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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I thought this book was fantastic. I loved William Forstchen's Lost Regiment series, and I found his Star Trek book to be no exception. Oddly enough, I didn't look at the author's name until I finished the book! The plot is well written, and Riker's old flame's personality was well-developed.
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Summary: Great characters, great plot, great book!
Review: I thought this book was fantastic. I loved William Forstchen's Lost Regiment series, and I found his Star Trek book to be no exception. Oddly enough, I didn't look at the author's name until I finished the book! The plot is well written, and Riker's old flame's personality was well-developed.
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Summary: It's a good book, but......
Review: It's a good and entertaining book, but....the author makes several really annoying mistakes. And amazingly, his editor either let them pass or didn't notice them!!!!! He sets the war with the Tarn at around 204 years ago (from the current Stardate of TNG), but then says that Captain Murat (who fought in this war) was a contemporary of Christopher Pike, who was just right before Kirk. Now according to Star Trek chronology, that makes it just around 100 years or so ago! Maybe stretching it, even 150 years ago, not 204 years ago! Another one, this mistake was really stupid...he constantly CONFUSES the word "ancestor" for the word "descendant". In one sentence he has Commander Riker as saying the Enterprise is the ancestor of the Verdun (Captain Murat's ship), but duh! obviously he means the reverse....the Enterprise being a descendant of the Verdun! This is a mistake I would expect a high school student to make, not a published author! Other than that, the story is good.
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Summary: It's a good book, but......
Review: On a mission to negotiate a peace treaty with the warlike Tarn, an historic discovery is made of the remains of two ships, one Federation, and one Tarn, both destroyed in battle 204 years earlier. As they invistigate the find, they discover that the decendants of these two ships still fighting the war from two centuries ago.The Tarn ambassador beams down to the Tarn forces, presumably in an attempt to negotiate a ceace-fire agreement, while Commander Riker and Dr. Janice Eardman (an old flame from the academy recently posted to the ship at the time of the arrival of the Tarn delegate) beam down to the Federation forces to do the same on that side. Riker and Eardman find a society based on honor, loyalty, hardship and a fight to survive at all costs. Tecnology has reverted to a mid twentieth century level, with machine guns, combuston engines, and napalm. These lost federation decendants are reluctant to put down arms after so long. Each side wants nothing more than to obliterate the other side. Picard comes up with a creative soloution to this problem. This is a quick and good read.
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Summary: "I wanted a war, and for my sins, the gods gave it to me"
Review: On a mission to negotiate a peace treaty with the warlike Tarn, an historic discovery is made of the remains of two ships, one Federation, and one Tarn, both destroyed in battle 204 years earlier. As they invistigate the find, they discover that the decendants of these two ships still fighting the war from two centuries ago. The Tarn ambassador beams down to the Tarn forces, presumably in an attempt to negotiate a ceace-fire agreement, while Commander Riker and Dr. Janice Eardman (an old flame from the academy recently posted to the ship at the time of the arrival of the Tarn delegate) beam down to the Federation forces to do the same on that side. Riker and Eardman find a society based on honor, loyalty, hardship and a fight to survive at all costs. Tecnology has reverted to a mid twentieth century level, with machine guns, combuston engines, and napalm. These lost federation decendants are reluctant to put down arms after so long. Each side wants nothing more than to obliterate the other side. Picard comes up with a creative soloution to this problem. This is a quick and good read.
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Summary: NOt to be Forgotten
Review: There are exzcellent Star Trek titles and some perhaps less so, and this is among the best. Forstchen brings the excitement he generates in his Lost Regiment series to Start Trek with a vengeance. Highly readable and well written.
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Summary: yes and no
Review: This book has a lot to recommend it, and the reviewers enthusing below are not altogether off the mark. It is well-written,the story is interesting, the characters are lively (particularly the alien admiral), the battle scenes are vivid, and the ending is clever. However, characters change rank from chapter to chapter, the math is frequently wrong, and the Star Trek continuity errors are glaring enough for a reader with a fairly low-intensity interest in the series (e.g. me) to notice them. It is an enjoyable book, with more cerebral and philosophical awareness than most mass-makret novels, but it's not quite a masterpiece. END
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Summary: this book's ok
Review: This book is ok. I've read better. The story was good, but it was a little boring. The book and story was good (it's a cool book was was written well)...but not the best.
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Summary: this book's ok
Review: This book is ok. I've read better. The story was good, but it was a little boring. The book and story was good (it's a cool book was was written well)...but not the best.
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Summary: C'mon this is unbelievable
Review: This book is totally unbelieveable. The whole war is pathetic from the beginning. But what really got me is that a group of people who had rocks & sticks to build with had a scientific suspended animation device which kept the Capt. Murat alive for 100s of yrs. Give me a break!
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