Silent Weapons – David Mack
Silent Weapons, the middle installment of the Cold Equations trilogy, returns us to the 24th century where Data, continuing his search for Emil Vaslovik, finds himself accused of crimes on Orion, where the president of the Federation is holding secret negotiations with the Gorn. After reaching out to his friends on the Enterprise for help, Data joins his former shipmates in trying to get to the bottom of the attacks against the Federation delegation on Orion while discovering the true motives behind the Gorn’s attempts at peace.
Picking up a few months after The Persistence of Memory, Mack takes some of the dangling threads from the earlier work to form the threat in this work. At the end, Data is once again separated from the Enterprise, on his own trying to track down a mystery important to his father. Which, I assume, is the main thrust of the final part of the trilogy. I hope that one pulls me in a little easier than this one did.
