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Star Trek Online: The Needs of the Many

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One is for sure it's a heck hell of a different universe than trekkies have known for years. This book only follows the continuity as seen on-screen, so don't wonder if you read a lot of stuff you remember differently. This isn't the authors fault but rather a deliberate decision to ignore that piece of star trek history the explanation therefore is within this book. But the author does an amazing to write a story which sheer broadness seems amazing and is unique for a single star trek novel so far. The stylistic way of choice is to tell these stories from various people during the Undine-war through interviews led by Jake Sisko makes the feeling of reading this grant tale of unseen star trek history, very interesting but also deeply emotional. It explains in fearsome but plausible ways the repercussions of this so-called Undine war and why such a noble and tolerate society as the citizens of the federation could descent into paranoia and in denunciation but which also never lost the last glimmer of hope. The range in interviewees is rich such as; simple toopers, civilians, refugees, agents on the seen- and unseen front, politicians, civil- military- cultural and religious decision-makers and more tell there one unique perspective of a greater story which is only a small part in the tapestry which forms the history of this unseen as ominous war with the likewise camouflaged and in under stealth operating species which is only known by its Borg-designation Species 8472. It's a very dark and different way from the Star Trek stuff around for over 40 years now, so you should only consider this as alternate Trek but in this context its great literary and amazing story-arc superbly written.

Star Trek Online by Cryptic Studios is a multiplayer role-playing game on the net that has already found many friends in the gaming community. Here now is the book to the game ' one wonders if there will be a spin-off-movie which might really get the discussions in the fandom to a new feverpitch.
This would be the case because the story- and timeline of this book and the game don`t follow the 'official' canon too closely so that TV- and book-Trekkies will see some discrepancies between their knowledge and what is in the game and in this book.
The book tells how Jake Sisko ' novelist and journalist ' collects material about the 'long war' against the Undine ' a.k.a. Species 8472 ' and its aftermath. This war might still be going on on a sleeper-level which has the whole Milky Way in a state of paranoia. Interviews with eye-witnesses, decision-makers and other people are interspersed with private thoughts of the writer, news items and private and official communications between several people.
Quite a different ST-reading-experience with some critical thoughts to current events in our 21th century. Not 'official' canon, but great entertainment/infotainment.

Ich hatte mir dieses Buch in der Hoffnung gekauft, etwas mehr über die Zeit zwischen dem letzten Film und dem Anfang von Star Trek Online zu erfahren. The Needs of the Many bietet zwar diese Informationen, jedoch werden diese in einer äußerst langweiligen Art und Weise erzählt. Diese Aneinanderreihung von langatmigen Interviews mit den verschiedensten Protagonisten aus der Timeline halte ich für wenig gelungen. Mit diesem Buch verhält es sich leider genau so wie mit dem MMO von Cryptic: Jede Menge Potential wurde nicht genutzt oder schlecht umgesetzt. Daher ist dieses Buch wahrscheinlich nur für Hardcore-Trekkies eine Empfehlung wert.