| Review : |
I went in knowing that this book was written years before the DS9 crossover episodes, so I wasn't expecting it to stay in the confines of what was established there. This novel deals with our Kirk's impact on Mirror Spock in a totally different way, and that's ok. The story itself was interesting and fit in well with what we know of the Mirror Universe from "Mirror Mirror" and I did like the dolphin character Hwii swimming around in his own little bubble of water. There wasn't as much interaction between "our" crew and "their" crew as I had hoped. It was mostly La Forge, Troi and Picard sneaking around the ISS Enterprise to steal data. And speaking of data, the author decided that there shouldn't be a mirror Data! I would have been very interested in reading about an "evil" Data, and what about his brother Lore? The ending buttoned things up adequately with a big chunk of technobabble. Overall, a well written book but with a few missed opportunities. |
