TNG book "Before Dishonor"-be warned!

[Lynx]

Since there are a lot of Janeway fans on this forum, I would like to have your attention for a book called "Before Dishonor":

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Janeway is killed off in that book!

How can a book be published where some author take the liberty of killing off a main character??? Personally I do find the whole concept disgusting and therefore I will not waste any money on that book.

wonder, how can such a novel be published? Aren't there any guidelines for how to treat main characters of Star Trek?

Obviously, it's impossible to have a story published where a ruined character is restored back to normal but it's allowed to kill off a a main character.

There's a debate going about this on the Star Trek Voyager forum on the www.startrek.com site if anyone would like to join in.

[Mel]

I just bought this book. I got it to figure out the time line and how TNG can take over what Janeway started. I didn't read what needed to be highlighted. I am kinda afraid to.

[Janeway Forever]

There was nothing highlighted. He just scrolled down before saying what happens to Janeway.

[Mel]

LOL I am a ditz.

[Lynx]

I didn't know if it was possible to highlight so I just scrolled down to to make it some sort of warning.

I haven't read the book myself. I just saw that there was a discussion at the startrek.com site.

Personally I don't understand why it's allowed to kill off a main character in a book. Otherwise the authors seem exteremely scare to break "canon" in any way.

And why kill off a main character?

And why Janeway?

[captjamieway]

I don't understand how he could kill her off either. If ANYBODY had the right to kill off a Voyager character in a book, I would think it would be Christie Golden... but really I don't think anybody has the right. Why kill somebody off? What purpose does it serve? Usually they kill of a character on a show because the actor wants to leave (or they want the actor to leave)... to do so in a book seems pointless... all it does is piss people off.

A friend & I were discussing this book a couple of weeks ago & agreed that we didn't want to read it. I'm hoping that Peter doesn't have plans to leave her dead... and that this is just one step in a bigger picture (they did bring back Spock, after all). And that's when I'll read this book, when I know there's a happy ending.

[Mel]

They shouldnt be able to. That is going to mess up the time line with Endgame now. They cant kill her after everything that happened because her older self need to go back and get them home.

"She already did that" some might say...

Well yes she did do that already and now her younger self and crew is home. But if you kill her off then that effects space time, events and people will shift locations and all hell will break loose. App they havent done their research.

I would really like to know how this book was published....

[Mel]

HAHA I have stopped reading the book and I dont know if ill ever pick it up again...

[lauren05]

Who wrote it? That is insane!

[lauren05]

Nevermind..I just checked. I canNOT believe Peter David did that. Grr. And I love love his TNG novels. Q-in-Law is my favorite ST book ever. That just seems so...mean. Unless he is planning a sequel in which this huge mistake/bad move is reversed...I don't think I'll be reading any more of his new stuff.
Somone should now write a book and kill off Q, I think. He has written several books centering around Q, so I think that would be a nice how do you do. If I was a vengeful person I'd write a Q-killing book myself lol j/k.
But seriously, who does that? Meanie

[Lynx]

Kill off Q?

No! He's one of the best characters!

[lauren05]

Oh, I know. I was just kidding/pissed at Peter David.
Q is pretty awesome.

[Mel]

I think that I am going to burn the book. HAHA I still havent picked it up.

[elorie]

Hi, my name is Elorie and I am new here.

I thought you all might be interested in the review for Before Dishonor, that appeared in the Jan/Feb 2008 Issure of Star Trek magazine. (Janeway is on the cover with Kirk and Picard and she is the center fold).

The aftermath of Captain Picard’s renewed battle with an evolved, more dangerous Borg, prove in fact to be a prelude to the near-destruction of the Earth and, without saying too much, a major upset for all Star Trek: Voyager fans.

It’s rare for a Star Trek novel to actually feature an event that is of major import to the continuity, signaling, perhaps, that the 24th Century series have indeed fully become the preserve of written fiction. It’s a shame such a momentous event comes in a book that proves to disappointing on several counts.

While the Borg have indeed been well and truly reinvented and re-established as a deadly foe, with new capabilities (albeit only, I suspect, for this novel), Before Dishonor’s impact is damaged by David’s insistence on deflating every sinister turn with a throwaway gag, a contrary interpretation of the new characters introduced in Resistance, a nonsensical, illogical mutiny subplot and too many guest characters that include Spock and a Q.

Before Dishonor is a marketing department’s dream, but it is a triumph of style over substance and the book’s finale will simply enrage many fans without good reason.

John Freeman

[lauren05]

Hear, Hear (or is it Here, Here?)
Hrm. Anyway, thanks for posting that Elorie. I agree with the review...why do it?
I mean, honestly, what's the point. Peter David is a fantastic writer. Surely he could have come up with something even more entertaining that wouldn't piss people off like this.
I feel bad for Christie Golden. She wrote the Endgame and post-Endgame series, as well as the Spirit Walk books. What if she wants to write another Voyager book? Is she supposed to just change whatever plot she had in mind to account for Janeway's death?
That was a major major writer faux pas he committed.

I would have been quite happy with another Q-centric TNG book from him, to be honest.