Rise of the Federation: Patterns of Interference

kept waiting for some awesome revitalization of the telepathic link during duress, like being tortured. that dead ended. Then throwing V'Las in last minute? Yet another dead end. Mayweather and Hoshi dropped off the face of the earth by the end. Is there another book coming in the series? At least try to bridge how the Romulan War series ended by explaining Tucker and T'Pol reuniting.

Christopher Bennett's Enterprise relaunch novels have always been kind of weak... not as weak as his predecessor's, but scattered and unwilling to focus on one topic for too long. The "Trip Tucker: Secret Agent" thing was an incredibly stupid idea to begin with, so seeing it finally come to an end helps the book immensely. Unfortunately, the relaunch keeps latching onto antagonists and holding onto them well past the point of reason... it's now V'Las, a one-time antagonist from the final season of the TV series, who is going to be next in line to be whittled down to a bland Flanderized nothing.

Looks like Tom Paris has a little Malcolm Reed in him. In all seriousness why does this series insist that it needs cameos from every era to survive? I think the stories stand on there own, but we really do not need a Paris, a LaForge, a Dax, and a Kirk in a Star Trek Enterprise story.