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Summary: "Ugh ... Me, Write ... You Read ..."
Review: "An all-new adventure spanning three generations!"Wasn't one enough, or couldn't DeCandido settle for trashing the characterizations of one generations? I've read many of the Star Trek novels, and I haven't been as disappointed with any of them as I had with THE BRAVE et al. The premise is lifted from comic books of the 1950's, and the idea itself HAD ALREADY BEEN EXPLORED itself in an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Why DeCandido felt the need to tread on paths already explored only demonstrates that perhaps the author isn't as gifted with innovation as he is re-invention. Clearly the act of a desperate author, DeCandido incorporates several incarnations of Trek in order to find the appeal of at least one factor of the wide Trek audience, but he fails in penning a tale worthy of being called "cohesive." The separate events serve more as vignettes rather than one narrative string tying all that happens together. Who knows? Perhaps the author intended for the works to be read as separate pieces and the kind folks at Pocket Books may've disagreed, meaning that the fundamental flaw is not one so much dedicated to the author but to the poor editing (doesn't anyone use a SpellCheck anymore, either?) ... but hasn't the world of Star Trek seen one too many "fate of the universe" type stories? Coming up with another approach to Trek would've been far "braver" and much "bolder" than this.
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Summary: If you like a light read...
Review: ..."Brave and the Bold" is for you. Decandido does a good job developing back stories for characters that appeared in one-time roles (Cmdr. Decker in "Doomsday Machine" and Cpt. Keogh in "The Jem'Hadar"). Pretty straight-forward for both plot and characters w/enough twists and turns to keep things interesting...
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Summary: R.A. DeCandido captures the feel of the TV show in this book
Review: I have to admit the best Star Trek books capture the feel of the TV show as if you were watching the episode. The best stories are the ones that have some reference to past shows. This one does a good job with the Decker character Kirk meets in the episode "Doomsday Machine". I wish there was more about Decker's rise to the captain's chair. He came up from the security department and has a much different view of the world than Kirk. Perhaps we can see prequel or short story in the future about the crusty Captain Decker.
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Summary: R.A. DeCandido captures the feel of the TV show in this book
Review: I have to admit the best Star Trek books capture the feel of the TV show as if you were watching the episode. The best stories are the ones that have some reference to past shows. This one does a good job with the Decker character Kirk meets in the episode "Doomsday Machine". I wish there was more about Decker's rise to the captain's chair. He came up from the security department and has a much different view of the world than Kirk. Perhaps we can see prequel or short story in the future about the crusty Captain Decker.
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Summary: Hey I just liked the book
Review: I just enjoyed the book and wanted to say so.
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Summary: This was a great book.
Review: I really enjoyed this book. Since I am an amateur Star Trek chronologist, I really enjoyed the notes at the beginning of each section placing them in to Star Trek timeline. I wish more authors would do that. The book was well written and it was refreshing to read stories about characters other than the series regulars. I would recommend the S.C.E. series to anyone who liked this book. They both are about new and different characters.
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Summary: This was a great book.
Review: I really enjoyed this book. Since I am an amateur Star Trek chronologist, I really enjoyed the notes at the beginning of each section placing them in to Star Trek timeline. I wish more authors would do that. The book was well written and it was refreshing to read stories about characters other than the series regulars. I would recommend the S.C.E. series to anyone who liked this book. They both are about new and different characters.
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Summary: A Joyful Adventure for True Star Trek Fans
Review: I was first introduced to DeCandido's writing while attending a Northwest Fandom Convention where I had the pleasure of observing him as a panelist. I was curious if his unique perspective and point-of-view was maintained in his writing. To my pleasant surprise it was. DeCandido presented the major characters in all of the Star Trek series with a fresh and new prospective, by allowing the reader to view the old, seasoned characters from an outside viewpoint. This book is a wonderful chance to see Kirk, McCoy, and Spock through the eyes of the crewmen on the USS Constellation and watch the characters of Deep Space 9 as perceived of Captain Keogh and the crew of the USS Odyssey. This is truly great adventure for the Star Trek fan.
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Summary: The Bland And The Boring
Review: In recent years there has been a disturbing trend in "Star Trek" to rehash previous material ad nauseum and here is yet another example. The basic premise for this two book series is actually clearly [an imitation of]the animated "Star Trek" episode "Slaver Weapon", written by Larry Niven and based on his non-Star Trek story "The Soft Weapon". There is even a hint of the episode "The Lorelei Signal" thrown in for good measure as well. Not that I'm surprised by this, if you look carefully the horrendously bad incarnation of "Star Trek" that was "Voyager" also frequently rewrote episodes of the animated "Star Trek", yet the original versions were always more intelligent despite being conceived for a juvenile audience. I think it says a lot about the state of modern "Star Trek" writers and fans that this should be so. Anyway back to this work and after a mildly enjoyable "Enterprise" introduction the writer delivers a largely pointless "Star Trek" adventure that has about as much life as a Vulcan stag night; while finishing off with an equally bland "DS9" story that also seems to have ejected its' warp core. Gone are the interesting characters of old, gone is the action and excitement, and gone is the intelligent drama. Instead we have another soap opera in space with weak characterisations, laughable action, and a plot so stupid even a Pakled wouldn't find it mentally challenging. So the sorry decline of "Star Trek" continues, and it looks as though after all the battles with Klingons, Romulans, Borg, and Cardassians, the enemies that will finally finish off the Federation are [weak] writers. Obviously the old saying is true : "The pen is mightier than the disruptor !"
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Summary: Absorbent Fiction
Review: Star Trek The Brave and the Bold is a great book for thos who want a light read. The plot spans three decades, three Enterprises. They aren't short stories but they sort of reads like short stories. They each have a connection to each other. The first "story" i set in the time of the television show "Enterprise. It basically introduces you about what the Malkus artifacts are. It's only a couple pages long. The second "story" is set one hundred years later in the time of the show "Star Trek". The two star ships U.S.S. Constalation, and U.S.S. Enterprise(both Federation starships) are investigating a plague on the planet "Alpha Proxima". The next "story" is set another hundred years in the twenty third century. The two starships Oddysey and Deep Space 9(DS9) are working together to build a farming colony on "Bajors" second moon. But when a Bajoran terrorist named Orta who disguised himself as a farmer plans to hijack the Oddysey they see his what he truly wants. The Brave and the Bold is a good light read. It reads like a Star Trek episode and might be a good read especially for Trekkies.
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