Rise of the Federation: Patterns of Interference

Christopher L. Bennett

Aug 2017 · Simon and Schuster

About this eBook

The saga of the Star Trek: Enterprise TV series continues with this thrilling original novel!

The time has come to act. Following the destructive consequences of the Ware crisis, Admiral Jonathan Archer and Section 31 agent Trip Tucker both attempt to change their institutions to prevent further such tragedies. Archer pushes for a Starfleet directive of non-interference, but he faces opposition from allies within the fleet and unwelcome support from adversaries who wish to drive the Federation into complete isolationism. Meanwhile, Tucker plays a dangerous game against the corrupt leaders of Section 31, hoping to bring down their conspiracy once and for all. But is he willing to jeopardize Archer’s efforts—and perhaps the fate of an entire world—in order to win?

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Ratings and reviews

kept waiting for some awesome revitalization of the telepathic link during duress, like being tortured. that dead ended. Then throwing V'Las in last minute? Yet another dead end. Mayweather and Hoshi dropped off the face of the earth by the end. Is there another book coming in the series? At least try to bridge how the Romulan War series ended by explaining Tucker and T'Pol reuniting.

Christopher Bennett's Enterprise relaunch novels have always been kind of weak... not as weak as his predecessor's, but scattered and unwilling to focus on one topic for too long. The "Trip Tucker: Secret Agent" thing was an incredibly stupid idea to begin with, so seeing it finally come to an end helps the book immensely. Unfortunately, the relaunch keeps latching onto antagonists and holding onto them well past the point of reason... it's now V'Las, a one-time antagonist from the final season of the TV series, who is going to be next in line to be whittled down to a bland Flanderized nothing.

Looks like Tom Paris has a little Malcolm Reed in him. In all seriousness why does this series insist that it needs cameos from every era to survive? I think the stories stand on there own, but we really do not need a Paris, a LaForge, a Dax, and a Kirk in a Star Trek Enterprise story.

About the author

Christopher L. Bennett is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, with bachelor’s degrees in physics and history from the University of Cincinnati. He has written such critically acclaimed Star Trek novels as Ex Machina, The Buried Age, the Titan novels Orion’s Hounds and Over a Torrent Sea, the two Department of Temporal Investigations novels Watching the Clock and Forgotten History, and the Enterprise novels Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures, Tower of Babel, Uncertain Logic, and Live By the Code, as well as shorter works including stories in the anniversary anthologies Constellations, The Sky’s the Limit, Prophecy and Change, and Distant Shores. Beyond Star Trek, he has penned the novels X Men: Watchers on the Walls and Spider Man: Drowned in Thunder. His original work includes the hard science fiction superhero novel Only Superhuman, as well as several novelettes in Analog and other science fiction magazines.