ST: Mosaic

Mosaic is by Jeri Taylor, who is a co-creator of Voyager and the executive producer. It was published by Pocket Books located at 1633 Broadway in New York City. The copy write date is 1996. It has 312 pages. There is a CD-reading of this book by Kate Mulgraw aka Kathryn Janeway.

Jeri Taylor, who was born on June 30, 1938, is the co-creator and executive producer of many of the StarTrek shows, as well as author of the several of the books. She is an alumnus of Indiana University. She wrote the scripts for Little House on the Prairie and the Incredible Hulk.

This book is about a mission where Janeway has to save crew members and her ship. As well, it shows what made her who she was today by going in her past and showing us her childhood through the beginning of her Starfleet career. What I did was put the Kathryn’s childhood first, and then Voyagers mission.

Kathryn’s Youth

Her father was asking her multiplication problems. She thought outside the box and got her eleven multiplication problems correct, when she only learned up to her tens. Kathryn didn’t like to take tennis. Her mother however made her. The only thing she hated more was Hobbes Johnson.

What made her spirits rise was that her father was taking her on her first extra-stellar travel to Mars.  Kathryn let her sister Phoebe, who was sad that she couldn’t go to Mars, use her pads of games.

Admiral Finnegin met Kathryn and her father when they transported to Starfleet. Data piloted the shuttle to the ship. The Cardasseans troubled the Federation.

Kathryn had another reoccurrence when she lost a tennis match, her teammates tried to console her. However she didn’t let them and they transported back without her. She had a twenty mile hike, and it started raining. She slept in the field a little, until her father rescued her. She lost her father to StarFleet because of the Cardassian presence which was now in Federation space. 

When Kathryn was 14 she started StarFleet. The summer before when she was on the Mars Lunar colony she started at StarFleet. She was with her two best friends in a Query on Mars. They were too far down and couldn’t make it up. Hobbes Johnson rose from the depths and rescued them. Then her friends left her in the caverns. Since Mars has low gravity, the water pressure wasn’t as intense. She went swimming in the Cavern with Hobbes. She was down there for so long, she got lost and scared. Her father rescued them. He told Hobbes to tell his parents, and Kathryn got grounded for a week. Hobbes offered to help her get checked in to StarFleet in place of her father however, she refused. Kathryn had her initiation interview with Admiral Paris, who was very strict.

Kathryn had very little time for romance, since she wanted captaincy of a ship so bad. However she had a few boyfriends. Her first boyfriend was Cheb Parker. They liked to explore together with their friends. Once they found this Irish house in the US that a wealthy Irish Man built for his wife. When his wife, supposedly moved back to Ireland, it was vacated. However it was rumored that he killed his wife and buried her in the garden.  They saw the ghost of his wife, burn the drapes and chase them out of the house. Everyone, except Kathryn, beamed back. Cheb, who worried about her, gave her half an hour to stay, and then he would come back and get her. Kathryn stayed to figure out why the ghost of the woman was still there, and to help her make peace and leave.

Kathryn and Cheb went exploring in a cave on Mars where Kathryn found what could have meant that there was life on Mars. Cheb blamed her for always reminding him about his not getting into StarFleet. What he was doing was misplacing the frustration he had about not getting in.

She was dragged out of her dorm by a friend and met William Riker.

The Admiral was going to be her advisor for her junior thesis on “Massive Compact Hollow Objects,” in which she had three days to write. However, her friend, Lettie dragged her out and she met Wil Riker.

Kathryn’s first mission was a covert mission to find out what the Cardasseans were up to. This was to prevent a war. Admiral Paris took Kathryn down to the planet to investigate further. They got separated, and she heard the admiral being tortured. Justin Tinghe rescued her as well as the admiral. He sprained his ankle while running with her to the transporter to beam to the ship. They hid in the mud. Her, the Admiral and Justin were beamed up to the Icarus directly to sickbay and were healed. The Admiral suggested her captaincy after that situation. Katherine went to Justin’s quarters to thank him for the rescue. When they got shore leave, Justin went to Kathryn’s house for dinner.

Kathryn was in an unknown realm. She was cold, and thought she saw an iceberg, but she had no idea where she was or if that was an iceberg. She was on a ship with her father and fiancé. Kathryn had a dream about what took place with Admiral Paris. Her sister was motivating her to stop dwelling on her losses of her father and her boyfriend Justin. She found a puppy in the snow and named it Petunia, who gave her reason stop dwelling on her losses.

She saw her friend Hobbes, when friend Hobbes when Petunia took half of his Peanut Butter Sandwich. Hobbes was now a debater of issues and formulated aspects which helped found some of StarFleet technologies.

Tuvok was Janeway’s first tactical advisor in her first mission review.

Voyager’s Mission

Voyager’s away team is on an away mission and they were being bombarded by electric charges making beam out impossible. They took shelter in a cave, however it cost one crew member his life.

Janeway had a reoccurrence that she was with her father unconscious in a plasma storm.  She sought council from the Doctor. He had a difficult time counseling, for he thought B’Lanna and Kim were not making his mobile emitter a priority.

They were intercepted by the Kaizon, who told them they would guide them through their ship as soon as they were done with their survey. So in the meantime, Voyager and her crew were exploring a planet until there gracious escorts returned.

Tuvok led the Away Mission with Harry and some of the Junior-grade officers and found some dead winged beings. Then the Kaizon attacked. Voyager had to regroup, but it would be back for their away team.

Two Voyager away teams were on the planet. One lead by Tuvok, the other was lead by Neelix. When they got separated Neelix went through some caves and some slime to reach the others. Once they met Kes and Kim they attended to their wounds and found shelter from the Kaizon. Kim and Kes were going down a corridor; they went through a forcefield and Kes said something was coming to life.

Meanwhile, Voyager was adrift, while making repairs, in a Nebula which hid them from the Kaizon. However the Kaizon were firing at them blindly. Sensors detected an unknown ship, with all but life support down.

Two Kaizon scientists were trying to figure out how to kill the animal on the planet or at least neutralize it. Kes was attracted to a wall, and Kim followed.

Trekkis, a Kaizon physician, was studying drugs on a Krett and he died from a narcotic overdose, so Trekkis was performing an autopsy. Harry, Kes, Tuvok, Neelix, and the away team; reawakened the Tokath, an alien being created to protect the inhabitants of the planet. It only showed itself when movement through a holographic openings occurred. The Kaizon met the Tokath and fired immensely but couldn’t kill them. The Tokath spit mucus at them killing them.

Trekkis just contacted Janeway and asked her for asylum on Voyager. The Tokath had a ship and were rising from the planet.

The Kaizon were attacking the Tokrath, with no effect. The Tolkrath attached themselves to Voyager, so they went close to a star, which melted the Tolkrath off. To get the away team from the planet they blew up the star, and forced the Tolkrath to hibernation.