Fire Ship (Star Trek Voyager: The Captains Table, Book 4)

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Summary: Very good entry in the series
Review: I love "Captain's Table" series, and while I am not a big fun of Janeway, this book embodied the best of Star Trek attractions, even though some of the elements are not entirely original. Worth having.

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Summary: GREAT BOOK! Must Read!
Review: I was expecting this book to be good, but it was more than good, it was excellent. An excelent plot that keeps the book up non stop until you are done.

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Summary: A great character piece about Cpatain Janeway
Review: If you are a Janeway fan, you'll love this book.Carey knows exactly what makes Janeway tick, and weaves a wonderful tale of trust away from the normal Voyager setting.The novel works because it places Janeway in an unusual situation and watches her try to cope with isolation from her crewmates.Carey's sensitive prose and descriptive storytelling makes this a winner!

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Summary: Something good came out of Voyager? I'm shocked . . .
Review: Incredible. Of all the excellent Captain's Table novels, so far I'd rate this one as the best (although I'm 99.99% sure that Peter David's Calhoun book will utterly destroy that rating). Since I read the novels one after another in marathon fashion, the break from the bar scenes such as from "The Mist" was welcome, although I can see how as a standalone novel in the series one would wonder, "Whither the Captain's Table?" In any case, an excellent story and an excellent read.

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Summary: Captain Out of Character
Review: It is interesting to see everything from the captain's point of view, but I noticed one fatal flaw: Captain Janeway is out of character. She is almost a raving lunatic for a few chapters instead of keeping her usual level head. The worst part is when she gives up trying to find Voyager. She doesn't know for sure if it is destroyed, doesn't go to check, and almost immediately accepts Voyager's destruction.
Another thing I didn't like was the lack of other Voyager characters. They were mentioned, but appeared only at the beginning and end of the book. Half the fun of seeing everything from the captain's point of view is watching how she deals with some of the members of her crew. Take Tom, for example. If he makes one of his characteristic remarks, does the captain mind? Does she feel annoyed?
On a more positive note, I did find the book entertaining, and the lack of Voyager made me more happy to see it in the end.

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Summary: Are you sure it's Janeway?
Review: It was a gripping book, but the start was a bit hazy and don't really know what was going on. The story was well thought out, but I just feel it didn't really fit into my image of Janeway. Yes, the woman was tough, strong minded and very clever, and earned her way up in the alien ship, but the gut feeling tells me that there's something missing to make it real Janeway.

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Summary: Thanks to all who read and comment
Review: It's a pleasure to read comments about my books--writing is really a very isolating process and I don't hear much back (other than continued requests to write more and Pocket's offers to keep it up). Yes, FIRE SHIP is a little (a lot) different from the typical Trek book. After all, if they're all the same, they're not worth writing or reading. The isolation of Janeway is a reflection of the book CAPTAIN'S COURAGEOUS, in which a rich kid falls off a cruise ship and is picked up by Gloucester fisherman. The story explores the concept of isolation within a ship's crew wherein one does not fit at all. Janeway's captaincy was always a given, her superiority always a little too easy for her, as the daughter of an admiral and top of her class, etc. Having to fight her way up again in a ship where she has no credibility and nobody knows who she is shows her core strengths. All the Captain's Table books were based upon some aspect of "sea story" tradition. I picked CAPTAIN'S COURAGEOUS as a character study in isolation and survival. That's why Janeway is separated from her crew all the way through--like Harvey Cheyne, his relationship with his father and with himself is enhanced because of his separation from father and identity. So for Janeway. Thanks again, everyone.

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Summary: Thoughts of the Fire Ship
Review: It's a very good story. The way it put every thing into a first person point of view. It's different from a 3rd person point of view. Everyone in the story was well laded out. The way it builds up the story.

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Summary: Fantastic Book!!!!!
Review: Out of the four books based on the television shows, this one was by far the best. I'm not a big Voyager fan, preferring a good episode of Deep Space Nine any day, but this book beat the other Captain's Table novels to pieces. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: diane carey could do alot better
Review: the "fire ship" actualy goes down in flames. the beginning of the book isn't understandable and doesn't match the tv episodes in any way. the story itself isn't fluent and doesn't catch the reader. the book could have been writen as a reguler book with more success and not as a "captain's table" episode. it misses the actual atmosphere of a story told in a bar (e.g. "the mist"). the book is also acompanied with many spelling and grammer erorrs. i hope carey will do better with her next book.