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Title: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine: Fallen Heroes (Star Trek Audio - Deep Space Nine) by Dafydd Ab Hugh, Rene Auberjonois ISBN: 0-671-85332-5 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Trade Division) Pub. Date: 02 May, 1994 Format: Audio Cassette

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Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (35 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: DS9 #5 Fallen Heroes - An excellent novel!
Comment: "Fallen Heroes" is quite often praised as the best "pre relaunch" Star Trek Deep Space Nine novel, and it quite well deserves that reputation. This particular novel even rated a video game being designed and named after it.

As with the departure from the norm that Star Trek Deep Space Nine is, so is this novel that is so much more different than any other novel written in any of the series. In one of the darkest and bloodiest "hours" of Star Trek, the author explores the idea of almost every main character in the series, being brutally murdered and how heroically they "met their maker," yet the author, Dafydd ab Hugh, deftly handles closing up this novel in which there is no change whatsoever to the series.

"Fallen Heroes" is author Dafydd ab Hugh's first Star Trek novel and I found his writing style to be quite fluidic and the pacing of the novel to be non stop, which in the light of other Star Trek novels, is a great skill to possess. The cover art for this novel is standard fare for the time and doesn't lend much to the story.

The premise:

Set sometime early during the second season of the series, "Fallen Heroes" tells the tale of alien warriors coming to the station and demanding the return of an imprisoned comrade, someone of which nobody on the station knows anything about. Being set so early in the series, prior to the fourth season in which Deep Space Nine's defense were seriously "beefed" up, the aliens easily invade the station and Commander Sisko and crew have a losing battle to fight. Meanwhile, an odd device from the Gamma Quadrant has shifted Odo and Quark to three days in the future on the station. They arrive there and nobody is left alive, leaving them the task of finding a way back to the time they left and saving the station.

What follows from there, as stated above, is one of the most intriguing and fast paced early Star Trek Deep Space Nine novels set prior to the relaunch series. I highly recommend this novel to any and all fans of the series as you will most certainly not be disappointed! {ssintrepid}

Rating: 5
Summary: "This issue, everybody dies!!!"
Comment: As in the comic books that I used to read, that periodically used those words as a teaser on the cover, this story does not, in fact, mean exactly what it says. But like in those stories, it comes close enough that one can't really accuse the teaser of lying, either.

As with the character in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" who claims to have been turned into a newt, "It got better."

It was obvious early on where this story was going, and basically, what was going to happen. Clearly, we had an author with an interesting thought: how heroically would our heroes face death? And he found a way to explore that question without making any irrevocable changes; not an easy thing to do. I've never been a fan of stories in which nothing that happens matters, because it's all undone eventually. But in this case, the plot device was handled well enough that I have to accept it; a book this well-written has to be rated at five stars, regardless of whether I approve of the concept. The plot device was actually well enough thought out to be made plausible, the characterizations were spot-on, and the action was intense.

Not for the faint of heart, but a superb story for those who read Star Trek for the action.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: This book is very good basically the plot is something like "Quark and Odo get stuck in a time bubble and have to solve a murder mystery"

There is also a lot of plian old fashion violence in this story, something rarely seen in star trek books.

My impression-This is the best DS9 book and one of the best star trek books(of any spin off). ...