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A review by dreamwanderer
Violations by Susan Wright
4.0
One good thing about reading the early Star Trek Voyager books is that you can get a sense of the tension between the various cast members that was not explored in the TV series. Here the crew is still in the 'getting to know you' stage and there are still some obvious conflicts that still need to be worked out.
The bad thing about the early books is that they are just that. Early. The show had barely started and the characters had not yet come into their own. There are some inconsistencies with the TV canon. Janeway refers to Chakotay as "Number One' and the Doctor is called "Zimmerman.'
However the basic plot was good. The computer core was stolen by a conglomerate centered in a place called "The Hub'. In a twist the computer was not to be used by smugglers for their own gain but rather to be used to help coordinate a revolution.
Without the main computer the other systems are on the fritz including the Doctor. Janeway and B'elanna try to get the computer back through official channels while Tom Paris does what early Tom Paris did which was to go against orders and lurk about in the back alleys and seedier parts of the Hub using his charm and street smarts to gather information. Janeway and B'elanna are trapped and Tom gets captured. I did like the Janeway and B'elanna interaction and once again the friendship of Tom and Harry shines through.
I did have a few problems with it. There is a lot of techno talk as Kim and Kess struggle to get the systems and the Doctor online. The regulations of the Hub are tiring to read and Kes glides through this barely making any mistakes or showing any flaws and Neelix is annoying cloying around her.
Despite this it is overall a fairly good adventure and there was nothing in the writing itself that distracted from the story.
The bad thing about the early books is that they are just that. Early. The show had barely started and the characters had not yet come into their own. There are some inconsistencies with the TV canon. Janeway refers to Chakotay as "Number One' and the Doctor is called "Zimmerman.'
However the basic plot was good. The computer core was stolen by a conglomerate centered in a place called "The Hub'. In a twist the computer was not to be used by smugglers for their own gain but rather to be used to help coordinate a revolution.
Without the main computer the other systems are on the fritz including the Doctor. Janeway and B'elanna try to get the computer back through official channels while Tom Paris does what early Tom Paris did which was to go against orders and lurk about in the back alleys and seedier parts of the Hub using his charm and street smarts to gather information. Janeway and B'elanna are trapped and Tom gets captured. I did like the Janeway and B'elanna interaction and once again the friendship of Tom and Harry shines through.
I did have a few problems with it. There is a lot of techno talk as Kim and Kess struggle to get the systems and the Doctor online. The regulations of the Hub are tiring to read and Kes glides through this barely making any mistakes or showing any flaws and Neelix is annoying cloying around her.
Despite this it is overall a fairly good adventure and there was nothing in the writing itself that distracted from the story.