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Summary: Did anyone catch that blurb?
Review: "Mysterious force?" "Phantom menace?" Does this sound familiar to anyone else?
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Summary: Good acually
Review: Although most of those who have written reviews for this book would seem quite likely tom disagree with me I belive this to be a very good book.As is Badlands 2
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Summary: Badlands or Bad Story 1?
Review: I have been interested in the Badlands since the first Voyager story. This first book introduce the lore without going into too much detail. It tries to project a mystery but failed. I believe a better job would have been done if it were 4 stories instead of 2 half stories. There is not enough time to build up the tension and then resolve it spectacularly. Spock could come up with some kind of theory but here he is not up to his usual high standards. He seems lost and do not know what to do. The mystery remains unresolved as it should be. What to show for this story is a lot of sick people.Next came Picard and his crew. This story is a lot better, in fact the best of the 4 stories. Again the mystery was not resolved, lots of sick people again. I had hoped for a more spectacular reason to the Badlands, something into like an super alien experiment gone wrong, a tear in space-time fabric (again?), some new way for travel can be devised from learning the secrets of the Badlands, etc. I feel that the story could be better, perhaps we can have another series but giving a different explanation?
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Summary: Star Trek or Star Wars?
Review: Jean Luc Picard faces the PHANTOM MENACE? HAHAHAHAHAHA Almost makes me want to read it...
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Summary: Good, but one thing is bugging me.
Review: Lets just say one thing: In a scene in sickbay, KIRK touches his COMBADGE and calls Scotty in Engineering. huh?
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Summary: Star Trek The Badlands Book One of Two Another great Trek!
Review: Part 1 Star Trek Part one takes place in 2268. Captain Kirk and the Enterprise are ordered to a set of coordinates that are way outside of Federation space. The mission: intercept and detain a smuggler that is supposed to be heading towards those coordinates. That smuggler is supposed to be smuggling plasma beam weapon technology. Once the Enterprise arrives, they discover the Badlands which to this point had not been discovered by the Federation. Captain Kirk is given credit for naming this space phenomenon "The Badlands." Captain Kirk eventually finds himself dealing with a Romulan smuggler, a Klingon D-7 cruiser and a mysterious radiation that is affecting his crew. Part 2 Star Trek The Next Generation Part two takes place in 2368. The Enterprise is ordered to survey the Badlands. Once there, Captain Picard dispatches Commander's Riker and Data in the shuttlecraft Hawking to explore the Badlands. Upon completing their survey, they discover that their navigational grid is down and have to find a way out of the Badlands and back to the Enterprise. Unfortunately for Riker and Data, the warp and impulse engines are down and they encounter the Cardassians who gladly insist on helping them. Overall, these first two stories are extremely well written, albeit short, Trek stories that are in good keeping with Susan Wright's excellent writing style. She has definitely become one of the top Trek writers. In reference to some of the other reviews, the minor mistakes that are pointed out, are exactly that, minor and easily dismissible. This is good Star Trek that I recommend to any and all fans.
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Summary: Star Trek The Badlands Book One of Two Another great Trek!
Review: Part 1 Star Trek Part one takes place in 2268. Captain Kirk and the Enterprise are ordered to a set of coordinates that are way outside of Federation space. The mission: intercept and detain a smuggler that is supposed to be heading towards those coordinates. That smuggler is supposed to be smuggling plasma beam weapon technology. Once the Enterprise arrives, they discover the Badlands which to this point had not been discovered by the Federation. Captain Kirk is given credit for naming this space phenomenon "The Badlands." Captain Kirk eventually finds himself dealing with a Romulan smuggler, a Klingon D-7 cruiser and a mysterious radiation that is affecting his crew. Part 2 Star Trek The Next Generation Part two takes place in 2368. The Enterprise is ordered to survey the Badlands. Once there, Captain Picard dispatches Commander's Riker and Data in the shuttlecraft Hawking to explore the Badlands. Upon completing their survey, they discover that their navigational grid is down and have to find a way out of the Badlands and back to the Enterprise. Unfortunately for Riker and Data, the warp and impulse engines are down and they encounter the Cardassians who gladly insist on helping them. Overall, these first two stories are extremely well written, albeit short, Trek stories that are in good keeping with Susan Wright's excellent writing style. She has definitely become one of the top Trek writers. In reference to some of the other reviews, the minor mistakes that are pointed out, are exactly that, minor and easily dismissible. This is good Star Trek that I recommend to any and all fans.
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Summary: Reasonably good writing, terrible format.
Review: Rather than writing a four-book series, each a full-length novel set in one of the Star Trek series, the author compresses this series into two books; the first tells a half-length story of the "Original Series" crew and a half-length story of the "Next Generation" crew. The second will have a half-length story of DS9 and a half-length Voyager story. This leaves each story feeling more than a bit rushed. Other than that, the writing is fairly good, although it started weakly. There were a half-dozen typos and copyediting mistakes in the first 70 pages, (to say nothing of the anachronism of Kirk calling Scotty on his commbadge, a technological innovation that didn't exist for about another 80 years or so, roughly equivalent to an author of a historical novel set in the time of the War of 1812 having James Madison call James Monroe on the telephone) but I didn't notice any after that. The characters were competently handled, the plots were reasonably good as far as they went. They simply didn't have time to go far enough; that was the only serious problem with the book.
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Summary: Reasonably good writing, terrible format.
Review: Rather than writing a four-book series, each a full-length novel set in one of the Star Trek series, the author compresses this series into two books; the first tells a half-length story of the "Original Series" crew and a half-length story of the "Next Generation" crew. The second will have a half-length story of DS9 and a half-length Voyager story. This leaves each story feeling more than a bit rushed. Other than that, the writing is fairly good, although it started weakly. There were a half-dozen typos and copyediting mistakes in the first 70 pages, (to say nothing of the anachronism of Kirk calling Scotty on his commbadge, a technological innovation that didn't exist for about another 80 years or so, roughly equivalent to an author of a historical novel set in the time of the War of 1812 having James Madison call James Monroe on the telephone) but I didn't notice any after that. The characters were competently handled, the plots were reasonably good as far as they went. They simply didn't have time to go far enough; that was the only serious problem with the book.
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Summary: Badlands ... Bad start
Review: Susan Wright does an affable job telling us NO story, only postulating events that lead up to what Book 2 promises to be a thrilling conclusion. Book 1 proposes a mysterious threat located in the area of outer space known as the Badlands ... and that's about it. With part of the story told in the Star Trek TOS timeframe and then another part in Star Trek TNG, that's all we're given ... no memorable characters and almost laughably forgettable dialogue. Many scenes almost read like filler, written last minute to expand the book to a required word length. It's curious how this story, out of the multitude of ideas that are probably submitted to Pocket Books, made it past the editorial staff. The only positive assessment I can add is that it was a quick read.
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