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Summary: One of the best Star Trek book out.
Review: After the supposed death of Captain Jamest T. Kirk on the planet Veridian 3. The Next Generation crew go back to the planet to not only get the rest of the Enterprise-D, but to get Kirk's body but while they're there a space battle rages on and the enemy takes the body of Kirk so they can get rid of Captain Picard the the Federation for good.
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Summary: Excellent!!, this book was awesome
Review: I really believe that Star Trek The Return was one of the best books on Star Trek I have ever read. I couldn't put it down, I finished it in about 3 days. It is very interesting with all the plot twists, and events that are happening. I believe that it fits very well with the Star Trek universe. Very well done!!
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Summary: The book for which all others will be judged
Review: OK, I've read some of the other reviews and I'm sorry, but I don't put everything together as one collective and now say something can or can't happen. I look at them as individual stories, and this one takes the cake. If your a Kirk fan and a Picard fan, then this book is fantastic. I couldnt put it down and read over half of it in just one sitting. Some of the things were a little flakey, like McCoy still being alive and Kirk defeating Worf, but hey, thats why we call it Fiction. Top Honors for Shatner. Keep it up.
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Summary: Shatner changes the logic and furture of the Universe
Review: A page turning book, with many happy reunions, and crossover meetings you've always wanted to witness. The action has high speed, and interesting plot twists.BUT: I cannot understand how Paramount possibly could have allowed anyone (even Shatner) to destroy the heart of Borg in a paperback book. There has to be some consistency in the Star Trek Universe. The books, the series and the films. Which means that this destruction "actually" happend in the Star Trek universe. It can not be undone. The Borg are reduced to a weakend species, that now can be overcome by Starfleet anytime they feel like it. All of the other books, films etc have to take these ideas of Shatner as facts now that they are published. And then: with transwarp drive stolen from the Borg and installed in a Starfleet ship. And with the 100 year travel to the Delta Quadrant Borg HQ therby reduced to just 7 hours (in an 1996 book), how can Starfleet possibly let Janeway out there desperatly on her own? They can rescue her with no more effort than a weekend picnic in Iowa!!! That are just two of the examples of how Shartner effected the logics and the future of our Star Trek universe. Our universe. Not his. By the way he carelessly tosses it around, I cannot escape the idea that he wouldn't mind at all, if it collapsed after his departure. So: yes I like the book, the exiting pace of it, and especially the crossovers from the 3 series. But I cannot be content with the distruction of the inner logic of the Star Trek universe. Someone has to hold Shatner on a tight leash to prevent further harm.
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Summary: Disappointing sequel to "Ashes of Eden"
Review: Disappointing best describes my feelings upon finishing this "sequel" to "Ashes of Eden." The plot--in which the Next Generation's baddest "baddie," the Borg, team up with the baddest baddie still around from the original series, the Romulans--seems very unplausible given the nature of the Borg as depicted in the series and in film. Kirk also comes across as a very unreal character and many of his actions in the book are so implausible that it drags down the entire novel. I was hoping for a plot in which the Borg resurrected Captain Kirk to use him as a spokesperson for the Borg as they had used Captain Picard in "Next Generation." Instead I got a convoluted plot involving the Romulans that was very dissatisfying.
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Summary: All the STAR TREK worlds brought together in one story!
Review: William Shatner did a wonderful job with THE RETURN. It was a "page-turner". The Original Series was brought together with the Next Generation, with a bit of Deep Space Nine thrown in for good measure. The Borg and the Romulans were there to menace Kirk and Picard. I liked it so much that I began reading the sequel, Avenger, the same night I finished The Return.
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Summary: This Book is great!
Review: I read this and the fact that kirk was able to defeat a Worf is the fact that kirk is tougher that you think ok so its a little unreal but hey it makes a good story and the fact he knew about holograms is he did come back from the energy ribbon to learn about the this of the future so he wasnt compleatly stupid and times change with the phasers some ships carry blue phasers the ENTERPRISE D carryed reddish orange phasers different ships different phasers
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Summary: Fun for Trek fans, but with a few flaws.
Review: This is a fun read for fans of Captain Kirk. If you're not a big Kirk fan, however, you may be a bit annoyed. In this story Kirk is strong enough to beat Warf in hand to hand combat and smart enough to utilize technology he has never used. Of course, the author is probably a little more fond of Kirk than the average reader. Overall, it is a good story, but in the end, the solution to the Borg threat is far to easily reached.
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Summary: Competent Trek - Helped no doubt by the Reeves-Stevens...
Review: The second in William Shatner's Star Trek: Odyssey trilogy, The Return is Star Trek at its most action/adventure. No deep Roddenberry philosophy here: we're talking Borg, Romulans, revenge, Picard and Kirk, the Borg homeworld - something which the series has yet to dare to try - and a new Enterprise which crosses the boundaries into DS9 territory. Once again, one is forced to wonder just how much of the story Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens have come up with (Shatner's acknowledgement: 'What would I do without them?') and the nature of the collaboration. I believe, however, that such a question is irrelevant: this is simply good (if a little mindless) Trek, and let's face it, it's good to see some energy being injected into the franchise after some recent flagging in both novel and TV form. Kirk is back, then, and having been resurrected by the Borg after the events of Star Trek Generations, he's brainwashed into a plan to kill Captain Picard of The Next Generation, as he presents the greatest threat to the Borg attempt to destroy the Federation. There's another twist here, however: the Borg have formed an alliance with the Romulans (or, to be more accurate, a splinter faction of the Romulan military), as there's a particular Romulan commander who wants revenge for the death of her ancestor who Kirk was indirectly responsible for the death of. Kirk sets off on his task, taking out the members of the TNG crew one by one (including two priceless scenes where he attacks Worf on the Klingon homeworld and Data and La Forge on an ice planet), until he meets his match in Commander Riker on Deep Space Nine. As Kirk is operated on by Doctor Bashir (yes, it's crossovers left right and centre), Spock (yes, Spock) is captured by the Borg and would be assimilated if it wasn't for the fact that he melded with V'Ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which was actually a Borg ship... If you can keep up with the cross-continuity, then The Return is a fantastic read. Whether it's Shatner or the Reeves-Stevens who are coming up with this stuff is irrelevant: it's fast-paced, cool and the climax is breath-taking. The Borg homeworld is portrayed brilliantly and Picard's facing of his fears is balanced by Kirk's hit-first-ask-questions-later attitude. There are problems - the whole business with V'Ger is a trifle convinient, and Picard resists the Collective he so feared rather easily, defeating a whole planet of Borg single handedly! - but they are largely smoothed over by the handling of all of the ideas thrown together. Somehow, they've come out of the other end of the tunnel with a great adventure novel - God knows how it happened, but the Great Bird of the Galaxy bless them for it.
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Summary: Awesome !!!
Review: Jam packed with action, adventure, and Borg
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