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Summary: ...where credit's due
Review: The book contains the usual Paramount boilerplate, "Based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry" (and all the spin-off series), and thanks Teri Garr among others, but the author has not seen fit to acknowledge, even in the slightest, writers Carey Wilber and Gene Coon, who created Khan Noonien Singh for the "Space Seed" episode of Star Trek.Without them this book would not exist. For shame.
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Summary: One of the greatest characters of Star Trek is back!
Review: The Khan Noonien Singh who met Captain Kirk was one of the last of a race of genetically engineered humans who tried to take over the Earth in the late 20th century during the Eugenics Wars. "But," you say, "it didn't happen! Look all around you!" Or maybe it DID happen!
Watch Gary Seven, with help from Roberta Lincoln and Isis, his black cat(or alien cat, whatever) go against Khan in a battle for Earth and, maybe, beyond. Very realistic and sometimes you might even feel a tad sad for some of the characters (like the kids).
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Summary: um... no.
Review: These Khan books are just plain bad. Full of cute trekkie references, they are for die-hard trekkies only. And I'm a huge Khan fan, so I was pretty let down. Really, this is not how I imagined the Eugenics wars at all. Did I mention the writing is atrocious? Some of the worst I've come across. Maybe that's because these were the first Trek novels I've read, so I didn't know to lower my expectations... Do yourself a favor and skip this junk. Get some real sci-fi instead!
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Summary: This book was really good and really funny
Review: This bok was really good. I have never heard of the author, or seen any of the original trek episodes with Knah(did i spell that right?) and gary 7, but it was really good. I liked how he intervove real history with trek stuff, and made it all funny. I highly recomend it to any one who likes start trek, esspecialy history buffs.
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Summary: The story I've been waiting for
Review: This book is based on a part of Earth history that Spock mentions in the Star Trek episode "Space Seed". It is the fascinating tale of how a group of genetically engineered people try to take over the world in the 1990's. This book is Volume I which covers this history through the 1980's.
I have long thought that the Eugenics Wars should be the subject of the next Star Trek movie or perhaps of a TV series. In fact a series about Gary Seven, Roberta Lincoln, and their adventures in trying to save us from ourselves but it was never produced.
The result of bringing Gary Seven back in this book is a great spy story as well as great science fiction. I enjoyed seeing how the story superimposed itself on real life history. Actual historical events that are a part of the story are accounted for chapter-by-chapter in the afterword.
On a more personal note, what I like about the book is that the good guys use non-lethal methods of stopping their enemies whenever possible. This suggests that the writer as well as the characters has a high respect for humanity.
The book left me anticipating how the next book will fit this story into the 1990's even though that book may fail to do so convincingly. At a time when mammal cloning is possible and human cloning is being debated in Congress, this story is quite timely.
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Summary: Poorly written, illogical tale
Review: This book is only suitable for kids. The characters are uninteresting at best, and annoying at worst. The female lead character comes out with cutsy remarks that don't fit the mood or action. She is actively annoying. Also, this book is not really a Star Trek novel. Kirk and company only occupy a few pages near the end of the book. This is a poor story, poorly executed. I was disappointed.
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Summary: Pure fun
Review: This book starts where the series episode "Space Seed" and movie "The Wrath of Khan" only briefly referenced, namely the origins of the figure Khan Noonien Singh and the historical context in which he rose to power. The book is fun to read, and the author brings in some characters from the series and movies, and also real characters from history. Tainting a Star Trek episode, movie, or novel with real history can cause problems with accuracy issues, but the author does it only sparingly and so the story is believable. The presence of Gary Seven in the story was a surprising move, and one which I found a little troubling. One would like to believe the future was brought about solely by human action, with no assistance from extra-terrestrial agents who take it upon themselves to guide humanity to the "correct" destination. Much time is spent in the book on how Seven and his delightful female assistant are working to prevent a certain high-tech eugenics project from carrying out its plans. As with most Star Trek stories, this one has a strange admixture of optimism and cynicism. And, despite the enormous statistical evidence to the contrary, the Star Trek view of history paints the human being as a brutal, inconsiderate savage, who only occasionally exhibits compassion and reason. Indeed, this is exemplified by the character Seven, who has no confidence in the efficacy of the human mind to be able to resolve social, economic, and political problems. In addition, the view of intelligence in the Star Trek series is quite narrow. The reader is supposed to believe that Khan has superior intelligence, in spite of his zeal to use violence to achieve his ends. But the initiation of force by any individual is never a sign of intelligence, but rather of stupidity. The character of Spock, who is quoted in the book as saying that "superior intelligence breeds superior ambition", to warn against the use of genetic engineering to create Khan-like monsters, is also another example of the restricted view of human intelligence in the Star Trek series. Emotions are thought of as having a disruptive, irrational effect on the human ability to reason effectively, instead of a set of natural processes that assist in the estimation and mental concentration of the human mind. The book also reflects some of the current anxiety about genetics as a science and its application in genetic engineering. There is valid reasons for concern about the use of genetic engineering, but like all human problems, we can solve them by employing more science and technology, not less. Minds capable of creating a human clone can indeed find solutions to the concerns thus generated. The optimistic view of the future though is one that makes the Star Trek series such a pleasure to participate in. It uses the medium of art and fantasy very effectively, and allows one to take part in an era, not very far distant, that is populated by beings (human and otherwise) who hold as an axiom that reason and mutual respect are the keys to a successful life. The characters of Star Trek have their faults and personal conflicts, but with their optimisim and their sense of adventure, they are worthy of contemplation.
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Summary: Seven and Khan Rule!
Review: This book takes the risk of tying obscure ol' Gary Seven to major-leaguer Khan, and hoping it all works out. It does! I loved the whole thing! It's a great spy novel, especially in the early-going where Gary Seven and his entourage can't help pick up a few new fans. Then, the story starts moving around the globe a bit more, and we see Khan begin to grow into the threat he is by the time Space Seed and Wrath of Khan take place. Khan is chilling and charismatic all the way through, and Gary Seven seems a smaller and smaller force in the face of Khan's drive for power and revenge. I have a fondness for the Gary Seven character so I read this Eugenics Wars opener cringing at the thought that Khan may be too much for him, ultimately; say no more about that). This is the most enjoyment I have yet gotten out of a Star Trek novel!
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Summary: A Very meaty read
Review: This book was an awesome read. It had many plot twists and yet still followed the same plot at the same time. It was set in the 70's and 80's time era on earth, and things that actually happened during that time period were brought into the plot quite ingeniously. This book was not full of the usual Star Trek characters or any ships, but it did entail the TOS crew in 3 chapters. I really enjoyed getting to know the khan character, and I am looking forward to the 2nd book that will be set in the 90's. This book is deffinately worth the hard back cost. I rate "The Eugenics Wars" one my top 5 Star Trek books!!!!
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Summary: This book was really good and really funny
Review: This book was really good. I have never heard of the author, or seen any of the original trek episodes with Knah(did i spell that right?) and gary 7, but it was really good. I liked how he intervove real history with trek stuff, and made it all funny. I highly recomend it to any one who likes start trek, esspecialy history buffs.
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