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Summary: An excellent and refreshing Star Trek novel!!!
Review: The Best and the Brightest is right on time. I read all the Star Trek books in all the incarnations and the ones like this are a real treasure. To me it is wonderfull to get outside the box of the normal Trek book. I have to admit that I was initially a little shocked about the lesbian thing, being not normal in the Star Trek books. It's all good though, being the twenty fourth century, I'm hopeful that by then all the stigma will be nothing but history. Overall a very wonderful book that gives life to some new characters and intermixes them into some of the events we've seen on the screen. If you've not purchased and read this one, you're missing out on some of the best work in the Trek world. This book is in very good keeping with the "Great Bird of the Galaxie's" ideas, principles and philosophy. Get this one while you still can before it goes out of publication. A huge thank you to the author for this one!
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Summary: An excellent and refreshing Star Trek novel!!!
Review: The Best and the Brightest is right on time. I read all the Star Trek books in all the incarnations and the ones like this are a real treasure. To me it is wonderfull to get outside the box of the normal Trek book. I have to admit that I was initially a little shocked about the lesbian thing, being not normal in the Star Trek books. It's all good though, being the twenty fourth century, I'm hopeful that by then all the stigma will be nothing but history. Overall a very wonderful book that gives life to some new characters and intermixes them into some of the events we've seen on the screen. If you've not purchased and read this one, you're missing out on some of the best work in the Trek world. This book is in very good keeping with the "Great Bird of the Galaxie's" ideas, principles and philosophy. Get this one while you still can before it goes out of publication. A huge thank you to the author for this one!
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Summary: Where no one has gone before.
Review: There will, undoubtedly, be people disappointed with this book because it has only cameo appearances by the familiar characters; the story centers around the Starfleet Academy years of six cadets, from around the time of the episode "Time's Arrow" through slightly after the "Generations" movie. The author does a fine job of integrating the known background of the series into a story about people only marginally touched by those events, but the real story is a very touching coming-of-age story. As such, it is very different from what we've come to expect in a "Star Trek" novel, but there is enough action that anyone who reads these books for the action should be satisfied, even if the action is mostly episodic and does not provide the overarching storyline, which focusses primarily on character development.What makes this book special is the two love stories it contains, both between pairs of the primary characters. In both cases, this is treated in a very unusual way (and one that I would dearly love to see more often): the people in question first get to know one another, then become friends, and only later fall in love and pair off. This remarkably sensible form of love story is doubtless considered very unromantic by some, thanks to the standard "Romeo and Juliet" love stories that we've all been force-fed since before we knew enough to resist them, in which the couple fall in love first, and only then (sometimes) get to know one another and become friends. Anyone with an ounce of sense knows that this story's take on the concept is the best way to go about things, but there are way too few people out there with an ounce of sense. What REALLY makes this book special, however, is that one of the couples in question is two women. Taking the great tradition instituted by Gene Roddenberry that Star Trek is set in a world where all of the prejudices, biases, and disputes that so upset our century have long since ceased to be issues where it has never been taken before, Wright tells a love story between two women in which the words "lesbian", "gay", and "homosexual" never appear, and in which none of the characters find it at all odd or worthy of comment that the two friends/acquaintances of theirs who are in love happen to be of the same gender. In neither love story is sexuality more than hinted at; still, the pairbonding is clear and unambiguous, and totally unashamed. A beautiful novel.
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Summary: This book is not the best nor the brightest
Review: This book has a few good points in it, but those just barely overshadow the errors in this book. The good points are that the cadets seem almost normal. Though that is coupled with one of its errors. The cadets are too outstanding in some parts. Most of these cadets are not like any "normal cadets". One saves the Enterprise. The other negotiates a peace that will affect an entire planet. Another helped put a dent in a slave trade. It's just too much for me. Also, there was barely any action in it. I would have liked to see them in a simulator, like in Diane Carey's excellent novel based on the Interplay game. The other is that all the action ends too fast. It is most notable when two of the cadets are on the USS Enterprise, and it is during Star Trek: Generations. In the move, it took at least five minutes. In the book, it took three. But still, it is a good book and the characters are outstanding in some areas. A good book to read if you have nothing else to read.
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Summary: A Great Book!!
Review: This book has got to be the best star trek I've ever read. These characters are different from one another and kinda gives you a sample of different cultures, ways of thinking, and lifestyes. these characters are believable. I also like the way this book adds a few reconizable names,incidents, and "guest stars" and I find it interesting how the author portrays Molls and Jaymes lesbian relationship hinting that in the 24th century it isnt a big thing . It also dosnt shy away from the fact that starfleet is dangerous and many die in service. Over all I love this book. Its great to see the younger side of starfleet.
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Summary: A must read book
Review: This book is a somewhat interesting story. Character chemistry or interaction are enough to keep a reader intrigued. It certainly lets us know what's like a cadet of Starfleet Academy regardless of gender, species, origin, etc. A lot of individual adentures are included into this book. Kudos to Susan Wright.
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Summary: Interesting Book over Life at Starfleet Academy
Review: This book was very intriguing because you never knew what was going to happen at any given time. The cadets learned to deal with other people and an array of problems. Also, the book showed how classmates stick together for life.
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