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Star Trek: Destiny -- Book 1: Gods of Night ⭐⭐⭐⭐

What a book! Several ships and a story spanning centuries. I have not read any of the (relevant) post-Nemesis books before this one, so I'm probably being thrown in some cold water here. But I am just going with the flow. I may not understand all interpersonal relationships, but I always feel that the authors are good in describing what's been happening to new readers, or as a refresher for those who read the earlier books. I did struggle a bit to keep my storylines straight though, because there are several going on at once. But all in all a fantastic book. One of my favourite Trek books for sure.

The Columbia story is quite something. I'm really interested to learn more about the Caeliar. Ezri Dax as Captain is so amazing! I was not happy with how Troi's situation was dealt with by the people involved. Those characters didn't earn any sympathy points from me.

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Star Trek: TNG: Double Helix -- Book Five: Double or Nothing by Peter David ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Action packed, lots of violence, and full of wacky drama as only New Frontier books can be. A classic Peter David.

Here we finally find out who the creator of the virus is and why they did it. But that does not seem to be the main story actually. Which is a pity. Our heroes seem to stumble upon it almost by chance. And the bit that was actually planned... well, I wished we found out how that came about. I've been missing the actual virus for a couple of books now. Maybe I should stop expecting medical drama from this mini series, because it clearly isn't that at all. Still 4 stars because it's entertaining and never boring, even though it could be very well a book outside this mini series.

I wonder if any of the people involved with Picard, season 3 have read that book. 🤔

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Star Trek: TNG: Double Helix -- Book Four: Quarantine by John Vornholt ⭐⭐⭐

As with the previous novel in the series, we do not learn anything new about the virus and nothing more than one tiny kind of new thing about its creator, which for me is a bit of a let-down in the middle of this series. We do however learn a bit about Tom Riker. The great thing about Trek novels is that we can re-visit characters that did not get much screen time before. Tom is one of them. Here we follow him from his assignment on the Gandhi to a mission that will change his life. We also meet a certain Maquis crew, which I enjoyed a lot. I'd like more of that.

The story wrapped up a bit too fast for me and I am not satisfied with the ending. I wished we had learned more about Tom's process to come to his ultimate decision as well as about his life on the Gandhi before that. We got to know too much about certain Helenites and Cardassians, but way too little about our heroes. Bummer.

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Star Trek: TNG: Double Helix -- Book Three: Red Sector by Diane Carey ⭐⭐⭐

There are too many words in this book, at least for my taste. We have to go through 10 chapters, and more than 100 pages until we finally arrive in the right time and at the right place for the main story. That does not mean that all of the first part is useless. It isn't. Not everything. We meet people important to the story, and some scenes are very good. But the main character is so annoying that it was not a fun read for me. Luckily, he grows over the years and I do like him for the rest of the book. I also enjoyed Spock and McCoy, I think Carey captured them very very well. I loved the scenes on the Saskatoon, a Combat Support Tender, and I would be interested in more stories set on one of those. I would have loved to see more of Crusher and Data. Their story was a bit brief and their conflict came pretty out of the blue for me. Another negative is that we learn practically nothing new about the virus. We do however get new info about the maker, if I interpret it correctly.

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Star Trek: TNG: Double Helix -- Book Two: Vectors by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I like Katherine Pulaski a lot, so I loved seeing her as the main character here. I want more! It was nice to also meet one of her ex-husbands. I kinda want a "All the Ex-Husbands of Katherine Pulaski" mini series now. (Only slightly kidding.) We also get to meet quite a number of characters from DS9 in a time it was still very much Terok Nor, which I always like as well.

There's one thing that I wished they did more with. It was set up as a potential conflict, but it never really got any kind of "dangerous" ever. I thought that was a lost opportunity to explore one of the characters better. Overall however, this novel a big improvement from the first book in the series.

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