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Summary: Bottom Line: A good read
Review: Most Star Trek novels are not known for their literary prowess or exceptionally profound storylines. This book is no exception. However, I did find it a quite enjoyable read, with an interesting premise and exciting action sequences. I do take issue with some of Ms. Carey's characterizations and use of dialogue (for example Morgan Bateson's fascination with Gabe Bush's accent -- what was that all about?), but overall she does write a good story. This first part of the novel plods along, but once you get to the second half, the story does improve significantly. If you're looking for a good read over a lazy weekend or a day on the beach, this book comes highly recommended. Three stars out of five because it isn't great, but it is entertaining.
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Summary: ST-TNG: Ship of the Line
Review: Star Trek - The Next Generation written by Diane Carey is a book of many facets involving the Star Trek genre. This book adds to the history of several different television episodes like one that I can think of "Cause and Effect" and the book Star Trek: First Contact is just beginning at the end of his book.Like I mentioned, this book seems to tie some lose ends together. There are two main themes in this book that seem to be rather seperated, but later on in the book become apparent that they do interplay. The first is the U.S.S. Bozeman after fighting the Klingon's 70 years earlier is now in their future and we find out what they were up to then as it affects what is going on now. Another time warp anomaly mixing the twenty-third and the twenty-fourth century's timelines. Well, the U.S.S. Bozeman and her Captain, Morgan Bateson are now in their relative future. Bateson pulls rank on Picard and takes the new Starship Enterprise 1701-E on a shakedown, but that's not all as Bateson believes the Klingon Empire is building it's forces and is preparing to strike the Federation. Now the newly minted Enterprise is on a mission to thwart the threat. Secondly, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is sent on a mission to release Federation prisioners held by the Cardassians. As Gul Madred and Picard work out the details for the release Picard hears about what Bateson is upto. From the book "Relics" Scotty is onboard the new Entrprise as are via holodeck James T. Kirk and others. As Picard works out logistics with Kirk. Captain Bateson is not without enemies and of course the Klingons will oblige with Kozara who has been nursing a grudge for decades. Now, Captain Jean-Luc Picard has to decide... choose whether to take back command or let Bateson continue. This book pits present Star Trek with past Star Trek as Carey tries to blend it all together. The book moves quickly and the narrative is lively enough to keep your interest... and the out come is in doubt till close to the end of the story.
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Summary: Simply awful
Review: It's been about a year since I read a Star Trek novel. It was Peter David's deplorable "I, Q." After reading the equally regeattable "Ship of the Line" I think I'll wait another year. My love of the original cast is as deep as anyone's but KIRK IS DEAD! Let him rest. No holodeck recreations, no reincarnations, no nothing. I was also put off by the hurried nature of the ending.
"Hey, did you catch the saboteur that's been mentioned every other chapter?"
"Oh yeah, it was just some dude."
And that's it.
I've only read two other Star Trek/Diane Carey books ("Final Frontier" and "Dreadnought") and they were infinitely superior to this slop of a novel.
Rating: 
Summary: Has its moments, but falls short...
Review: When I started reading this book I thought to myself, "wow, I actually like this book." But soon after, I decided it wasn't as good as I thought it was.
It has some excellent moments, namely, Riker's attitude toward Bateson and his "old style" of thinking, and Picard's identity crisis is a real plus.
I don't think it was very realistic to have given Morgan Bateson, a man from ninety years in the past (oh wait, ninety- THREE!), command of the new Enterprise, (granted, they WOULD try to promote Picard to admiral, so I'm not complaining about that), but I think command would most certainly have gone to someone who knew how the current world worked... and the way Bateson botched the Klingon encounter, it was obvious he didn't know what he was doing. I was going to give it 3 stars (it was a descent book after all) but the ending ruined the ENTIRE book. Man, Diance Carey slapped an ending on it just to end it. The book could easily have been another 100 pages, if not two... That would have been sweet. There was still so much story to tell, and she didn't give the book its due. Diane Carey has never been one of my favorite writers, but she had something with this one, but it fell short of it's potential. 2 stars. Recomended read, but only if you want to be dissapointed
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Summary: Thankfully, I got it on the bargain pyramid...
Review: This was, well, awful. It seems like the author bit off more than she could chew. She drew together plots with Captain Bateman and his crew (from the TNG Episode "Cause and Effect,"), brought in the brand new Enterprise-E, tied in Scotty, the Gul that tortured Picard in "Chain of Command,", some previous-century Klingons, and - oh yes - a holodeck recreation of Kirk. And tribbles. The result is an alarmingly out-of-character mash of crossovers that leaves you feeling like you're reading a comedy, not a science fiction novel. The only thing that redeemed this book at all to me was the plight of Captain Bateman and his crew, stranded far ahead of their own timeline. They were interesting. The rest was not. Skip this one, unless you'd like to know more about the crew of the USS Bozeman. But go to a library.
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