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Summary: Abridged Too Far
Review: Awful audio adaptation of what was probably a better book. A good idea concerning the life of Captain Kirk's father is abridged so much that the plot breaks down. It winds up being just a straight line story with very few plot twists worth mentioning. James Doohan's voice talents are wasted on an exceedingly short presentation.
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Summary: The First Enterpise
Review: Diane Carey's "Final Frontier" has to be a must read for any fan of the original series. It tells the first story of the Enterprise before it acquired it's legendary name. Under the captaincy of Robert April; George Kirk (Jim's father) embarks on the test run of the infamous ship. The adversary in this one is the Romulans. We get a glimpse of their uncompromising world of political treachery within their own ranks. This one is everything the new prequel series should be. Alive with interesting characters that act like real humans; unlike some of the Starfleet members we've seen on TV in the show Voyager. If there is any book that needs a reprinting it's this one.
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Summary: The First Enterpise
Review: Diane Carey's "Final Frontier" has to be a must read for any fan of the original series. It tells the first story of the Enterprise before it acquired it's legendary name. Under the captaincy of Robert April; George Kirk (Jim's father) embarks on the test run of the infamous ship. The adversary in this one is the Romulans. We get a glimpse of their uncompromising world of political treachery within their own ranks. This one is everything the new prequel series should be. Alive with interesting characters that act like real humans; unlike some of the Starfleet members we've seen on TV in the show Voyager. If there is any book that needs a reprinting it's this one.
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Summary: Possible Romulan first contact?
Review: In "The City on the Edge of Forever", onee of the best-loved original Star Trek episodes, Spock and Capt. Kirk have to prevent a drug-crazed Dr. McCoy from saving a woman from being struck by a car in 1930's Earth---a woman Kirk ends up falling in love with. This novel begins by picking up where that episode leaves off.Kirk, now seriously debating whether or not he should resign his Starfleet commission, takes shore leave on Earth where he manages to take comfort in letters from his father, Commander George Samuel Kirk Sr. But these letters are more than just conversations between father and son. They contain clues to the mystery of one of Starfleet's most highly classified first contact missions that went horribly wrong...and at the same time made the Enterprise truly worthy of her name, twenty-five years before Kirk would assume command. I gave this book four stars because it isn't the easiest Star Trek read in the world, since you have to wade through a lot of "background" or "historical" information to get to some of its most important points, but it is very well written; I enjoy it mostly for the great amount lot of insight given to the character of Jim's father, and what the Enterprise might have been like as an unmarked, unregistered, completely brand new Starfleet prototype. I have only one negative: George Kirk's befriending of the Romulan Field Primus t'Cael adds good drama, but it doesn't quite gel with the idea that eventually the Romulans and the Federation would go to war, which would lead to the creation of the Neutral Zone (see classic episode "Balance of Terror"), but it's still a good book.
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Summary: Another great from a great author
Review: Mrs/Ms. Carey has done it again,produced yet another great novel involving the Star Trek universe.The story itself is outstanding,along with the detail given to it,it is one of the greatest I have read.There was only one let-down and one problem in the story.The let-down was that I didn't get to know what "Tiberius" meant,and the problem was when George Kirk thought of the name Enterprise for the new starship,I thought that was kind of going overboard with it.But still,it showed how two rival forces can come together and fight against the corruption of a race(in this particular case,the Romulans).This is a must read!
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Summary: Commander George Kirk is where STARTREK begins!
Review: This book tells the reader where STARTREK begins, with the construction of a new class of starship, Captain Robert April(some may remember him from the STARTREK cartoon) drafts his old friend Cmdr. George Kirk. After sabatoge by Romulan spies poising as crewmembers and accident sends the starship through space into the Romulan Empire. Only due to the fact of Romulan paranoia and the famous "Kirk" luck does the starship escape. This novels also tells us why the Romulans develope cloaking technology when James T. Kirk encounters Roumulans in the future. This novel will hold you to the end leaving you wishing for more. P.S. If anyone knows of a copy I would love to get one of my own, I had to borrow a friends. Enjoy it if you can find it.
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Summary: Final Frontier, The First Adventure
Review: This book was very well written. It kept me on the edge of my seat. I couldn't put it down till I read the whole thing. It was interesting to go back and forth from the past and future. I liked 'Final Frontier' alot.
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Summary: Final Frontier, The First Adventure
Review: This book was very well written. It kept me on the edge of my seat. I couldn't put it down till I read the whole thing. It was interesting to go back and forth from the past and future. I liked 'Final Frontier' alot.
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