Shockwave

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Summary: A first in Star Treks time travel
Review: A wonderful book that tells of the first time time travel was taken place in Star Trek. Jonathan Archer is thrusted into the future to prevent the destruction of mankind and the Federation as well as the prevention of the devestations of the Temperal Cold War. Although the book is like the episodes its based on in Season One, the book is well worth the adventure.

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Summary: An Excellent Novel!
Review: Early in this novel an away team from the Enterprise enters the atmosphere of an alien planet in a shuttlecraft, and from there events seem to spin out of control, as the Enterprise crew is accused of possible negligence in the loss of thousands of lives. Most of this book involves the Enterprise crew trying to find out the details of what happened and vindicate themselves. The Vulcans still largely believe that Terrans should not be exploring interstellar space as they view earth as not ready for the challenges it presents. The plot has it's complications as beings able to travel from the future to the past provide many twists. I can say here that I did enjoy this novel, although it was not one of my favorite Star Trek adventures. This work by Paul Ruditis is the novelization of the final episode for season one and the first episode of season two for Star Trek: Enterprise, overall well worth reading for any Star Trek fan, and others who like science fiction.

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Summary: Great cliffhanger episode and season 2 opener
Review: The first season cliffhanger ends on an exciting note as the Enterprise crew is accused of accidentally destroyong a civilization they were meant to study and recalled home to Earth. But it turns out that their mission of exploration was sabotaged by the Suliban faction known as the Cabal. Captain Archer must do battle again with his old nemesis the Suliban warrior Silik. Then he gets trapped in the 31st century with agent Daniels. How will Capt. Jonathan Archer get back to the 22nd century and save Enterprise and hio crewmates from the evil Suliban? Read the book to find out!

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Summary: Excellent story, rather sloppily told.
Review: This is a wonderful story, one of the best of the "Enterprise" series to date. Unfortunately, the novelization was given to someone who is a rather sloppy writer, and the editing failed to catch his numerous atrocities committed on the English language. This isn't Diane Carey, trying to be clever; her assaults on the language are more egregious, but at least have the excuse of being an attempt at creativity. This is simply someone who will write "...before the yelling got so out of hand that they ending the gathering in disgust." or who will use "pouring" rather than "poring" when talking about reading books, or "annunciating" each word (rather than "enunciating") or "Archer watched as the collection of...parts began beginning to take shape..." or "hundred of years ago" rather than "hundreds" or "heading in the opposite direction as Reed" rather than "from Reed" or "as Reed had". This is just scratching the surface; there are errors like this on about every fifth page on average.

If you're someone who doesn't notice stuff like this, and thinks I'm being overly picky to dwell on it, then you'll find much to enjoy in this book; the plot is enjoyable, and the pacing and such are excellent. But if, like me, you cringe when reading something by an allegedly professional writer that would have numerous red marks if it were handed in as a seventh grade project, steer clear of it.