Star Trek Online: The Needs of the Many
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- ISBN13: 9781439186572
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Prior to the terror-filled times of the Long War—the seemingly endless struggle against the Undine, a paranoid, shape-shifting race once known only as Species 8472—enemy sleeper agents quietly penetrated every echelon of Federation society, as well as additional starfaring civilizations throughout the Alpha and Beta quadrants. The ensuing conflict shook humanity to its very core, regularly placing its highest ideals against a pure survival instinct. All too frequently, the Undine War demanded the harshest of sacrifices and exacted the steepest of personal costs from the countless millions whose lives the fantastic interdimensional clash forever altered.
Drawn from his exhaustive research and interviews, The Needs of the Many delivers a glimpse of Betar Prize–winning leader Jake Sisko’s comprehensive “living history” of this tumultuous era. With collaborator Michael A. Martin, Sisko illuminates an regularly-poorly-understood time, an age marked indelibly by both dread and courage—not to mention the willingness of multitudes of unsung heroes who became the living embodiment of the very ancient Vulcan philosopher Surak’s legendary axiom, “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”
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I’m a small disapointed with this one. I normally consume Trek books of any era, by any leader with fantastic delight. You don’t even want to know how many copies of “How Much For Just The Planet” I have.
I don’t regret buying this one, but I regret not buying it at a used book store for less.
One issue is perhaps unavoidable agreed the overall format. With the whole “Living History” thought, I expect some certain similarities in tone and format to World War Z. But on this one, there are a couple times when I can nearly hear the rustle of pages from That Additional Book in the background. Again, that could be simply because it’s a “living history” about a massive war.
The additional, greater issue is the leader’s clear and obvious choice to politicize the book. Between dedicating the book to a currently active politician, and building assorted thinly veiled references to policies of a Recent President Who Shall Not Be Named as well as current events, it gets pretty ham-handed.
Social commentary has permanently been an enriching element in Star Trek, but this work is to some extent tainted by it’s level of current-day political commentary, enhanced by the “narrator’s” penchant for wistfully sermonizing, sermons which become downright sticky and gooey sweet.
“Jake” ends up sinking the notional interviews from interviews to a socio-political soapbox for the leader to use him to mumble from, a vehicle for his own commentary as opposed to focussing on the experiences and tales of his interview subjects. It’s rarely a excellent thing when the focus of a documentary becomes the interviewer, and not the subjects or their tales. If I want to read an leader’s politicizing, I’ll go to their homepage or blog. The digs at a recent administration and political faction become a wink at the camera that hurts the interest, and wastes type that could have been used telling a better tale. (This being despite my personal dislike of said administration.)
Still, there are some excellent vignettes, some excellent bits of dialogue, but it’s to some extent second-rate to what I’ve come to expect in current Star Trek reading material.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5