This second book in Peter David's post-Excalibur trilogy was even worse than the first. I understand that David is trying to show us the personal lives of these characters as they deal with the loss of their ship and their captain, but was it so necessary to stoop to the level of a Harlequin romance? This entire book, once you removed the un-necessary Danielle Steel plots, could have comprised of four, maybe five, chapters of real material. The whole Selar/Burgoyne issue bordered on the absurd. The only redeeming quality of that plot was the introduction of Selar "interesting" brother and the appearance of the classic Trek character. The Robin/Morgan plotline was useless until the last chapter and the classic Trek character that appears in their story is badly written and poorly used. I look forward to finishing this trilogy. Maybe then, we can return to some real writing.