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Summary: Excellent start to new "Trek" event
Review: An exciting start to a major epic. Editor John Ordover has been doing wonders with Pocket's entire "Star Trek" line, and I especially appreciate these event storylines that never seem too forced while they jump between the various incarnations of the franchise. Susan Wright's opener to the "Gateways" storyline sees her in fine form. I'm an avid reader of these books, and quite frankly nobody catches the voices and mannerisms of these time-honored characters better than she. In "Gateways" Ms. Wright keeps Kirk, Spock and McCoy's motivations "pure" to each character, meaning that I never hear the author editorializing through them, nor do I catch her manipulating them in order to forward the storyline. Finally, Ms. Wright deftly retrofits "Trek" continuity that we might have learned in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" or even in "Voyager" back into the time of the original series (e.g. Klingon references to Kahless) without distracting "in-your-face" bravado. I'm looking forward to seeing how she helps wrap up the storyline in the final "Gateways" jam session!
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Summary: Fooled again
Review: First about this story -- not bad despite having less action and romance than most Trek books. The plot has some mystery, but doesn't really get you lost or confused.
But once again Pocket Books has come up with another way to dupe us out of our money rather than just giving us a good product so that we keep coming back. The entire first 6 books of the series have very little interaction with each other, except that you must get the seventh to have a conclusion. And the seventh is only available, at this date, in hardback. I was more than slightly annoyed by the Rihannsu ploy where no indication was given of a continuing series and the conclusion is still not out after more than a year. This ploy is another of the same character (or lack thereof). If you like stories contained in a series of books, that's fine. I sometimes enjoy them. But tell us what we are getting. Don't hide it.
I've read book four (DS9) also. I found it even better than this one.
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Summary: One Small Step is right !!!
Review: First off I have to say that I am a bit biased as "That Which Survives", the episode that this is a sequel to, was one of my favourite shows. Having said that this is yet another recent Star Trek novel that continues the downward slide in the quality of story telling. Here we have a novel that takes 230 plus pages to tell a story that could have been told in 150. It is full of redundant padding, it has one of the most overused Star Trek cliches in the form of the interstellar transporter, the Klingon involvement is an utter waste of time, and the regular Enterprise crew seem to spend much of their time doing nothing. As for the ending it's just another attempt to improve sales by getting people to buy more than one book, but of course if the writing quality of recent Star Trek novels was any good there wouldn't be the problem of falling sales in the first place. Personally this novel, which seems aptly named, is another one that rather than being written seems to have been created by a replicator !!!
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Summary: My first Trek Book....
Review: I am a loooong time fan of ST. However, I never forayed into reading any of the books, beacause the couple of times I picked one up, the writing [was bad]- effectively turning me off to furhter attempts for a very long time...One day I sat down and started reading this book for the heck of it and was immediately drawn in. All the wonderful cheesiness and derring do! of TOS was perfectly captured in this book. I felt just like I was watching an episode of the series - I could even hear the overblown music and see the wonderfully overdawn and totally sixties costumes on the alien women... I was excited when the ending left me hanging for more...I eagerly picked up the next book....and that's where everything went wrong.... Unlike one of the previous reviewers I don't mind going through a series of books...I love it...I personally prefer "Neverending Stories" - but the next book is just awful! The writing is reprehensible at best! The characters are just caricatures of people...I can't say enough about how awful it is...I still haven't forced myself to finish the second book...Eventually I suppose I will because I want to know what happens to Capt. Kirk...but oohhhhh - how painful it is Read and love the first book...but be prepared for a massive let down with the second.... (I've subsequently started to read some other Trek books and I can't recommend Sarek by A.C. Crispin highly enough...WOW!!!)
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Summary: Why the combinations
Review: I enjoyed the book and was excited about the hung ending.
I jumped to read the second book to find out it had nothing to do with book one. I am not familure with these new characters and had to relean who they are.
If I wanted the read the new frontair I would have bought the new frontair.
