"what was there to question? He and his best friend were going to die in the next few minutes. it was that simple."

Because of the speed at which I read, these books are kind of like a feature-length episode for me. This one was certainly very enjoyable, and although the Redbay ending was predictable and Data’s immunity to the genetic queues underexplored, fitting into the work thus far was smooth and neatly managed. Guinan’s input was very televisual, too.

The length of the DS9 extract, the next novel, was a bit weird – this novel itself was just under an hour and a half of reading, and the “up next” sequence was a further quarter of an hour on top of that. Still, this is a fantastic series to come back to after so long without the old familiar episodes on rerun.