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Star Trek: Voyager
Gateways: No Man's Land
Book 5 of 7
By Christie Golden
Description
Throughout the galaxy, an ancient network of
interstellar portals has been reactivated, instantly
linking distant planets and civilizations. Back home in
the Alpha Quadrant, Starfleet can devote all its
considerable resources to coping with the Gateways
crisis, but in the Delta Quadrant, there is only the
Starship VoyagerŪ....
Just as Voyager enters an unusually hazardous region
of space, the ship and its crew are confronted with a
flood of lost and disoriented starships from all over
the galaxy. Accidentally transported incredible
distances by the unpredictable Gateways, the diverse
alien castaways regard each other and Voyager with
hostility and suspicion. Captain Kathryn Janeway
suddenly finds herself struggling to hold together an
extremely fractious fleet of dislocated alien vessels
even as the newly awakened Gateways hold open the
prospect of finally bringing her own ship home!
Product Details
Star Trek, November 2001
eBook, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7434-1862-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-7434-1862-1
Review by James Farmer (minor spoilers)
With this volume of the Gateways' series, the plot thickens, so to speak.
Voyager and her crew are unaware of the Gateways appearing throughout the known
(and unknown) space. The sudden appearance of multiple Gateways has startled the
crew while on shore leave on an earth-like planet. A Gateway appears and an
animal jumps through and into the lives of the crew. It appears to be
canine-like and tame as well. Janeway takes the animal aboard the ship and the
crew soon learn to love the creature. Even the Doctor takes a liking to the
create, who creates a holographic fish as a pet of his own.
Voyager encounters a number of ships from all over the galaxy, including
several that will have to travel multiple light-years, like Voyager does, just
to get back home, wherever that is.
Captain Janeway takes the various ships "under her wing" and explains that
they are all lost, and the reason for the sudden appearance of the doorways in
unknown to her and her crew as well. Together they must navigate a region of
space the crew has nicknamed "No Man's Land", which is much like the area of
space traveled by James Kirk and the original Enterprise during the clash with
Khan. It's a combination of the Mutara Nebula and the Badlands, with navigation
through it expected to be very hazardous.
Some of the various races are in conflict with one another and therefore it's
decided that all hostilities between the races will be avoided and that
Janeway will be in charge of the "caravan" through "No Man's Land" to the other
side. During the traverse of the area, several events happen that cause quite a
stir among the ships, not to mention a murder to be solved!
The ending of the volume is like that of the rest and the finale of the
series will only be revealed in the final volume of the series.
This is one of the best Voyager books I've read in a long time, topped only
by the book about Seven of Nine. I give this volume a rating of 9.5! This series
is proving to be one of the best in the Star Trek line and I anticipate the
ending of this very much.
Star Trek: Voyager, Gateways: No Man's Land, is published by Pocket
Books and retails for $6.99 in the U.S. and $9.99 in Canada.
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