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Summary: This one is GREAT!
Review: This book ties in greatly with the series, as we see Captain Bateson, Captain Scott, and a bunch of pissed off Klingons! I always wondered what happened to Captain Bateson after the TV episode where he and his crew were freed from the time loop. Well, unknown to me until now, he had a major part in the new Enterprise E! Whoda thunkit?
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Summary: The story of Picard finding the eye of the tiger again
Review: This book was excellent I couldn't put it down. It told the story of how the Bozeman appeared 90 years from its time, and the effect it had on current history. Also, Picards inner struggle of losing the Enterprise was extremely interesting. With Bateson in command of the Enterprise Riker finds himself into an uncomfortable situation with him. Scotty add's his usual touch in a novel all trekkers will enjoy.
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Summary: Star Trek: Ship of the Line
Review: This book was very entertaining and would relate well with any trekkie. This book relates previous episodes with current series and movies pertaining to anything related to Star Trek which is pretty cool. The book starts out by describing the situation which lead the Bozeman from the 23rd century toi the 24th where they meet Captain Picard and the Enterprise-D. After reviewing that episode, the book preseded to describing the current movie where the Enterprise-D was destriyed at Veridian III. Now Captain Bateson and Captain Picard are strugglung to discover their belonging while Captain Batesman's rival, Klingon Commander Kozara now 93 years from Batesman's time are plotting to destroy the reputation of the Enterprise and Bozeman.
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Summary: Diane Carey can do better and has.
Review: This is a Star Trek the Next Generation novel. It was the last book that I finished before I got the idea into my head to do book reviews so that is why it comes first in the review list. Diane Carey is a fixture in the Star Trek novel universe, and in this novel she has taken on the task of filling some of the gaps between the first Next Generation movie Generations and the second First Contact. The book purports on the cover to be the story of the first voyage of the Enterprise-E. That would be the monster new ship in the First Contact movie that nearly gets Borgified for all you non-Trek people. Carey has told some interesting tales of the Star Trek universe, but I'm afraid this one comes up a bit lacking on the whole. First, while this is ostensibly the story of the Enterprise-E's first voyage it is also several other stories. The book starts out in 2278, which is the time period of the first Star Trek series. We are introduced to Captain Morgan Bateson, his crew and their ship the U.S.S. Bozeman a small border patrol vessel whose duty is to patrol the border between the Klingon Empire and Federation, as during this time period they are at war. Via an encounter with a surprise Klingon attack which lead to an encounter with a cosmic mishap, the Bozeman is unfortunately displaced in time to the year 2368, which coincidentally happens to be the exact time period that a Next Generation novel should be set in! By sheer luck the Bozeman encounters the Enterprise-D and Captain Jean-Luc Picard and crew by almost running into them as they appear out of the time vortex. Bateson and crew have to now live with the harsh reality that they have been displaced a lifetime into the future. Fast forward three years. The Enterprise-D is kibble and the new Enterprise-E has been built and the construction team has been headed by none other than the time-displaced Morgan Bateson with his crew along to help out. Captain Picard is having doubts about his motivations for commanding the new ship, and Bateson gets to captain the shakedown cruise of the new Enterprise with Riker along reluctantly as first officer while Picard goes on a special mission to the Cardassian empire to look into finding the crews of several missing Federation ships. Got that? Yeah, one of the main problems with this book is that there are probably one or two too many plotlines. The storylines are that Bateson and his crew don't fit in, Picard is a bit traumatized after the Enterprise-D took a header into a planet, there are Federation crews gone missing (we even get little vignettes from their perspective as well so that we can feel for them), Riker has to go along with Bateson whom he doesn't like on the Enterprise-E's shakedown cruise. Then throw in some Klingons from the past and chaos ensues. I won't spoil the ending for you, but I will say that there is much too much going on for just one book. We get Picard's perspective of course, and we get Riker's, Bateson's, Klingon antagonist's, Cardassian antagonist's, Federation captives, and a few others thrown in as well. You can't identify with these people's problems because you get about a minute of reading time before the book switches to the next plot and character. The plotlines and conflicts of course have to be resolved by the end of the book (as in all Star Trek episodes) so everything gets tied up way too quickly and neatly at the end. Actually, until I got to the end and everything was resolved in the span of about pages 20 pages I thought the book was going okay, but it seems that Ms. Carey ran out room and had to tidy up a bit quick. All the plotlines wrapped up much too abruptly in a very tv episode fashion. I think the pressure of writing a novel that takes place right before a movie, where the characters have to end up a certain way at the outset of said movie ruined this book. The epilogue is actually set a few moments before the Borg attack that leads off the First Contact movie. The short summary is, the book is an okay read, it moves along quickly, but ends badly, resolving everthing in a cut and dried manner that is quite clumsy. You would be much better off reading some of Carey's other Star Trek novels. Dreadnought and Final Frontier come to mind as two novels that I think are much better than this one. 2-1/2 stars out of 5
