Behind Enemy Lines: The Dominion War, Book 1

Paperback, 269 pages

English language

Published Feb. 11, 1998 by Pocket.

ISBN:: 978-0-671-02499-4
OCLC Number:: 52620147

(1 review)

From the Gamma Quadrant they came -- hordes of fierce Jem'Hadar warriors commanded by the mysterious Changelings, who will stop at nothing to achieve victory over both the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. Now that the Dominion has entered into an unholy alliance with the Cardassian military regime and seized control of Deep Space Nine, Starfleet finds itself fighting a losing war against unbeatable odds. As mighty fleets clash in the deadly battleground of space, the fate of the entire Alpha Quadrant hangs in the balance.

The Enterprise-E is patrolling the Cardassian border, bracing for the joint Dominion-Cardassian offensive that Starfleet knows will come soon, when Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew are reunited with a former crewmate, friend, and enemy: Ro Laren. The onetime officer, who defected from Starfleet to join the rebel Maquis, brings disturbing news. Deep behind enemy lines, the Dominion is attempting to …

From the Gamma Quadrant they came -- hordes of fierce Jem'Hadar warriors commanded by the mysterious Changelings, who will stop at nothing to achieve victory over both the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. Now that the Dominion has entered into an unholy alliance with the Cardassian military regime and seized control of Deep Space Nine, Starfleet finds itself fighting a losing war against unbeatable odds. As mighty fleets clash in the deadly battleground of space, the fate of the entire Alpha Quadrant hangs in the balance.

The Enterprise-E is patrolling the Cardassian border, bracing for the joint Dominion-Cardassian offensive that Starfleet knows will come soon, when Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew are reunited with a former crewmate, friend, and enemy: Ro Laren. The onetime officer, who defected from Starfleet to join the rebel Maquis, brings disturbing news. Deep behind enemy lines, the Dominion is attempting to build an artificial wormhole that will allow them to bypass the mined Bajoran wormhole and bring fresh reinforcements into the Alpha Quadrant, altering the balance of power irrevocably. If Captain Picard cannot stop the project, the new wormhole will guarantee the ultimate victory of the Dominion!

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Sean Randall reviewed Behind Enemy Lines: The Dominion War, Book 1 by John Vornholt (Star Trek. The Next Generation. The Dominion war)

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4 stars

Depressingly, I am so old that I can admit to having read this in its year of initial publication. Long before I Goodreads’d of course, so here we are again.

I watched the DS9 season 5 finale Call to Arms and the 7th-season TNG episode lower-decks before rereading this, just to put myself back into the world a little. It was nice to have an outing with Captain Picard again, and interesting to pick up on some of those minor TNG characters and see them in new lights. Whilst I think I prefer the DS9 side of this short miniseries, this book gains a 4 star rating for being a brilliant jumping-off point to the Dominion War, even if it doesn’t give us much of the politics and backstory that we get from watching the build-up on television. I really did have to stretch credulity at a few points and …

Depressingly, I am so old that I can admit to having read this in its year of initial publication. Long before I Goodreads’d of course, so here we are again.

I watched the DS9 season 5 finale Call to Arms and the 7th-season TNG episode lower-decks before rereading this, just to put myself back into the world a little. It was nice to have an outing with Captain Picard again, and interesting to pick up on some of those minor TNG characters and see them in new lights. Whilst I think I prefer the DS9 side of this short miniseries, this book gains a 4 star rating for being a brilliant jumping-off point to the Dominion War, even if it doesn’t give us much of the politics and backstory that we get from watching the build-up on television. I really did have to stretch credulity at a few points and swallow a little unusual behavior for characters who are so theoretically now established given we’re on the Enterprise E, but all-in-all, an exciting opener.

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