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Engines of Destiny (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Gene DeWeese (Author) "HER NAME, at this particular juncture, was Guinan, and her silent scream reverberated throughout Time, a despairing echo she could never escape ..." (more)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Books (4 April 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0671037021
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671037024
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.4 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 234,155 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In the Star Trek feature film GENERATIONS, engineer Montgomery Scott was on board the Enterprise-B when Captain James T. Kirk was lost in the course of a mission to save the lives of dozens of refugees - among them an enigmatic woman called Guinan. One year later Scott is propelled seventy-five years into the future to the Enterprise-D where he once again encounters Guinan, now the bartender on the flagship captained by Jean-Luc Picard. Struggling to adjust to life in the twenty-fourth century, Scott hatches an audacious plan to go back in time and rescue Jim Kirk. But his attempt to save his old friend has disastrous consequences for the timeline and Scott, Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise-D all find themselves in an alternate twenty-third century in which the Federation no longer exists and the Borg have assimilated humanity. The key to restoring the timeline and saving the human race lies with Guinan - the very person who might be responsible for the timeslip in the first place...
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Clever idea but...., 27 May 2005
By V. Crook (UK) - See all my reviews
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It can always be a bit worrying when we get another book which tries to tie together Picard and Kirk, as there are already two versions out there - the movie "Generations" and the Reeves-Stevens' excellent "Federation". This one, set in Picard's timeframe but before "Generations", comes with a clever idea of Scotty being so wracked with guilt about Kirk's apparent death that he sets out to go back in time and save him. Unfortunately, this action causes, indirectly, a change in the timeline whereby the Borg attack which we see at the beginning of "First Contact" succeeds and the Borg then go back in time to conquer the Earth of 300 years earlier and the Galaxy becomes a very different place. It's up to Picard and Kirk to put things right and, in the process, ensure that they don't actually come across each other before their movie meeting.

Good idea, clever drawing together of several different themes. But the writing, while competent, is strangely flat and fails to bring out any personality in the characters. Some, like Riker, just don't have much to do, and Kirk is almost unrecognisable. In the hands of the Reeves-Stevens' this would probably have ripped along as a constant adrenalin rush, but here it never quite catches fire. And the ending is so obvious at a very early stage that when it arrives it is more a whimper than a bang.

There is an enjoyable book in here, but not the cracker that it could have been.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Scotty lost in another timeline, 20 May 2005
By Mr. D. Dingwall "blacksuit" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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Gene DeWeese plays with Captain Scott's life after he is saved from the Dyson Sphere.

Still under a personal fuge, he changes the timeline saving someone he should not have, getting Enterprise wrapped up in it with him. Undoing that mess whilst avoiding the Borg is the rest of the book.

I'd pass this one by, unless it appears in the discount bin at an airport and your desperate for something to read. Sorry Gene, trying too hard to tie disparate events together. It might have worked, but not this time.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I thoroughly enjoyed this, one of my favourite trek books., 23 Dec 2008
This is, in my mind, one of the best Trek books. The reason being that it tells a story that would be far too difficult, expensive and time consuming to be made into a tv episode or even a film. Its an epic tale encompassing all kinds of different parts of the Trek Universe. I don't know why others haven't rated this book very highly but, I for one, loved it. I didn't enjoy the 'dressing down' episode where Scotty was brought to the Next Generation universe but this is very different. A great story for any people who would count themselves as fans of both the old and new Trek series - maybe that's why people don't like it as much. A lot of people either like TOS or the TNG era and not both.
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Coming shortly before the death of James Doohan, and after the announcement of his illness, part of me was expecting some sort of tribute to Scotty. Read more
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