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Summary: It almost hit the spot
Review: This is one of the better Star Trek books I've ever read, and it is good to see work that covers over the gaps left between movies. Diane Carey is a good author, but she is definitely better at Original Series books than Next Generation ones. The character of Morgan Bateson is very accurate, and his dialogue is so well written that it actually sounds like Kelsey Grammer (Frasier)talking. However, Bateson is the only really developed character in the book, and his crew, including his drunkard first officer are merely cutouts, with none of the depth of Picard and company. Carey has however not studied Trek history well enough, and several inconsistencies throughout make the book heavy going in places. Also, according to Star Trek lore, the Enterprise-E was built in Earth Orbit, not at the obscure Starbase 12. The Klingon characters are good enough, but they too are flat, and often seem too stupid to be the warrior crew of a Starship. However, all the scenes with Bateson and Kirk and Scotty are welcome, and help iron over the obscure Cardassian connection, and the fact that the Klingons and the Federation actually do get along in the 24th Century, not hate each other as indicated in the story. This is a good continuation of Bateson's adventures, but not quite as I imagined it. And does anyone know the Starship class of the new Bozeman. I think its the sistership to the Enterprise E.
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Summary: Awesome!! Best novel i've read in a long time!
Review: This is the best book, Star Trek or otherwise, that i have read in a while. It tied all the little details from the series together and shed light on places that needed more defining. It answered questions the faithful Trekker has always asked about the series, and convincingly, too! Kudos to Carey!
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Summary: Enjoyable read, though perhaps overrated by Pocket Books
Review: This need not have been a special event novel except for the fact that it's the "first" Enterprise-E adventure. What they failed to mention is that it wasn't a Picard-and-crew adventure. Note that I really liked the bits about the construction of the new Enterprise, and the different command style exhibited by Bateson is fun ang engaging, but we don't really tune in to see HIM every week. The plot still moves along fairly well, with a villain that's unusual, but far from scary most of the time. The clash of captain styles is something we've visited before with Jellico in "Chain of Command". And there are a lot of other clichés as well. May be better for non-Trekkers, actually. You get to meet the main characters in the book, without need of any other material. Fans will feel cheated out of the usual crew's presence.
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Summary: Not one of Diane's better books
Review: This one really didn't do much for me. A lot of it was really implausible...like the fact that, with all the time-traveling we've seen in Trek, they still don't take that into consideration when considering a captain's tenure! Sorry, I just don't buy them giving the Ship of the Line to someone who is out of his time. Many of the other characterizations just don't work for me, like Picard being so upset by losing the Enterprise. We saw him at the end of Generations, and he did not look like someone grieving over-much for the ship. That said, once you get into it, the book does for the most part hold your attention. It bounces around a bit much and the various plots are all resolved much too quickly in the end. Not one of the worst Trek novels by any means, but not one I'm likely to read again.
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Summary: One big dissapointment
Review: This was the first Diane Carey book I'd ever read and I was shocked. The book got absolutely nowhere, the characters were boringly portrayed and, at times, seemed to act very much out of character. The novel is filled with over-simplification, clichés and stereotypes, while it gives us the usual Klingon-animal Human-God type of message. About 85% of the book is made up by completely irrelevant and poorly paced scenes that don't contain any entertainment or artistic deapht. But it DID portray an interesting time on the TNG timeline and is maybe worth one read if you have time and can find it from a public library. But don't by it. Thats all I have to say about this one.
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Summary: Thankfully, I got it on the bargain pyramid...
Review: This was, well, awful. It seems like the author bit off more than she could chew. She drew together plots with Captain Bateman and his crew (from the TNG Episode "Cause and Effect,"), brought in the brand new Enterprise-E, tied in Scotty, the Gul that tortured Picard in "Chain of Command,", some previous-century Klingons, and - oh yes - a holodeck recreation of Kirk. And tribbles. The result is an alarmingly out-of-character mash of crossovers that leaves you feeling like you're reading a comedy, not a science fiction novel. The only thing that redeemed this book at all to me was the plight of Captain Bateman and his crew, stranded far ahead of their own timeline. They were interesting. The rest was not. Skip this one, unless you'd like to know more about the crew of the USS Bozeman. But go to a library.
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