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It suffers the same problems as many of the sequel/prequel ilk; as compared to the originals, it fails to stand on its own. Sure, it explains the origin and rationale for a few key characters in the original trilogy, but that’s the only function of this book. Any attempt to establish stakes is undercut before the start as we are locked up by the future we (who have already read the original three books) already know.

So, flat, perfunctory, and fan-servicing; punctuated by privations of humanity inflicted on District 12; this story was unsatisfactory.

I wonder at those who, to start their readings of these books, elect to go chronologically rather than in publication order. They are good books, but the two prequels rely on foreknowledge offered in the Katniss arc.

Yes. Almost every time.

Same episode, Loki skips ahead to the future. He knows that it is the future this time, instead of the past as was established previously in the episode, because of the writing in the dust.

I would watch this in an instant. Sisko is, by a wide margin, my favourite Star Trek Captain.

A frontier, postwar Commander. A broken space station.

A crew that actively hates, seeks to misunderstand, and undermine each other.

Oh, and the first stable wormhole/celestial temple of the TimeLords.

Then, a war against a vastly superior force of the ultimate spies.

He takes on the whole impossible thing and makes everyone he meets better people.

A student of history, betrayed by the only woman he loved after the the death of his wife, a single father, a mentor, a detective, and a builder.

Sisko is absolutely amazing. Picard, what, came back from being Borg and lived a lifetime in a few minutes once?