That was a cool little scene, but we'd already seen the books starting to become more interconnected before that, so I don't really think that would qualify it as a place to start.
The 'Gateways' series came out in 2001, so I'm not to sure what interconnectivoty you are referring to, aside from possible 'Invasion' in 96. The Section 31 mini-series from 2001 was thematically linked, with the only book that had impact on any others being the DS9 entry, as it was released as #3 in the relaunch, but the TOS, TNG & Voyager entries were seperate; TNG's entry took place shortly before Star Trek First Contact and did introduce Ranul Keru.
"Double Helix" was also thematically linked, as books 1-5 took place between 2364 and 2375, while book 6 was in the 2330's to 2350's timeframe.
Again "Day Of Honor" was thematically linked with Worf appearing in 3 of the books.[/quote]
I don't think I would disagree, but I don't see it as a bad thing. Plenty of novels are made up of smaller, more episodic adventures. Now this part I am going to have to completely disagree with, I don't remember having any problems with the way it was written. It had plenty of dialogue, and in depth descriptions of actions and the characters thoughts and things like that.
The book has two very different stories in it. The first has to do with Rassmudseñ and his gang of thieves, which clearly finishes half
way through. And then the last half of the book is all about Scotty and the Challenger finding Geordi's mother and the rest of the Hera crew on that weird planet.
But the way the book was written, I found it was like someone had invited me over for a turkey dinner with all the trimmings, but when I got to the meal, all there was was the turkey's skeleton with just a few scraps of meat hanging on, and portions of the vegetables being like 1 bean, 1 piece of carrot, 1/32 of a teaspoon of dressing. The book reminded me of the old "Where's the beef?" ad campaign.
