Review of 'End Game (Star Trek: New Frontier, #4)' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
"What she really wanted to do was slap him but, aside from slitting the occasional throat or blowing an opponent out of space, Laheera tried to avoid violence whenever possible."
And so ends the mystery of Thallon, the hostages, and all the other interesting things. Almost...
" 'Gracious in defeat' my ass. I'm going to kick the crap out of them."
calhoun is, as ever, singlemindedly brilliant. he deals with the hostage situation in a novel, and very un-by-the-book way, but at least it wins points with the crew.
"That's not an embassy! It's a cell!" "We intend to redecorate."
Meanwhile, Lord Cwan and Lieutenant Kebron appear to be in even worse trouble than death, until Kebron decides to take matters into his own hands. it would appear that the good Lieutenant shares a sense of humour with his commanding officer after all, and there's something to be said for …
"What she really wanted to do was slap him but, aside from slitting the occasional throat or blowing an opponent out of space, Laheera tried to avoid violence whenever possible."
And so ends the mystery of Thallon, the hostages, and all the other interesting things. Almost...
" 'Gracious in defeat' my ass. I'm going to kick the crap out of them."
calhoun is, as ever, singlemindedly brilliant. he deals with the hostage situation in a novel, and very un-by-the-book way, but at least it wins points with the crew.
"That's not an embassy! It's a cell!" "We intend to redecorate."
Meanwhile, Lord Cwan and Lieutenant Kebron appear to be in even worse trouble than death, until Kebron decides to take matters into his own hands. it would appear that the good Lieutenant shares a sense of humour with his commanding officer after all, and there's something to be said for that.
Of course the blatant pumping of the "Great Bird" and references to Thallon having a "pulse" and being like "a giant egg" are hard to miss, and when the end for that noble, hither too prosperous planet comes, it does so in heaving, Volcanic, delectably violent form. And then of course there's the battle of Calhoun's life - as he ages, his skills wain and the fight on the turbulent world is horrifically brutal.
But with all the action, adventure and drama aside, David does manage to make a good point: "Isn't that what the Prime Directive is all about? Sitting around, doing nothing, tiptoeing around the galaxy and trying not to leave any footprints behind?" asks Calhoun. And this is, of course, a sentiment shared by others. "Nobody leaves paradise. Everyone should want to be in the Federation," says michael Eddington. Perhaps that's indicative of something to come.
there are, of course, a bunch more New Frontier titles which I will have to work my way through to see where things go next. This seems to have concluded this particular arc, though; and concluded it well. Next we just have to find who Dr. Selar pegs as her sex target.