With Star Trek: Picard having stunned its highly engaged audience, a series of tie-in novels related to the Secret Hideout-produced TV series continues to be published, portraying events prior to it but important to the show’s main characters. Author David Mack’s new novel, Firewall, is one of these books, pulling back the curtain on Seven of Nine between her return to Earth aboard the USS Voyager in the Star Trek: Voyager series finale “Endgame” and her reintroduction in the first season of Star Trek: Picard. Mack recently joined me for a chat about the novel, which aims to have universal appeal. “Part of what I wanted to do with Seven’s story in Firewall,” Mack explains, “is to demystify the nature of her identity, to find the universality of it, the vulnerability, the intrinsic humanity of love regardless of how one feels it.” What sparked the birth of this novel?
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