I only have two quibbles with this book that keep it from being a five-star review: One, most importantly and most obviously to anyone who's familiar with my reviews, is that it's only half a story, and I will never give any book that is not a complete story in and of itself five stars; this book has no beginning. One could not pick it up and read it without having read "Homecoming" without being almost completely lost.

This does not mean that the entire history of the Voyager series has to be re-told in every book; I accept that one assumes that a fan of the series is the target audience, and knows the backstory. But the individual plot specific to the book should be told in one book, with a beginning, a middle, and an end. At the very least, a longer, more involved story should evolve like the Harry Potter books did for the first five books: each book should have a major plot that begins and ends within the book, while moving the background plot further along towards resolution.

The second quibble I have, and it's a minor one, is that the subplot involving B'elanna Torres seemed totally irrelevant to the rest of the book, and would have been better as a separate story all its own. As a minor subplot, it was just a distraction and that didn't do justice to it.