read if you like the series.
This was a pretty darned decent Star Trek novel, with some interestingly and carefully developed characterization. You know, I thought for sure at the beginning I would hate the main OC, T'Ryssa, but somehow the author made me totally not hate her.
It's Star Trek... now equipped with science! The best of the pre-Destiny relaunch novels. Quite a rip-roaring adventure.
The Borg again. Hopefully this is all set up for something big and final, the well is dry.
Level: Adult
It was okay. I'm so tired of the Borg right now. It seems that this books series is going all soap-opera on me. It was like there was a little storyline and then a bunch of relationship development (like should Picard and Crusher have kids . . . . yadda, yadda, yadda). Honestly I only read it so I could get to Destiny. Maybe I'm just spoiled by Peter David.
It was okay. I'm so tired of the Borg right now. It seems that this books series is going all soap-opera on me. It was like there was a little storyline and then a bunch of relationship development (like should Picard and Crusher have kids . . . . yadda, yadda, yadda). Honestly I only read it so I could get to Destiny. Maybe I'm just spoiled by Peter David.
I enjoyed this book quite a bit. It's finally started growing the characters beyond where we left off at the end of Nemesis. It was also several steps above Before Dishonor.
Now if only we could rip ourselves away from The Borg long enough to explore some other part of the universe.
Now if only we could rip ourselves away from The Borg long enough to explore some other part of the universe.
Excellent - full on Borg adventure, strange new life, and a Vulcan who might just possibly be a favourite ongoing character. (Bet she's dropped immediately.)
Wasn't as bad as the previous TNG outing (Before Dishonor) - although it seems like the writers are always getting The Borg involved. ALWAYS. Why?
In which there is a lot of talk of family, and several people are idiots.
This was too technical, and too far set aside from the Star Trek I love. It was slow reading, boring and an overall bathroom read.
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