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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Gateways: Doors Into Chaos
Book 3 of 7
By Robert Greenberger
Description
More than 200,000 years ago, the ancient Iconians
created a network of inter-imensional Gateways providing
instantaneous transportation across unimaginable
distances. Once known as the "Demons of Air and
Darkness," the Iconians mysteriously vanished many
millennia ago, never to return -- or so it was believed.
GATEWAYS
DOORS INTO CHAOS
Summoned to an emergency briefing at Starfleet
Headquarters, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is stunned to
discover that the legendary Iconians have returned at
last, and are offering to sell the secrets of their
advanced technology to the Federation. To prove their
sincerity, they have reactivated their long-abandoned
Gateways, but the results have been strife and chaos
throughout the entire Alpha Quadrant. Now Picard and his
crew must contend with feuding Klingons and Romulans as
the captain seeks to discover the sinister truth behind
the Iconians' unexpected rebirth!
Product Details
Star Trek, November 2001
eBook, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7434-1861-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-7434-1861-4
Review by James Farmer
When the Gateways series got started, I knew literally nothing about what was
to come. With the first two installments the premise was set up -- the return of
the Iconians and the reactivation of the Gateways, with their instantaneous
transport to anywhere in space, regardless of the distance involved. Starfleet
had its doubts though and instructed Jean-Luc Picard to investigate.
With this installment involving the Enterprise we learn that Jean-Luc has
gotten a fleet together, composed of various other members of the Federation,
including non-Federation members as well, to go to the meeting place chose by
the "Iconians" to negotiate a deal for the technology that regulates the
Gateways. Even the Romulans are involved and pledge to help Picard find the
answers he seeks.
Once the rag-tag fleet is assembled, they head to the area chosen by the
"Iconians" and are then assaulted by the already assembled fleet. Meanwhile, a
source of irritation comes to light, in the form of toxic radioactive waste
being transported by one of the Gateways to orbit an inhabited world, thus
threatening the extinction of not only that planet, but also the race indigenous
to that planet.
In the end, Picard must also enter the Gateway to find the answers he's
seeking, as did the others in the previous books.
This series is growing to be one of the best Star Trek series to date, and
with the varied assortment of writers on this one, the final installment
promises to be a blockbuster. This installment of the series gets a rating of 6,
but only because it skips around and does cause the reader to wonder at times
which events happen first. Other then that, it's one hell of a good read.
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gateways: Doors Into Chaos, is
published by Pocket Books and retails for $6.99 in the U.S. and for $9.99 in
Canada.
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