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Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing Kindle Edition

by John Jackson Miller (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 493 ratings
An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!

No one in the history of histories has lost more than Philippa Georgiou, ruler of the Terran Empire. Forced to take refuge in the Federation’s universe, she bides her time until Section 31, a rogue spy force within Starfleet, offers her a chance to work as their agent. She has no intention of serving under anyone else, of course; her only interest is escape.

But when a young Trill, Emony Dax, discovers a powerful interstellar menace, Georgiou recognizes it as a superweapon that escaped her grasp in her own universe. Escorted by a team sent by an untrusting Federation to watch over her, the emperor journeys to a region forbidden to travelers. But will what she finds there end the threat—or give “Agent Georgiou” the means to create her old empire anew?
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John Jackson Miller is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Trek: Picard: Rogue Elements, Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing, Star Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War, the acclaimed Star Trek: Prey trilogy (Hell’s Heart, The Jackal’s Trick, The Hall of Heroes), and the novels Star Trek: The Next Generation: Takedown, Star Wars: A New Dawn, Star Wars: Kenobi, Star Wars: Knight Errant, Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith—The Collected Stories; and fifteen Star Wars graphic novels, as well as the original work Overdraft: The Orion Offensive. He has also written the enovella Star Trek: Titan: Absent Enemies. A comics industry historian and analyst, he has written for franchises including Halo, Conan, Iron Man, Indiana Jones, Battlestar Galactica, Mass Effect, and The Simpsons. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife, two children, and far too many comic books.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07ZZHRMSX
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pocket Books/Star Trek
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 14, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.8 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 399 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1982136307
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  • Book 7 of 9 ‏ : ‎ Star Trek: Discovery
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New York Times bestselling author John Jackson Miller has spent a lifetime immersed in the worlds of fantasy and science fiction. He's best known for his Star Wars and Star Trek work, including Star Wars: Kenobi, his Scribe Award winning novel from Del Rey; Star Wars: A New Dawn; the Star Trek: Prey trilogy, and Star Trek: Discovery - The Enterprise War.

He's also written comics included the long-running Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic comics series, as well as comics for Battlestar Galactica, Halo, Lion King, Mass Effect, Iron Man, Indiana Jones, and The Simpsons. Production notes on all his works can be found at his fiction site (farawaypress.com).

Miller is also a noted comics industry historian, specializing in studying comic-book circulation as presented on his website, Comichron (comichron.com). He also coauthored the Standard Catalog of Comic Books series.

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Customers enjoy the book's story, with one review highlighting its interesting world-building and space opera themes. Moreover, the book receives positive feedback for its readability and character development, featuring a full cast of great characters. Additionally, customers praise the writing quality, with one describing it as a real page turner.

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Customers enjoy the story quality of the book, with one customer highlighting its excellent Space Opera themes and another noting the interesting world building.

"...some classic Star Trek vibes throughout, as well as some excellent Space Opera themes, that usually aren't used in Star Trek, but work very well..." Read more

"...In this case the very good story filled the book with little to no obvious filler. And Miller does an excellent job of portraying Emperor Georgiou...." Read more

"...Just hard, the Prey trilogy as an example. But this story was engaging, and I found myself having a hard time putting it down...." Read more

"...of the characters in both universes makes this one of the best novels in the series. Recommended!" Read more

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Customers find the book to be an excellent read, with one mentioning it's a great companion to the main series.

"...but the character served a great purpose here and was actually quite fun to read...." Read more

"...The characters were fun. The world building was interesting. It was a fun ride." Read more

"...So much merry mayhem! Good read." Read more

"...It's always fascinating to read a story set in the Mirror Universe, and John knocks this one straight out of the park." Read more

8 customers mention "Character development"8 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the character development in the book, with one customer highlighting the excellent portrayal of Emperor Georgiou and another noting the intriguing cast of supporting players.

"...the Dax character(in any of it's iterations), but the character served a great purpose here and was actually quite fun to read...." Read more

"...She's one of the most compelling characters on Discovery and Michelle Yeoh steals every scene she's in...." Read more

"...The characters were fun. The world building was interesting. It was a fun ride." Read more

"The story did not grab me at first. But loved the characterization. Around 76% of my way into the story finally picked up...." Read more

4 customers mention "Writing quality"4 positive0 negative

Customers praise the writing quality of the book, with one describing it as a real page turner.

"...but as the plot unfolds and everything becomes clear, it is a real page turner...." Read more

"...I deem the author worthy of assimilation." Read more

"Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing is so well written that after I had finished, I felt like I had almost watched a tv episode or movie...." Read more

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  • Jonathan Koan
    5.0 out of 5 stars The book I didn't know I needed
    Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2020
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    Going into this book, I was really apprehensive. I wasn't a fan of the show Star Trek Discovery, and I didn't even stay long enough to get to the "mirror universe" storyline in the first season. However, I had read JJM's previous Discovery novel, "The Enterprise War", and I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I've enjoyed every other of his books that I've read, so I hoped that Miller would write a good book here.

