so the story is about the titan who run into a sentient aliens who are all machines, I find this an interesting concept of perhaps running into an all robotic society, however relations for the titan crew and these robots are not always smooth with the use of prejudice on the aliens part looking down on wet minds, and with some actions from the aliens that offend the titan crew that appear logical to the robots but piss off riker ( and thats one man with a beard you dont really want to piss off ).
Anyway the story is these robots are being scared off by this force called the Null who are from another dimension, well im not going to really spoil the rest of the story here but as a result of this threat the two sides have to put there differences behind them and to perhaps work together, the authrour uses riker and trois memories of data often to give some kind of ground to the story and allow us the reader to see what sort of dilemmas about what we constitute life to go on through his mind.
however there are some criticisms of this story, I found that in some places the story dragged, and often was over whelmed a bit by the sheer level of technobabble, perhaps this could have been remedied by making the book about 50 pages lighter, the robots although an intresting concept did very little to really engage me except one or two exceptions.
Overall I would have to say that the titan series is not the most favourite of all star trek books for me, but i am keeping reading them so i can get the most out of the up and coming typhon pact series of which i believe one of the books does involve the Titan, this book is distinctly average in my opinion so 5/10
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