Drastic Measures - BookWyrm

400 pages

English language

Published Nov. 14, 2018 by Pocket Books/ Star Trek.

ISBN:: 978-1-5011-7175-8
ASIN:: 1501171747
Goodreads:: 36416809

(4 reviews)

It is 2246, ten years prior to the Battle at the Binary Stars, and an aggressive contagion is ravaging the food supplies of the remote Federation colony Tarsus IV and the eight thousand people who call it home. Distress signals have been sent, but any meaningful assistance is weeks away. Lieutenant Commander Gabriel Lorca and a small team assigned to a Starfleet monitoring outpost are caught up in the escalating crisis, and bear witness as the colony’s governor, Adrian Kodos, employs an unimaginable solution in order to prevent mass starvation.

While awaiting transfer to her next assignment, Commander Philippa Georgiou is tasked with leading to Tarsus IV a small, hastily assembled group of first responders. It’s hoped this advance party can help stabilize the situation until more aid arrives, but Georgiou and her team discover that they‘re too late—Governor Kodos has already implemented his heinous strategy for extending the colony’s …

It is 2246, ten years prior to the Battle at the Binary Stars, and an aggressive contagion is ravaging the food supplies of the remote Federation colony Tarsus IV and the eight thousand people who call it home. Distress signals have been sent, but any meaningful assistance is weeks away. Lieutenant Commander Gabriel Lorca and a small team assigned to a Starfleet monitoring outpost are caught up in the escalating crisis, and bear witness as the colony’s governor, Adrian Kodos, employs an unimaginable solution in order to prevent mass starvation.

While awaiting transfer to her next assignment, Commander Philippa Georgiou is tasked with leading to Tarsus IV a small, hastily assembled group of first responders. It’s hoped this advance party can help stabilize the situation until more aid arrives, but Georgiou and her team discover that they‘re too late—Governor Kodos has already implemented his heinous strategy for extending the colony’s besieged food stores and safeguarding the community’s long-term survival.

In the midst of their rescue mission, Georgiou and Lorca must now hunt for the architect of this horrific tragedy and the man whom history will one day brand “Kodos the Executioner”….

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Lois reviewed Drastic Measures by Dayton Ward (Star Trek: Discovery, #2)

Review of 'Drastic Measures' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

So I continued on with the next Discovery book that came out this week. As I put in the first book's review, I still haven't actually seen the show since I would have to get the DVDs, but haven't yet, so I know the barest of bare-bones info about the whole thing - so I'm not sure if the characters and events are true to what is seen, if this is even canon or not. But I still was able to follow along and enjoy the story for what it was.

And it was a pretty good take on what the heck actually happened with Kodos the executioner, the Sacrifice on Tarsus IV, how Kodos got away, and the initial fungus in the food supply that started the whole sequence of events - all through the eyes of the first Starfleet officers to get there, and in this case, it …

So I continued on with the next Discovery book that came out this week. As I put in the first book's review, I still haven't actually seen the show since I would have to get the DVDs, but haven't yet, so I know the barest of bare-bones info about the whole thing - so I'm not sure if the characters and events are true to what is seen, if this is even canon or not. But I still was able to follow along and enjoy the story for what it was.

And it was a pretty good take on what the heck actually happened with Kodos the executioner, the Sacrifice on Tarsus IV, how Kodos got away, and the initial fungus in the food supply that started the whole sequence of events - all through the eyes of the first Starfleet officers to get there, and in this case, it was in the younger days of two of the captains from Discovery, Georgiou and Lorca. I liked those two, at least as presented in this book, and how the reacted to the events as they tried to help on the planet. Great lessons on their reactions, dealing with the situations, and all of the different problems on the planet.

But of course, any book that takes place during this time just wasn't going to be complete without a cameo showing a future starfleet captain, teenage Jimmy Kirk. ;)

Lumii

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May 14, 2018

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Fiction, science fiction, general