    And he DID!

    One thing that this book(and really all of JJM's books, but this is the best example) does is it fills in the knowledge for the reader if they haven't watched the show. There were several times, where information that would only be known through the show was explained and it wasn't done through exposition dumps, but rather was written in such a way that it felt natural and fitting in the story. As someone who was a little confused going into the book, this greatly helped me.

    Another thing that this book did well was take a "anti-hero" protagonist in Phillipa Georgiou and make her the lead of the book. While just about the entire book is from her perspective, the reader is able to realize just what an evil person she is and that she is not a true "hero", but is interesting to follow.

    The plot of the book is just fantastic. It had a few "Guardians of the Galaxy" vibes at the beginning, but also added some classic Star Trek vibes throughout, as well as some excellent Space Opera themes, that usually aren't used in Star Trek, but work very well here.

    The most surprising part of this book, for me, is that the middle was the strongest part of the book. Normally, a book's opening or ending are the best, and the middle is usually just filler. That wasn't the case here, as I was on the edge of my seat throughout the middle portion of the book. That isn't to say that the beginning and end were lacking anything in particular, but the middle was just so interesting that I had to keep reading.

    I quite enjoyed the cast of characters. Sean Finnigan made me laugh throughout, and he worked as the comic relief of the book. I'm not a fan of the Dax character(in any of it's iterations), but the character served a great purpose here and was actually quite fun to read. Leland was your run of the mill basic Section 31 character, and I was ok with some basic characteristics from him. I do feel that Miller could have used Cornwell and Michael Burnham a little bit more, but I suspect that the editors and show writers wanted to keep them a little more locked down.

    One thing that JJM has done in all of his books that I appreciate is add some sort of depth. In Knight Errant, he had depth about Communism and its many forms, while Kenobi and A New Dawn dealt with what one person can accomplish, while Takedown dealt with Cold War themes. This book was chock full of discussions, themes, and references to classic empires, political and military leaders, and conquests. That was unusual in most for a Star Trek book, but I loved it. That's the real strong point of the book.

    Overall, this is a solid book. I have never had a transformation of what I expected to get to what I got in quite a while. I enjoyed it even more than JJM's "The Enterprise War", but less than his main Star Wars books and his early Star Trek books. But, don't let that stop you from getting it, because I truly did love it. 9.2 out of 10! Great job John!

    By the way, I caught that Lord of the Rings reference. Very sly.
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  • Cap'n Dave
    4.0 out of 5 stars Better Than Many of the Other Discovery Novels
    Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2020
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    Like all the other Discovery and Picard novels CBS intends that these be canon. They provide background information and fill in the small gaps to what we've seen on screen. The problem that many of these books have, including the previous book by John Jackson Miller, is that it's obvious that CBS has dictated how long the books must be, so many have had obvious padding and slow points. In this case the very good story filled the book with little to no obvious filler. And Miller does an excellent job of portraying Emperor Georgiou. She's one of the most compelling characters on Discovery and Michelle Yeoh steals every scene she's in. It would have been easy to go too over the top with her, have her speak lines that would have never sounded realistic coming out of Yeoh's mouth or make her too sympathetic too soon. But Miller does a pretty good job here. There are also some nifty Easter Eggs/call backs to the original series. These help connect this book with the rest of Star Trek, something the producers of Discovery did not do well in the first season.
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  • Tony
    5.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Good
    Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2020
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    I have a hard time getting through JJM's books sometimes. Not awful like anything written by Michael A. Martin. No one could be that bad. Just hard, the Prey trilogy as an example. But this story was engaging, and I found myself having a hard time putting it down. The characters were fun. The world building was interesting. It was a fun ride.
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  • Mario A. Escamilla
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best novels of the series.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2021
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    The most recent of the Star Trek Discovery-related novels follows Mirror Universe's Philippa Georgiou during the period between seasons 1 and 2.

    A test run by Section 31 goes awry and she ends up with a mission to investigate about a possible biological weapon that she was unable to acquire in her universe, this will lead her to a pocket of the galaxy surrounded by mystery, where a trio of hostile alien species make commerce with the help of a larger than life character, who apparently had some relationship with the deceased Captain Georgiou.

    Along with two new somewhat flamboyant characters, Emperor Giorgiou must pose as her doppelganger and extract the information, all with the secret purpose to recreate her Empire in that galaxy...

    The novel stumbles a bit in the beginning, but as the plot unfolds and everything becomes clear, it is a real page turner. The descriptions of the races, the places and the relationships, plus the duality of the characters in both universes makes this one of the best novels in the series.

