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birdmanseven's review against another edition
3.0
This was a lot fun, though a touch odd to have John De Lancie read a non-Q story.
Anyway, it was interesting to see the Next Gen crew tackle the Mirror Universe. I loved Evil Deanna. My main criticism is that it was often hard to know if you were dealing with the real characters or their mirror counterparts.
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Anyway, it was interesting to see the Next Gen crew tackle the Mirror Universe. I loved Evil Deanna. My main criticism is that it was often hard to know if you were dealing with the real characters or their mirror counterparts.
For more on this book check out the All the Books Show! https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/episode-260-dark-mirror
libraryofrick180107's review
4.0
Book Review - Star Trek The Next Generation 35 Dark Mirror by Diane Duane.
This was a very strange book. Despite the fact that the story was very well linked to the mirror universe episode of Star Trek The Original Series, in some places this book felt very rushed, especially towards the end of the book when the author was wrapping the story up.
It was still a very good story, but definitely not one of my favourite books of this year.
4*
****
This was a very strange book. Despite the fact that the story was very well linked to the mirror universe episode of Star Trek The Original Series, in some places this book felt very rushed, especially towards the end of the book when the author was wrapping the story up.
It was still a very good story, but definitely not one of my favourite books of this year.
4*
****
terynce's review
2.0
Not the least bit impressed. I don't believe the characters matched their depictions from the show (or movies) and when that is the most strongly established canon, that's an issue. And throwing in technobabble without adequately explaining it was never a mark of Star Trek. Simplicity, or at least familiarity, in explanation trumps plausibility.
blizz's review
4.0
I listened to the audio book version. It was enjoyable, typical alternate reality stuff but held my attention and kept true to star trek.
leons1701's review
3.0
Not quite sure why, but I always find this book vaguely disappointing. It's by the usually solid Diane Duane, it's based on one of the better Original Series episodes (Mirror, Mirror of course) and I've never been one of those who finds all the media spin offs to be worthless (although most of them are). It's nothing I can ever put my finger on specifically, but this book feels like it should have been a home run and it's not. Maybe it's the lack of insight into the Imperial counterparts of the crew, or maybe it's the utter failure of those counterparts to even anticipate any possibility of countermeasures, even the most logical ones. Nothing feels like a glaring error, but it adds up to a read that's less satisfying than I'd have expected.
vashti's review
5.0
Another old favourite, though far more bittersweet 25 years on for realising we are the mirror.
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