A review by octavia_cade
Behind Enemy Lines by John Vornholt
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
3.0
The first volume of a four part mini-series set during the Dominion War, and it's with the TNG rather than DS9 crew, which is a little bit of a surprise though I suppose it shouldn't be. After all, Picard and company were caught up in that war, too, so it's interesting to see it from a new angle.
The pacing's fairly good and the plot is reasonably compelling, although Riker's storyline comes across as filler - he's stuck with the ship at a starbase, waiting for repairs, and has a brief relationship with someone we'll probably never see again outside this series (that's if she even survives it). Nothing out of the ordinary for him, certainly nothing as interesting as Picard and Geordi surgically altered to appear Bajoran, and traipsing through Dominion territory with Ro Laren, looking to sabotage the enemy's war effort. The third storyline, that of a group of captured Starfleet officers who are being used as slave labour, works well, although it's no surprise to see it intersect with the rest where it does. There's an underlying sense of tension and danger, and it's rather grimmer than the usual tie-in fare, but still worth reading.
The pacing's fairly good and the plot is reasonably compelling, although Riker's storyline comes across as filler - he's stuck with the ship at a starbase, waiting for repairs, and has a brief relationship with someone we'll probably never see again outside this series (that's if she even survives it). Nothing out of the ordinary for him, certainly nothing as interesting as Picard and Geordi surgically altered to appear Bajoran, and traipsing through Dominion territory with Ro Laren, looking to sabotage the enemy's war effort. The third storyline, that of a group of captured Starfleet officers who are being used as slave labour, works well, although it's no surprise to see it intersect with the rest where it does. There's an underlying sense of tension and danger, and it's rather grimmer than the usual tie-in fare, but still worth reading.