Voyager: The farther Shore by Christie Golden
Blurb:
When an unstoppable Borg plague breaks out upon Earth, blame quickly falls on the newly returned crew of the Starship Voyage ™. Did Kathryn Janeway and the others unknowingly carry this insidious infection back with them? Many in Starfleet think so, and Seven of Nine, in particular, falls under a cloud of suspicion.
Now, with a little help from the Starship Enterprise ™, Admiral Janeway must reunite her crew in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to discover the true source of the contagion and save Earth itself from total assimilation into a voracious new Borg Collective.
But time is running out.
Has Voyager come home only to witness humanity's end?
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My (short) review from about a deacde ago:
Although there ist a increase in quality compared to Homecoming, since here the main plot is getting some steam, overall The Farther Shore is only average. Many of my gripes with Homecoming are in play here as well. In my opinion the roles are weighted a bit to uneven, although some of the Voyager crew are present for the whole story, they are only statists. Chakotay for example doesn't really fulfills any meaningful role, he's just there. All in all The farther Shore isn't really able to noticably elevate itself above the mediocre quality of pre-finale Voyager fiction.
German cover:
When an unstoppable Borg plague breaks out upon Earth, blame quickly falls on the newly returned crew of the Starship Voyage ™. Did Kathryn Janeway and the others unknowingly carry this insidious infection back with them? Many in Starfleet think so, and Seven of Nine, in particular, falls under a cloud of suspicion.
Now, with a little help from the Starship Enterprise ™, Admiral Janeway must reunite her crew in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to discover the true source of the contagion and save Earth itself from total assimilation into a voracious new Borg Collective.
But time is running out.
Has Voyager come home only to witness humanity's end?
__________
My (short) review from about a deacde ago:
Although there ist a increase in quality compared to Homecoming, since here the main plot is getting some steam, overall The Farther Shore is only average. Many of my gripes with Homecoming are in play here as well. In my opinion the roles are weighted a bit to uneven, although some of the Voyager crew are present for the whole story, they are only statists. Chakotay for example doesn't really fulfills any meaningful role, he's just there. All in all The farther Shore isn't really able to noticably elevate itself above the mediocre quality of pre-finale Voyager fiction.
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