Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures by Dayton Ward
304 pages, Audiobook
First published February, 2018
Prequel to the prequel!
I have trouble writing deep and thought reviews of
audiobooks, I consume them during walks, bike rides, doing dishes, or
cooking. Rather than sitting down to focus attention on them. It is
impossible to pull out passages or parts where I was impressed with the
writing. Dayton Ward is a writer I greatly enjoy following online. I
have been overdue to check out one of his books.
I use the libby library app for audiobooks and I sorta spun the star trek books at random and this one came up. Michelle Yeoh's Philippa Georgiou and Jason Issac's Gabriel Lorca are two characters who came and went with Star Trek Discovery's freshman season - they are characters I was very interested in.
I knew the novel was about them, but had no idea going in that Ward would be tying their back story the infamous Kudos the execution from James T. Kirk's back story. It was an incident when Kirk was a boy when Kirk's mother and two sons were witnesses to one of the worst crimes in the early Federation. An aggressive contagion is ravaging the food supplies of the remote Federation colony Tarsus IV, the colony’s governor, Adrian Kodos, employs an unimaginable solution in order to prevent mass starvation. He kills a good half of the population because he believes Starfleet can't help for some time.
Lorrca is there as Starfleet security and Georgiou is a part of the Federation ship that responds. The events of this disaster would be key to Federation history in universe, but in relation to Captain Kirk this is also an important event in Star Trek. It is exciting to hear Ward's storytelling abilities and deep Trek knowledge applied to this back story. The characters we know from Discovery get a really fantastic backstory that adds depth to their
Georgiou and Lorca end up with the job of hunting down “Kodos the Executioner” who Star Trek fans will know escapes, despite this Ward gives the story depth and realism that expands the Star Trek universe. Big thumbs up. This was a fun audiobook listen. The performance was solid but it is the storytelling that really makes it work. Great Stuff!
I use the libby library app for audiobooks and I sorta spun the star trek books at random and this one came up. Michelle Yeoh's Philippa Georgiou and Jason Issac's Gabriel Lorca are two characters who came and went with Star Trek Discovery's freshman season - they are characters I was very interested in.
I knew the novel was about them, but had no idea going in that Ward would be tying their back story the infamous Kudos the execution from James T. Kirk's back story. It was an incident when Kirk was a boy when Kirk's mother and two sons were witnesses to one of the worst crimes in the early Federation. An aggressive contagion is ravaging the food supplies of the remote Federation colony Tarsus IV, the colony’s governor, Adrian Kodos, employs an unimaginable solution in order to prevent mass starvation. He kills a good half of the population because he believes Starfleet can't help for some time.
Lorrca is there as Starfleet security and Georgiou is a part of the Federation ship that responds. The events of this disaster would be key to Federation history in universe, but in relation to Captain Kirk this is also an important event in Star Trek. It is exciting to hear Ward's storytelling abilities and deep Trek knowledge applied to this back story. The characters we know from Discovery get a really fantastic backstory that adds depth to their
Georgiou and Lorca end up with the job of hunting down “Kodos the Executioner” who Star Trek fans will know escapes, despite this Ward gives the story depth and realism that expands the Star Trek universe. Big thumbs up. This was a fun audiobook listen. The performance was solid but it is the storytelling that really makes it work. Great Stuff!
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