YMMV / The Black Fleet Crisis

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Go here.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Go here.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Go here.
• Moral Event Horizon: The Yevetha's multi-planet genocide at the end of Before the Storm.
• Older Than They Think:
  • These books introduced several concepts that made their way into books set chronologically earlier, such as the Recon X-wing or 'snoopscoot' which was then used in the X-Wing Series.
  • Also, despite the Take Thats directed at this series in Hand of Thrawn, Timothy Zahn borrowed the aforementioned human-shields-protecting-warships thing for the Vagaari in Outbound Flight.
• Padding: A lot of fans think this series would be one of the best in the EU if it had just left out the Luke subplot and Lando chasing that useless Qella ship. The Lando plot particularly is the great divider. Practically everyone loves the Leia/Han plot and practically everyone hates the Luke plot. Meanwhile, half the fandom hates the Lando plot for being so irrelevant and barely touching the other two plots, and the other half loves it for being a throwback to the Lando trilogy of the 80's that largely featured him exploring strange ruins and lost cultures. It also gets a Call-Back in the New Jedi Order series when Lando uses laminanium, the self-healing metal the ship was made from, for the armor on his Yuuzhan Vong Hunter droids. It's just too bad that Luke's plot provided the answer to Lando's plot, while doing almost nothing for Leia: the uprising of the Yevethas' Imperial prisoners do a lot more for her at the Battle of N'Zoth than the Fallanassi end up doing. Otherwise, Lando's story could've ended up as a single installment with the main Black Fleet series being a duology.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Chewbacca's family from The Star Wars Holiday Special gets A Day in the Limelight, and a particularly badass one.
• Squick: Sex droids, but for Michael P. Kube-McDowell, it's expected.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Plat has some angst about being the Last of His Kind and tries to hold out hope he is wrong, but he never gets to find out that there are other survivors of Polneye who are enslaved, held hostage, and eventually escape.

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