Section 31: Control: Star Trek
Autor David Macken Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 apr 2017
Poziționând acest volum în contextul vastei opere a lui David Mack, observăm o continuitate a temelor sale predilecte: dilemele etice imposibile și prețul brutal al supraviețuirii politice. După succesul răsunător al trilogiei Star Trek: Destiny și explorarea zonelor gri în Collateral Damage, Mack revine la una dintre cele mai fascinante și controversate construcții din universul Star Trek: Secțiunea 31. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autorul transformă această organizație umbră dintr-un simplu antagonist într-o forță sistemică aproape imposibil de eradicat.
Sistemul tehnologic și informatic al Secțiunii 31 este punctul central al acestui roman. Nu vorbim doar despre spionaj clasic, ci despre o infrastructură de supraveghere și manipulare care funcționează de secole sub radarul Federației. Această „entitate” amorală nu răspunde în fața nimănui, iar unicitatea sa constă în capacitatea de a justifica orice atrocitate prin dogma protejării utopiei pe care o servește. Premisa este captivantă: Doctorul Julian Bashir descoperă un secret vechi de două secole care ar putea, în sfârșit, să expună această celulă rogue. Totuși, ritmul narațiunii devine alert atunci când realizăm că efortul de a curăța Federația de corupție ar putea fi scânteia care îi provoacă distrugerea totală.
Stilul are ceva din proza lui Dayton Ward, vizibil în Available Light, fără să fie o imitație — acolo unde Ward se concentrează pe consecințele birocratice și politice ale expunerii Secțiunii 31, Mack preferă o abordare viscerală, unde miza este personală și „sângeroasă”. Este o explorare matură a sacrificiului, care demonstrează că, în viziunea lui Mack, pacea nu este niciodată gratuită.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1501151703
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 105 x 171 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte fanilor Deep Space Nine și cititorilor pasionați de thrillere politice desfășurate în spațiu. Veți câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă asupra dualității dintre idealurile utopice ale Federației și pragmatismul crud al Secțiunii 31. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum un personaj idealist precum Julian Bashir este forțat să navigheze într-o lume a umbrelor unde victoria are un preț personal devastator.
Despre autor
David Mack este un autor de succes, prezent constant în topurile New York Times, cunoscut pentru contribuțiile sale majore la universul Star Trek. Cu peste 25 de romane publicate, Mack s-a impus prin capacitatea de a scrie proză densă și încărcată de tensiune, fiind arhitectul unor serii aclamate precum „Vanguard” și „Destiny”. Experiența sa diversă, de la scenarii de televiziune pentru „Deep Space Nine” până la benzi desenate și jocuri pe calculator, îi conferă un stil narativ dinamic și o înțelegere profundă a continuității universului Star Trek, elemente care strălucesc în fiecare pagină a romanului de față.
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Stunned, bleeding, and falling like a stone, Julian Bashir was half-conscious when he and Sarina Douglas struck the ring-shaped metal platform. She landed on her back with a brutal thud. He crashed down on his right side and heard his ulna break. The fractured bone tore through flesh and fabric, flooding his arm with pain.
He struggled to breathe. His nose was broken, and his lips were swollen and split. He rolled onto his back to get the weight off his broken arm. Above him loomed the auxiliary control center of Memory Alpha’s main computer tower. Beyond the platform, the Federation archive’s underground city of core towers, each over two hundred meters tall and fifty meters in diameter, stretched away in concentric rings and vanished into the far unlit unknown.
All Bashir wanted to do was succumb to fatigue. Defensive wounds on his forearms stung with fresh cuts, and the sickening pain blooming deep within his torso told him he was bleeding inside. He doubted he could stand, much less force himself to endure a one-handed climb up the ladder to the facility’s main console.
Turning his head to look at his left hand was agony, but it had to be done. He opened his fist to see the data chip he had fought so hard to protect. It was intact, which was more than he could say for his palm. The chip’s corners had cut into his flesh because he had clutched it with such ferocity. He tucked the precious chip into one of his pressure suit’s chest pockets.
I didn’t come this far to quit here, he told himself.
Trying to sit up made his head swim. He rolled onto his left side and fought to push himself away from the metal grating. Get up. Get up!
His pulse thundered in his temples and made his skull feel as if it were being broken open from within. Probably a concussion, he realized. His suspicion was confirmed by a nascent urge to vomit. No time for that now. Have to keep moving.
Raised edges on the steel deck’s diamond-shaped grating bit into his knees and palm as he crawled to the ladder. He locked his one good hand on a rung and looked back at Sarina. She lay still, twisted and pallid. There was no time to assess her injuries; only minutes remained for Bashir to finish the mission that had brought him here—his first and perhaps last chance to strike the deathblow that would end the vile cabal he knew as Section 31.
He knew he should climb, but his heart demanded he go back to help Sarina. In spite of the ticking clock, he couldn’t forget he loved her. How much he would always love her.
Bashir let go of the ladder and looked back, but his conscience halted him. If I go to her now . . . how many more will die because I was selfish? This mission was bigger than her life, or his. Too much was at stake.
With his one good hand, he climbed the ladder. His broken right arm dangled, useless and vulnerable. Stabbing sensations filled his gut as he pulled himself upward. It took all his will to keep his grip on the rungs and continue his ascent; his body was desperate to give in, surrender to gravity, and plunge into the shadowy abyss between the core towers.
By the time he reached the apex of the ladder and clawed his way onto the control center’s upper level, he was delirious with exhaustion. He spent a moment on his knees, fighting to catch his breath. Ahead of him, at the end of a twenty-meter catwalk, was the auxiliary control panel of the main core. Bathed in icy blue light, it beckoned him. A glance at his wrist chrono confirmed he had barely two minutes to reach the console and finish this war.
He reached up and seized the catwalk’s railing. Every muscle in his body burned in protest as he pulled himself to his feet. Holding the railing to steady himself, he plodded forward. Each step shook drops of blood from the broken bones of his right arm.
The closer he got to the main console, the softer his vision became. He hoped to remain conscious long enough to complete his task, one staggering in its simplicity: all he had to do was insert the data chip into the secure input node on the console. The embedded software on the chip would do the rest.
If only we could have uploaded this remotely, instead of having to carry it into the most heavily guarded data archive in the galaxy—
The dull pressure of a punch was followed by a knifing pain between Bashir’s shoulder blades—ice-cold at first, then white-hot. He couldn’t see the dagger in his back, but he knew for a fact it was there.
Bashir tried to soldier on, only to find he could no longer feel his legs. They buckled under him as if they were made of rubber. He used his left arm to break his fall, but his bearded chin slammed onto the catwalk’s steel plates.
So close . . . The console was just a couple of meters away. Bashir fought to pull himself forward, his bruised and slashed left arm laboring to drag his entire body weight the length of two long strides that suddenly might as well be two light-years.
Behind him, halting steps echoed on the catwalk.
At the base of the console Bashir fished the data chip from his pocket. Clutching it, he extended his blood-caked hand toward the console’s secure input terminal only to find it stubbornly out of reach. To finish his mission, he needed to stand one last time.
The side of his hand found the console’s edge, but he couldn’t pull himself to his feet. He lost his grip and fell to the deck with his back to the console, facing his slowly approaching enemy, the agent of his imminent destruction.
In that moment Bashir realized two terrible truths.
His mission had failed, and he was about to die.