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Echoes (Star Trek Voyager, No 15)
A dependable novel in the Star Trek: Voyager series rather than a great one, Echoes suffers from the usual faults of the Rusch/Smith writing team: a labyrinth-like plot with enough alternate universes to give Brannon Braga nightmares coupled with shallow characterisation of the beloved Trek characters (and in the case of Tom Paris, at least, their characterisation is simply wrong-headed). A pity, because the plot intrigues; but in the end I found myself not really caring overly much how it turns out. Still, bland characterisation is a besetting fault of Pocket's Voyager series (with the notable exception of Christie Golden's efforts).
Echoes (Star Trek Voyager, No 15)
Although it isn't the absolute best, Echoes was a great all around Voyager book. (The best would have to be #6 The Murdered Sun and Mosaic.) It definately goes onto my favorites list. I really liked all the little differences between the Voyager crews (example : orange uniforms instead of red) I found myself skipping a few pages ahead just to find out what was going to happen. The authors did an excellent job in writing about the different universes. I thought that the only flaw was that no one had any memory of what had happened, but it didn't lessen my enjoyment of Echoes.
Echoes (Star Trek Voyager, No 15)
anyone who enjoys reading star trek books, this is a must. the writers involve many dimentions and make distinct refrences to past episodes (ie deadlock)the ending is not at all in the way of been predictable. I suggest that if a trekie sees this book to buy it you will not be let down.
Echoes (Star Trek Voyager, No 15)
I really enjoyed this book! Maybe I'm just a sucker for parralel universes, but I thought it was wonderful! The only slight downside was that it was hard to keep track of which universe was which.
Echoes (Star Trek Voyager, No 15)
I always like the stories about paralel universes in Star Trek such as 'Q' Squared and 'Dark Mirror'. However, 'Echoes' gave me confusion about the universes. The best example to use is 'Q Squared' where Peter David used Track 1, Track 2, and so on. This eliminates the confusion of the multiple universes, especially when there are only slight differences between the universes in 'Echoes'. Furthermore, the ending in 'Echoes' is somewhat puzzling. If the Voyager ended the timeline, then what is the purpose of the story in the first place. Other stories about paralel universes show endings in the timeline, continuing the timeline itself, not ending it. Well, this novel is a good effort, but it should have become better.
Echoes (Star Trek Voyager, No 15)
This is definitely ne of the better Voyager books, and goes to show that you don't always need a six book series for a good story. Basically, the story involves some sort of rift in space which spans across parallel dimensions, and after a period of time, it beams the entire population of a certain planet into space, each time accessing a different dimension, weird stuff. Voyager comes across this vast pool of bodies in space and investigates, and along the way bumps into some parallel Voyagers, and some of the crew get misplaced throughout these dimensions.The story ends as most time travel/alternate dimension stories end, with the crew sacrificing themselves to preserve the timeline, and afterwards, nobody really knows what happened, sort of pointless in a way, bit like Year in Hell.The writing was solid, excellent characterisations, and nearly every major character played a role, even Kes. The novel was set in season 3, pre seven of nine Voyager, so the story wasn't centered around the Borg. I felt this story really captured the 'essence' of season 3, each season of the show has a distinct look and feel about it, this book was most definitely season 3.The novel also dealt with the alternate dimensions well, the left/right system was a good analogy, not as confusing as a more recent J&G novel series, the authors made it fairly easy to understand. Another point of mention, what was the go with three authors? It's a rare event to see a novel with three authors, but the results are there is this one.A good read, reminiscent of the days when Voyager was relatively innocent, before the plot became too convoluted, maybe not worth buying, but definitely worth borrowing from a library of friend.