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Summary: The worst case nightmare becomes a reality.
Review: In the wake of the Genesis Project debacle the Federation attempted to destroy all record of it and placed Dr. Carol Marcus in hiding. While they were successful, they were not successful enough. Some 90 years later, Dr. Marcus is kidnapped and, a few months after that, a monstrous energy wave begins to sweep across the galaxy, reforming every planet it comes in contact with. Just who, or what, is responsible for this genocidal attack? You'll have to find out in Book Two!Book One of the Genesis Wave trilogy is okay when looked at as the first act of a three part story. While it does an excellent job of introducing the monstrous threat to our heroes and laying out the hints and clues of the mysterious forces behind it, that is all that it does well. The novel lacks a strong dramatic story hook. Georgi La Forde's infatuation and search for a possible Wave survivor and how it effects a possible affair with another female visitor on the Enterprise is not the stuff that makes for compelling drama, actually it feels rather juvenile. Weak story aside, the epic threat and the mystery of just who, or what, unleashed it is interesting enough to have me started on the next book, but this is strictly for devoted fans of the long running series.
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Summary: The worst case nightmare becomes a reality.
Review: In the wake of the Genesis Project debacle the Federation attempted to destroy all record of it and placed Dr. Carol Marcus in hiding. While they were successful, they were not successful enough. Some 90 years later, Dr. Marcus is kidnapped and, a few months after that, a monstrous energy wave begins to sweep across the galaxy, reforming every planet it comes in contact with. Just who, or what, is responsible for this genocidal attack? You'll have to find out in Book Two! Book One of the Genesis Wave trilogy is okay when looked at as the first act of a three part story. While it does an excellent job of introducing the monstrous threat to our heroes and laying out the hints and clues of the mysterious forces behind it, that is all that it does well. The novel lacks a strong dramatic story hook. Georgi La Forde's infatuation and search for a possible Wave survivor and how it effects a possible affair with another female visitor on the Enterprise is not the stuff that makes for compelling drama, actually it feels rather juvenile. Weak story aside, the epic threat and the mystery of just who, or what, unleashed it is interesting enough to have me started on the next book, but this is strictly for devoted fans of the long running series.
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Summary: An excellent follow-up to one of the best Trek stories ever
Review: It's a running joke- all even number Trek films are good ones, and ST2- The Wrath of Khan is no exception. This book, while taking place in the Next Generation timeline, stays true to the original storyline, expands on it fabulously, and takes the reader deeper into the Genesis Device mythos. From the previous reviewers and the "dust-jacket" intro posted on Amazon, you have an idea of the plot- someone has, to quote David Marcus in ST2, perverted the Genesis device "into a dreadful weapon." Of course, Picard and crew get drawn into the story, and yadda yadda yadda. Certainly there are a few minor errors (the whole Defiant-class bridge-on-deck-two-instead-of-deck-one BS) but I'll leave that for the Trekkie nitpickers. While quite possibly the author COULD have packed all this stuff (Parts 1 and 2) into one book, thus not ticking me off waiting for the sequel, it is well-written, thought out plotline, and one keeping me eager for the next chapter.
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Summary: Too Unlikely
Review: John Vornholt forgets one of the most important aspects of Star Trek - you have to make the science believable. The problem with the Genesis Wave is that waves cannot travel faster than the speed of light. Vornholt nowhere explains how the wave travels at warp speed. Also, when it goes through a star system it seems to slow down (also unexplained). Lastly, it threatens earth but originates from a far corner of the Federation. It would take months (if not years) to travel that distance at the highest warp speeds. Vornholt does not offer an explanation for this either. This was one of the most disappointing series of Star Trek books that I have ever read.
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Summary: Top-notch adventure
Review: John Vornholt is one of the best of the "Trek" writers. His earlier TNG novel, "Rogue Saucer" would have make a killer episode. Here he returns to the Genesis Device, the destroyer/creator from the "The Wrath of Kahn." Try as the Federation might to erase it all, the technology exists, and someone has loosed it upon the galaxy. It's up to Picard and Co. to stop it before it kills billions more by destroying inhabited planets. The story plays out at a break-neck pace which makes it hard to put-down (and hard to wait until April 2001 to see how it finally ends). Discussions of the political effects of the Genesis Device's existence are clever, and the character dialogue rings true. And Geordi might even get a chance with his obsession, the lovely scientist Leah Brahms.
