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Summary: Blah! Good premise needed WAY WAY WAY fewer words.
Review: This trilogy could have been written in two, or even only one book. The author was extremely wordy, as if he was trying to fill up all the space given to him by the editors. The stories dragged on and on and on... and as much as I LOVE a good story about xenoarcheology I actually took all three books back to the book seller half way through the second book. The characters were believable, to the author's credit, but it just took too damn long to get anywhere of interest. Going in plot-circles just isn't my idea of a good time. I felt as though the editor and author got together and decided they wanted to make some extra cash by dragging out this plot line and I felt literally hoodwinked and cheated; that's why I returned the books. They probably figured because Q was involved, everyone would fall for it. I almost did. I have been leary of three-parters in the ST universe ever since. BUT I was pleasantly surprised by the Millenium trilogy for DS9.
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Summary: A fun read, but not as good as expected
Review: This was a fun read, but not as thoroughly entertaining as I thought it would be. The story started off well with the first book. Cox has Q's voice down pat (the older Q that we are familiar with that is), and the inclusion of Q (Q's wife seen in the Voyager episode "The Q and the Grey") and q (their baby) was very entertaining. Moving into the second book, the story slows down a lot. Overall the story is interesting, but not absorbing. I found that I had trouble focusing on it, but I can't say for certain why that was. The background on the Tkon Empire is interesting as is the previously unseen history of Q. The third book, of course, wraps up the story. Despite the grave struggle that Picard, Q, and company went through to resolve things, I didn't feel the excitement of it all. Again, I can't put my finger on any particular reason, but the series was a bit of a disappointment, though it was still fun. There are three major problems with the Q Continuum series: The first is too much of a reliance on references to events in past episodes of the TV series. An occasional reference is OK but these books, especially the first one, are littered with them. There are so many of these that it becomes distracting. It is a great way to take up space and make the book longer, but it does nothing for the story since the people reading these books are already Star Trek fans and are already familiar with all of these events. The second problem is spotty editing. This has been a problem with Star Trek novels, especially the Voyager books, but this series is, in this respect, the worst that I have read so far. The problems are mainly in the form of entire words missing from sentences, or duplicate words. One or two such mistakes in a 275-page book may be understandable, but when there are as many as there are here it just becomes distracting. There are 32 such occurrences in the third book alone! The third problem that I had with the series is that even near the end of the second book Picard was asking himself why Q had brought him on the journey and what it had to do with the barrier. This is ridiculous. The reason is obvious to the reader as soon as 0 commits his first transgression and Picard would have probably figured it out even before that. To think that he still didn't know after all that he had seen is stretching believability. But in the end this is an entertaining story and if you are a fan of Q then you should like it very much. They're not the best Trek books out there, but they are worth reading.
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Summary: A masterpiece of a series
Review: This was an excellent series with lots of good dialogue. As other readers have stated before, it could be a little too descriptive and I found my self falling asleep at times. But besides minor problems of that nature, I found it to be a great book to start off the series. One thing I noticed was that this was longer than the other ones, which I found peculiar considering the fact that usually the middle and end books are longer. One thing I really liked about this book was that whenever I was feeling down, I could just huddle into a corner and enter this whole new world created by Greg Cox. It seemed as though it was just and good story and Cox used Star Trek just for the money. All in all a great series and I hope to look for more by Cox.
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Summary: Not Peter David, But A Good Read
Review: This was the first Star Trek book I ever read, and I though it was pretty good, enough to get me into The Next Generation television show. It has a good plot, continuing from an episode, and is well written. But after reading other Q books, It is not as good as the ones written by Peter David. I have yet to finish the trilogy for some reason, it just doesn't grasp me as others have.
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Summary: A Book Made for True Star Trek Fans
Review: This was truly a book made for those who are long-time fans of Star Trek. Greg Cox does a wonderful job of weaving together allusions from the original series, as well as ST:TNG and Deep Space Nine. The story really comes alive if you understand these references. The characters actions and words remain very true to their personas as created in the TV series and movies. Also, I was impressed by Greg Cox's vocabulary--it's not every author who can use the term "brobdingnagian" correctly!
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: Well, being a long-time Trekkie (TNG is my favorite), I was quite disappointed with this book. Liked the premise, liked the characters, did not like the execution. This book, the 1st of a 3 book trilogy had way too much talk and background info for my liking. It appears the author took 1 exciting book and split it into 3 much weaker parts. Profits are the only reason I can think of why this was done.
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Summary: The TNG book that got me reading books.
Review: What can I say... This book is GREAT! I wasn't into reading Star Trek books till my friend bought met his book for christmas a few years ago.. It Sat on my bookshelf forever, till 6 months ago i finally read it. 6 months later, I'm almost done with Q-Zone(The second book in the trilogy) and I have Q-Strike ordered and on the way in anticipation of finishing Book 2. Book 1(Q-Space, this book) starts off with the Enterprise-E picking up an esteemed beta-zed scientist called Lhem-fal. The experiment, cross the galactic barrier. Once the Enterprise approaches the barrier, however, the familiar Calamarain launch an assault on the enterprise, trying to prevent the Enterprise from reaching the barrier. Shortly after, Q and his wife/son pay a visit to the enterprise, and not too long after, Q abducts Picard and takes him on a journey through time in space to relive Q's childhood(Not like any other childhood you will ever read about, I guarantee). Meanwhile, on the Enterprise, Riker must deal with the growing calamarain threat.
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Summary: And baby makes three
Review: When last seen on "Voyager," Q had just become the proud father of a bouncing baby q. If you think this comes as a shock to Jean-Luc Picard when Q returns in this book, you're quite right!
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Summary: AN EXCELLENT NOVEL FOR ANY TREKKIE WHO LIKES Q
Review: WHILE A DYING SCIENTIST IS EMBARKING ON A QUEST TO BREAK THE GALACTIC BARRIER Q ARRIVES TELLING THEM NOT TO AND TAKES PICARD ON A JOURNEY TO EXPLAIN WHY WHILE THE REST OF THE CREW IS UNDER ATTACK BY CALAMARIAN
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Summary: Another Q book
Review: While I used to be a fan of ST:NG, I never particularily liked the Q storyline. Above and beyond the fact that I dislike superpowerful entities, the Q himself is extremely bazzare. Still, if you a StarTrek fan looking for an intertaining book (and if you don't mind the usual slapstick comedy that seems to go along with Q involvement)you might enjoy reading this. As you might have realized I have found the authors writing style mediocre. And do we have to have this stretched out into three books!
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