In all the recent Borg hoopla, Voyager was out of the mix.  The last book dealing with Voyager post return, B’Elanna went to the Klingon world Boreth to find her mother.  If you remember, back in Delta quadrant the crew came across a group of Klingons who believed that Miral (who hadn’t been born year) was the kuvah’magh or the Klingon savior.  While, on Boreth, B’Elanna studied ancient scrolls and determined that Miral was in fact the kuvah’magh.  She was also anonymously warned that she and the baby were in danger.  The Borg crisis comes up soon after.

    So this book starts right after Janeway has been declared dead.  We discover what becomes of the crew.  First discover that Chakotay and Janeway were planning to solidify their relationship and were supposed to meet 3 weeks after her death.  From there Chakotay goes on a downward spiral.  Second we discover Seven and the Doctor are really not happy with having joined the think tank.  Seven is having trouble readjusting no having her identity as Annika Hansen forced on her.  Harry ends his relationship with Libby. 

    The bulk of the book deals with Project Full Circle and  Tom/B’Elanna/Miral Paris.  Captain Afsarah Eden has been assigned to review Voyager’s log’s from the Delta quadrant.  Her commanding officer Admiral Willem  is using her research to spearhead sending a small fleet of ships equipped with slipstream drives back to the Delta quadrant to determine if the Caeliar are truly gone.  His biggest obstacle is Janeway, because he wants to send Voyager’s crew back.  Since there is slipstream technology the journey will take only weeks ensuring that no one will be stranded.  As part of this armada, Starfleet is also sending a ship full of holographic medical personal to provide starbase like medical facilities. 

    Back with the Paris’, B’Elanna doesn’t tell Tom that Miral was in danger.  She wasn’t sure who was monitoring the communication systems.  But her hand is forced when Miral is kidnapped.  Voyager ends up coming to Boreth and collects B’Elanna, Emperor Kahless, and Lt. Logt to track the child down.  We find out that there are two groups vying over the kuvah’magh.  One which is a group of women who are dedicated to protecting her.  The other group the Warriors of Grethor are determined to destroy Miral.  Kahless is determined to protect Miral. 

    Miral’s destiny becomes a little more clear during this book.  As it turns out, the Klingons are evolving.  There have been at least three Klingon children who have been born with supposed deformities; these children are more fierce than the typical Klingon and they have more pronounced features.  An evaluation of the genome reveals that that more an more Klingon will be born with this newer genome.  Within 100 years, the Klingon species as it is known now will no longer exist.  The only problem is that the changes in the genome really appear to be more of a de-evolution. 

    This is where the group protecting Miral comes in.  Over millenia, they have kept track of the Klingon noble bloodlines which naturally lends itself to study of genetics.  This group knows about the changes in the Klingon genome.  Some how Miral’s 1/4 Klingon 3/4 human DNA will save the Klingon people some how. 

    Kahless, realizing that Miral is in danger, devises a plan to keep the child safe.  Miral must appear to die.  Kahless, B’Elanna, and Tom set the wheels for their disappearance in motion.  It takes a couple of years for everything to come to fruition. 

    At the end of the book, Voyager returns (with the armada) to the Delta quadrant under Eden, Chakotay having been declared unfit due to his grief.  Tom plans to covertly meet his wife and daughter.  Chakotay decides to help Seven find the Caeliar because she is unable to process the changes the Caeliar made in her.  Specifically the voice she keeps hearing. 

    I had been wondering what happened to the Voyager crew.  This was not the most entertaining Voyager book I read, but it had a lot of ground to cover.  this book is clearly setting the ground for whatever is coming later.  So I can be patient.

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