Star Trek: Discovery: Dead Endless

By: Dave Galanter

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

A novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!

The U.S.S. Discovery’s specialty is using its spore-based hub drive to jump great distances faster than any warp-faring vessel in Starfleet. To do this, Lieutenant Paul Stamets navigates the ship through the recently revealed mycelial network, a subspace domain Discovery can briefly transit but in which it cannot remain. After responding to a startling distress call originating from within the network, the Discovery crew find themselves trapped in an inescapable realm where they will surely perish unless their missing mycelial fuel is found or restored. Is the seemingly human man found alone and alive inside the network the Starfleet officer he claims to be, or an impostor created by alien intruders who hope to extract themselves from the mycelial plane at the expense of all lives aboard Discovery?

A detailed insight into the Mycellial network!

A very good and different kind of novel, I won't say much because it will be spoiling the plot point, but this novel explores the part in the series where Hugh Culber "dies", and this explains how he got revived and got in contact again with Paul Stammets.

The novel revolves about them and a new being, a tardigrade called "Ephraim", who acts as the go-between in the physical and the mycellial network. The Discovery crew has been stranded on the mycellial network and they must find a solution to go back to the real space before the ship slowly disintegrates by the outside forces, but they are also threatened by an invasion of aliens.

I can't say much due to the heavy spoiler-filled plot, but this is a very good exploration of some of the unusual characters in the series.

Recommended!

Jawdropping story

The narrators are outstanding here and review available at www.goodreads.com warning my review is spoiler alert.

Cosmic Horror Trek

Not what I was expecting but the assertion of the universe's apathy to our state of both understanding as well as quality of life mixed in with a Star trek storyline that I love like Discovery... just perfect.

Not Star Trek Material

The story was less about the Discovery's Quantum theory and multi-universe travel than a personal relationship.

Love story

I understand the need of the love story for this book...I don’t listen or watch Star Trek for relationships but the adventure it provides. I found it tediously annoying.