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Summary: An okay book. Not one of the best but good.
Review: A book where the Enterprise is thrown back in time and incounter an alien Earth lost in time where they find dinosaur like beings that attack the Enterprise crew. A pretty good book but i wouldn't consider it one of the best.
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Summary: Star Trek meets Jurassic Park.
Review: Alternative time lines and time travel are both recurring themes in Star Trek.
First Frontier deals with how to save the world that has been altered because of a series of events which only the Enterprise crew and stop from happening.
Fairly good reading if you are also into dinosaurs.
Note the errors on pages 112, 183, and 204.
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Summary: Not all is what it first seems
Review: At first I thought we were looking at a Jurassic Park set in the Future's past (excuse the tenses). Boy was I wrong! This book observed all due forms and friendships and had an ecxellent plot besides. A great read - even better the second time out
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Summary: A very pendantic book
Review: Carey has written several good Star Trek books. First Frontier is not one of them. She uses the book to preach that anyone who disagrees with the concept of the Federation should be treated as unruly children. I felt that she was trying to apply this to the UN. She really went to town in her efforts to espouse evolution as fact instead of theory. This I found offensive.
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Summary: Best Book Ever! Read it!
Review: Ever since I checked out this book from my local library, it has become my favorite! I like to write science fiction, and I have a series of stories I am still developing. In my stories, one of my alien species evolved from dinosaurs. This species was showing signs of intelligence when an asteroid was detected heading toward Earth. To save them, an extremely advanced species relocated them to another planet. This species was developed before I read First Frontier. If you have read First Frontier, the description above should sound familiar: it is exactly the same as the Clan Ru! Wow! This book is the best of the best!
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Summary: ST: First Frontier
Review: First Frontier by Diane Carey and James I. Kirkland is a fantastic Star Trek adventure with the fate of the Human existence on the balance. There is an alternate timeline in the story, one that if it plays out the Human Race would be nonexistant. Not only does this book have the classic Star Trek characters, but it incorporates a very excellent dinosaur story. As with any good adventure, there has to be a causal effect to make the story play and here in lies our classic Trek. Millions of years hence, before the great extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth, there were travelers in space who noted that there were intellegent dinosaurs and transplanted them on another planet to develop into a society. As they developed, they noted that their DNA was similar to that on Earth present day. So they set off to change the timelime and history as we know it. As the Starship Enterprise was testing a new shield and emerged from the Sun, they find themselves in the middle of an on going battle between the Klingons and Romulans. As Kirk et.al. pick up a lifepod, they find that the Klingon who survives has no knowledge of human existence. As the Enterprise crew further investigates , Starfleet Headquarters has been replaced by a jungle where large dinosaurs now inhabit the Earth. The Guardian of Forever is Kirk's only recourse. Left as a relic from a race known as the Iconians eons ago, it is one of the constants still left in this alternate time that corresponds to the time Kirk knows. Now you have all the tools for a classic conforntation between two cultures so diverse as to create a fantastic adventure. Reading this story puts you right in the middle of this mystery and you live it vicariously through Kirk et. al. with the dinosaur fauna hunting them. Excellent writing, storytelling and a plot that keeps you rivited. I highly recommend this combination Star Trek - Dinosaur tale. For the people who like a good story with adventure this is it, one of the all time best Star Trek adventures ever written.
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Summary: ST: First Frontier
Review: First Frontier by Diane Carey and James I. Kirkland is a fantastic Star Trek adventure with the fate of the Human existence on the balance. There is an alternate timeline in the story, one that if it plays out the Human Race would be nonexistant. Not only does this book have the classic Star Trek characters, but it incorporates a very excellent dinosaur story. As with any good adventure, there has to be a causal effect to make the story play and here in lies our classic Trek. Millions of years hence, before the great extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth, there were travelers in space who noted that there were intellegent dinosaurs and transplanted them on another planet to develop into a society. As they developed, they noted that their DNA was similar to that on Earth present day. So they set off to change the timelime and history as we know it. As the Starship Enterprise was testing a new shield and emerged from the Sun, they find themselves in the middle of an on going battle between the Klingons and Romulans. As Kirk et.al. pick up a lifepod, they find that the Klingon who survives has no knowledge of human existence. As the Enterprise crew further investigates , Starfleet Headquarters has been replaced by a jungle where large dinosaurs now inhabit the Earth. The Guardian of Forever is Kirk's only recourse. Left as a relic from a race known as the Iconians eons ago, it is one of the constants still left in this alternate time that corresponds to the time Kirk knows. Now you have all the tools for a classic conforntation between two cultures so diverse as to create a fantastic adventure. Reading this story puts you right in the middle of this mystery and you live it vicariously through Kirk et. al. with the dinosaur fauna hunting them. Excellent writing, storytelling and a plot that keeps you rivited. I highly recommend this combination Star Trek - Dinosaur tale. For the people who like a good story with adventure this is it, one of the all time best Star Trek adventures ever written.
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Summary: Best Book Ever! Read it!
Review: I always enjoy the way this gal spins a tale! The story's format is the highly recognizable one used in "It's a Wonderful Life" -- what if the human race (and by extention, the Federation) never existed? While I find evolutionary theory unbelievably improbable, so is science fiction -- and they fit! I thoroughly recommend this page-turner and the author for her writing skills.
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Summary: What a storyteller!
Review: I always enjoy the way this gal spins a tale! The story's format is the highly recognizable one used in "It's a Wonderful Life" -- what if the human race (and by extention, the Federation) never existed? While I find evolutionary theory unbelievably improbable, so is science fiction -- and they fit! I thoroughly recommend this page-turner and the author for her writing skills.
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Summary: Winner of Bad Fiction Contest
Review: I don't know if it will let me post the link to the Bulwer-Lytton Bad Fiction site (entry #40) here, but it is my duty to inform you all of the following: You want bad writing - I got bad writing. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you. Star Trek-- First Frontier by Diane Carey and Dr James I Kirkland. Doctor Kirkland is credited as the dinosaur expert, since the story is set on prehistoric earth. I hesitate to guess what Ms Carey's field of expertise may be, since it certainly isn't writing clear, literate English prose. The book is littered with cherishable errors - at a rate of one or two biggies every four or five pages. Particular favourites include a resolute refusal to use the phrase "He (or she) said" if at all possible. So we have: Kirk clipped, Chekov bolted. (While not moving from his seat), he malaised, Kirk distilled....., he resigned (While not going anywhere) Kirk impugned. Chapter 23 starts with the entirely incomprehensible sentence: "Head down into the storm they went, pressing barehanded to their chests an unshielded sense of peril." There are so many pleasing subjects for speculation here. How does a group of humanoids have multiple chests but only one head? Do you sometimes need gloves to press unshielded senses of peril to your chest? Do senses of perils usually come shielded and they took the shield off, or did they put a shield on and then took it off afterwards? And if so, why? But all these pale into insignificance before the panoply of riches which is Chapter 29. We have a Klingon who "gazed up at Kirk with roguish languor." A dinosaur described as a "shriven corpse on the floor." As I Catholic, I find it curiously reassuring to know that Confession was available to prehistoric reptiles. A human is endowed with a twenty-foot arm. (apparently only the one, though) and the best of the "he said" alternatives. "Pushing, Kirk under-girded, "But........" And I haven't even mentioned the rest of the book : Kirk leering at the bridge screen, the seconds that went by like surgical time (faster? slower?) the chap who cloyed to his work, Kirk reeling with respect for someone, disinterest used for uninterest, Kirk's surfeiting nod, vilification used as a synonym for hatred, and disdained for despised, etc.
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