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Summary: The Forgotten War
Review: A real blast. Very exciting in typical Forstchen style. That guy Jim from New York probably didn't even read the book. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Captures the real spirit of Roddenberry
Review: A superb formula novel that combines excitement with the cerebral. A thinking man's Star Trek that doesn't just rely on battles and ray-guns. It deals with important issues that transcend the pulp novel genre. The reviewer known as 'Jim from New York' is way off base. Did he read the novel? We need more Star Trek novels like this one.
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Summary: Perfect, smart, well-written, all the characters on the mark
Review: From the very start the author has the characters just right. The scene near the beginning where Riker's old flame goes aboard the destroyed ship was downright touching, and literary. The very best sort of writing. As the plot developed it never flagged, it always surprised me, and it built in tension right to the end. This was an excellent story, worthy in every way of TNG. I was, frankly, quite surprised. I never read genre fiction and never science fiction, but this book will have me coming back for more Trek novels. I'm only sorry that this particular author hasn't written more Trek books.
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Summary: A so-so read
Review: I have never read anything by this author before, and am unfamiliar with his work. I read this book because it was Star Trek, and frankly, was not too impressed. It wasn't bad, but not that great either. The whole thing about the old captain in stasis was a stretch, but then, I guess why that is why they call this genre science fiction. All of the characters were in character, especially Picard. The only exception being that Riker has a past relationship with a Non Alien, which surprised me. Doesn't he usually prefer Aliens. And where was La Forge in this story? Guinan? O'Brien? Spot? Well, just like the show, not all of the characters will make appearences in all stories, which is fine. I would give a neutral recommendation on this one.
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Summary: Full of Twists and Fun to read and two great Captains
Review: I love history and this book actually has a Starfleet historian who gets the chance to meet with a legendary Starfleet Captain, Lucien Murat. Murat is very cool and its neat to see some people from Pike's time period in a Star Trek novel. The plot is great full of the Tarn and Murat's survivors. A must read for a True Fan of Star Trek.
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Summary: An Interesting Premise....
Review: I picked up this book on a whim - as its been years since I've read a Star Trek book. At first, it was difficult to get into the writing, as I am used to books that are written on a more difficult reading level, however, when I managed to move past this, I enjoyed the book. The basic premise of having two groups of people whom are stranded on a planet and fighting an ancient, and now resolved, war is fascinating. The differences in the two cultures both from the past and the "present" fuels this book. And the ending,though it is somewhat predictable once you get into the book and understand the feelings of the two warring groups, is definitely interesting. In fact,
I loved the ending. If you're looking for a quick read, I would highly suggest reading this book. It is entertaining and the story is interesting.
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Summary: An Interesting Premise....
Review: I picked up this book on a whim - as its been years since I've read a Star Trek book. At first, it was difficult to get into the writing, as I am used to books that are written on a more difficult reading level, however, when I managed to move past this, I enjoyed the book. The basic premise of having two groups of people whom are stranded on a planet and fighting an ancient, and now resolved, war is fascinating. The differences in the two cultures both from the past and the "present" fuels this book. And the ending,though it is somewhat predictable once you get into the book and understand the feelings of the two warring groups, is definitely interesting. In fact,
I loved the ending. If you're looking for a quick read, I would highly suggest reading this book. It is entertaining and the story is interesting.
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Summary: A really good trek novel!
Review: I really liked this one. It has some good action sequences and a good plot line. I'm only giving it four stars though, in light of two problems that both the author and the editor's missed out on. One, the author repeatedly refers to "The Forgotten War" having been going on for over two hundred years. This is no problem, right up to point in which he refers to Captain/Commodore Lucian Murat's command being during the same time as Captain Kirk and the Enterprise. Last I checked, there was only approximately a centuries time between Captain Kirk's era and Captain Picard's. My second minor problem is that the author seemed to have the idea that a Galaxy Class starship like the Enterprise has only one transporter. I understand his need for the transporter's to be down to move the story along, however, he should've come up with something else besides what he did.
As I stated before though, besides the two minor problems, this is a really good Trek novel that is in keeping with the "Great Bird of the Galaxy's" principals and ideas of what Star Trek should be.
A really good first Star Trek novel by the author. He captured the Trek regular's personalities really well and came up with some good characters on both sides of the conflict. I really liked the Tarn Admiral Jord. It was especially interesting to see basically twenty century weapons of war being used in a trek book. I hope this author put's another work into the trek library soon. Definitely a book I recommend to any and all who read Star Trek.
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Summary: A really good trek novel!
Review: I really liked this one. It has some good action sequences and a good plot line. I'm only giving it four stars though, in light of two problems that both the author and the editor's missed out on. One, the author repeatedly refers to "The Forgotten War" having been going on for over two hundred years. This is no problem, right up to point in which he refers to Captain/Commodore Lucian Murat's command being during the same time as Captain Kirk and the Enterprise. Last I checked, there was only approximately a centuries time between Captain Kirk's era and Captain Picard's. My second minor problem is that the author seemed to have the idea that a Galaxy Class starship like the Enterprise has only one transporter. I understand his need for the transporter's to be down to move the story along, however, he should've come up with something else besides what he did.
As I stated before though, besides the two minor problems, this is a really good Trek novel that is in keeping with the "Great Bird of the Galaxy's" principals and ideas of what Star Trek should be.
A really good first Star Trek novel by the author. He captured the Trek regular's personalities really well and came up with some good characters on both sides of the conflict. I really liked the Tarn Admiral Jord. It was especially interesting to see basically twenty century weapons of war being used in a trek book. I hope this author put's another work into the trek library soon. Definitely a book I recommend to any and all who read Star Trek.
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Summary: Read the Lost Regiment instead of this
Review: I think I want my money back. The only reason I bought this book was because it was written by Forstchen, whose Lost Regiment books are superb. However, like ALL the Star Trek books I have read, it was a great disappointment. And I am a Star Trek fan, having seen every episode of the original series several times. The only thing that I can think of that would explain this piece of tripe put out by a great writer of military SciFi is that he needed the money. Otherwise, the writing, character development, and everything else is hack writing at its worst (or best, its competently done genre fiction, just not worth buying brand new--look for it in a used-bookstore or your local library). If you want to read a really good story by the same author, look for any of his Lost Regiment series.
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