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The most talented Starfleet engineers of two generations unite to solve a two hundred year old technological mystery that turns out to be only the beginning of a wider quest. With the support of Guinan and Nog, as well as the crew of the U.S.S. Challenger, Geordi La Forge and Montgomery Scott soon find themselves drawn into a larger, deadlier, and far more personal adventure. Helped by old friends and hindered by old enemies, their investigation will come to threaten everything they hold dear. Seeking out the new, and going where no one has gone before, Geordi, Scotty, and Guinan find that their pasts are very much of the present, and must determine whether any sufficiently advanced technology is really indistinguishable from magic.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
With everything from engineering issues, to super powerful beings, planets to discover and clues to put together that lead to a satisfying finish, this is classic Star Trek at it's best. The writer knows his Trek characters well and includes references to past exploits to shape behaviour. With Scottie, the STNG crew and a few Reg Barclay moments in the mix, this book is enjoyable.
I gave it 4 stars because of its rather drawn out ending - it could have finished about a chapter or two earlier - and because sometimes it oversimplifies conversation - using conversation as a device to explain things almost in a text book fashion (much like early Heinlein) - and romantic relationships are very oversimplified - but what Trek book (excluding Imzadi), does romance well? Finally, the 3 main ideas that run through this book could have been made into 2 Star Trek books rather than 1 and I feel it would have made a better 2-parter series which was slightly longer and made more of it's ideas.
Overall, it is a good read, fast paced and with plenty of twists and turns. Hence the 4.
I gave it 4 stars because of its rather drawn out ending - it could have finished about a chapter or two earlier - and because sometimes it oversimplifies conversation - using conversation as a device to explain things almost in a text book fashion (much like early Heinlein) - and romantic relationships are very oversimplified - but what Trek book (excluding Imzadi), does romance well? Finally, the 3 main ideas that run through this book could have been made into 2 Star Trek books rather than 1 and I feel it would have made a better 2-parter series which was slightly longer and made more of it's ideas.
Overall, it is a good read, fast paced and with plenty of twists and turns. Hence the 4.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
A great new book for the continuation of the start trek world. The book was well written and made for a interesting read. The end of the book was a bit sad; but I wont spoil it; but the good old ST:TNG crew are there minus a few of the main characters we have got to known.
A must for all star trek fans!
A must for all star trek fans!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This was quite promising - I was pleasantly surprised to find that it is set in the current Typhon Pact era rather than just being a meaningless stand alone set in the era of the TV show. And the author is British as well - maybe we would get some British characters who are not the appalling stereotypes often written by American authors.
Unfortunately the book is a real disappointment - the characters (and not just the British ones) are badly written, the dialogue is poor and parts of what passes for a plot are laughable. The first part is nonsensical (Bok and Rasmusson planned this, hired 3 ships and got into position in a few days how ?) and has a bizarre and deeply unsatisfying conclusion. Th second part suffers from many of the same faults plus a few new ones.
Even small things are ridiculous - Doctors and Nurses have the same training and can switch careers at will ? Characters are shoehorned in for little or no reason : Dr Ogawa, Reg transports back from assignment in the Delta Quadrant (?) to appear here for no good reason, Leah Brahms is there and Geordies girlfriend is casually discarded. And it goes on...
The main problem is that there seems to be a real editing failure here - a good editor would have pulled the plot together and ironed out a lot of the weaknesses. Copy and proof reading would also have helped somewhat.
This is a book best avoided. There's a germ of a decent novel here, but it is so badly obscured by rubbish that it may as well not be !
Unfortunately the book is a real disappointment - the characters (and not just the British ones) are badly written, the dialogue is poor and parts of what passes for a plot are laughable. The first part is nonsensical (Bok and Rasmusson planned this, hired 3 ships and got into position in a few days how ?) and has a bizarre and deeply unsatisfying conclusion. Th second part suffers from many of the same faults plus a few new ones.
Even small things are ridiculous - Doctors and Nurses have the same training and can switch careers at will ? Characters are shoehorned in for little or no reason : Dr Ogawa, Reg transports back from assignment in the Delta Quadrant (?) to appear here for no good reason, Leah Brahms is there and Geordies girlfriend is casually discarded. And it goes on...
The main problem is that there seems to be a real editing failure here - a good editor would have pulled the plot together and ironed out a lot of the weaknesses. Copy and proof reading would also have helped somewhat.
This is a book best avoided. There's a germ of a decent novel here, but it is so badly obscured by rubbish that it may as well not be !
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Could have been so much better...
When I read the back of the book I thought: this sounds great !
But it was a bit of a disappointment. The plot started out ok, but became a bit unbelievable in the end. Read more
But it was a bit of a disappointment. The plot started out ok, but became a bit unbelievable in the end. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Book lover
Good, but with reservations
McIntee's book feels a little out-of-place in the next generation continuation, making very little reference to the ongoing storyline from the recent Typhon Pact mini-series. Read more
Published 13 months ago by J. R. Johnson-Rollings
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