Descent

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Paperback, 278 pages

English language

Published Feb. 11, 1993 by Pocket Books.

ISBN:
978-0-671-88267-9
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3 stars (2 reviews)

The Borg are back -- and nastier than ever. No longer mindless, inhuman drones but cyborg soldiers on a mission to assimilate all intelligent life, their new goal is the complete destruction of the Federation. And in the midst of facing the Borg again, Captain Picard learns that he may be the cause of the change.

Commander Data is changing as well. For the first time in his life, Data feels a genuine emotion -- and that emotion is deadly, destructive rage. When it is revealed that the Borg are commanded by an old enemy out of Data's past, Data must choose between his allegiance tot he Federation and the one thing he wants above all else...

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reviewed Descent by Diane Carey (Star trek: the next generation)

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1 star

Despite the obvious inferences of technological inanity, Data is a very complex, powerful character. Onscreen, this episode was quite powerful because of the way in which emotion takes hold of the android, and despite the terrifying nature of the Borg, the repercussions of their actions were purely transient here. Other episodes, novels and characters deal with the Borg, at other times and places: this work was, or should have been, Data-centric.

But just As with the lack of emotional depth in the novelisation of [b:Star Trek Insurrection|1092731|Star Trek Insurrection (Star Trek The Next Generation)|J.M. Dillard|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180918677s/1092731.jpg|2034664] I came away with a sense of missing something, a sense of "oh, well, that's that and everything's gone back to normal". data's experiments performed upon La Forge reminded me unerringly of the EMH's lack of ethical subroutines in [b:Equinox|732370|Equinox (Star Trek Voyager)|Diane Carey|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177786632s/732370.jpg|718560] (which I found equally distasteful).

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Subjects

  • Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction.
  • Space ships -- Fiction.