Star Trek: Picard: To Defy Fate
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4.3 • 21 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A thrilling new adventure based on the acclaimed TV series Star Trek: Picard!
2401: Just weeks after defeating a devastating joint attack by rogue Changelings and remnants of the Borg Collective, Starfleet and the Federation face a long period of recovery that requires replacing lost personnel and ships. While touring the USS Titan-A, which is just beginning an extensive repair-and-refit process that will take nearly a year to complete, newly promoted Captain Seven of Nine and her first officer, Commander Raffi Musiker, experience a bizarre temporal event which renders them both unconscious and sends Seven into a deep coma.
In the aftermath of this inexplicable attack, Admirals Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher are surprised by the appearance of Crusher’s son, Wesley. Now a Traveler capable of traversing through all of space and time, he warns them that forces he cannot identify are working to disrupt time for unknown and potentially catastrophic reasons. Reality as they know it is in jeopardy and, despite their initial best efforts, the effects are not contained but instead continue to escalate.
Picard, Crusher, and Musiker join Wesley in hunting through time to stop whoever or whatever seems hellbent on rewriting history. But what is their unknown adversary’s ultimate objective? Left unchecked, their efforts might well erase from existence those Picard and his friends hold most dear. What could justify attempting to defy fate itself?
Customer Reviews
A fun ride!
An entertaining story involving temporal incursions, and trying to rectify them. We learn more about the Travelers, and the agency that oversees them. Wesley Crusher is prominently featured, along with Picard and Beverly. If you’re a time travel fan, you should enjoy.
Stuck in the mud
I’m really mixed on this book. I can’t say I was looking forward to it even though I like Dayton as an author. If you’re a Trek fan you know Picard season 3 ended terrifically (for the most part) and there were talks of a series to come that never emerged (and probably won’t). It seems as if once again trek fans will have to rely on book series to continue the adventures of these characters.
This story though just felt like a recycled idea from previous Trek episodes. I’m not sure if authors have permission to actually go further or if they are like Star Wars and are restricted to what they can tell in certain timelines.
Essentially this book is a retelling of Relativity from Star Trek Voyager just told with Picard characters and Wesley in place of the DIT. We see a “best of the series” sort of time travel while chasing down a villain trying to alter history. Unfortunately, we also see a continuation of the Kurtzman era Trek here with characters using more modern 21st century language that already dates this book that just came out. We continue to see the “relationship” between 7 and Raffi (these characters had no actual chemistry in the shows breaking up twice but we get reminded in this book they were “great” together).
Overall, I wish we got a story that propelled the characters forward with a new adventure to tell but it’s just not here for me.