Star Trek: The Mirror War — Emperor Riker and the Long Road to Earning It
The premise of The Mirror War has almost everything going for it on paper. The TNG crew, transplanted to the Mirror Universe. Captain Picard not as the man who reads archaeology and quotes Plutarch, but as an Imperial officer building an armada to drag the Terran Empire back from the edge of extinction. It should be irresistible. The question, after sitting with this collected edition for a while, is whether the execution lives up to what the concept promises. The answer is mostly yes. The caveats are where things get interesting.