Also, while domestic violence is endemic in our society, it really seems like the sort of thing the Star Trek future should have largely dealt with and mostly eliminated. Let's start with the obvious that most victims of domestic violence don't go on to pursue world domination. There are so many things wrong with this, I don't even know where to start. In The Farther Shore their purpose was revealed: the child abuse existed to motive the villain being a villain. I had no idea where those scenes were going in the first book, so I largely filed them away in the "will probably be relevant later" draw. First, the prologue and a bunch of out-take type scenes in Homecoming featured extensive violent and sexual child abuse over many years of the victim's life. There were two main elements which led to this. This review contains spoilers for Homecoming, and probably some for The Farther Shore, too, but I will put those under a spoiler shield thingy unless they are very minor. They are more like one longer book that was split in two, however, and neither of them stand alone. Star Trek Voyager: The Farther Shore by Christie Golden is the direct sequel to Homecoming, and together the two books form a duology.
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