Descent (Star Trek Next Generation) [Kindle Edition]

Diane Carey (Author)

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The Borg are back -- and nastier than ever. No longer mindless, inhuman drones but cyborg soldiers on a mission to assimilate all intelligent life, their new goal is the complete destruction of the Federation. And in the midst of facing the Borg again, Captain Picard learns that he may be the cause of the change.

Commander Data is changing as well. For the first time in his life, Data feels a genuine emotion -- and that emotion is deadly, destructive rage. When it is revealed that the Borg are commanded by an old enemy out of Data's past, Data must choose between his allegiance tot he Federation and the one thing he wants above all else...

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The Borg are back and crueler than ever. No longer mindless, inhuman drones but cyborg soldiers on a mission to assimilate all intelligent life, their new goal is the complete destruction of the Federation. And in the midst of facing the Borg again, Captain Picard learns that he may be the cause of the change.

Commander Data is changing as well. For the first time in his life, Data feels a genuine emotion, and that emotion is deadly, destructive rage. When it is revealed that the Borg are commanded by an old enemy out of Data's past, Data must choose between his allegiance to the Federation and the one thing he wants above all else.END

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 415 KB
• Print Length: 288 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek (September 22, 2000)
• Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000FC0NDM
• Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #452,826 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars an interesting book, March 3, 2003

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Robert Treat (El Cajon, Calif.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Descent (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Paperback)

I have to disagree with some of the recent low reviews given for this book. I felt the book overall was better than the episode. The author gave more details regarding how Commander Riker dealt with Hugh's feelings of betrayal by the Federation, and I thought the author's portrayal of the holographic characters Data interacted with was quite interesting.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Descent---Liz, February 20, 1998

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This review is from: Descent (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Paperback)

This book was a very good book because it was very detailed. It also helped me understand some lines I didn't understand at first.

3.0 out of 5 stars STNG Descent - A fairly decent novelization!, October 5, 2003

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K. Wyatt "ssintrepid" (Cape Girardeau, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Descent (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Paperback)

"Descent" is the first in a string of successive and somewhat successful episode novelizations for author Diane Carey. This novelization for Star Trek The Next Generations six season closer and seventh season opener is a fairly decent one for her first try out at novelization in the Star Trek genre. As with all novelizations, the point in reading them is for the "between the scenes" action and some character personalization that is simply not possible on the screen given time and budget constraints. Diane Carey accomplishes that fairly well in this novelization!

The original story is by Star Trek author and later Star Trek Voyager Executive Producer, Jeri Taylor and the teleplay by Ronald D. Moore and Rene Echevarria. When taken into comparison with the series other outstanding season ending cliffhangers and openers, I'd rate this one as dead last. Although there were some fairly decent character moments in this story, the overall premise just didn't "click" with me too well.

The cover art for this novelization is fairly standard for the time it was published.

The premise:

Capitalizing on the past success of the episode "I, Hugh," in which a lone Borg is found and nursed back to health after crash landing on a remote planet and then later returned to the Borg after he'd become an individual, Descent expounds on that basic premise. The Enterprise is called to a station that is under attack, only to discover that the Borg have attacked it and are still there. In what can be considered quite an amazing moment of Star Trek history, Data defends him and his crew mates and suddenly displays anger in a very large degree.

Captain Picard and crew now find themselves facing a new type of Borg that are using a different type of ship and are displaying individuality and an even more insidious character that they've had to deal with in the past and who is behind this latest Borg attack.

Overall, as stated above, in my opinion this was certainly not one of the better two part episodes that the producers put on screen. Diane Carey does do a fairly decent job of sprucing up the story in this novelization. {ssintrepid}