IDW- Best of Star Trek:DS9

A collection of Deep Space 9 comics from early in the series run. The first story arc has the station taken over by fast growing green mold. (Something you could get here in the PNW without having to travel to the edge of the quadrant). The second story has the crew of DS9 placed in the middle of a Prime Directive straining situation between slavers and slave...whom I have to say have very creepy split forearms. Bonus is an 8 page "ashcan" story where a Klingon prison ship places Dr Bashir in Danger.

Book: TNG: Breaking the Peace

In the wake of the Borg incursion into Fedration territory, planets are left devestated, familes torn apart, and billions of beings displaced. The USS Enterprise has been tasked with patrolling the near Earth vicinity, doing whatever is needed to find the lost and alleviate suffering. Doctor Crusher has been asked to go to the ocean world of Pacifica, which escaped Borg attack but has taken in a large number of refugees. This book was fastpaced despite the lack of "action"- perhaps my timely reading of it made the book more poignant. We learn things about the families and loved ones of minor characters that we hadn't known before.

Book:ENT: The Romulan War: Under the Raptor's Wing.

This book is written by Micheal A Martin, who usually collaborates with Andy Mangels, and whose collaborations I usually love. Under the Raptor's Wing, however, I found very slow. I had to renew it in order to finish it, and it was the only book I was reading. Along with the slowly advancing plot it tries- too hard sometimes- to integrate "future" Trek with the past it has created- such as Tobin Dax, and a slew of Romulans named after "future" ships. The main reason I finished the book was because I do not want to be wondering what is going on when the next book comes out.

ENT: Carpenter Street

Daniels appears and sends Archer and T'Pol back to Detroit in 2004. A blood bank worker, under the unknowing employ of the Xindi reptilians, has been kidnapping one person of every blood type so they might use them to synthesise a bio weapon. Archer and T'Pol must navigate an unfamiliar time period and stop the Xindi before they release their weapon into the past.

Book: VOY: Unworthy by Kristen Beyer

The Delta fleet has launched with it's newly installed slipstream drive. However, many of the prominent figures on the expedition have closely held secrets- including Commander Tom Paris. How will these secrets affect first contact with a new symbiotic species group, and how will Seven' mental health be affected by that first contact?

Episode: ENT: Similtude

An engineering experiment gone awry leaves Trip with incurable brain damage. Phlox proposes and unorthodox treatment: growing a fast growing symbiont to provide needed neural tissue. Ethics are brought into question when it's discovered that, contrary to Phlox's original assessment, the symbiont would have to die to save Trip's life. The resolution of this story left me with a bad taste in my mouth (spoilers follow). It's as if you had a kid with two bad kidneys, decided to have another kid and donate his kidney, and when he is born with only one good kidney say "Sorry kid. The only reason we had you was to give Big Sib your kidney. Yoink!"

Book: Titan: Synthesis by James Swallow

Having left the water world Droplet, with one more soul aboard, Titan comes upon a binary system that is populated by sentient machines. The machines are fighting subspace incursions, and t=when the genesis of the incursions is revealed, so is the genesis of the machines. The book ends with the question unanswered as to whether Titan has gained another crew member or not.