Reviews for Star Trek The Next Generation Series: Resistance

The average rating for Star Trek The Next Generation Series: Resistance based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-22 00:00:00 Joanne Horaski Resistance to read this is futile! This novel is set in the "Relaunch" Expanded Universe of Star Trek, close after the events of "Star Trek: Nemesis". A NEW CHAPTER… This isn't the novel set right after of Star Trek: Nemesis, that one is Death in Winter, but it's quite close and you can feel it as the real starting point in a new chapter in the adventures of the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation, after the events in the already mentioned theatrical film. Data is gone. Riker and Troi left to the USS Titan. But the mission of the Enterprise-E continues and Captain Picard needs to find replacements for the crutial vacants in his senior crew, however that it won't be easy. Picard is choosing Word as his new First Officer, however Worf considers that he isn't the right choice. Picard wanted another Betazoid as the new Counselor, however there wasn't any available and Starfleet sends a female Vulcan, Lieutenant T'Lana, petite, beautiful but she isn't hesitant to take the opposite side in all Picard's decisions. The family isn't the same anymore and Picard is feeling it and missing the absent friends. In a positive note, Picard already expressed his feeling towards Dr. Beverly Crusher and finally they are enjoying a steady romantic relationship. IN PICARD YOU CAN TRUST Captain Picard is hearing the Borg again, and they aren't happy. Through this "voices" of the Collective, Picard is finding out about a remnant party of the Borg, trapped in the Alpha Quadrant, and they are trying to "reborn" the Queen to engage into an all-out attack against the Federation. Picard tells all this to Admiral Janeway, but he is unable to produce any tangible evidence but only his word. Of course, it's the word of Captain Jean-Luc Picard! However, Janeway doesn't share our trust in the word of him, so she ordered to wait for Seven of Nine, and only then, the Enterprise would be authorized to make an inspection where he believes is the rising new Borg cube. But Picard is certain, in his mind, that he can't wait until Seven of Nine would be able to reach the Enterprise. The Federation is in peril and he can't waste any minute! And you could think that you can put your money on Picard, until he started to came out with this insane strategy of becoming willingly into Locutus again!!! THE BORG THAT YOU (DON'T) KNOW This novel, Resistance, is quite entertaining and I enjoyed to read it a lot. J. M. Dillard, the author, was responsible to make the novelization of Star Trek: First Contact, so the Next Generation crew and the Borg weren't anything unfamiliar to him. However, the author exposed some very odd elements about the Borg that they didn't make any sense. He established that all the Borg drones were masculine and they need to do certain process to create a new Queen, turning a male drone into a female drone… …what the heck did you smoked, man?!!! Seven of Nine. She was a Borg drone for like 20 years or so. She was a female child, Annika Hansen, when she was assimiliated by the Borg. And 20 years later, when she is separated from the Borg Collective, she remains to be a female human. So, there are female Borg drones! Seven is the proof of that, and to make this even odder, the author mentions Seven of Nine in the narrative, so… …how in the name of the Prophets, can he postulated something so senseless?!!! Even having aside the issue of sexual genres in the Borg, the author also exposed an innecesarily process to came out with a new Borg Queen. Based on how the bees behave, he delivered an scenario where a Borg drone is chosen and then he (or she) suffered a transformation process to become a new Borg Queen. Say, what?! Come on!!! The author is showing to be a three-dimensional thinking human! The Borg assimilated thousands of civilizations, taking all the relevant technology for them. The Borg Queen isn't an individual. The Borg Queen is an embodiment of the Borg Collective Hive Mind. Why the Borg need a queen? Well, they don't! We do! We, three-dimensional humans need a body to be the villain that we can fear. So, if a queen dies, easy! The Borg Collective Hive Mind could just download again the queen program into organic material easily to be cloned and to construct a new armor body, in a matter of minutes (if not seconds) since… …they are The Borg!!! So, if you are forgiving about those absurd concepts of all-male Borg drones and crazy making Queen processes… …you can enjoy one heck of entertaining adventure, with several cool scenes (specially for Trekkers, like me), with a crew working in its new teamwork chemistry while fighting a merciless enemy… …The Enterprise-E against the Borg, what else do you need to engage into this book?

Review # 2 was written on 2018-02-11 00:00:00 Reginald Borgella Though not quite amazing, I have to give this book serious credit for being a vast improvement over the other Trek books I've read lately.