Die Standing by John Jackson Miller My rating: 3 of 5 stars While the novel's premise sets up an escalating, high-stakes interstellar mystery, it ultimately struggles with the execution of its central figure. The narrative kicks into high gear when Emony Dax—a clever, unjoined Trill nod to Deep Space Nine lore—uncovers a wandering space cloud that decimates a Federation starship. The plot thickens when Philippa Georgiou recognizes the anomaly as a biological superweapon she failed to capture back in the Mirror Universe. Sent by a deeply distrustful Section 31 to investigate the isolationist Troika territory, Georgiou is saddled with a crew of "handlers" made up of deep-cut Star Trek lore characters. On paper, the book attempts to balance Georgiou’s ruthless, imperial nature with the grit needed to survive a lethal alien frontier—demonstrating exactly why Section 31 finds her valuable, yet impossible to control. The Critique: A Regression in Character Development The Ve...
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