Orion's Hounds - Mille feuilles

Hardcover, 382 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2006 by Pocket Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-4165-0950-9

As the USS Titan ventures beyond the outermost reaches of known space, the telepaths in her crew—including Diplomatic Officer Deanna Troi—are overwhelmed by an alien cry of distress, leading the ship to the scene of a shocking act of carnage: a civilization of interstellar "whalers" preying upon and exploiting a familiar species of sentient spaceborn giants. Appalled but reluctant to rush to judgment, Captain William T. Riker and his crew investigate, discovering a cosmic spawning ground in a region of active star formation—the ecosystem for a bewildering array of diverse but similarly vast lifeforms. While attempting to negotiate an end to the victimization of these creatures, Riker's crew inadvertently grants them the means to defeat their hunters' purpose… only to learn that things are not exactly as they seem.

2 editions

Ji FU reviewed Orion's Hounds by Christopher L. Bennett (Star Trek: Titan, #3)

Let's go hunt big space monsters

4 stars

I really liked this book. It centers around the star-jellies that we were first introduced in TNG S1E1 at Farpoint station. If you can I would recommend watching that again before you read this.

I felt they did really good exploring modern day political issuea, like gun control and hunting rights, in a way that TNG failed to do as if all human issues were already solved.

There are still too many characters to keep them all straight even 3 books in, and the premise of just how many giant space monsters this area of space has is a little unbelievable preventing this from getting 5 stars.

Subjects

Riker, William T. (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Life on other planets -- Fiction.