- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Star Trek (3 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743418549
- ISBN-13: 978-0743418546
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 584,783 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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One Small Step is the first of a seven-book series exploring not the Iconian Gateways, but the equally powerful transporter technology first seen in the original series episode "That Which Survives". In that story, while Kirk and landing party were menaced by beautiful but deadly replicas of Losira, the long-dead Kalandan commander of an artificial planetoid, the Enterprise was instantaneously transported 990.7 light years away. The Kalandans were wiped out by a genetically engineered plant virus, leaving an automated defence system protecting their research. The episode left many questions about their technology unanswered, and Susan Wright steps into the breach with this adventure. At the end of the original story Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Sulu were poised to beam up, but in this continuation we discover that they have been infected with the virus. The transporter's biofilter can't remove it from their patterns, so they are stranded on the station as first Klingons and then a ship of mysterious strangers arrives in orbit. The unknown aliens are Petraw, unscrupulous interstellar traders, who pose as modern Kalandans returning to claim their forgotten colony, and its lost technology. The Petraw work alongside the Enterprise crew as they try to figure out how the Gateway works, intending to steal it at the first opportunity. An interesting premise is hampered by a rather plodding execution, including far too much techno-babble from Spock and Scotty. The book ends on a cliff-hanger, and perhaps the alien world on the other side of the Gateway will lead to a more inspiring sequel. --Elizabeth Sourbut
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Scattered throughout the galaxy are Gateways which link star systems across unfathomable distances. The technology that built them has been lost for tens of millennia...but that doesn't mean that it can't be found again. Left behind by a long-vanished civilisation, the mysterious portals offer a means of transport many times faster than warp travel -- as Captain James. T. Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise have inadvertently discovered. Having defeated the hostile computer program which guards an abandoned Kalandan outpost, Kirk and his crew are exploring the artifical planetoid in the hope of discovering more about the ancient apparatus which has hurled the Starship Enterprise a distance of a thousand light years. But the reactivated Gateway has attracted the attention -- and the avarice -- of various alien explorers, not least a mysterious race who claim to be none other than the enigmatic Kalandans themselves!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This book start the adventure for the rest of the Gateways series books that will pass through all incarnations of Star Trek inculding the fictional ones (Challenger from the New Earth series and New Frontier by Peter David). Although the start is slowgoing it picks soon enough and sets the scene for future books.
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Being nearly a life-long fan of the Original Trek Series, I looked forward to reading this book, however, at one stage, I nearly gave up on it. I also had a habit in the beginning of falling asleep, such was the soporific effect of the writing style. Thankfully, things began to hot up once Mr Spock figured out how to get the Arch working. I could have kissed him! He saved the book from becoming dire.
I would have appreciated more characterization. I felt the author simply assumed that everyone knew the personalities of everyone on board the Enterprise, therefore, disregarding the need to show us more about their characters. I felt the author could have written more. Especially in the beginning, there was an abruptness when it came to getting to know what was going on. And those Petraw people, I really couldn't get into them at all. They were very cardboard; Ming the Merciless; cheap science-fiction story types of aliens which left me feeling nothing for them. Maybe that was the author's intention, I don't know. Likewise, I felt there was a wooden quality to the Enterprise crew; a few lines here and there about how they felt; what was going on inside to motivate them. Ho hum, not the full blooded Starship Enterprise stalwarts I have come to expect.
Having said all that, I did read the book all the way through and certainly near the end it became riveting reading. I look forward to the next installment and I hope down the line to read all seven books.
So, yes, the book is an adequate first parter but I do wonder if Susan Wright has ever really been a fan and devotee of the show. I felt she was writing to some kind of trusted and dry formula. The characters could have had more life in them.
I would have appreciated more characterization. I felt the author simply assumed that everyone knew the personalities of everyone on board the Enterprise, therefore, disregarding the need to show us more about their characters. I felt the author could have written more. Especially in the beginning, there was an abruptness when it came to getting to know what was going on. And those Petraw people, I really couldn't get into them at all. They were very cardboard; Ming the Merciless; cheap science-fiction story types of aliens which left me feeling nothing for them. Maybe that was the author's intention, I don't know. Likewise, I felt there was a wooden quality to the Enterprise crew; a few lines here and there about how they felt; what was going on inside to motivate them. Ho hum, not the full blooded Starship Enterprise stalwarts I have come to expect.
Having said all that, I did read the book all the way through and certainly near the end it became riveting reading. I look forward to the next installment and I hope down the line to read all seven books.
So, yes, the book is an adequate first parter but I do wonder if Susan Wright has ever really been a fan and devotee of the show. I felt she was writing to some kind of trusted and dry formula. The characters could have had more life in them.
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This book is probably the weakest in the gateway series by a long shot. It is quite drawn out in a few different sections of the book and I found it hard to keep myself interested, even scanning through some pages. It seemed that there was too many page fillers that really do draw out the story for too long.
While the other books as well as this one, leading up to the final one in the series all end in a cliffhanger, they at least tie into each other or are referenced. It seems that what little this book offered was forgotten in all the other books. It only gets about 15 pages in the final book to tie up the story.
All in all a disappointing start to one of the best star trek cross over book series.
If you want the full Gateway experience and don't want to miss out on anything then do read this one, if you don't mind missing a few details then feel free to skip it.
While the other books as well as this one, leading up to the final one in the series all end in a cliffhanger, they at least tie into each other or are referenced. It seems that what little this book offered was forgotten in all the other books. It only gets about 15 pages in the final book to tie up the story.
All in all a disappointing start to one of the best star trek cross over book series.
If you want the full Gateway experience and don't want to miss out on anything then do read this one, if you don't mind missing a few details then feel free to skip it.
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