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"." <.@trekdata.demon.co.uk> ha scritto nel messaggio 
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> Baerbel Haddrell
> ============
>
> Dies ist meine Besprechung des dritten und letzten Bandes der Destiny 
> Trilogie: Lost Souls von David Mack.
>
>
>
> S P O I L E R
>
> After having read the second book of the Destiny trilogy I was very much 
> looking forward to the next and last book. I could see that a lot of my 
> speculations were right but I had no idea when I started reading this book 
> how much further the story would go and how much richer this trilogy would 
> become. In spite of a few criticisms I had this is an amazing series that 
> opens the door to a lot of potential.
>
> I want to get into more detail after I had a closer look at what happened 
> in �Lost Souls�. There are four main storylines in this book:
>
>
> AVENTINE (Captain Ezri Dax)
>
> Especially in this book I could see that Ezri Dax matured in ways I find 
> amazing and I welcome this very much. Her confidence has grown even more 
> and it is great to see how she is finding her full potential. I am very 
> much looking forward to read more about this remarkable captain and her 
> crew.
>
> This book showed a lot of the battles she and her crew fought against the 
> Borg, their bravery, their sacrifices, the highs but also the lows. I 
> think it was a good idea to include the topic friendly fire in this book, 
> too. I very much felt for Kedair and when I read that she went back to 
> make up for her mistake was sure she would indeed sacrifice herself. I was 
> pleasantly surprised that David Mack didn`t follow that path and used that 
> clich�. I prefer it when people survive and have to face the consequences 
> of their actions. Dax speech put me off first because she sounded overly 
> cruel to me but then I thought about it and realized that Dax was right 
> with everything she said and Kedair needed the push that speech gave her. 
> The expression �cruel to be kind� came to my mind. I think this scene 
> showed that Captain Dax is still a skilled counsellor.
>
>
> TITAN (Captain William Riker)
>
> Inyx approached Deanna the way Dr. Ree should have by calmly discussing 
> her options with him. I am glad that David Mack chose the best possible 
> outcome, by not only healing Deanna but also her baby. That Inyx also 
> rejuvenated a lot of her inner organs is a nice bonus.
>
> I don`t know if editors and authors consider this matter closed now but I 
> have the gut feeling that this is very likely the case. I am very happy 
> with this outcome but nevertheless, I can`t forget that at the very least 
> under certain circumstances a CMO can order a woman to have an abortion. I 
> know, it was not an illegal order but I still think, it should be illegal. 
> I feel very strongly about this but I realized during discussions that I 
> am obviously in a minority.
>
> At the very least, I hope that future books will address Dr. Ree`s 
> experiences and his efforts to learn from them. I think the handled 
> Deanna`s case very badly but he is a good person and even in his clumsy, 
> unthinking way he tried to do his best for his patient.
>
> I wonder what other surprises Inyx left behind. I wonder, is Deanna`s baby 
> really completely normal?
>
> Seeing Deanna and Riker back together and happy was nice.
>
>
>
> ENTERPRISE (Captain Jean-Luc Picard)
>
> I found the character arc in this book very interesting and moving. He was 
> able to be the voice of reason that Ezri Dax listened to but I could also 
> see from early on that Picard was getting closer to reaching his breaking 
> point. The scene when he looked at his burned out ready room (�Time is the 
> fire in which we burn�), it touched me a lot.
>
> I think the comparison some people made, that the Borg are Picard`s 
> Kryptonite, fits very well. I could see that the threat of the Borg 
> literally sucked the strength out of Picard. Each time Picard was worried 
> that Dax plan to install Captain Hernandez as a new Borg Queen might make 
> matters worse, I wondered how that would be possible. What had the 
> Federation, what had all the other civilizations of that region to lose? 
> Annihilation was just hours away.
>
> I think Worf failed his captain here. His job is not just honouring his 
> captain by supporting him but also to be a voice of reason, someone who 
> challenges the captain when it is needed. He should have pointed out much 
> stronger that he disagrees with him and that he supports Dax plan. And 
> when Picard was ordering the construction of the thalaron weapon, a 
> metagenic superweapon, Worf disagreed even more but, this time, did not 
> speak up at all. Instead it was Geordi who refused to obey this not only 
> highly dangerous but also illegal order. I loved that scene! It is 
> probably the best Geordi scene I have ever read or seen. It showed 
> Geordi`s deep respect, his friendship with his captain but also his 
> determination to do what is right and to accept the consequences. It was 
> extremely powerful and touching.
>
> Everybody has his or her breaking point. Picard`s threshold is very high. 
> He has shown in the past how strong, how experienced, how cunning he is. 
> At the same time, Picard had to handle serious personal losses and 
> especially one trauma also most Starfleet officers can barely imagine. He 
> emerged healed each time but the mental scars will never disappear. All 
> Picard can do is being aware of them and be on his guard. But this time, 
> it became too much and I can`t blame him for being so vulnerable when he 
> was about to lose everything and having failed to keep his guard against 
> his weakness up.
>
> It shows that Picard is a human being with strengths and weaknesses. He is 
> not a Borg. He is also not an action hero with underdeveloped feelings. It 
> is his humanity that makes Picard interesting, likeable and worthy of 
> respect, his battle to also deal with weaknesses, to learn from them and 
> to grow. That makes a good captain but this book also shows what a good 
> captain also needs: support. It showed the strong bond Picard has with his 
> wife and with officers like Geordi. Especially now that the Kryptonite no 
> longer exists I think what happened will make him stronger, it will forge 
> a stronger bond with his crew and I think his experiences will help to be 
> a good father to his son when he is born. I also think that Worf learned 
> important lessons that will enable him to be a better first officer in 
> future and hopefully, one day, a captain of his own ship.
