It’s been a busy week, but I finally got a chance to read Defiant. There’s a lot crammed into the book, and most of it is fun.
• Personally I’m tired of Sisko and Worf’s bickering at this point. Their fallout seemed pretty flimsy when it happened, and here Worf’s dragging up a bunch of old problems from their time together on DS9 did not work for me.
• Similarly Tom and B’Elanna’s bickering didn’t really move the needle.
• I did like Sela, Doctor Crusher, and the Defiant’s unnamed Orion drug dealer/medic rushing to save Martok that’s good stuff.
• The highlight of the issue is definitely the Data Lore interactions. I especially liked their conversation as they run through the streets of Qo’noS incapacitating Red Path followers without even pausing. Data’s always had the potential to be so much scarier than he is, and it worked really well here.