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What Price Honor (Star Trek: Enterprise) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Dave Stern (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 300 pages
  • Publisher: Star Trek (3 Dec 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743462785
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743462785
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.6 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 489,810 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The second original novel to be based on the brand new Star Trek series Enterprise, currently wowing audiences on both Sky and Channel 4, poses a tense and gritty dilemma for one member of the crew. The Starship Enterprise NX-01 is Earth's flagship - the first vessel to embark on a sytematic exploration of what lies beyond the fringes of known space. Led by Captain Jonathan Archer, eighty of Starfleet's best and brightest set forth to pave humanity's way to the stars. Tempered by a year of interstellar exploration, the crew has become a disciplined, cohesive, unit. And now, for the first time, they have lost one of their number. As they deal with the death, Archer, Reed and the rest of the crew find themselves caught squarely in the middle of another tense situation - a brutal war between two alien civilizations. But in the Alpha System nothing is what it seems.


About the Author

Dave Stern is the author of numerous books, amongst them the novelisation of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and The Blair Witch Project.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Reasonable book marred by errors and inconsistencies, 16 Dec 2002
By T. Adair (England) - See all my reviews
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What starts off as an interesting premise quickly becomes lost in a confusing plot marred by technical and chronological errors, as well as inconsistencies within the book. The apparent circumstances of the death of Ensign Alana Hart are not revealed until well into the book, other than fragmentory pieces here and there, which do not add up to much. Only a few pages on, what really happened is revealed, and the remaining plot strings are tied up too easily.

The technical inaccuracies range from simple things like calling the scanners 'tricorders', - a name not yet mentioned in the television series - to saying the Enterprise has photon torpedoes on board, when at the time they are solely a Klingon invention, although the book jumps about between them being photon and fusion torpedoes on a couple of occasions, serving to confuse the matter more.

The layout of the story is as a series of unexplained flashbacks that Lieutenant Reed is experiencing, dropped in at regular occasions, while he is in the days after Ensign Hart's death. However, these just serve to just keep the reader in the dark about what has already happened, until near the end of the story. The chronologial errors are at the transitions between these flashbacks and the present time, according to the television series, the Enterprise was first launched in April 2151, however the dates mentioned (apart from one log entry in the first chapter) are all December 2150/January 2151.

Having said all that, if you can overlook all these points while reading, the book isnt that bad, and would probably be worth getting a 4 out of 5 rating.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A decent outing, 2 Jul 2008
By GJ "jongredic" (Liverpool, UK) - See all my reviews
What Price Honor is a fairly decent and easy read, however it's brought down by some inaccuracies here and there.

The good things about this novel are that the characterisations are pretty good, especially that of Reed. In this respect, it's reminiscent of season two's Minefield, while making reference to a variety of season one episodes (notably Vox Sola, Desert Crossing, Detained, Silent Enemy and very vague continuity with Shuttlepod One).

Unfortunately, this accurate character depiction even spreads so far as to end up with Mayweather having no real lines outside of "yes, sir" and I imagine staring at the helm... which is a shame, but this story isn't about him.

The story, while clever, uses flashbacks as its main way of carrying on the story. As the other reviewer notes, this is riddled with inaccuracies as the dates given for chapter headings are late December 2150 and early January 2151 (a year into the mission), despite Enterprise only being launched in April 2151. Also there is this issue with scanners being called tricorders and mentions of photon/fusion torpedoes. These can be easily overlooked though.

The major downfall of this book is as it approaches the end. It gets quite dramatic and emotional towards the end, but literally within the last page, the entire episode is put behind them and off the crew go on their merry way, just as unaware Alana Hart existed as before the book...

Apart from this, it's a fairly decent read, with good pace and some good character development, although it would've been nice to see a little more involvement from Archer dealing with the first loss of a crewman (this happens in the series nearly a year after this book is set).

Much better than By The Book and hopefully puts the Enterprise books on the right track.
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