>
> The use of the thalaron weapon wouldn`t have been an effective weapon 
> against the Borg. I think no weapon would have worked, even if there would 
> have been an even deadlier one. Yes, maybe (and that is a very big maybe) 
> it could have been used once and it could have destroyed hundreds, maybe 
> more, Borg ships. But it would not have saved humanity or anybody else. It 
> would also be a suicide weapon. It would only make the Borg more 
> determined to get rid of this threat but Picard would no longer be alive 
> to see it.
>
> The Borg as described in the trilogy reminded me of a disease, a cancer 
> that continued to grow and turned something positive into something ugly, 
> menacing and ultimately fatal. I like the idea that the Borg needed 
> healing instead of futile attempts at extermination very much. The way the 
> Caeliar embraced and healed the Borg was beautifully written and the ideal 
> way to bring the Borg story arc to a conclusion.
>
> The way I see it, the Caeliar were the last hope humanity and all the 
> other civilizations on the same level had against the Borg. Picard had the 
> choice to face the end without losing himself, the person he is or give up 
> hope. Picard definitely failed this test but fortunately his fellow 
> officers, his friends, were there beside him and help him.
>
> It was nice to see how Picard and Beverly were now looking forward to the 
> future and happy. Picard, Dax and Riker � what these three captains went 
> through together forged an even stronger friendship. I think that was very 
> visible in this book and I enjoyed reading about it.
>
>
> COLUMBIA (Captain Erika Hernandez)
>
> After we learned about the history of Captain Hernandez captivity David 
> Mack was now looking at what happened to the other group of survivors who 
> left the disaster zone in a different city.
>
> I had a gut feeling from early on that the Borg and the Caeliar are 
> related, a gut feeling that grew stronger the more I learned. 
> Nevertheless, I know now that I nevertheless had no idea but on the other 
> hand, everything made so much sense to me. Nothing felt constructed, 
> nothing felt like technobabble.
>
> I think the origin David Mack showed here is so powerful because it didn`t 
> happen by design. It is the result of tragic circumstances with results 
> nobody could have predicted. What it shows, though, is how powerful the 
> urge to survive in humans and Caeliar are. This is something both species 
> have in common. When driven to the edge, some individuals are able to do 
> extraordinary things in order to survive. Sedin was not responsible for 
> her actions. She acted on instinct, as the Caeliar in the first book did 
> who was starving on the wreck of the Columbia.
>
> The idea of including the former Borg into the Caeliar is a wonderful idea 
> but I hope at the same time that the Caeliar didn`t forget their strong 
> beliefs in personal choices and freedom. I hope they gave each individual 
> a choice, also the choice to leave and maybe even to be able to return to 
> loved ones they left behind when they were assimilated.
>
> From early on I wondered what would become of Hernandez. She is a very 
> powerful individual so that she falls into the category of Wesley, Morgan 
> Lefler and McHenry. That means these people either disappear or they die. 
> I am glad that in this case she left instead of being killed. I hope we 
> will meet the Caeliar including Hernandez again.
>
>
> OTHERS
>
> It was touching to read how President Bacco dealt with the crisis, how she 
> kept looking for answers, how she finally accepted her fate and was 
> determined to face it with dignity and when, like a miracle, the threat 
> vanished literally within one minute before the Borg would have destroyed 
> Earth. It showed the strength of this remarkable woman but also her sense 
> of humour. I liked the idea of having a last meal before the end.
>
> We learned that the Voyager was left behind in bad condition, that 
> Chakotay was left in critical condition by the Borg attack and that many 
> people died on board. I am looking forward to �Full Circle�, the book that 
> will tell us what happened to these people. I was already left wondering 
> about Seven � or Annika Hansen. It was interesting to read that only Bacco 
> really had the courage and compassion to help her when she lost her Borg 
> implants. The Caeliar obviously did not only dissolve the Borg parts, they 
> also regenerated what the Borg had taken away. It will be interesting to 
> see what knowledge Annika still has left and if she has really been turned 
> into a child in a woman`s body. I hope not.
>
> I wish I could be able to read the story about the SCE, who saved a world 
> from the Borg. I also wish I could learn what else Calhoun and the 
> Excalibur did during this war but I couldn`t find anything in this book. 
> As much as I enjoyed this trilogy, I would have enjoyed it so much more to 
> see Calhoun more involved. I know that the next New Frontier book 
>  �Treason� has nothing to do with Destiny but I am hoping very much that 
> Peter David will deal with this topic in another book.
>
> I remember discussions very well if there should be one day a time in 
> present day Star Trek in which the Federation is destroyed and people are 
> trying to rebuild what had been lost. As appealing that idea was to me on 
> some level, I think having �Dark Star Trek� within the Mirror Universe 
> stories is enough and another modern Battlestar Galactica was also not 
> something I wanted to see regularly in Star Trek. I think the Destiny 
> trilogy found the right middle way: The Federation still exists but a lot 
> has been lost and needs to be rebuilt. President Bacco`s speech was very 
> moving, very positive. I think that was necessary at that point in time. 
> But I am confident that coming books will not show us an idealized 
> humanity, not to mention other races, members of the Federation or not.
>
> A crisis tends to bring out the best but also the worst in people. People 
> tend to bond together in order to fight a common enemy. But that enemy is 
> gone now and a lot of people are left who have lost loved ones, who have 
> in many cases also lost their world, who are desperate, bitter and angry. 
> They can`t even hit back at the enemy. Others will see new opportunities. 
> I am sure, there will be power games and power shifts.
>
> The Klingons are badly weakened but I don`t think the Romulans are and 
> certainly not the Danteri and Thallion Empire.
>
> I am sure, the present day Star Trek books will be very interesting.
>
> Baerbel Haddrell