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Summary: No hit, no miss, a maybe.
Review: If only Jeri Taylor had stuck to the synopsis provided on the book-cover, she would have had a more credible framework for the back-stories of the Voyager crew than this very loosely woven tapestry. Why on Earth did Janeway send her entire senior staff off to stretch their legs? "An odd thing to do" indeed, to quote Seven. I'm sure it goes against all Starfleet procedure. And how did Janeway find her crew back? Well, let's say no more about the framework: it's terrible.The backstories on the contrary are riveting, but they are set up like little novels by themselves, which gives the entire book a halting pace. The backstories cover all the characters, except Janeway (dealt with in "Mosaic") and Seven (no Borg memories? Come on.) and the Doctor (OK, he's a hologram), Kes is slotted in cleverly. But ... there had to be a "but". There are holes in the stories as big as a shuttle. For a (former) executive producer of the show one would expect more accuracy from Ms. Taylor. There are several inconsistencies with the show and the behaviour of the characters is a little too cliche to be convincing. Overall, a commendable effort, but in my view a missed opportunity to write the "Voyager Bible". It's fiction and I've read better prose, from a purely literary point of view. Yah, I'm difficult to please.
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Summary: A true way to get to know the crew of "voyager"
Review: I got a lot more out of this book then I thought I would. It brought me a lot closer to the characters and their lives. I think that Jeri Taylor has done it again!
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Summary: Wonderfully enriching background on each character
Review: This book provided meaningful insight into the background of all major Voyager charachters (except Janeway, whose background was covered in Taylor's earlier "Mosaic"). The background on Tom Paris was most enlightening, followed by Neelix' story. This character background detail is referenced in the series, but in this book you really understand the details and develop empathy for what each character has been through. And all characters are linked into the others at the time of first meeting. For Voyager fans, this book helps you understand what makes each character tick the way they do.
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Summary: Star Trek Voyager - Brought more to life!!
Review: This was a great read, but be forewarned that you must be a Voyager Fan in order to fully appreciate this book. In enlightening us to each of the Voyager characters past history, I can only say that it made me an even greater fan of the show, and it's characters. Kudos to Jeri Taylor, and do I smell Star Trek Voyager movie 1 - Pathways?? I hope so, and I only hope if it ever does go to screen big or small, it is done as close to the book as possible.
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Summary: A Star Trek fans delight!
Review: If you are a fan of Star Trek,especially of Voyager,you will thoroughly enjoy this book! The characters are brought to life and their histories,thoughts,and motivations are examined. A warning though;the story is not as light as the television show.This is a more mature Star Trek,
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Summary: Disappointing, darn it.
Review: Someone once told me Star Trek on television is "fact," the novels are "fiction," and the fanfic is "fantasy." That's worked for me - up until Jeri Taylor's novels. Being a former executive producer of the show, I was under the impression that Jeri's novels became "fact," and "Mosaic" did. This one canNOT. The set-up, while perfect for storytelling, is woefully unlike anything Janeway would do. That is, she leaves her ENTIRE senior staff on a planet and takes Voyager to negotiations with an alien race. Of course, the crew is promptly gassed to unconsciousness and carted off to a squalid, outdoor prison full of thousands of other poor schmucks. It is there, in between their making plans to escape, that they tell each other their histories. The ending is typically Trek - too much, too fast. Don't get me wrong, it's a *great* read. You just can't consider much of it canon. Jeri does not seem to take into consideration many details we already know to be true. I would think, if you're gonna write about a Trek character's history, you would be sure to include canon. But no. Inconsistencies abound. This is fiction. Fiction, fiction, fiction. I guess the only reason I can think of for why she strayed so far from canon was because she included healthy, well-adjusted homosexuals in her story - and everyone knows there are none like that in Starfleet...
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Summary: Jeri Taylor has done it again.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I really loved this book. When I read "Mosaic" I really felt as if I new Janeway. I felt the same way about all of the main crew after I read this. If you what to know the character's histories, this is a must.
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Summary: A good read for new Voyager fans.
Review: This is a good novel. The background stories on each character were excellent. However the surrounding story of the prison colony seemed tacked on to give transisition between stories of the characters. I thoroghly enjoyed each of the characters' stories, Neelix and Tuvok's were my favorites. I think this is very good companion novel to MOSAIC by Jeri Taylor I give it 4 stars.
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Summary: Don't need a nitpicker to find the myriad inconsistencies
Review: If anybody other than Jeri Taylor -- former producer et al. of Star Trek: Voyager -- had written this, I would have one question: has the author ever actually watched the program? It's not just the little nitpicky errors (such as Tom Paris's entire background) that bother me, either. This woman has no grip on the personality traits of any of the non-human species created in the other Trek incarnations and brought forward into Voyager. We suddenly have honourless Klingons, illogical and intolerant Vulcans, etc. And none of the senior staff had a positive female role model in their lives before Janeway? Sure, sure. That's how they became so emotionally mature and competent. Star Trek is wholly fictional, of course. But this book seems to be a fiction inside a fiction: as if Taylor were living in the Trek world and writing stories about the characters for the National Enquirer. Strange days indeed.
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Summary: "Pathways" is as good as "Mosaic"
Review: I would have to say that this book is just as good as "Mosaic". I read it in under four hours, it was so captivating. This was a great way to learn about my favorites characters' pasts, and despite some contradiction between the book and show, (I figure the co-producer would know more about it better than any critic could, so I'm taking her word for it) I'd reccommend this book to anyone who likes "Voyager" and even to those who just want to read a really good book.
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