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Summary: How do you like your Klingons?
Review: Do you prefer your Klingons devious, underhanded, implacable enemies of the Federation, as they are in "Trouble With Tribbles" and "Friday's Child"? Or do you prefer the honorable and rather straightforward, if harsh, warriors we saw glimpses of in "Errand of Mercy" and "Day of the Dove", and which we've seen regularly ever since Worf debuted on "Next Generation"? If your idea of Klingons is the former, you'll doubtless enjoy this book tremendously. If the latter, I suspect that you'll find this book untenable; these are definitely not the modern idea of what Klingons are like.The story itself is a reasonably good one, if not quite as subtle as it seems to think it is. The writing is fine, the characterizations good, the plot interesting if not entirely plausible, and not just because of devious Klingons. Worth a read, but not the best "Trek" story out there by a long shot.
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Summary: ST- TOS: Timetrap
Review: Star Trek-The Original Series: Timetrap written by David Dvorkin is a Captain James T. Kirk driven book. The charater of James T. Kirk is in a transporter surge accident is transported into the the future wher the Klingons are found to be a rather straightforward race, but harsh by Federation standards. This whole adventure started out in a remote area of Federation space as the Enterprise picks up a distress call. The crew comes to the rescue, but encounter a Klingon cruiser named "Mauler" in Federation space, but that is not the worst of the situation to come. As Kirk and crew try to sort out the situation, They find the Klingon ship trapped inside of a storm. As Kirk beams over to the Klingon ship, the storm flares and this is where the main plot of the book takes shape. Kirk is now one hundred years in the future , the "Mauler" vanishes from sight of the Enterprise, much to the horror of the crew of the Enterprise. This book was written in a time when Star Trek was adding the genre of ST-TNG, so thing were being sorted out as to how the Klingon's were going to be portrayed. Either they were going to be the tricky, sly, or furtive as they were in the "Trouble with Tribbles and Friday's Child." Or were they going to be the forthright, candid, or outspoken charater trait found in "Errand of Mercy and Day of the Dove," or more like those found in the ST-TNG. Of course, if you feature the character of Kirk, you have to have a love interest. Well, in this case we have Kalrind as Kirk's new Klingon love interest. This is making way for the Shatner inspired novels to come. I found this book to follow the genre of TOS quite well and is well-written. It also starts some of the framework for the TNG and Kirk inspired books, which makes this book a pivotal. All in all, the was an enjoyable story.
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Summary: ST- TOS: Timetrap
Review: Star Trek-The Original Series: Timetrap written by David Dvorkin is a Captain James T. Kirk driven book. The charater of James T. Kirk is in a transporter surge accident is transported into the the future wher the Klingons are found to be a rather straightforward race, but harsh by Federation standards. This whole adventure started out in a remote area of Federation space as the Enterprise picks up a distress call. The crew comes to the rescue, but encounter a Klingon cruiser named "Mauler" in Federation space, but that is not the worst of the situation to come. As Kirk and crew try to sort out the situation, They find the Klingon ship trapped inside of a storm. As Kirk beams over to the Klingon ship, the storm flares and this is where the main plot of the book takes shape. Kirk is now one hundred years in the future , the "Mauler" vanishes from sight of the Enterprise, much to the horror of the crew of the Enterprise. This book was written in a time when Star Trek was adding the genre of ST-TNG, so thing were being sorted out as to how the Klingon's were going to be portrayed. Either they were going to be the tricky, sly, or furtive as they were in the "Trouble with Tribbles and Friday's Child." Or were they going to be the forthright, candid, or outspoken charater trait found in "Errand of Mercy and Day of the Dove," or more like those found in the ST-TNG. Of course, if you feature the character of Kirk, you have to have a love interest. Well, in this case we have Kalrind as Kirk's new Klingon love interest. This is making way for the Shatner inspired novels to come. I found this book to follow the genre of TOS quite well and is well-written. It also starts some of the framework for the TNG and Kirk inspired books, which makes this book a pivotal. All in all, the was an enjoyable story.
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Summary: Decent Trek
Review: Timetrap is a traditional Trek novel, decently written and with a story that holds the interest but does not excite. Captain Kirk is a little too maudlin here, but nevertheless gets plenty of alien female action (and would we expect anything less?) as he finds himself isolated from the Enterprise and surrounded by "New Klingons." There is some good McCoy/Spock banter here, but the rest of the crew is limited to cameos (and Chekov, although mentioned, never appears at all). Bottom line is that Timetrap is a good, quality Trek read, not as outstanding as The Captain's Table's Fire Ship, but by no means a dud.
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Summary: Decent Trek
Review: Timetrap is a traditional Trek novel, decently written and with a story that holds the interest but does not excite. Captain Kirk is a little too maudlin here, but nevertheless gets plenty of alien female action (and would we expect anything less?) as he finds himself isolated from the Enterprise and surrounded by "New Klingons." There is some good McCoy/Spock banter here, but the rest of the crew is limited to cameos (and Chekov, although mentioned, never appears at all). Bottom line is that Timetrap is a good, quality Trek read, not as outstanding as The Captain's Table's Fire Ship, but by no means a dud.
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Summary: A glimpse of the future
Review: Written in 1988, this exciting Star Trek book had some hoping it would be a crossover to Next Generation. Kirk finds himself trapped 100 years in the future among "New Klingons" and a participant in an incident that potentially will lead to a great peace predicted by the Organians. Kirk picks up a love interest, Kalrind, in trip to the new time with the new Klingons. The relationship seems to foreshadow that with Tellani in the Shatner Star Trek novels (Ashes of Eden). All in all this is a good Star Trek adventure and worth a read if you can find it in a used book store.
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Summary: A glimpse of the future
Review: Written in 1988, this exciting Star Trek book had some hoping it would be a crossover to Next Generation. Kirk finds himself trapped 100 years in the future among "New Klingons" and a participant in an incident that potentially will lead to a great peace predicted by the Organians. Kirk picks up a love interest, Kalrind, in trip to the new time with the new Klingons. The relationship seems to foreshadow that with Tellani in the Shatner Star Trek novels (Ashes of Eden). All in all this is a good Star Trek adventure and worth a read if you can find it in a used book store.
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