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Summary: One Book Hours Of Enjoyment!!!
Review: John Vornholt's The Genesis Wave Book 1 gives you hours of enjoyment. I love this book. You get into the book so much that you can't put it down. There's this wave that's killing and rebuilding everything in its path. Picard and the crew of the Enterprise go to try and help the planets in the way of the wave. They find out that Earth is in the path of this terrible wave. At the end of this book it leaves you hanging. You have to read Book 2. I recommend this book to everyone. READ IT!!!
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Summary: Vornholt Does it Again
Review: Last year's Gemworld series was a refreshing change from the mostly harmless recent Trek novel outings (New Frontier being the noteworthy exception; Peter David rules), so when I heard he was writing a Next Gen sequel to Star Trek 2, I figured it'd be worth picking up. With any other author, this would be a lame-as-hell pseudo-crossover; fortunately, Vornholt gives us a scintillating mystery and some fun suspense. As always, we know the regulars will escape unscathed, so the ending isn't as climactic as you would have it, but Vorholt does a spectacular job of making us care about ancillary characters like Leah Brahms, Klingon Consul Maltz, and specialist Dolores Linton. Geordi fans will definitely like this book and the sequel, as he plays a big role, and his pathetic love life takes center stage. (Can we get them to focus on this in the next movie, instead of yet another Picard/Data buddy pic?) The best part of this novel is the questions it raises: Who has resurrected Genesis, what do they want, and how in the hell does the Federation stop it? I look forward to the sequel, and give Vornholt mega kudos for crafting an interesting, well-developed Trek novel. Caveat: If you've seen Star Trek II, then Chapter Fourteen can be skipped, as all the "report" adds is a staggering dose of technobabble.
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Summary: Best Star Trek book I have read in a long time!
Review: Star Trek books usually are McDonalds for the mind, they are great while you are in the middle of them, but once it is gone that's it. Every once in a while a book will come out of the fold and grab me. This is one of those books. This story is filled with a disaster of galactic proportions, promising to threaten not only the Federation, but the Romulan Empire as well.
Carol Marcus is kiddnapped, and six months later the Genesis wave begins to tear through an entire sector of the Federation. Leah Brahms is the only survivor on a planet remade by the wave and barely escapes the system's destruction with another person from her science station. On her way to inform the Federation, she runs into an old friend of ours, (no I'm not telling). Eventually running into the Geordi and the crew of the Enterprise E.
The story is well crafted, the suspense keeps building, all the way til the final page....then you have to wait til April to finish the story. But as long as the second book is as good as the first I will be happy to wait.
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Summary: More "Science" Than Fiction
Review: The Genesis technology and its creator, Dr. Carol Marcus, have been taken by unknown beings and the technology is being used to destroy a large part of the galaxy unless it can be stopped by the Enterprise crew. Geordi is part of a romantic triangle with his dream woman Leah Brahms & a very interesting geologist. Riker and Deanna are still a couple; she beams down to a soon-to-be-destroyed planet to rescue him. Worf does not appear, as he is probably on Deep Space Nine. However, there is just too much "science" and not as much plot as I would like, as there was in one of my least favorite Next Gen books, Dyson Sphere, which is why I have given this book four stars instead of five.
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Summary: Good story but gets basic facts wrong.
Review: The Genesis Wave Book 1 has a good story line but it has flaws. Firstly why the 6 month wait for book 2 to come out? Secondly I agree this could have been made into 1 book. the only reason for it to be a 2 parter is greed. Thirdly it makes mistakes with its description of the defiant class ships, for example it says the bridge is on deck 2 while it is on deck 1. The crew of a Defiant class ship is said to be 10 when it is approximatly 45-50 and these are just a couple of errors.
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