Collective Hindsight 1

Star Trek SCE (ebooks) Novellas #33

by Aaron Rosenberg

STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS

The da Vinci comes across a strange runaway vessel that is giving off tremendous amounts of dangerous energy. However, the ship is not as strange as they think, as they've encountered it once before...

During the Dominion War, the U.S.S. da Vinci encountered this same vessel, and had to destroy it before it presented a danger to an entire star system -- not to mention to the war effort. However, doing so proved a challenge for the ship's first officer and second officer at the time: Commander Salek and Lt. Commander Duffy.

Now, over a year later, their successors, Commander Gomez and Lt. Commander Tev, must find a way to destroy a ship that is apparently unstoppable...

Genres: Star Trek, Space, Adventure, Science Fiction, Ebooks, Fiction

75 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 15, 2003

About the author

Aaron Rosenberg is an award-winning, bestselling novelist, children’s book author, and game designer. He's written original fiction (including the NOOK-bestselling humorous science fiction novel No Small Bills, the Dread Remora space-opera series, and the O.C.L.T. supernatural thriller series), tie-in novels (including the PsiPhi winner Collective Hindsight for Star Trek: SCE, the Daemon Gates trilogy for Warhammer, Tides of Darkness and the Scribe-nominated Beyond the Dark Portal for WarCraft, Hunt and Run for Stargate: Atlantis, and Substitution Method and Road Less Traveled for Eureka), young adult novels (including the Scribe-winning Bandslam: The Novel and books for iCarly and Ben10), children's books (including an original Scholastic Bestseller series, Pete and Penny's Pizza Puzzles, and work for PowerPuff Girls and Transformers Animated), roleplaying games (including original games like Asylum and Spookshow, the Origins Award-winning Gamemastering Secrets, and sections of The Supernatural Roleplaying Game, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and The Deryni Roleplaying Game), short stories, webcomics, essays, and educational books. He has ranged from mystery to speculative fiction to drama to comedy, always with the same intent—to tell a good story. You can visit him online at gryphonrose.com or follow him on Twitter @gryphonrose.

Reviews

[Michel Siskoid Albert · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting way to do a two-book story, with the same threat being encountered in the past and then the present. The series is still reeling from the loss of Duffy, evidently, and it's mostly his point of view that's used to tell the Dominion War tale. A few more breaks for Sonya's reactions might have made the story more poignant there, though I suppose we're mostly supposed to care about Salek and his Spock-like sacrifice. But do we? We've seen him before, but his fate is a foregone conclusion, and I wouldn't be surprised, given the mysterious reappearance of the Dancing Star, that HE TOO returns in Book Two, somehow. Of all the characters, I think Fabian actually comes off as the most interesting thanks to his gallows humor. Captain Gold is on the opposite end, either missing from briefings and letting Salek call all the shots. The engineering problem is an intriguing one and, for once, the mystery aliens seem to have been goodies like the Federation. But that all takes a back seat to the War and some really cool action as the da Vinci's David fights a Keldon-class Goliath, with a little help from the totally unarmed Dancing Star. Some really neat combat tricks we've never seen before.

[John Barclay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Now, that's the reason that I like this series. An interesting puzzle, good character interaction and a fast moving story. Can't wait to get to the next book.