- Mass Market Paperback: 278 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books (Mm); Reissue edition (April 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671742647
- ISBN-13: 978-0671742645
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.2 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,697,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
| |||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
More About the Author
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organise and find favourite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is very well written and balanced. The Enterprise finds this group of slaves, and are drawn to them. Beverly sees similarities between one young boy and her son, Wes. But all is not as it seems, and the slaves soon show that they are not the down-trodden good guys. They are, through the conditioning they've received, freedom fighters, willing to sacrifice anything to free themselves - including the Enterprise and its crew! This is so well written. The slaves go from good, to bad and back without changing their characters. Not only that, but the storyline includes a stand-off between the Enterprise and 3 huge ships. Brilliant!
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
7 reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
STNG #21 Chains of Command - A well told early STNG novel!
14 Sep 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This early Star Trek The Next Generation numbered novel can certainly be counted among the best. This is also the only novel by these two authors, W.A. McCay and E.L. Flood, which is too bad considering that with this early STNG novel, they set up an intriguing, well paced plot and carried it through to fruition quite nicely, which was somewhat rare with the earlier STNG numbered novels.
As cover art goes, for the early Star Trek The Next Generation novels, this is a decent but not too remarkable one, although it is among the rare ones with Dr. Beverly Crusher on it.
The premise:
The Enterprise is exploring a remote and devastated group of Class M (Munshara) planets when they receive a distress call from a group of what they find to be human slaves on a remote and quite forbidding glacial planet. When the slaves revolt, Captain Picard is unable to help them but they succeed despite the lack of Federation assistance. With the revolt over and the overseers successfully put down, Captain Picard and the slaves soon learn that the true controllers are coming to reclaim their property.
What follows is an extremely interesting and well told story, to include an Avian type race. I'd definitely recommend this particular early STNG novel to any and all fans of Star Trek fiction as it will make an excellent addition to your Star Trek library. {ssintrepid}
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
ST-TNG: Chains of Command
29 Jun 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Star Trek - The Next Generation: Chains of Command written by Bill McCay and Eloise Flood is an interesting story as the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew explore a remote sector of space, they run acrossed a group of devastated class-M planets and wonder what had happened.
As the story progresses the Enterprise receives as distress call from a glacial world... and the call is from humans. Human occupation is not supposed to be this far out in remote space, but nevertheless, humans are calling for assistance. Now, the Enterprise crew becomes involved and finds out that there are human slaves on the forbidding world. But the ultimate slave masters are a big yellow avian race... known by the slaves as chickens but they are known as Tseetsk.
It seems that the Tseetsk have been in this sector of space for a very long time and have digressed throughout the years due to an ongoing war that has pretty much devastated this sector of space. All in all, this story will captivate you as you become engrossed into the story and the resolution to this story is quite novel.
This is a solid 4 star book and has some unique parts as the Enterprise and her crew fall into the middle of a conflict.
As the story progresses the Enterprise receives as distress call from a glacial world... and the call is from humans. Human occupation is not supposed to be this far out in remote space, but nevertheless, humans are calling for assistance. Now, the Enterprise crew becomes involved and finds out that there are human slaves on the forbidding world. But the ultimate slave masters are a big yellow avian race... known by the slaves as chickens but they are known as Tseetsk.
It seems that the Tseetsk have been in this sector of space for a very long time and have digressed throughout the years due to an ongoing war that has pretty much devastated this sector of space. All in all, this story will captivate you as you become engrossed into the story and the resolution to this story is quite novel.
This is a solid 4 star book and has some unique parts as the Enterprise and her crew fall into the middle of a conflict.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Not of tension in the build-up and the resolution is too quick
29 July 2008
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The Enterprise encounters a sequence of planets that have undergone mass destruction. Worf correctly surmises that the massive damage they see is the scars of war. When they come up on another planet that is similarly scarred and ice-bound, they make contact with a human that is astonished to see humans in command with a star ship. He only has time to challenge Picard and ask him who his overseers are before he is cut down. The Enterprise has come upon a planet where humans are slaves to the Tseetsk, a species of large, intelligent birdlike creatures and the humans have just revolted. The man that was killed was an overseer, a human boss over the slave gangs.
When he realizes who they are, Koban, the leader of the human slaves tries to enlist Picard's help in his battle with the Tseetsk. Although they have lost the ability to maintain it, the Tseetsk are in possession of a technology vastly superior to the Federation's. A tachyon based messenger missile was so powerful that it's mere passage proximate to the Enterprise knocked out several primary systems.
When Picard refuses to immediately take sides, Koban has Troi and him kidnapped and taken to a remote outpost. Their captors then battle with a species indigenous to the planet and learn that all of the planetary damage the Enterprise has encountered was due to a war between the Tseetsk thousands of years before. When two giant Tseetsk ships answer the messenger missile, Riker is forced to try to negotiate with them. Fortunately, in the nick of time, the Enterprise crew is able to locate Picard and Troi, beam them back to the ship with the leader of the indigenous Tseetsk and they manage to reach a peaceful accord.
I found very little tension in this episode, while Picard and Troi are in danger while they are being held captive, it is the slave humans that are nearly all killed. The ending was much too brief, there was not enough buildup to create the suitable tension and everyone was very eager to reach a solution. There was no significant posturing on the part of the slave humans, indigenous Tseetsk or the Tseetsk that arrived in the ships. Everyone put aside their thousands of years of hatred and differences in a matter of minutes, which is very unlikely.
When he realizes who they are, Koban, the leader of the human slaves tries to enlist Picard's help in his battle with the Tseetsk. Although they have lost the ability to maintain it, the Tseetsk are in possession of a technology vastly superior to the Federation's. A tachyon based messenger missile was so powerful that it's mere passage proximate to the Enterprise knocked out several primary systems.
When Picard refuses to immediately take sides, Koban has Troi and him kidnapped and taken to a remote outpost. Their captors then battle with a species indigenous to the planet and learn that all of the planetary damage the Enterprise has encountered was due to a war between the Tseetsk thousands of years before. When two giant Tseetsk ships answer the messenger missile, Riker is forced to try to negotiate with them. Fortunately, in the nick of time, the Enterprise crew is able to locate Picard and Troi, beam them back to the ship with the leader of the indigenous Tseetsk and they manage to reach a peaceful accord.
I found very little tension in this episode, while Picard and Troi are in danger while they are being held captive, it is the slave humans that are nearly all killed. The ending was much too brief, there was not enough buildup to create the suitable tension and everyone was very eager to reach a solution. There was no significant posturing on the part of the slave humans, indigenous Tseetsk or the Tseetsk that arrived in the ships. Everyone put aside their thousands of years of hatred and differences in a matter of minutes, which is very unlikely.
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
