James P. (baritonejp) - reviewed on 2/16/2010 + 8 more book reviews

What an amazing conclusion to this trilogy! I am truly impressed at David Mack's ability to weave a story.

If you have read my review of book one and two of the Destiny series, you will already know that I do not like the Borg. Never liked the idea. I guess to explain myself I would need to let you in on a quote that I read some time ago. I don't know who said it nor do I remember where I got it. "Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine." Okay, if there are other worlds I surmise they are not like us meaning - Man, Women, Boy, Girl. In all, who knows? But that quote is simply the best method I can explain myself about not liking the Borg.

Now, book three. Around the end of book one and confirmed by book two, I "saw it coming". As the saying goes. Not that I'm suffering from delusions of grandeur and not that David Mack was predictable. But what I thought would happen - was how the book ended. However, David Mack did it in such an unpredictable way. One hundred percent exciting and better than I thought.

Is the Borg gone, in my mind they are totally gone! David Mack expunged them from the Star Trek universe wholly. Could some author in some lair of creativity bring them back, well, yes. But, not without sacrificing the badge that they write under. If they did, their credibility would be shot. So, did Mack do his fellow writers an injustice by taking away a (overused) vessel of story. No, he gave them more; better vessels that need to be written into the final frontier.

What a trilogy, what a destiny!

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