- Hardcover: 345 pages
- Publisher: Star Trek; First Edition edition (1 Mar 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671872524
- ISBN-13: 978-0671872526
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.5 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 185,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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As the first Deep Space Nine hardcover opens, political tensions on Bajor are on the rise and a series of murders on the station have shaken everyone aboard. Chief Odo traces the murders to a bizarre and dangerous new form of holosuite technology that turns its users into killers. To unravel the mystery, Commander Sisko must enter a world where danger lurks in every corner and death can come at any moment.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio Cassette
This was an OK book and an easy read. The character development is very consistent with season one, making it a lot more believable. As always, "Trek" seeks to go beyond mere entertainment and teach a very valuable lesson about life, in this case through the madman, namely, that reality is what it is and can't be shaped to what we would wish it to be quite so easily. The only criticism ... actually I wouldn't even use that word ... the only slight inconsistency I could see would be in having a "pleasure city" located on Bajor. The Bajorans have always struck me throughout the series as a people of deep religious values, and I doubt they would let their planet be turned into a "mini-Raisa." But that is picky ... sorry others didn't like it.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is a very good book, totally consistent with the television programme it is based upon. Except it goes further ,giving a lot more depth to the characters. Content wise, its very similar to Jeter's Blade runner sequels - concentrating on a techno-theocratic theme. As for why most everyone else reviewing this book hates it so much beats me. Maybe like C J Cherry's Superman novel, good writers need to be very careful as to the tie-in they choose to go with, as audience taste seems to be very limited to such things as a warp-core breach every ten seconds. Anyway, I liked it a lot, and its companion - Bloodletter, which comes in for the same stick.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A little warped, but overall not bad
9 Aug 2002
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I don't understand why everyone keeps saying that this book is so bad. I picked it up, and couldn't put it down. Sure, it got a little overinvolved with some technological details at points, but it's not bad.
The only reason I will give it only four stars is because the author made one slight mistake. As I am writing a book about Federation starships, the author used both the runabouts Mekong and Ganges. Well, during my research, I learned that the Mekong is the runabout that was assigned to Deep Space 9 after the Ganges was destroyed. Just a little annoyance with me that the author did not research the information first.
Overall, a good pick. I highly recommend you pick it up to read.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
DS9 Warped - Poorly written and executed!
2 Nov 2003
Format:Hardcover
As a general rule I do not normally like to completely run an author's work into the ground, so in this case my intent is to be as fair as possible with reference to this title. It was not thoroughly surprising to see "Warped" be the second and final Star Trek novel by KW Jeter, who I know to be a very popular author in other genres. Between this and his first DS9 novel "Bloodletter," an astute fan of the series can quickly catch on that the author just didn't seem to grasp the characters or the overall theme of the series very well.
Although no one but those at Pocket Books can say for certain, I believe that the reason that this was the only hardback Star Trek Deep Space Nine release up until DS9's "Unity," which is due out this year, is because "Warped" did so poorly in sales due to it's slow pace and lack of familiarity to the actual series. I find this to be a sad fact as well, considering the novels that came out later that so richly deserved a hardback release!
The cover art for this novel is standard fare for the time it was published, not exceptionally imaginative.
The premise:
Attempting to capitalize on the outstanding second season trilogy episodes of "The Homecoming," "The Circle" and "The Siege," the author brings into play these aspects, playing on the political strife in the newly formed Bajoran provisional government. A series of murders occurs on the station and Commander Sisko finds himself dealing with a new religious faction that wishes to force the Federation away from Bajor.
Odo soon traces the mysterious murders on the station to a dangerous new form of holosuite technology which has also affected Commander Sisko's son, Jake. Sisko must now deal with this new religious faction and the very real possibility of murder coming his way from any direction, to include his own son.
I've also owned the audio tape for this novel for several years; read by Rene Auberjonois, it can be an "okay" distraction for three hours while driving down the highway. Of course, Rene Auberjonois' reading is excellent for what he was reading.
Overall, the premise to this story is an extraordinarily intriguing one; it's in the execution of the story where it falls flat. I would only recommend this title as a collectors or completist's type find. {ssintrepid}
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
An Average Star Trek Book
21 April 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I've a lot of Trek books. Some were very good, some I've wondered how they got published, and some are average. This one is slightly above average. Usual Trek technobabble when characters are discussing the innerworking some gizmo, and some great interaction between favorite pairs of characters, here in the case Odo and Quark. But nothing new really new or exceptional (except for the idea of holosuites that shoot data straight into the user's brain), but on the other hand the characters didn't say or do anything that most Trek fans would find uncharacteristic. If you're a Trek fan, Warped is good way to spend an evening.
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