    Recommended!
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  • Christopher J. Leto
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good book.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2020
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    The story did not grab me at first. But loved the characterization. Around 76% of my way into the story finally picked up. Wish it had been more consistent in the beginning. I deem the author worthy of assimilation.
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  • G.R. Sutherland
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fun With the Emperor
    Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2022
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    Georgiou was one of my favorite characters on Discovery, so this was a fun romp into a forbidden alien system. So much merry mayhem! Good read.
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  • A. N.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2021
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    This is really an excellent book. Philippa Georgiou (from all universes, but especially the mirror universe) is one of my all-time favorite characters from the Star Trek universe. This book focused on a really interesting journey for her, and we got to meet (and meet again) some very interesting characters that I would like to see in the future. To be honest, I'd read more books about these characters as they tackle other missions. Until then, though, I am happy to say this quickly became one of my favorite Trek novels!
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  • Beatrice Wilson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
    Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2021
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    It kept me riveted waiting to see who the Emperor was going to double cross next. Or who might double cross her. Full of great characters, some familiar, some new. And it made me lol a few times too.
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  • Jonbee Faliu
    5.0 out of 5 stars I love trekking
    Reviewed in Australia on November 3, 2020
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    I like the story,the characters,the technology, the action,the starships,i just love trekking
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  • Darren Harth
    5.0 out of 5 stars Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing (Volume 7)
    Reviewed in Canada on April 13, 2024
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    Enjoyed the book
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  • I S Warner
    5.0 out of 5 stars Evil Gerghoui is best Gerghoui
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2020
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    Continuing the excellent standard of the Discovery tie ins this odd little story of spyfi shenanigans fits neatly between the ill advisedly deleted bar scene at the end of Series 1 and the former Emperor of Terra's amazing entrance wearing a holosuit and beating up Klingons in Series 2.

    This is a cute little side story of her coming to terms with being stranded in a very different universe and how she can best restore herself to power. With a "crack team" consisting of Olympic Gymnast and honoury Starfleet recruitment officer Emony Dax and the drunken, regretful psychologically broken remains of James Kirk's academy nemesis Tommy Finnegan. Together this band of misfits must infiltrate a very odd confederacy of antagonistic isolationist races that feed off each member world's worst impulses in a grim funhouse mirror of the Federation.

    Backstabbing, double crossing, triple crossing, betrayal, Leland abuse. This book have everything a fan of the character would want from a tie in and a fair bit they don't even know they want but really should have.
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  • Terry A. Avalos
    5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Fantastic
    Reviewed in Canada on January 22, 2024
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    What a great book indeed yes
    AAAA
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  • Alaran
    4.0 out of 5 stars A mission for the Emperor
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2021
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    Rather than take place between episodes the Discovery novels are designed to fit around the series/seasons. Thus, they stand primarily outside of the main storyline of any series. They also concentrate upon one or two of the characters with the story mainly coming from their perspective. This provides an opportunity to develop these characters and give them a more extensive background.

    ‘Die Standing’ focuses upon Philippa Georgiou, but not the Starfleet captain who, alongside Lorca, was already the focus of the earlier novel ‘Drastic Measures’. More interesting, the lead character of this novel is the version of Georgiou who was the Emperor of the Terran Empire of the mirror universe.

    Events of this book therefore take place between series one and two of ‘Discovery’ and are concerned with the Emperor’s supposed ‘rehabilitation’ and how she gains her employment with Section 31.

    Quite probably my favourite ‘Discovery’ character, the portrayal here is excellent, perfectly capturing the onscreen performance. The author makes the right choice in not offering any type of redemption story or adopting a grey area anti-hero type approach which attempts to make here ‘nicer’ and that risks watering her down. Georgiou remains the uncompromising, power hungry, sociopath. This personality drives the story and is thoroughly entertaining. Having her as the lead character also makes this book a little different to most other Star Trek novels.

    However, there is the slight drawback in that this detracts from the main plot of the Emperor being sent by Section 31 and Starfleet to investigate a strange entity/potential superweapon. This story isn’t that compelling and a little anti-climatic. It is much more fun just enjoying the personality and antics of the Emperor.

    The primary locale for the story is excellent though. The Troika system us a highly imaginative collection of planets and satellites populated by three original and very interesting species of aliens that have an intriguing, almost symbiotic, relationship between their civilisations.

    The story also heavily features two other characters who basically end up being the Emperor’s sidekicks, even though they’re assigned to attempt to keep her in line. They are both characters who have been mentioned or referenced several times but haven’t actually properly appeared in Star Trek. I’m not sure, but I think this is the first time either have been fully-fledged characters.

    Emony Dax is an earlier incarnation of the Trill symbiont than those that have appeared onscreen. At this stage her true nature as a symbiont is unknown. This is a key aspect of her characterisation and her role in the story. She is also used as a victim of Georgiou’s snide, mocking comments.

    Finnegan is more interesting. Mostly he has been referred to as some type of ‘school bully’ for Kirk when he was at the Academy. There is obviously a lot more to his characterisation here. He is effective as a sidekick for Georgiou and the contrast with Georgiou’s memories of his mirror universe counterpart, deranged killer Blackjack, works well.
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