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Summary: Where was the proofreader?
Review: Before discussing the substance of this story, I have to say I was dismayed by the lack of proofreading. Not only were there simple typographical errors, but often extra words were inserted where they did not belong. Also, characters spoke in ways we didn't hear them speak on the television show; for instance, B'Elanna refers to Voyager as "the Voyager," so, instead of saying she was returning to Voyager, she'd say she was returning to "the Voyager." (Where was the editor? How about continuity?) I've read several Voyager books, and noticed this one had the most mistakes. Beyond that, it was a somewhat interesting story.CAUTION: Mild spoilers follow. In what appeared to be a crossover from the original series, Voyager encounters a "doomsday machine," but, aside from mentioning this, the book doesn't offer any further linkage. It might have been more interesting if this had been Matt Decker's doomsday machine, but as far as we know from this book, it probably was not. The alien species was interesting if for nothing other than morphology. The Sperians have no eyes, ears or noses, just mouths and many tendrils atop their heads. Turns out these tendrils provide their visual, auditory and olfactory senses. Other than this, perhaps the most engaging part of the story comes when Tuvok enters a mind meld with a Sperian. After the meld, the two are still linked -- I don't recall this happening before in Trek lore. Tuvok has part of the Sperian's personality, and vice versa. It was curious, and added to the story, but...it was never resolved at the end! There was an entertaining side story about the disgruntled ex-Maquis, Paul Fairman, who sets out to find his way off Voyager by amassing funds via a black market replicator. He and Neelix have some amusing interactions, and it is finally left to Neelix to solve this personnel issue. Similar to other Trek books, this was a quick, escapist read. If that's what you're looking for, then by all means, read on! Just know that, for whatever reason, the editors didn't give this one the attention it deserved.
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Summary: A fantastic book, I have read it four times, really lovely
Review: Excelent book, the mind melding of vulcans is discussed in a very interesting and descriptive way, the alliens physiology is also a new flavor. I would recommend it to any trekky.
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Summary: not bad
Review: I enjoyed Tuvok going bonkers and Neelix outsmarting the guy with the replicator. but, don't read this if you're not a Voyager fan.
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Summary: STV #5 Incident at Arbuk - A quick and interesting read!
Review: I found this first solo novel of John G. Betancourt's to be a quick and interesting read. Although there might have been some grammatical errors in the novel, they were minor and inconsequential. One of the first things you'll notice in this story is the authors writing style, which is very good, lending heavily to a well paced novel. I did find his characterizations to be a bit off, but that is to be expected given the time in which this novel was written and published, with approximately only a years worth of episodes to work off of. In good keeping with Voyager novels of the time, the cover art is a slight cut above the other titles being published at that time. The premise: Voyager stumbles upon a distress signal from a shuttle and follows it to a nearly deserted system known as Arbuk. Once there they discover what is essentially a doomsday machine that is considerably more powerful than a starship. They also soon discover a rather interesting alien who is a Sperian. Captain Janeway and the crew of Voyager soon find themselves under attack by an alien fleet bent on taking possession of the weapon and they must find a way to keep it out of their hands... What follows from there is, as stated above, a quick and interesting early Star Trek Voyager novel that is well worth the time to read. I recommend this title to any and all fans of Star Trek fiction. {ssintrepid}
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Summary: STV #5 Incident at Arbuk - A quick and interesting read!
Review: I found this first solo novel of John G. Betancourt's to be a quick and interesting read. Although there might have been some grammatical errors in the novel, they were minor and inconsequential. One of the first things you'll notice in this story is the authors writing style, which is very good, lending heavily to a well paced novel. I did find his characterizations to be a bit off, but that is to be expected given the time in which this novel was written and published, with approximately only a years worth of episodes to work off of. In good keeping with Voyager novels of the time, the cover art is a slight cut above the other titles being published at that time. The premise: Voyager stumbles upon a distress signal from a shuttle and follows it to a nearly deserted system known as Arbuk. Once there they discover what is essentially a doomsday machine that is considerably more powerful than a starship. They also soon discover a rather interesting alien who is a Sperian. Captain Janeway and the crew of Voyager soon find themselves under attack by an alien fleet bent on taking possession of the weapon and they must find a way to keep it out of their hands... What follows from there is, as stated above, a quick and interesting early Star Trek Voyager novel that is well worth the time to read. I recommend this title to any and all fans of Star Trek fiction. {ssintrepid}
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Summary: Where was the proofreader?
Review: Incident At Arbuk is a good book.It started out slow, but picked up at the end. It's about the voyager crew finding a deadly weapon, more powerful than any starfleet vessel. Inside a shuttle, they find a Sperian unconcious. Could the Sperian be a link to the weapon? Can they make him concious again? If you want to find out more, I suggest you to read it.
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Summary: Incident At Arbuk
Review: Incident At Arbuk is a good book.It started out slow, but picked up at the end. It's about the voyager crew finding a deadly weapon, more powerful than any starfleet vessel. Inside a shuttle, they find a Sperian unconcious. Could the Sperian be a link to the weapon? Can they make him concious again? If you want to find out more, I suggest you to read it.
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Summary: A Quick Read
Review: Incident at Arbuk was an average book. The plot: Crew finds weird sensor readings. Crew finds big superweapon. Crew finds an alien. Crew finds trouble. Crew finds more trouble. Crew finds solution. It's mostly one big cliché. But it was fairly interesting, just not engrossing. The Sperians were pretty cool aliens, but that's about all that caught my attention. Just a quick, slightly amusing read.
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Summary: A Quick Read
Review: Incident at Arbuk was an average book. The plot: Crew finds weird sensor readings. Crew finds big superweapon. Crew finds an alien. Crew finds trouble. Crew finds more trouble. Crew finds solution. It's mostly one big cliché. But it was fairly interesting, just not engrossing. The Sperians were pretty cool aliens, but that's about all that caught my attention. Just a quick, slightly amusing read.
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Summary: The author's commentary.
Review: The first Voyager novels -- this was one -- were written before the TV series ever aired, based on a couple of scripts. There are a few minor inconsistencies with the series (people keep pointing this out to me . . . I know now, but I didn't at the time), so please keep that in mind when you read it. Reviewers have said this is a solid, entertaining action/adventure book. There are plenty of NON-humanoid aliens, and Neelix finally gets something to do beyond comic relief
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