Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda: Waystation
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Publisher Description
The Andromeda Ascendant is the last surviving ship of the long-dead Systems Commonwealth interstellar empire. It's captain, Dylan Hunt, with the crew of the Eureka Maru, has been trying to contact outlying planets who might rejoin the revived Commonwealth. But one such planet responds to the Andromeda's friendly advances with an all-out attack that cripples the Andromeda. Fleeing on the limited power that the ship can muster, Hunt, Beka Valentine and the rest of the crew seek a resupply depot, but none is near enough for them to reach before repairs, except for an abandoned station, uninhabited since the collapse of the empire.
When Hunt, systems analyst Seamus Harper, and Andromeda's AI Rommie get into the station, they find it's not quite uninhabited. Strange presences assail them. Something very dark, evil, and entirely unknown. And while they try to get what they need without being killed by whatever is lurking on the station, something is attacking the Andromeda itself. There's plenty of action and suspense before this routine resupply mission can be finished . . . if it can be finished.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in a complicated universe full of difficult challenges, screenwriter McDonald's franchise tie-in with the popular TV show is sure to please its target audience. Long after the Systems Commonwealth was destroyed, the captain of its one surviving starship, the Andromeda Ascendant, has assembled a motley crew and is trying to rebuild a benevolent civilization. As Star Trek demonstrates, Roddenberry understood the recipe for TV series storytelling: put some quirky characters in a container, then stir once a week and watch what happens. Though everyone in the cast gets time for distinctive shtick, this novel concentrates on two featured performers. One of the strangest crew members is Trance Gemini, a cute but not-quite-human being who jaunts back and forth through time as she tries to keep her comrades from making disastrous errors; this becomes quite confusing when multiple versions of Trance from different time lines are scurrying through the ship. Stalwart Captain Dylan Hunt, meanwhile, has to temper his idealism as he encounters new puzzles and reconsiders some of the old Commonwealth's immoral behavior. The author weaves the plot threads together ingeniously, but even though new readers can figure out what's going on, they may wonder why these people and their problems are worth caring about. FYI: McDonald is the author of the novel The Janus Syndrome (1981).
