- Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books (6 Dec 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743496612
- ISBN-13: 978-0743496612
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.9 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 207,971 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Wherever there is a need to fix a malfunction or rescue a damaged ship, the Federation calls in the crack team from Starfleet S.C.E. From finding a Starfleet vessel lost inside a holographic ship, to checking out new technology captured during the Dominion War, no task is too bizarre or too dangerous for Captain David Gold, Commander Sonya Gomez and their crew of S.C.E. troubleshooters on board the USS da Vinci. However their mission to Galvan VI could prove their greatest challenge yet. Not only must they salvage the USS Orion from the turbulent atmosphere of a gas giant, but the Orion is carrying the prototype of the deadly Wildfire device, a protomatter warhead that can ignite gas giants into stars. And to complicate matters still further they encounter an unknown alien life-form that may have lured the USS Orion to its destruction...
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David Mack has received story credits on two televised episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. His work on Star Trek books includes the 'minipedia' guide to the New Frontier universe that accompanies Peter David's New Frontier series. Keith R.A. Decandido is a top genre author whose tie-in novels for Pocket include several Star Trek titles across all series as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelizations. He is also known for his Star Trek: The Next Generation comicbook miniseries Perchance to Dream, and is the editor of several science-fiction and fantasy anthologies.
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Star Trek SCE has filled a little hollow place left by the Next Generation for me. Every month a short, most often stand alone story about a really close knit crew who I've become as attached to as any of the TV series characters...
...And Wildfire rips it all apart. What begins as a simple mission ends up putting the Da Vinci and it's entire crew at risk. If you haven't read the previous books this will have little impact. If you have read the entire series (which I recommend doing first) have the tissues on hand. I'm embarrassed at having become emotional reading this and a year and half later (I read the original ebook version)I can still remember how gripped I was. This is the Starfleet Corps of Engineers "Best of Both Worlds".
...And Wildfire rips it all apart. What begins as a simple mission ends up putting the Da Vinci and it's entire crew at risk. If you haven't read the previous books this will have little impact. If you have read the entire series (which I recommend doing first) have the tissues on hand. I'm embarrassed at having become emotional reading this and a year and half later (I read the original ebook version)I can still remember how gripped I was. This is the Starfleet Corps of Engineers "Best of Both Worlds".
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Star Trek literature at it's best.
The Wildfire story rather eclipses the other two, although they are competently written themselves. The Wildfire story shows why David Mack is such a respected Star Trek author. It is the Star Trek Poseidon adventure, with heroism, fear, adventure and death. It will put you through the ringer and make you desperate to read the next book to find out what happens to the survivors. I never expected to trip over such a gem in the middle of the SCE stories.
Don't read it out of turn though. If you read what has gone before and you have invested time and effort into these characters the book will mark you all the more. If you don't then it will just seem a competently written thriller.
The Wildfire story rather eclipses the other two, although they are competently written themselves. The Wildfire story shows why David Mack is such a respected Star Trek author. It is the Star Trek Poseidon adventure, with heroism, fear, adventure and death. It will put you through the ringer and make you desperate to read the next book to find out what happens to the survivors. I never expected to trip over such a gem in the middle of the SCE stories.
Don't read it out of turn though. If you read what has gone before and you have invested time and effort into these characters the book will mark you all the more. If you don't then it will just seem a competently written thriller.
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One word to sum up this compilation: WOW!
While Enigma Ship is fairly standard fare, it is actually quite enjoyable with a rather novel conclusion involving mutiny on a Federation starship.
The War Stories duology I think qualifies as the first time this series has had a definite sense of foreboding and obviously set up a future plot line. It was also good to see that the story hadn't come entirely out of left-field and features someone who has been aggrieved by the crew of Da Vinci twice previously - nothing like a good grudge match to heat things up.
What I particularly enjoyed about this story is that it shed some light of some of the characters we don't always get to see much of, and truth be told, up to this point, I was frequently confusing Faulwell with Stevens and Lense with Abramowitz. These stories did a good job of defining them as their own characters and setting them apart so I stop making the same mistake in the future.
Wildfire is the story that I think is going to define this series. Each of the televised series had this kind of episode: TNG was Best of Both Worlds, Enterprise was Azati Prime/Damage, which basically take everything you've known and punches a very large hole right through the middle of it.
What starts off as a fairly ordinary mission quickly becomes one of the darkest, most emotional, harrowing and action packed stories I have ever read (whether that be within the Star Trek franchise or not). I'm not easily moved, emotionally speaking, by reading novels, but this one sent me through a whole range of emotions, which took me by surprise. I've read David Mack's novels before and have always understood why he is commended on his action scenes, but I had no idea he was capable of packing such an emotional punch as well.
To find out this is his first solo project really is worthy of credit on his part. It's refreshing to know that neither he nor the overseers of the series are afraid to change the status quo, as this gives these independent spinoffs much more impact.
Wildfire, I feel, will have long reaching consequences throughout the rest of the series and I can't wait to read the next compilation to see how the crew of Da Vinci react to the trauma they experienced in this story.
While Enigma Ship is fairly standard fare, it is actually quite enjoyable with a rather novel conclusion involving mutiny on a Federation starship.
The War Stories duology I think qualifies as the first time this series has had a definite sense of foreboding and obviously set up a future plot line. It was also good to see that the story hadn't come entirely out of left-field and features someone who has been aggrieved by the crew of Da Vinci twice previously - nothing like a good grudge match to heat things up.
What I particularly enjoyed about this story is that it shed some light of some of the characters we don't always get to see much of, and truth be told, up to this point, I was frequently confusing Faulwell with Stevens and Lense with Abramowitz. These stories did a good job of defining them as their own characters and setting them apart so I stop making the same mistake in the future.
Wildfire is the story that I think is going to define this series. Each of the televised series had this kind of episode: TNG was Best of Both Worlds, Enterprise was Azati Prime/Damage, which basically take everything you've known and punches a very large hole right through the middle of it.
What starts off as a fairly ordinary mission quickly becomes one of the darkest, most emotional, harrowing and action packed stories I have ever read (whether that be within the Star Trek franchise or not). I'm not easily moved, emotionally speaking, by reading novels, but this one sent me through a whole range of emotions, which took me by surprise. I've read David Mack's novels before and have always understood why he is commended on his action scenes, but I had no idea he was capable of packing such an emotional punch as well.
To find out this is his first solo project really is worthy of credit on his part. It's refreshing to know that neither he nor the overseers of the series are afraid to change the status quo, as this gives these independent spinoffs much more impact.
Wildfire, I feel, will have long reaching consequences throughout the rest of the series and I can't wait to read the next compilation to see how the crew of Da Vinci react to the trauma they experienced in this story.
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