From Publishers Weekly
Set in a complicated universe full of difficult challenges, screenwriter McDonald's franchise tie-in with the popular TV show is sure to please its target audience. Long after the Systems Commonwealth was destroyed, the captain of its one surviving starship, the
Andromeda Ascendant, has assembled a motley crew and is trying to rebuild a benevolent civilization. As
Star Trek demonstrates, Roddenberry understood the recipe for TV series storytelling: put some quirky characters in a container, then stir once a week and watch what happens. Though everyone in the cast gets time for distinctive shtick, this novel concentrates on two featured performers. One of the strangest crew members is Trance Gemini, a cute but not-quite-human being who jaunts back and forth through time as she tries to keep her comrades from making disastrous errors; this becomes quite confusing when multiple versions of Trance from different time lines are scurrying through the ship. Stalwart Captain Dylan Hunt, meanwhile, has to temper his idealism as he encounters new puzzles—and reconsiders some of the old Commonwealth's immoral behavior. The author weaves the plot threads together ingeniously, but even though new readers can figure out what's going on, they may wonder why these people and their problems are worth caring about.
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From Booklist
In the third novel set in Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda universe, Captain Dylan Hunt and his crew headed to the planet Kantar in hopes of getting it to join the new commonwealth of planets. Crew member Trance Gemini, apprehensive about the mission, finds herself shifting through time and reality and seeing possible disastrous futures for
Andromeda's crew. When the ship reaches Kantar, the reception is anything but friendly. The Kantarans attack and, besides damaging the ship, cause strange personality changes in the crew with one of their weapons. Retreating, Seamus Harper informs Hunt that
Andromeda has sustained serious damage. The crew's only hope is to take the smaller
Eureka Maru, first officer Beka Valentine's ship, and find a repair station. As Hunt, Harper, and Rommie, the android version of
Andromeda's consciousness, venture to a mysterious way station, Trance wrestles with her increasingly troubling time-shifting. An exciting, gripping entry in the series.
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