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A review by dorward
Watching the Clock by Christopher L. Bennett
2.0
There are some good ideas in here, but the book suffers from being terribly unfocused.
It has a B-plot that is entirely disconnected from the A-plot, but which has stronger ideas (and deserves a book of its own).
The A-plot combines the origin story of one of the main characters (who has had about 5 minutes of screen time previously, so we don't care enough about him to worry about his backstory that much) with an attempt to reference every time travel episode of TNG and DS9 with the odd dip into Voyager, the original series and Enterprise for not so good measure. Again, there is a good story in there, but it needs flesh of its own and not one pieced together with references to old Star Trek episodes, of which there are far too many.
On the upside, it does manage to answer some questions about The Temporal Cold War and makes a lot of Enterprise make more sense in doing so.
It has a B-plot that is entirely disconnected from the A-plot, but which has stronger ideas (and deserves a book of its own).
The A-plot combines the origin story of one of the main characters (who has had about 5 minutes of screen time previously, so we don't care enough about him to worry about his backstory that much) with an attempt to reference every time travel episode of TNG and DS9 with the odd dip into Voyager, the original series and Enterprise for not so good measure. Again, there is a good story in there, but it needs flesh of its own and not one pieced together with references to old Star Trek episodes, of which there are far too many.
On the upside, it does manage to answer some questions about The Temporal Cold War and makes a lot of Enterprise make more sense in doing so.