Bless the Beasts

This book starts out like many other Voyager books. They need materials to repair the ship. Harry Kim finds just what they need on a planet called Sardalia. The inhabitants seem friendly but something seems a little off about them. While on shore leave Harry Kim and Tom Paris decide to go Harvesting with a woman they just met. They find out some truths while on this adventure. The people on the ship are actually killing huge fish called Darra in huge numbers. It's more like a slaughter than anything. Kim and Paris soon learn the Sardalians suffer from a hereditary illness. They call it the gray plague. The Darra's blood forces the disease into remission for a time. Will the slaughter of the Darra ever be stopped? Will a cure be found?

Okay once again into the eye of hurricane I go by liking and enjoying a book that has been panned by so many readers.Yes, I did really enjoy reading this book, it had a really good and interesting plot and I thought the Voyager characters pretty much matched up with those from the TV series which was a real bonus for me.The plot is as follows: Captain Janeway and her crew find themselves reluctantly having to ask a pre-warp civilisation for help when they have engine problems. Bang goes the Prime Directive but it is an emergency after all!The humanoid looking inhabitants of Sardalia are only too eager to help Voyager and are very friendly, too friendly in fact and it soon becomes apparent that there is something going on that is being hidden from the crew.It turns out that all the inhabitants on Sardalia have a genetic illness called the Gray Plague and the only medicine to keep the symptoms at bay is the blood of a giant sea creature called the Darra but there is a war going on between different factions who want to control this very precious commodity. But the Darra are sentient beasts, and their distress becomes evident to Harry Kim when he and Tom Paris end up with Marima the daughter of the Sardarlian Leader in a rather sticky situation in the middle of a hostile ocean.There are a couple of faux pas in the book, but not enough for it to make much difference to the plot and the over all exciting story.Well worth a read despite what everyone else says!

I have always been a big fan of Tom Paris and found this book a very interesting book and have read it 5+ times I highly suggest that all fans of Voyager should read this book

When I finished this book I found it very exciting and enjoyable. I recomend it highly.

A great book. Full of action at almost every second. Harry and Tom get lost on an island and what can they do to survive. And Janeway is MAD at the Sardalians!