(note, I read it a while back so some details may be off)
There is a great deal of potential here. We see Picard react to 7 of 9 and face his prejudice to the Borg. The battles are epic and we see a huge cultural clash as both universes react to this massive change in the status qou.
However this is off set by the canon defilement, poor characterization, and killing off characters in ways that seem mean spirited. All three can be summed up in one word: Data. Data is turned to the dark side (deleting his ethical program or not, it's quite a stretch). Data unceremoniously kills Troi. And most damning of all, Data calls 7 of 9 a "Borg bitch". Profanity is fine, in this case it's completely out of tone with both the Star Trek and Star Wars universes. I may be wrong, but I can't recall hearing the word "bitch" in any works of either franchise. Not only that, but the shear hatred that Data, of people, says it feels just wrong.
Also Endor and the Ewoks were destroyed (along with DS 9, though it somehow gets better in book 2), but at least he stopped short of having Jar Jar and Neelix put in an Agony Booth by Wedge Antilles, who has been driven insane by PTSD and constantly yells "Fuck!"
Book 1 and beginning of Book 2: Interesting Ideas offset by Canon Defilement
Chuck is a better reviewer than he is a writer.
(note, I read it a while back so some details may be off)
There is a great deal of potential here. We see Picard react to 7 of 9 and face his prejudice to the Borg. The battles are epic and we see a huge cultural clash as both universes react to this massive change in the status qou.
However this is off set by the canon defilement, poor characterization, and killing off characters in ways that seem mean spirited. All three can be summed up in one word: Data. Data is turned to the dark side (deleting his ethical program or not, it's quite a stretch). Data unceremoniously kills Troi. And most damning of all, Data calls 7 of 9 a "Borg bitch". Profanity is fine, in this case it's completely out of tone with both the Star Trek and Star Wars universes. I may be wrong, but I can't recall hearing the word "bitch" in any works of either franchise. Not only that, but the shear hatred that Data, of people, says it feels just wrong.
Also Endor and the Ewoks were destroyed (along with DS 9, though it somehow gets better in book 2), but at least he stopped short of having Jar Jar and Neelix put in an Agony Booth by Wedge Antilles, who has been driven insane by PTSD and constantly yells "Fuck!"