To Defy Fate
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Description
2401: Just weeks after defeating a devastating joint attack by rogue Changelings and remnants of the Borg Collective, Starfleet and the Federation face a long period of recovery that requires replacing lost personnel and ships. While touring the U.S.S. Titan-A, which is just beginning an extensive repair-and-refit process that will take nearly a year to complete, newly promoted Captain Seven of Nine and her first officer, Commander Raffi Musiker, experience a bizarre temporal event which renders them both unconscious and sends Seven into a deep coma.
Reviewed on 23rd May 2026
In this new Star Trek Picard novel, set somewhere between the many epilogues to the series, we get to visit Seven, Raffi, Crusher, Guinan, and Picard and a host of other familiar characters as they're drawn into a mysterious plot to change time.
It's a fun trip around the Next Gen era as the time travel plot device gets used to revisit some big moments from the canon and see them from new perspectives, all while taking part in a thiller-style investigation, and learn more about some of the occasional guest aliens.
It feels nicely episodic, which fits the feel of Picard season 3 - small chunks that make up a big story - and that means it moves at a decent pace throughout as we flow through each.
I did feel like the climax suffered a little though - perhaps my reading pace picked up toward the end - and this felt a little bit flat to me.
