The Final Fury: Invasion! #4

by Dafydd ab Hugh

Book Overview

For ages they have sought to claim our worlds. Now, at last, we take the battle to them. . . . Far from the Federation's desperate war against the invading Furies, the crew of the "U.S.S. Voyager" TM... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671541811
• ISBN13: 9780671541811
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Voyager Furies #4

This was decent, but I still had a hard time picturing the Furies in my imagination I did think it was cool B'Elanna got a huge storyline. I had a hard time focusing on this to finish it Overall, out of the 4 INVASION series books, imo TNG is the best This was one of my free books and arrived still factory shrinkwrapped so thats cool af lolbvs

STV #9 Invasion! The Final Fury - A great conclusion!

"The Final Fury" serves wonderfully as the conclusion to this first grand four book crossover series! From his very first Star Trek novel, Deep Space Nine's #5 "Fallen Heroes," Dafydd ab Hugh has proven that he can write compelling Star Trek stories and "The Final Fury" serves beautifully in furthering that tradition.As with his other stories, I found "The Final Fury" to be a highly compelling and intriguing tale based on a sound premise with excellent plot setup and execution and the pacing of the novel is extremely fast making for a very quick and satisfying read!The cover art for this novel is nothing extraordinary, which, sadly enough is more the standard for the time in which this novel was published.The premise:While the battle rages on in the Alpha quadrant between its inhabitants and the invading Furies, the USS Voyager and her gallant crew are steadily making their way home when they receive a distress call from a Starfleet vessel, something of which they thought they'd never hear again. They soon discover the source of the distress call and massive Fury invasion fleet on a constructed planetoid containing twenty seven billion Furies. As the novel progresses, Captain Janeway finds herself in one heck of a quandary as she comes upon the realization that in order to save the Alpha quadrant, she must destroy the twenty seven billion Furies who are bent on invading the Alpha quadrant and a possible way for her ship to make it home quicker, if there is to be a home to return to...What follows from there is nothing less than a impressive and decidedly compelling Star Trek Voyager novel and a brilliant finale to Star Trek fiction's first crossover series. I highly recommend not only this novel but the entire "Invasion!" series, whether you procure the individual books or the "Invasion!" Omnibus. {ssintrepid}

Will Janeway be the biggest mass murderer of all time?

The final volume of the Invasion series is a pleasant surprise and makes for a fitting conclusion to the self-proclaimed "ultimate Star Trek saga." In Book One, Jim Kirk stops the advance guard of the Furies while Jean-Luc Picard prevents the next attempt at invading the Alpha Quadrant. Book Three, the best of the series and one of the best Star Trek novels I have ever read, has Benjamin Sisko and his crew dealing with the creatures that cast out the Furies from the universe five thousand years earlier. With Book Four we come to Kathryn (I think that spelling was used the most) Janeway discovering the next threat from the Furies. What makes "The Final Fury" so fascinating is that Dafydd ab Hugh provides not only some interesting Star Trek science problems but also give Janeway the biggest moral dilemma in Star Trek history. There are 27 billion Furies living on a planet-like starship, having prepared for centuries to reconquer the Alpha Quadrant. They are going to make their sun go nova, harness the energy, and use it to transport themselves to the heart of the Federation when they will use their fear weapon to re-enslave everyone everywhere. While Voyager's crew grapples with the technical question of how to stop this from happening, Janeway has to deal with the responsibility that if they succeed they will kill every being on the planet. The trite philosophical chestnut, "If you could go back in time and kill Hitler as a baby, would you do it?" is transformed into a very real question for Janeway. The debate among the characters is very interesting, and quite surprising in several regards. The main sub-plot has to do with B'Elanna Torres having a severe crisis of confidence. Although you have to remember this is early on in the Voyager storyline (Book 9), this is a bit contrived, but you have to respect the effort to develop the character a bit more in terms of being Human/Klingon, which the series failed to do until the last couple of seasons. Of course, the technical aspects of the storyline will ultimately depend on her. I also liked the way a minor but pivotal character from an earlier Invasion series makes surprise reappearance. Overall, this is a more than adequate payoff for the Invasion series, which is pretty impressive because usually the endings are never quite up to the set up, a complaint I have been making ever since I first saw "Apocalypse Now." This volume ends with a series of words from the authors that are fairly interesting and provide more insights into what they were up to with each of their novels than you usually find in Star Trek books. Of course, if you have gotten this far you have already made up your mind on whether the entire series was worthwhile, but for me three out of four sure ain't bad.

a voyager book with hilarious moments! (YES!)

Yes, this is definite one of the best Voyager books up untill now. It has adventure, sharp tension, drama, and a society to explore. But on top of that it has humor. I laughed out loud when Neelix, Tuvok and Janeway conferred as to how to escape from the dungeons of the Furies; and when the doctor .... No I won't tell you. Read it. It's worth your money.

Great books in a series for a new Star Trekkie to read

I really did enjoy this lastest Star Trek Voyager book in the ST:INVASION series. I had humor, Neelix was a little annoy, but to think that we keeps an extra combadge and phaser in his boot(I always wondered why his waddled like a duck). and the Doctor was hilarious! "Ah, I see you are about to engage in some dangerously theatrical maneuvers in the middle of a supernova. Do you, by any chance, expect any casualities?" p252 I would suggest anyone to read this book for a good laugh...

A good read for any Voyager fan.

This is part of a well-written series, and I think that I liked this one the best. The Furies are a great set of villains that would be good to see on the TV show. Mr. Ab Hugh has a great sense of humor, what with Neelix saying, "Oh, no you don't! You are NOT going to get me to stick my fingers in a light socket just to see what happens!" I also never would've thought to use a commbadge like the Captain does in this one (you have to read it, I won't tell you what happens). Also, a good "Trek" novel to me is one that makes me think, as this one did. Mostly it was the us-or-them principle: either save millions of lives by stopping the Furies and winding up killing them all, or leave them alone and let millions die when the Furies arrive in the Alpha Quad. Of course, I would root for the "us", but it still made me think. I agree with Dmdjaqy, and disagree with Kamala222 (sorry, but I enjoyed this one, Kamala). Read it for yourself and you be the judge.