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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Next Best Thing To The TV Series, 13 Jan 2004
The last episode of star Trek Voyager (End Game parts 1&2)finished with Voyager arriving back in the Alpha Quadrent. This fantastic book starts where the TV Series left off.At last we can find out what happened to the Voyager crew, and to learn if the Borg were indeed entirely defeated. To get the full benefit , the sequal The Farther Shore should be read as well as this concludes the story of Janeway,Chakotay, Seven of Nine, and the rest of the crew. Throughout, the series charecters are embeded in your mind as you read of their final adventures . An excellent piece of writing from Christie Golden, who has published what every Voyager fan has been waiting for
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Star trek voyager homecoming, 22 Mar 2004
Excellent continuation to one of the greatest star trek series. A must for any voyager fans, or indeed for anybody interested in sci-fi. The story starts were the TV series left of with voyager arriving home to a federation that has been left savaged from the dominion war, with the crew being reunited with family and loved one's, they all go in there own direction. However, when the holograms go on strike, and innocent people begin to turn into a new breed of the borg, on earth. It is not long before the crew of voyager are seen as the prime suspects for this and are brought in by starfleet for tests. By the end of the book we see most of the main characters reuniting to investigate the cause. Leaving it open for the second book the farther shore.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Voyager goes on after the TV series ends!, 22 May 2005
Finally with this book we get to see what actually happened after Janeway and her crew finally arrived back on Earth after 7 years in the Delta Quadrant. Considering the dissapointing ending of the Tv series, there is a lot riding on this book to give the characters the proper arrival which they should have got.
Mostly it works. This is the 1st of a 2 part story but Homecoming mostly deals with each of the crew trying to adjust to life after so long away from home (The main thrust of the story - the Borg threat - really does not start until book 2 "The Farther Shore"). Christie Golden has the main Voyager characters well-written so you can easily imagine this as an actual episode of the TV series. Each of the crew - Janeway, Seven, Paris, Torres et al, all get their own individual storylines. The only problem with this is that with so much going on and only so much room in the book, its sometimes hard to follow what's going on and some characters' storylines are far more gripping than others. One huge criticism is Golden's introduction of so many other characters - Libby (Harry's girlfriend), Mark (Janeway's ex) and his family, Admiral Montgomery, Brenna Covington, Oliver Baines, plus cameos from Picard and Troi from "The Next Generation". Golden devotes so much time to the development of these characters that, at times, she forgets about the main Voyager characters and most of them are both annoying and pointless. For example, Libby is supposedly now an agent for Starfleet Intelligence which is a ridiculous concept given her portrayal in a Voyager episode called 'Non Sequitir'. Her romance with Harry is also completely nauseating and you would be forgiven at times for thinking you were reading Mills & Boone. Golden also has a penchant for describing in detail what each character eats for dinner, making you think she must be some sort of great food critic or something.
One other problem is her portrayal of Starfleet and the Federation as suspicious and paranoid, fuelling what happens later when panic about a Borg virus breaks out. This is completely at odds with any of the television series (though this may be Golden's attempt at showing how much the Dominion War has affected the Federation). Certainly though none of the new Starfleet characters we meet are particularly likeable with the exception of Dr Jarem Kaz.
On a positive note, the book does become hard to put down (if you can get past all the romanticism). The main Voyager characters are all perfectly written and all the action leads up to an exciting cliffhanger. The continuity in the book is impeccable which is very important for Star Trek (the Dominion War, the Maquis, the Klingon monastery on Boreth). And certainly there is plenty going on even if the 1st book takes its time building up to the main plot which becomes the focus in the 2nd book. All in all, not a bad way to start off the post-Voyager books although if Golden is going to continue writing the series, she needs to stop polluting them with unnecessary and frankly tedious characters and elements ripped straight out of a romantic novel.
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