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Summary: New Earth Series continues to Entertain
Review: The Third installment of the 6 book series New Earth continues to entertain. This book takes place entirely on Belle Terre. The stars of this book are Chekov, Sulu, and Uhura. The shuttle that Chekov is on crashes and in the story that follows we see Sulu and Uhura deal with a multitude of problems from technical to dealing with the colonists. We also see Chekov struggling to survive. It is a very good read for fans of those characters.
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Summary: Enjoyable..Nice to see the secondary crew out
Review: This book focuses on the secondary crew..Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, Chekov, and gives all of them a nice chance to shine. The plot does seem recycled, but it's a nice diversion from the "got to save the planet" theme of the other two books. Now we just have to save a part...lol
I have to say...I'm really enjoying this new take from Pocket, instead of just a bunch of monthly books, an arch from each. Very nice. Keeps me coming back for more now rather than..nice..another Star Trek book. Good book start the series at Book 1 though!
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Summary: LA Graf does it again.
Review: This is a wonderful book. LA Graf continues her long tradition of incredible Star Trek books. In this one, ahe does an especially good job of bringing out Uhura, Chekov, and Sulu and really letting them shine.
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Summary: Star Trek #91 Rough Trails - A long and drawn out tale!
Review: This is the fifth L.A. Graf (Let's All Get Rich and Famous), Julia Ecklar and Karen Rose Cercone Star Trek novel that I've read now and I hate to admit it, but with the exception of their Star Trek Deep Space Nine Day of Honor novel, "Armageddon Sky," which was an excellent novel, their novels just don't seem to grab me as a reader. This novel doesn't transcend that feeling too well either. It may be their writing style, which for the majority of their novels seems to have a pacing problem and they just don't seem to grab the reader and give them the compelling feeling towards the story or the characters.This third novel in the Star Trek New Earth series, "Rough Trails, does have one thing going for it though, it doesn't center around the three primary characters of Kirk, Spock and McCoy, as the majority of the novels and all of the episodes and movies do. The cover art for this novel is an exception to the norm as well as it does paint a bright picture of Belle Terre. It may not be the Belle Terre that is described throughout a majority of this novel but it does come into play later in the novel. The premise: Following where the last novel, "Belle Terre" left off in which Captain Kirk was forced to move a small moon from a gas giant in the Belle Terre (Occult) solar system and crash it into Belle Terre's olivium rich moon in order to vent it and prevent it from exploding, "Rough Trails" sets a new tone for the New Earth series. It is now some time after Belle Terre's olivium rich moon was struck by the other moon but during that explosion, debris from the collision hit Belle Terre, changing its environment in a very bad way. The colonists, who were more or less forced to stay due to a lack of supplies for the extraordinarily long journey back to Federation space, are now faced with living in the conditions created by the debris' collision with Belle Terre's surface. Chekov, has been recently promoted to Lieutenant Commander and is scheduled to depart to become the First Officer on the USS Reliant has been working on the planets orbital platform while Kirk and the Enterprise have been patrolling the fringes of the system, preventing piracy of the olivium. Scotty, Uhura and Sulu have been working on the planets surface attempting to make things better for the colonists. Uhura has been attempting to create a communications system that works on the planet which is presently in the dry season and the atmosphere is laden with olivium dust which has been preventing a viable communications system. As the story opens up, Chekov has hitched a ride down to the planets surface on a re-supply shuttle but during the shuttles run, it's shot down. Here is one of the few intriguing moments of this novel as Chekov must lead himself and the shuttle's crew members out from the bottom of Crater Lake, where the shuttle crash landed. What follows from there is a tale, which in some ways contradicts some established facts from the two previous Star Trek New Earth novels, in which Chekov goes through a series of extraordinary events on this desolate planet and it's now, seemingly barbaric colonists and where Sulu and Uhura are doing everything they can to locate Chekov. Along the way, Sulu and Uhura discover that Crater Lake is about the break and the resulting flood will destroy everything in its path, causing them to divert their search for Chekov as they must warn as many colonists as possible. I would only recommend this novel as it is part of the Star Trek New Earth series and that while this series may not be the best that Pocket Books have put out; it's still somewhat interesting to read. {ssintrepid}
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