A review by dreamwanderer
Cloak and Dagger by Christie Golden
2.0
Cloak and Dagger is the first book in the Dark Matters Trilogy. This is set late in the sixth season around the time of the episode "Muse'.
This trilogy ties in with the episode 'Eye of the Needle'. The Romulan character Telek R'Mor makes a return.
This is a set up book that shifts locations from Voyager to the Romulan Capital. There is a conspiracy afoot to capture Voyager via a manufactured wormhole. Voyager is being attacked by 'dark matter' that is affecting the crew. It makes some sick, some homicidal and some paranoid. After pulling Telek onto Voyager he tells them their only hope is to find a group of aliens called "The Shepherds'. They find a planet, take in a refugee who becomes close to Harry and Chakotay and an injured Paris disappear into another dimension.
One nitpick. Tom Paris had his accident after he graduated from the Academy and was on assignment for Starfleet. In this book he has a flashback and says it happened while he was at the Academy. I have seen this before in other books and wonder if perhaps the authors aren't getting Tom Paris from Voyager and Nick Larcono from Star Trek TNG mixed up. Both characters were played by Robbert Duncan McNeil and had similar background stories.
The story flows, is easy to read but keep in mind it is a 'set up' novel for the other two books. To be honest the story has fallen into the good but nothing special' category.
This trilogy ties in with the episode 'Eye of the Needle'. The Romulan character Telek R'Mor makes a return.
This is a set up book that shifts locations from Voyager to the Romulan Capital. There is a conspiracy afoot to capture Voyager via a manufactured wormhole. Voyager is being attacked by 'dark matter' that is affecting the crew. It makes some sick, some homicidal and some paranoid. After pulling Telek onto Voyager he tells them their only hope is to find a group of aliens called "The Shepherds'. They find a planet, take in a refugee who becomes close to Harry and Chakotay and an injured Paris disappear into another dimension.
One nitpick. Tom Paris had his accident after he graduated from the Academy and was on assignment for Starfleet. In this book he has a flashback and says it happened while he was at the Academy. I have seen this before in other books and wonder if perhaps the authors aren't getting Tom Paris from Voyager and Nick Larcono from Star Trek TNG mixed up. Both characters were played by Robbert Duncan McNeil and had similar background stories.
The story flows, is easy to read but keep in mind it is a 'set up' novel for the other two books. To be honest the story has fallen into the good but nothing special' category.