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I still enjoyed it a lot overall, it's just certain things didn't gel with me - I worry the review sounded more negative than I intended, just because it's easier to write about points of contention. I was genuinely impressed at how Duane captured the feel of mid-era TNG as unashamedly intellectual but also with warm character relationships.I’m kind of bummed you didn’t like Dark Mirror more, although I admit a lot of my fondness for it is based on how the golden age of sci-fi is 15. Nice set of reviews, as always. I’m tempted to pick up Q-Squared and give it a second (or maybe third?) look now.
She does explicitly have Picard's inner monologue say "so this version of Earth avoided WWIII", which surprised me, as I didn't think that bit of the timeline was quite so well defined at the pre-First Contact time this book was written.Regarding the "origin stories", I seem to recall that Duane described the "Augments" rising to power and then wiping themselves out (along with millions of others) in what I read as a different version of Star Trek's WWIII, rather than an avoided one, though it might have just been an extended, worse version of the Eugenics Wars.
I haven't read many Star Trek books from the era in which Mack wrote, although I did enjoy his work on "Vanguard".If you're taking review suggestions, I'd be curious to see your thoughts on David Mack's "Mirror" stories; they try to weave everything together (apart from the Shatnerverse and Dark Passions), from the Original Series to DS9's version, with side stories/characters from TNG, New Frontier and (I think; it was hard to tell after a while) Voyager.