David Weddle (1) (1956–)

Heart of Darkness for Star Trek with Bashir confronting Section 31 once again. The story's atmosphere is indeed fraught with menace as layers of horrors are revealed about the novel's central villain, Locken. With a grandiose plot involving a missile and a red-haired villain the comparisons to Ian Fleming's Moonraker are quite obvious. The latest cast additions to the DS9 universe are fleshed out quite well, especially the new Jem-Hadar in residence. The novel even manages to give the worst of the Trek films, Insurrection an excuse to exist, with the surprise use of the holo-deck ship. A really gripping read.… (altro)

All and all it was pretty good, though I felt the ending kind of fell apart and was a little unbievable. Dr. Bashir is again confronted by the NSA of The Federation, Section 31 an organization that doesn't exist. This time to stop a gemetically enhanced mass murderer who has threatened the unoverse and started his own Jem'haDar Hatching facility in the Badlands. Ezri conviences Kira to let her go along as Ezri and Bashire are not Jadziah and Worf. Ro's expertise at the badlands comes in handy even more than you'd expect and Tarana'tar, the Jem'haDar that Odo sent to observe DS9 has his loyalty questioned successfully, but his tactics still like Federation tact. All in all pretty good.… (altro)