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I loved this book. One of the best SG-1 novels. Disappointed to learn this was the only won that Waggoner wrote. Jonas Quinn shows up for the first time in years. He's been working on a planetary defense system to protect Langara from the System Lords and wants Carters help reviewing their work. Carter is called away with Danniel Jackson and the rest to a planet known as Valhalla. They meet Vikings who after death on Earth have ended up here and each day battle each other and go home to get drunk and start again the next day with their comrades returning from the dead.

Quins story continues separately with their government forcing them to test the system way too early, and that goes about how you expect.

Meanwhile giant Vikings are attacking SG-1 when they find out what's really gong on after 500 years of fighting for Odin. T'ealc and O'Neal head to Langara to get Quinn's new Naquadrium battery to fix the problem on Valhalla, just in time to get trapped.

It's really a great ending that needs to read to believe. I usually only read books I own in between waiting for inter-library loan books to get transferred between libraries, but this one I kept going back to even when I had a book with a due date to finish.

As with every other book in the Fandomonium series there is no need to have read any other ones as it is a self-contained story.

Oh man, I'm already loving this old-timey writing style.

@sifuCJC@bookwyrm.social "but at the end there was a cliff-hanger of a meta-plot. And dammit, I have to try one more..." that's how they get ya ;-)

In case you don't get the reference, "make it so" is one of Captain Picard's catch phrases, along with his regular replicator order "tea, earl grey, hot," from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Stargate has always been pretty self-aware. Reminds me of the first season when they were on Showtime, and they found some kind of ancient alien communication devise and Richard Dean Anderson wonders aloud if it gets Showtime.

This was written over a quarter century ago. I don't know when 'soon' will be but, and this may be my privilege talking, it can't come soon enough.

I really liked the story of the Red King, the 2nd book in the '00s Star Trek: Titan series. Captain Will Riker's ship the U.S.S. Titan attempts to help the Romulans look for a fleet that disappeared near the bloom in space caused by Shinzon's weapon at the end of the movie Nemesis. Only to get sucked in along with the Romulans and a Klingon ship that was potroling the area due to their alliance with the newly indpendent Reamans, to the Small Magellanic Cloud past the edge of our galaxy. There they find a group of pilgrims of an indigeouns religion seeking a god whose wakening from slumbar will destroy their colonists worlds, and them too.

Its the first Star Trek book I recall reading that introduced new (to me) scientific theories including protounivereses and emerging space.

I liked how they brought together the scientific theory, the pilgrims' religious view of an omnipotent sleeper awakening and the Red King's dream of Alice in Wonderland.

I didn't like some of the writing. Namely I disliked the way the treated Counselor Troi as being far more telepathic than on TNG, including knowing peoples motives. I also found I had a hard time keeping track of so many new characters, most of which are also new species. I kept having to flip back to earlier chapters to recall who in the world this was who was talking.

With the good and the bad that gives me 3 stars.