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5.0 out of 5 stars
DS9 #2 The Siege - An exceptional Peter David novel!, Sep 21 2003
It is quite fitting that Peter David, one of Star Trek's most popular and prolific authors was given the opportunity to write the very first original Star Trek Deep Space Nine novel. It's just too bad that he's only visited Deep Space Nine one time since this great novel. One of the most difficult problems that an author faces when writing a novel for such a young series is the fact that they just don't have much background to work with. This is something that certainly hindered early STNG authors. Peter David addresses this in the Preface of "The Siege," stating that at the time he'd written this, he'd only seen the first five episodes so if the characterizations are off, that's why. I believe that is one of the myriad of reasons that he has been on of the best Star Trek authors; you certainly didn't see any statements like this in the early STNG novels. Although Peter David did not have a lot of Deep Space Nine background to work with, thematically the entire tone of this novel is "dead on" perfect with the first and second seasons. As usual, his wit is in high gear with this novel, despite the "heavy" tone of the novel. The cover art for "The Siege" is quite truly standard fare for the time in which this novel was released and not really too impressive. The premise: Commander Sisko is forced to cut back entry to the wormhole due to increased graviton emissions and not long thereafter the overall atmosphere of the station becomes very tense. Suddenly an Edeman religious leader is but the first to be found murdered and Commander Sisko and Constable Odo must find the killer. The killer is seemingly striking without motive and the situation soon becomes even more harrowing as the Cardassians and Edemans arrive demanding that the killer be found and given to them or else they'll destroy the station. Adding a certain level of mystique in this story, Odo finds that he must destroy this killer but the killer is also the only link to his mysterious past. What follows from there is nothing less than a brilliant early Star Trek Deep Space Nine novel that will keep you guessing from cover to cover! I highly recommend this novel for your Star Trek collection as you will find it to be among the best of any of the series. {ssintrepid}
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