I really felt this was a book of two halves. The first half just didn't keep my interest. Lots of set-up of characters, new ones we haven't met and some new ones just being introduced now. The middle we get a meeting of the Typhon Pact presidents and those of the Khitomer accords, including the newly added Cardassians and Ferengi. Only then does it start to get adventurous and good like a Star Trek Novel should.

The Enterprise, still captained by Jean-Luc now married to Beverly Crusher, who is only mentioned & not seen, goes to the Gamma Quadrent with a Romulan Warbird to explore space together as a sign of peace. U.S.S. Robinson, now captained by Ben Sisko, is doing routine star mapping in the Quadrent including a diplomatic rendezvous with the Vahni Vahltupal, who I personally had been wondering about whatever happened to them just days before I happened to read that part. All while back on DS9 Ro and her crew investigate some strange feelings, hunches, readings, etc. which may be all made up, or may be a terrorist plot to destroy the station by the Andorians, or maybe someone else making it look like the Andorians.

David George is one of the best Star Trek authors eloquently putting together scene by scene unrelated characters just like an episode with several plots. If I know George, I suspect the setup he did will eventually be revealed as non-superfioulous I'm not sure how it could have been made exciting.