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Summary: Interesting Voyager Novel
Review: Star Trek Voyager was a great television series, with the most memorable characters since The Next Generation series. The novelization of Voyager provides entertainment for grateful Voyager/Star Trek fans. Section 31 is the second Voyager novel I have read.
The story is about Seven and how someone or something is trying to kill her. As she and Janeway try to get to the bottom of this, the second plot involves a planet-sized, Noah's Ark-type ship full of a race called Rhawns. The Rhawns are trying to escape the collision of their suns and save their race and their people. Janeway has to help these people, but trust and science issues get in the way - and time is ticking away.
The first three-quarters of the book is immensely intriguing, but the final quarter does not finish all the storylines, or tie them together neatly. I felt some interesting characters were just cut off. Nevertheless, this is a worthy effort that is mainly true to the characters and the show.
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Summary: Ship 1, Woman 0
Review: The concept of Section 31 piqued my interest but, the idea of Section 31 on Voyager almost prevented me from getting this book. I had the same fear as another reviewer about this agent possibly still having contact with Section 31 back in the Alpha Quadrant. I'm not ruining the story by saying there is no contact with the Alpha Quadrant, and that is established quite early in the book. Now the book gets good.Some are complaining about the aliens and the alien problem in the book, and yes to an extent this could have been a bit less canned, but this really is a side plot. The main thing is trying to figure out what is going on with Seven and who is trying to kill her. This had me guessing all the way up until it was revealed what was going on. I will say I was shocked when Voyager fired at Seven on the "planet ship". Yes the SHIP fired it's HUGE phasers at a tiny human woman!! All in all, the main plot was a good one, the side plot was just barely average. In comparison to TNG's book this one is terribly lacking.
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Summary: Ship 1, Woman 0
Review: The concept of Section 31 piqued my interest but, the idea of Section 31 on Voyager almost prevented me from getting this book. I had the same fear as another reviewer about this agent possibly still having contact with Section 31 back in the Alpha Quadrant. I'm not ruining the story by saying there is no contact with the Alpha Quadrant, and that is established quite early in the book. Now the book gets good. Some are complaining about the aliens and the alien problem in the book, and yes to an extent this could have been a bit less canned, but this really is a side plot. The main thing is trying to figure out what is going on with Seven and who is trying to kill her. This had me guessing all the way up until it was revealed what was going on. I will say I was shocked when Voyager fired at Seven on the "planet ship". Yes the SHIP fired it's HUGE phasers at a tiny human woman!! All in all, the main plot was a good one, the side plot was just barely average. In comparison to TNG's book this one is terribly lacking.
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Summary: An excellent Star Trek: Voyager novel
Review: The premise of this short series of related Star Trek novels is an offshoot of a storyline that first manifested in ST: Deep Space Nine. The concept is that the ethical and altruistic Federation has a secret service equivalent to the Romulan Tal Shiar or the Cardassian Union's Obsidian Order. An amoral covert organization of espionage, sabotage and assassination designed to deal with dangers and problems that are not easily solved within Starfleet an Federation parameters of law and conduct. Personally I find the whole "Section 31" concept to be antithetical to the reasons I have enjoyed the various Star Trek incarnations over the years. Gene Rodenberry would probably be appalled... With that said, I must say that I enjoyed this ST: Voyager novel immensely, and the Section 31 influence was perhaps the lightest here of all the books in this series. It is especially enjoyable having a novel that so well reflects the characters as they were portrayed in the TV series, with Seven of Nine and Captain Janeway being particularly well developed. The authors are to be commended on a tale well told.
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Summary: Weaker than "Rogue," but still good...
Review: The second in the "Section 31" series, I probably would have given "Shadow" two stars, had it not, near the end, picked up with a very unique idea for the "villain" of the story, and taken a turn for the better, plot wise. The plot, as I've said, starts out a little frustrating, but definately picks up mid-to-end of the book. But the characterization of a lot of the characters seems a little off on first glance. Now, certainly, there are clues that this book takes place not-too-far into the development of Seven's character (it happens at some point during the time of Tom Paris' demotion to Ensign), but Seven comes across especially harsh. This isn't so horrible a thing - I imagine writing Seven must be a much more monumental task than even writing a Vulcan - but at times I found myself disliking her, which isn't something that happened during the run of the series. The involvement of Section 31 in Voyager is given a very plausible run - an agent was assigned, we learn at the very beginning, to help the "Maquis" situation turn out the way that Section 31 wanted it to. This is not a plot of a Section 31 Officer who is still in contact with the Federation (as I'd previously worried, prior to buying the book). Give it a shot if you like the Section 31 idea, but it's a good read regardless, just a little weak at the beginning.
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Summary: Weaker than "Rogue," but still good...
Review: The second in the "Section 31" series, I probably would have given "Shadow" two stars, had it not, near the end, picked up with a very unique idea for the "villain" of the story, and taken a turn for the better, plot wise. The plot, as I've said, starts out a little frustrating, but definately picks up mid-to-end of the book. But the characterization of a lot of the characters seems a little off on first glance. Now, certainly, there are clues that this book takes place not-too-far into the development of Seven's character (it happens at some point during the time of Tom Paris' demotion to Ensign), but Seven comes across especially harsh. This isn't so horrible a thing - I imagine writing Seven must be a much more monumental task than even writing a Vulcan - but at times I found myself disliking her, which isn't something that happened during the run of the series. The involvement of Section 31 in Voyager is given a very plausible run - an agent was assigned, we learn at the very beginning, to help the "Maquis" situation turn out the way that Section 31 wanted it to. This is not a plot of a Section 31 Officer who is still in contact with the Federation (as I'd previously worried, prior to buying the book). Give it a shot if you like the Section 31 idea, but it's a good read regardless, just a little weak at the beginning.
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Summary: How to earn 5 stars easy
Review: This book is an example of what Star Trek books should be. I have read some reviews of others where grammar mistakes or plot confusions earned the book a low rating. Shadow only had one grammar error that I noticed which for books like this is an accomplishment. Even though I hadn't read any of the other Section 31 books yet, I thought the plot was great. It affects Seven's humanity and security on the ship. Pick it up for intrigue and just enough fun to make it a good read.
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Summary: its suspensful and will keep you reading for hours
Review: this book is very cool! all i can say is that it will keep you reading! a foreign space ship the size of delaware and millions of people at risk is in trouble because an asteroid hit it. will voyager save them? and how will the do it when its thousands of times bigger. meanwhile 7 of 9 is trying to be killed by a secret attacker. but how do you stop him when you cant see him or have any record of him being on the ship or issuing an attack on seven? buy it and find out. i promise you wont be disappointed!
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Summary: Good Book
Review: This book was very good. The whole idea of having a section 31 operative aboard Voyager was very interesting. You don't even have to know anything about DS9, all you have to do is have a basic knowledge of what Section 31 and who Sloan is. A very good book.
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Summary: Competent but uninspired
Review: This is competent work, but that's about it. Readers interested in Section 31 should be warned that the book doesn't really delve into the workings of that mysterious organization. The operative who is trying to kill Seven of Nine is already dead, which takes away a lot of the potential drama of the situation. This is the sort of book you can breeze through on a bus or in a waiting room without missing anything. And by the way, the previous reviewer was wrong in calling this Section 31 series the big summer Trek crossover. There's a 7-book crossover called "Gateways" in the pipeline.
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