Rating: Summary: Fast-paced excitement in the Star Trek universe Review: In Behind Enemy Lines, the first book in the Dominion War series, John Vornholt creates a no-nonsense science fiction adventure novel that fleshes out an important part of the Star Trek universe. The story is set during the all-out war that takes place between the Federation and the Dominion-Cardassian alliance, sometime after the fall of Deep Space Nine. The plot is quite interesting and concerns a secret Dominion project that threatens to end the war once and for all. Vornholt supports the story greatly by crafting detailed characters that seem genuinely affected by the devastating nature of the war going on around them. Add to this an abundance of exciting action sequences, and the result is a highly entertaining Star Trek adventure that leaves the reader greatly anticipating the next novel in the Dominion War series.
Rating: Summary: Picard and Co get a taste of war covert ops style Review: John Vornholt has an interesting way of pointing the reader from different points of views at a broad spectrum of story lines. It captures the essence of the Star Trek series with plenty of suspense and plot twists. I highly recommend this book for any TNG fan who likes the unexpected. If you have not followed up on the Dominion War episodes in the t.v. series, this book provides a good introduction of the relationship between the Jem`Hadar, Cardassians, and the Founders. The details and background info of this association in Behind Enemy Lines is consistent with the rest of the Star Trek series. As a final word, the overall storytelling is fresh and intelligent. Don't pass this one up.
Rating: Summary: ACTION....ADVENTURE....WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT? Review: John Vornholt is and always will be one of the best TNG writers and he proved it too me with this book... The book is full of action, adventure and mystery. I don't know how many times I wanted too flip forward a couple pages just too ease the tension... but as a good and law obeying reader....I always menaged too restrain myself ...and let me tell you that that was no easy task. The story is very interesting and you have too congratulate John V. on it...not everybody could have thought of anything like it.... man I sure envy John on his imagination. If you expect this will be one of does Enterprise beats them all-book... Ooo how wrong you can be.... at a matter of a fact Enterprise in this book is nothing more then a by stander... the whole story is evolving around the latest junk on the market.... Small and wrecked vessel called Orb Of Peace.... It is a story that takes us far behind the badlands and right into enemy's territory where an artificial wormhole is being made... A worm hole that could mean the end of the war and the end of the federation as we know it... So what will they do.... Is there anything too be done... is the situation for Federation hopeless... Well that is for me too know and for you too find out..... BY THE WAY DON'T YOU THINK AMAZON SHOULD POST PARTS OF BOOKS ON INTERNET SO PEOPLE DON'T BUY BLINDLY... YOU KNOW A CHAPTER OR TWO...WELL ANY WAYS IT SEEMS LIKE A GOOD IDEA SO I WANTED TOO MENCION IT!
Rating: Summary: The book was well written. A good book to start a series. Review: Like most of Vornholt's work;he has multiply plot lines. This requires you to concentrate on the book more than normal;but once you get use to it,it's not so bad. The story it's self is background to the story line of DeepSpace 9 for the last two years.
Rating: Summary: Skip to the next... Review: Nothing goes on, you don't really care what happens next since it's not really intersting. I've read quite a few st books by now and this one is probably the most eventless. If I were you, I would skip to the next right now.
Rating: Summary: Pretty good overall Review: Ro Laren is my favorite trek charecter of all time, and this book depicts her fairly well, although it was dumb when she has a love affair with Sam Lavelle, who is a true dork. It's always cool when a changeling infiltrates a starship (watch "The Adversary,DS9), and this one was a fairly good one.Enrak Grof is pretty dumb though.
Rating: Summary: A Quick look though of the book Review: Ro Larren returns but this time need the Enterprises help. Data becomes stuck on planet when he is attacked. Finnally Exscapes. Relands on a moon where he waits for a trasmission from Picard. Turns emotion chip on and is overwelmed by emotions Book ends. Must Read other three books to see what happens.
Rating: Summary: Finally the Dominion Review: Since I began reading a variety of Star Trek Books it became clear that The Dominion War was a central event. Virtually all of the books I had read referred to the war with The Dominion, so it was clear this 4 part series was important to putting many other books in their proper perspective, The second in the series is going to switch to the setting of Deep Space 9 but this first book spends its time initially with The Enterprise TNG crew and then introduces many characters from episodes of The Next Generation television series. Many of these players have become slaves constructing a weapon that is arguably the most lethal of any man-made object imaginable when used by a species like the Jem-Hadar. The device can also be harmless and productive, think of an airport or interstate highway, hard to do without but when turned in to transport for weapons and destruction their function can be even more powerful for evil than good. Ro Laren was always one of my favorite characters that disappeared from the television series never to return. She is back in this book, and judging from the storyline she will play a prominent role in his story arc. She has also appeared in the Deep Space 9 series Avatar, so I hope she has made a more or less permanent return. The Federation is in the midst of a war and a pretty severe beating when Ro Laren once again finds herself face to face with the captain she once betrayed. Captain Picard makes decisions that are would be unique if made by other captains, but he tends to make decisions despite, in this case, his second officer Riker all but physically restraining him. And thus begins one of the most motley crews ever to man any transport and to take it to the most forbidding areas of a war, and then to an area behind enemy lines. An interesting side story is the mission that Data takes on his own, a task that no conventional life form could ever fulfill. Data has plenty of work but he also finds he has plenty of time to reflect and philosophize on how he deals with war versus his human counterparts. His emotion chip is at his control, and he constantly makes evaluations as to whether or not it should be on or off. One of the questions he arrives at is how do his friends remain sane during war? Again an interesting time for Data and while not a major portion of the book, a storyline that is sure to be continued.
Rating: Summary: A GREAT Next Generation Story Review: The story goes into depth concerning the life or death mission of Captain Picard and his crew. It explains what the Enterprise-E is doing all throughout the Dominion War. The addition of Ro Laren makes the story all the more better.
Rating: Summary: Action, adventure - never dull! Review: These two novels in the Dominion War series are two of the best ST books I've read. All action plot line and you really believe that these characters have come off the screen into the book - in other words John Vormholt writes about the people we got to know in 7 years of TNG and this isn't true of all the authors who write TNG books. A twist to the normal, the Captain stays on the ship story line, gives Picard the action while Riker gets the ship repaired by becoming romaticaly entangled with the woman in command of the repairs - that is the part of the plot which meant, in my opinion, that the book was not worth 5 stars. The book is a good read - it doesn't deal with new theories about space, but it does give the definitive story about how Picard saved the Federation. What else would you expect from the best Captain in Starfleet?
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