Voyager is probably my favourite Star Trek, so this collection of short stories was something I was looking forward to reading. For the most part, the stories here were enjoyable, and I liked that they covered a wide range of characters. I think my favourite was "Talent Night" by Jeffrey Lang, which was a fun comic outing and reminds me, once again, that performance is a terrible thing for those of us with irredeemable stage fright. Close runner-up was "Eighteen Minutes" by Terri Osborne, which is a diary story covering the time that the Doctor spent stranded on an inhabited planet in "Blink of an Eye." It's the story with the most emotional resonance here, and I appreciated that.

I was less interested in the framing story, which seemed frankly unnecessary, and I have to admit that I didn't much care for the two (two! why did we need two?!) stories about how the Equinox survivors had sad, sad difficulties fitting in with the rest of the crew, and how their atonement Taught Lessons to major characters. Call me unforgiving, but I don't give a shit about genocidal murderers and their atonement, and any time I come across narratives like these it really irritates me how the authors skim over the sheer unremitting awfulness of what these characters did in favour of giving them a more sympathetic presentation. I get that in a more enlightened time criminals can't just be spaced, and I don't support capital punishment anyway, but I'd rather see this topic explored, if it has to be, with considerably more gumption than these rather obvious attempts exhibit.