- Mass Market Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Star Trek (1 April 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671567985
- ISBN-13: 978-0671567989
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.6 x 2.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 706,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Badly damaged in a close encounter with a dwarf star, the "Voyager" TM discovers a planet being torn apart by tremendous volcanic stresses. The planet's primitive inhabitants will surely perish unless the "Voyager" intervenes -- but the Prime Directive forbids them to act. And then the dilemma is increased by the arrival of another starship, a Televek vessel, whose crew offer to help both the "Voyager" and the people of the crumbling planet. But Janeway senses something amiss with their saviors, and she's haunted by ghostly visions warning her of a threat that make her loathe to accept anything from the Televek, even though they may be her only hope.
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COMMANDER CHAKOTAY'S SPIRIT GUIDE HAD VISITED HIM many times in his dreams. Read the first page
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Voyager is damaged by one of those annoying little spacial anomolies that keep croping up in the delta quadrant, and find they are not the only ones in trouble in the area. A somewhat primitive but quickly developing culture (on a nearby planet in the system they are stranded in) risk the destruction of their world due to unusually dramatic siesmic activity. What should the Voyager crew do? It's that old Prime Directive hampering their desire to save lots of people. Then there's the complication of another space-faring alien race hanging around. They say they want to help the planet like Voyager does, but do they? Along the way Janeway, Tuvok and Harry are stranded on the planet with the primitive folk, and Chakotay and Paris are strangely affected by the suspicious aliens. Torres does lots of amazingly clever things that I had a job to follow (but it all sounds very plausible), and there's abit of battle action too. Then there are the strange dream-like visions that some of the crew experience... it all adds up to a pretty good book. It's easy to get involved in the action down on the planet, say, and the next chapter is set up in space and you've been so involved in what's going on down on the surface that you've almost forgotten about the ship! It is well written, and unlike some Voyager novels, there isn't the angst about some of the crew members. It's not gritty or dark, just a very good read. How does it all end up? You'll have to read it to find out, won't you?
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Not bad, but hopefully others are better?
27 Mar 1999
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This was the first Voyager novel I ever read. I'm new to the Delta Quadrant (I started watching in Season Four, how's that for new?), and before Voyager I never watched a Star Trek in my life! So, as far as this book goes, it was pretty good. I enjoyed the setting of the planet (Janeway, Tuvok, and Kim) much more than what was simultaneously transpiring on Voyager itself. I was VERY frustrated with Chakotay! Paris's reaction to the beautiful aliens is to be expected, unfortunately, but I was hoping for more objectivity from the usually level-headed Commander. Other than that obvious inconsistency, I felt that the others were mostly in keeping with character. It's good to see the same people in the novels that we see on the show . . . instead of reading and saying, "Oh, they would never do that!" As far as the whole "ghost" story, though, I wasn't very impressed. It never was made very clear exactly what they were--at least not for me. Why couldn't the crew have just discovered this new race, had to deal with the treacherous Televek (although their treachery was awfully obvious quite early on), and been able to shift the moons and save them, without a bunch of ghosts?? Yeah, I know that without the ghosts Janeway couldn't have had the knowledge that she needed to rescue the aliens, but any author who could write a Star Trek novel in the first place must be creative enough to come up with a better solution! And to agree with someone else, the whole transporter solution was a little too last-minute to be plausible. But I'll give it to them--after all, it's my first novel, I can't be too critical. To close, this will not be my last "Voyager" novel, but I do hope that there is some improvement in the others. I hesistate to give the book three stars; I think it's more deserving of two and a half, but keeping in mind that I'm new to Star Trek, I decided to give it the higher of the two ratings.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
STV #7 Ghost of a Chance - An interesting premise!
6 Dec 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
"Ghost of a Chance" is the first of only two Star Trek novels by Mark Garland and the only one with Charles G. McGraw. While I found the premise of this story to be a very interesting one, the plot setup, execution and pacing to be somewhat troubling, detracting from the experience of the book. The saving grace for this novel is the authors' characterizations which were pretty good.
The cover art for this novel is pretty much the standard fare for when it was published, somewhat bland.
The premise:
While making an attempt to plus up the ships supply of deuterium, Voyager encounters a brown dwarf star, causing a great amount of damage. Chakotay starts having "visions" and believes they're linked to one of the planets in the Drenar system where they encountered the brown dwarf.
They soon discover that many of them are having visions and since the engines are in need of repair that will take several days, they decided to explore Drenar Four and discover a primitive civilization and their plight, severe volcanic stresses. The question of violating the Prime Directive comes immediately into play. An alien ship soon enters the picture, the Televek and they offer aid to both Voyager and the planets inhabitants but Captain Janeway finds their offer questionable and she soon finds herself in a quagmire...
While "Ghost of a Chance" isn't among the top Star Trek Voyager books available I would still recommend it as an interesting read in the series. {ssintrepid}
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A great read with a good, firm plot
15 July 2008
Format:Mass Market Paperback
First off, the book really starts off on a high note with a troublesome encounter in the beginning. Throughout the book, however, there is a plot that makes the reader wish he could scream to the Voyager crew about the danger ahead of them. It's a good read, and if I were you, I would by all means, pay full price for this book if I couldn't get a discounted used book. It's just that good, in my opinion.
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