Pocketbooks made a booboo with this series. I will still read the rest of this series because I am still curious what happend from book one
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Summary: One Small Step....to deteriorate the Star Trek name
Review: I have to say that after purchasing this book at a discount store....it still was not worth it. Nothing more needs to be said. The plot takes place after an orginal series episode. It makes me long for the days when the novels had at most one sequel. I still say the customer who reads Star Trek will after time....won't bother with this seven part sagas. What can be said in one novel is stretched out neeedlessly. This is no fault of the author. It is part of the plan to get fans to pay more for less.
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Summary: I thought it was a good book
Review: I thought that this was a very fun book to read. It was a little slow at times as some of mechanics of the computers were being explained in detail, but it was well worth the read. I especially liked how it is based at the end of a previous Star Trek episode, and how the author took it even further. This would have made a great 2nd part of the episode. The characters, both old and new, were portrayed well. I would recommend this book as well as the next book in the Gateways series.
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Summary: Star Trek Gateways One Small Step
Review: I've noticed that we are now getting TV episodes and to continue the story in novelizations. "One Which Survives" is the TV episode and "One Small Step" is the continuation of the story. Now, I did like both of the above, but I believe that we need a little more originality. Not that combining both is a bad idea. But new stories need to be written in single complete books. I am not fond of the trend of "Mini-series in the Star trek genre. This tends to lead the reader on like a marketing trick. But enough of this, now the book itself is inself a good read fast and about James T. Kirk et.al stranded on a planetoid. Ancient in build and far far advanced of anything known to the Federation. The planetoid defense system tranported the Enterprise to an unheard of distance from it. Now Scotty has to bring in back. Kirk, McCoy and Sulu can not get back to the Enterprise when it does arrive due to and infection that can't clear the biofilters of the Enterprise's transporters. Now, comes another alien race claiming the planetoid as their own left by their ancesters. Kirk explores the planetoid and we
have Spock trying to figure out how things work. The aliens work out the problem with the infection, Kirk doesn't trust them. We meet Losira even though she has passed long ago, but her presence is preserved in the computer of the planetiod. A gateway is found, not unlike the "Guardian of Forever" and the aliens want the technology to transport across large distances of space. The book ends as a cliffhanger. My only regret is this, no closure. Which I find disturbing. That is why I only rated the story as a 2.
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Summary: Star Trek Gateways One Small Step
Review: I've noticed that we are now getting TV episodes and to continue the story in novelizations. "One Which Survives" is the TV episode and "One Small Step" is the continuation of the story. Now, I did like both of the above, but I believe that we need a little more originality. Not that combining both is a bad idea. But new stories need to be written in single complete books. I am not fond of the trend of "Mini-series in the Star trek genre. This tends to lead the reader on like a marketing trick. But enough of this, now the book itself is inself a good read fast and about James T. Kirk et.al stranded on a planetoid. Ancient in build and far far advanced of anything known to the Federation. The planetoid defense system tranported the Enterprise to an unheard of distance from it. Now Scotty has to bring in back. Kirk, McCoy and Sulu can not get back to the Enterprise when it does arrive due to and infection that can't clear the biofilters of the Enterprise's transporters. Now, comes another alien race claiming the planetoid as their own left by their ancesters. Kirk explores the planetoid and we
have Spock trying to figure out how things work. The aliens work out the problem with the infection, Kirk doesn't trust them. We meet Losira even though she has passed long ago, but her presence is preserved in the computer of the planetiod. A gateway is found, not unlike the "Guardian of Forever" and the aliens want the technology to transport across large distances of space. The book ends as a cliffhanger. My only regret is this, no closure. Which I find disturbing. That is why I only rated the story as a 2.
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Summary: Not up to par...
Review: One of the worst ST novels I have ever read. It is a simple idea drawn out to 200+ pages, and the characters basically do nothing. I will not be reading any of the other six in the "mini-series." I actually yawned while I was reading it. If you're looking for some good ST novels, check out those by Peter David. In my opinion, he never misses the mark.
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