A review by brassaf
Catalyst of Sorrows: Lost Era 2360 by Margaret Wander Bonanno

4.0

A delightful cast of characters lives inside this book: a 100+ year old Uhura and McCoy, pre-TNG Dr. Crusher and Dr. Selar, pre-DS9 Sisko, pre-Voyager Tuvok, and Curzon Dax. A handful of scheming Romulans and a few nods to the last Trek book I read (another The Lost Era novel) made it a nice sequel, of sorts. But probably my favorite bits were Sisko struggling with his first command, and Bonanno’s common sense writing (including her in-story jab at space operas that always featured ships arriving separately to a planet all oriented in the same plane—take that, silly Stat Trek. A worthy addition to my head canon Trek lore.