The fact that Afsarah Eden is written out in this book, and Janeway essentially replaces her, only compounds my feelings here.Īs well as bringing back Janeway, The Eternal Tide also shines a light on the Q Continuum.

I’m firmly of the opinion that resurrections undercut the narrative strength of major characters’ deaths, and Janeway’s return does feel like a backward step, especially when the last three books have focused fairly heavily on Chakotay moving past her loss and stepping out from her shadow. Obviously that last part leaves the door open for her return, because if Trip Tucker has taught us anything, it’s that Star Trek deaths rarely last forever. Janeway was assimilated by the Borg, killed, and in an epilogue it was hinted that her ‘soul,’ for want of a better word, had joined the Q Continuum.

I have not yet read Peter David’s Before Dishonor, the book in which she was killed off, but my understanding is that it was pretty unambiguous. This book is impossible to discuss in any detail without going into spoilers, but since that spoiler can basically be guessed from the front cover, let’s just dive right into it: In The Eternal Tide, Kathryn Janeway comes back from the dead. Even in the Delta Quadrant, no one is free from the ghosts of the past. Now, as Voyager continues its expedition into former Borg space, Admiral Afsarah Eden must face difficult choice of her own. – click here for a full index of all my Star Trek reviews–įourteen months ago, Kathryn Janeway gave her life to save the Federation from the Borg.

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