The Red King - Mille feuilles

Paperback, 364 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2005 by Pocket Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-7434-9628-5
OCLC Number:: 61723814

Investigating the disappearance of a secret Romulan fleet, the U.S.S. Titan, commanded by Captain William Riker, is unexpectedly propelled more than 200,000 light-years into the Small Magellanic Cloud. One of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, the Cloud is also home to the Neyel, the long-sundered offshoots of Terran humanity, with whom the Federation has had no contact in over eighty years.

Nearby, Riker's uncertain ally, Commander Donatra of the Romulan Warbird Valdore, rescues a young Neyel, the survivor of a mysterious cosmic upheaval that seems at times to be both unraveling and reweaving the very fabric of space... the fulfillment of an apocalyptic vision that has already claimed millions of lives. Titan's science team soon finds evidence that the ravaging of Neyel space is the work of a vast and powerful intelligence: the stirrings of a dormant consciousness that is maintaining the existence of the Small Magellanic Cloud -- …

Investigating the disappearance of a secret Romulan fleet, the U.S.S. Titan, commanded by Captain William Riker, is unexpectedly propelled more than 200,000 light-years into the Small Magellanic Cloud. One of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, the Cloud is also home to the Neyel, the long-sundered offshoots of Terran humanity, with whom the Federation has had no contact in over eighty years.

Nearby, Riker's uncertain ally, Commander Donatra of the Romulan Warbird Valdore, rescues a young Neyel, the survivor of a mysterious cosmic upheaval that seems at times to be both unraveling and reweaving the very fabric of space... the fulfillment of an apocalyptic vision that has already claimed millions of lives. Titan's science team soon finds evidence that the ravaging of Neyel space is the work of a vast and powerful intelligence: the stirrings of a dormant consciousness that is maintaining the existence of the Small Magellanic Cloud -- and all life within it -- from one moment to the next. And if it should awaken, the consequences are unimaginable.

As Riker considers his options, his new crew struggles with the scientific and philosophical implications of what they've discovered... while the young Neyel in their midst forges a bond with the captain, conjuring old ghosts Riker has yet to lay to rest.

2 editions

Ji FU reviewed The Red King by Andy Mangels (Star Trek: Titan, #2)

A fantastic plot that could have been written better.

3 stars

I really liked the story of the Red King, the 2nd book in the '00s Star Trek: Titan series. Captain Will Riker's ship the U.S.S. Titan attempts to help the Romulans look for a fleet that disappeared near the bloom in space caused by Shinzon's weapon at the end of the movie Nemesis. Only to get sucked in along with the Romulans and a Klingon ship that was potroling the area due to their alliance with the newly indpendent Reamans, to the Small Magellanic Cloud past the edge of our galaxy. There they find a group of pilgrims of an indigeouns religion seeking a god whose wakening from slumbar will destroy their colonists worlds, and them too.

Its the first Star Trek book I recall reading that introduced new (to me) scientific theories including protounivereses and emerging space.

I liked how they brought together the scientific theory, the …

I really liked the story of the Red King, the 2nd book in the '00s Star Trek: Titan series. Captain Will Riker's ship the U.S.S. Titan attempts to help the Romulans look for a fleet that disappeared near the bloom in space caused by Shinzon's weapon at the end of the movie Nemesis. Only to get sucked in along with the Romulans and a Klingon ship that was potroling the area due to their alliance with the newly indpendent Reamans, to the Small Magellanic Cloud past the edge of our galaxy. There they find a group of pilgrims of an indigeouns religion seeking a god whose wakening from slumbar will destroy their colonists worlds, and them too.

Its the first Star Trek book I recall reading that introduced new (to me) scientific theories including protounivereses and emerging space.

I liked how they brought together the scientific theory, the pilgrims' religious view of an omnipotent sleeper awakening and the Red King's dream of Alice in Wonderland.

I didn't like some of the writing. Namely I disliked the way the treated Counselor Troi as being far more telepathic than on TNG, including knowing peoples motives. I also found I had a hard time keeping track of so many new characters, most of which are also new species. I kept having to flip back to earlier chapters to recall who in the world this was who was talking.

With the good and the bad that gives me 3 stars.

Subjects

Riker, William T. (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Life on other planets -- Fiction
Magellanic Clouds -- Fiction