lleullawgyffes's review
dark
mysterious
tense
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
a wonderful conclusion, overall, my irritation with heterosexuality aside. Mark McHenry at his best, and Soleta's discussion of the ethical implications of what Worf is asking her to do is much darker than I remembered. I'll be sad to leave the Dream Team behind, even if Capture the Flag is my favorite of the series.
octavia_cade's review
3.0
2.5 stars, rounding up to 3. The last of the Worf-at-Starfleet-Academy trilogy, this is also the best of the bunch. Partly because I have a fondness for stories where people are marooned, and partly because of the focus on Soleta, who's fantastic (she more than makes up for Mark, whose airy strangeness is painfully belaboured - he's not remotely believable). Have to say I've never had much patience for coincidental contrivance, either, and the fact that the colonists built their colony right on top of a secret base made me roll my eyes, hard. But, as I said, there's still Soleta, who gets the best lines of the entire book, having smacked down an attacker of monstrous proportion: "I found his ship. Then he found me. Then I found his shoulder." Don't tell me Vulcans don't have a sense of humour, because I refuse to believe it.
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