![]() Miller has woven a wonderfully complex story here, filled with mysteries and reveals that keeps the reader surprised and engaged throughout the book. The book is incredibly fast-paced, and I eagerly devoured chapter after chapter. Hell’s Heart is a terrific Star Trek novel. Picard and Riker and their crews race to find and defeat the mysterious Unsung, but they find themselves far behind a complex unfolding plot that threatens to shatter the Federation-Klingon peace forever. Starfleet’s failure to protect these Klingon nobles outrages Klingons across the Empire, while the surviving Korgh manipulates the situation to fan the flames of Klingon anger and to position himself to attain a new position of power on the Klingon High Council. But the ceremony is disrupted by a vicious attack by a group of terrorists known as the Unsung, who attack the Enterprise in orbit using multiple cloaked ships, while they murder every single Klingon noble on the planet’s surface. For a hundred years, Korgh nursed his hatred for the Federation and developed a far-reaching plan to shatter the peace treaty that was forged in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and that, by the TNG era, had stood for almost a century.Īs the book opens, while the newly-promoted Admiral Riker attempts to prepare for an important peace conference between the Khitomer Accord powers (the Federation, the Klingon Empire, and the Ferengi Alliance) and the Typhon Pact, Captain Picard and the USS Enterprise escorts a group of elderly Klingon lords from the House of Kruge to a ceremony on the planet Gamaral intended to honor the manner in which the nobles maintained Kruge’s house following the General’s death. ![]() After Kruge’s death on the Genesis Planet, Korgh found his dreams for the future shattered. In this novel we meet Korgh, a Klingon who, while not Kruge’s son by birth, considered himself the general’s son and heir. Set in the post- Nemesis 24th century that Pocket Books’ interconnected series of Trek novels have been so skillfully crafting, Prey explores what happened to the house of the Klingon General, Kruge, who was played so memorably by Christopher Lloyd in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Miller’s story deftly weaves together multiple characters and story-threads from across a hundred years of Trek history. (In that case, it was the era of “Number One,” who was first officer of the Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike, with the later era of Kirk and Spock.) Prey is structured with a similar goal in mind, one achieved far more successfully. Legacies attempted to connect several different generations of Star Trek adventures. This is a terrific novel, one of the best Trek books of the past few years. With the previous Star Trek 50th anniversary trilogy, Legacies, having left me somewhat cold, I wasn’t expecting greatness for this second 50th anniversary trilogy of novels.Īnd so I must stand and doff my chapeau to John Jackson Miller, who blew me away with Prey book 1: Hell’s Heart, a magnificent Star Trek adventure that I tore through with enormous enjoyment. ![]() As for Prey, his new trilogy, I wasn’t enamored by the plot description that I’d read on-line - a rift in the Federation-Klingon peace felt like a step backwards for a Trek story, rather than a step forwards - and the cover to book 2 in the trilogy looked ridiculous, one of the worst covers I’ve seen to a Trek book in years. Miller’s first full-length Trek novel, Takedown. Miller has written some wonderful Star Wars novels, and while I enjoyed his first Star Trek adventure, the short e-book Absent Enemies, I didn’t at all care for Mr. I must confess that I didn’t start reading the first book in John Jackson Miller’s new trilogy of Star Trek novels, Prey, with great enthusiasm.
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