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Shockwave (Star Trek: Enterprise) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Paul Ruditis (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 305 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Books; New edition edition (2 Aug 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743464567
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743464567
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.8 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 525,361 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Thirty-six thousand colonists were incinerated in the blast. Every living thing, every building, everything on the surface of the planet was destroyed in the fireball.Only one ship could have been responsible for such wholesale destruction - the USS Enterprise.

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Paul Ruditis has written and contributed to numerous TV-related books on hit shows including The West Wing, Roswell, Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise.

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3.0 out of 5 stars An Intriguing try, 1 Nov 2003
This review is from: Shockwave (Star Trek) (Hardcover)
I can't honestly say I have read this book the 5 or 6 times I have read novelisations before, two or three is closer, and even then after the first time I still haven't managed to read it the whole way through and that is what is most damaging about this book. It should have been better, but it falls into the trap most novelisations do. It fails to evoke the feeling of seeing it on television.

Ruditis tries with a strong sense of loyalty to the script and it was actually in hindsight one of the strongest Enterprise scripts in a while.

In a nutshell Enterprise vaporises over 3000 people and according to a time traveller, history never recorded it. And thus ensues a romp between times going back 9 or 10 months and forward 1000 years in the series timeline, trying to follow Archer and his crew as they seek answers to the whys and wherfores of the incident. (Cue the temporal cold war as mentioned in Broken Bow)

The unfortunate part of this book is that as you are reading it all of the additional points such as scenes with Admiral Forrest in the prologue and epilogue seem to be dwarfed by the central story and long after the book has been finished these small scenes fade and the hugeness of the story remains.

And that is the crux of the problem with this book. The story has a monumental size to it and anything added was always going to pale in comparison. That's not to say it's a dire read or that it should be avoided like the plague, or even that the central point of the novel, the main story if you will, is badly written or poorly executed. In fact it isn't, it takes the episode and takes the reader from being a outside observer gives you an opportunity via imagination to become an active participant, it just falls short of satisfying the reader. Ruditis' descriptive power is good and it gets you into the centere of the story and that is one of this book's virtues

It's a great book if you've seen the episode/s. In fact it allows you the opportunity to re-live some of the good moments of the episode, but at the end of the day, it isn't the show and it is very rare for a novelisation to be able to successfully grapple with the original script and either improve or match it.

On the whole it's a fair and intriguing try. Intriguing because you can almost see the author trying desperately to put his own stamp on the story, but this was the one story that such a thing just comes accross as filler. I wouldn't part with the book it's good for long journeys and rainy days. It fulfills the distraction quota, but if your looking for something to sink into and engage your mind. A novelisation, just never was it!

Enjoyable, light and fun? Yes. As entertaining as Peter David's New Frontier? No! As warming as Voyager's "Day of Hounour"?Again with the No!

Ultimately, wait for it to go paperback.

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