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Summary: GREAT BOOK!
Review: ROBERT GREENBERGER HAS DONE A SUPERB JOB OF CAPTURING THE ROMULAN MINDSET IN 'THE ROMULAN STRATEGEM'. THIS BOOK ALSO GIVES US A MORE IN-DEPTH LOOK INTO THE LIFE OF THE 1/2 HUMAN, 1/2 ROMULAN COMMANDER, SELA - A TNG CHARACTER WHOM VERY LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT. A MUST-HAVE FOR ANY TNG/TASHA YAR/SELA FAN!
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Summary: ST-TNG: The Romulan Stratagem
Review: Star Trek-The Next Generation: The Romulan Stratagem written by Robert Greenberger is a Captain Jean-Luc Picard vs. the Romulans book. In this book the Romulan Picard is pitted against is an old nemisis Commander Sela. There is a fleshing out of the Sela character in this book. This book fills in some of the gaps in logic for the Sela character making for an interesting read.This book's premiss starts out as a routine mission to an unexplored planet near the Klingon/Romulan border called Eloh. The Elohsians are negotiating for membership in the Federation, but the Romulans have interest in Eloh as well. When Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise arrive at Eloh with a diplomatic team they find Commander Sela there trying to convince the Elohsians to join the Romulan Star Empire. Faced with a decision, Picard must find a way to convince the Elohsians that joining the Federation is a much better choice, but with the Romulan involved treachery, deciet, and guile are the standard. Sela is Tasha Yar's daughter as she has appeared in previous TNG television series and we know she can be a worthy advisary, and she has her sights on Eloh. There is a sub-plot with Data/Sela as Data must form an uneasy alliance with Sela making for an interesting plot twist. Twists and turns abound in this book as Picard trys not to lose a strategic advantage, as Sela trys not to lose the planet Eloh to the Federation as a stratedic stronghold so close to the Star Empire. Mystery, intrigue, and action-adventure abound in this book as the author gets the Romulans right with deciet, deception, and guile.
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Summary: ST-TNG: The Romulan Stratagem
Review: Star Trek-The Next Generation: The Romulan Stratagem written by Robert Greenberger is a Captain Jean-Luc Picard vs. the Romulans book. In this book the Romulan Picard is pitted against is an old nemisis Commander Sela. There is a fleshing out of the Sela character in this book. This book fills in some of the gaps in logic for the Sela character making for an interesting read. This book's premiss starts out as a routine mission to an unexplored planet near the Klingon/Romulan border called Eloh. The Elohsians are negotiating for membership in the Federation, but the Romulans have interest in Eloh as well. When Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise arrive at Eloh with a diplomatic team they find Commander Sela there trying to convince the Elohsians to join the Romulan Star Empire. Faced with a decision, Picard must find a way to convince the Elohsians that joining the Federation is a much better choice, but with the Romulan involved treachery, deciet, and guile are the standard. Sela is Tasha Yar's daughter as she has appeared in previous TNG television series and we know she can be a worthy advisary, and she has her sights on Eloh. There is a sub-plot with Data/Sela as Data must form an uneasy alliance with Sela making for an interesting plot twist. Twists and turns abound in this book as Picard trys not to lose a strategic advantage, as Sela trys not to lose the planet Eloh to the Federation as a stratedic stronghold so close to the Star Empire. Mystery, intrigue, and action-adventure abound in this book as the author gets the Romulans right with deciet, deception, and guile.
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Summary: The Federation competes with the Romulans
Review: The Enterprise is called on a diplomatic first contact mission to a world which has only recently achived a world government after ages of war amongst themselves. However, when they arrive they find a Romulan warbird orbiting the planet and discover the inhabitants are entertaining both the Federation and Romulan Empire as possible allies as they step into the interstellar community. A few days into negotiations, terrorist atacks on the planet implicate Geordie LaFordge, and possibly the Romulans in a plot to use force to sway the decision of the planet's leadership. Data, investigating the atacks, forms an alliance with Commander Selar, infamous daughter of Tasha Yar, for the purpose of investigating the attacks and clearing both Federation and Romulan involvement. Meanwhile, Ensign Ro Laren has a young suitor who she's trying to let down easy as Commander Riker gives advise on wooing a woman to him, not knowing who he's wooing. An interresting sub-plot which brings some humor to break up the intense negotiations going on. Altogether a good, though not spectacular, book worth the time to read.
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Summary: The Federation competes with the Romulans
Review: The Enterprise is called on a diplomatic first contact mission to a world which has only recently achived a world government after ages of war amongst themselves. However, when they arrive they find a Romulan warbird orbiting the planet and discover the inhabitants are entertaining both the Federation and Romulan Empire as possible allies as they step into the interstellar community. A few days into negotiations, terrorist atacks on the planet implicate Geordie LaFordge, and possibly the Romulans in a plot to use force to sway the decision of the planet's leadership. Data, investigating the atacks, forms an alliance with Commander Selar, infamous daughter of Tasha Yar, for the purpose of investigating the attacks and clearing both Federation and Romulan involvement. Meanwhile, Ensign Ro Laren has a young suitor who she's trying to let down easy as Commander Riker gives advise on wooing a woman to him, not knowing who he's wooing. An interresting sub-plot which brings some humor to break up the intense negotiations going on. Altogether a good, though not spectacular, book worth the time to read.
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Summary: Would have made a better movie than Star Trek Insurrection!
Review: The Romulans were the main villians on the Next Generation and are by far the best enemy the Federation has ever had! This book is interisting and has some real fine points in it. Highly recommened for any Star Trek Fan!
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Summary: Would have made a better movie than Star Trek Insurrection!
Review: The Romulans were the main villians on the Next Generation and are by far the best enemy the Federation has ever had! This book is interisting and has some real fine points in it. Highly recommened for any Star Trek Fan!
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Summary: Definite page turner!
Review: This book brings back one of the most interesting villians to grace the Next Generation . . .Sela! Having only made brief appearences during the TNG seres, it was a real treat to find out more about the fascinating daughter of the late Tasha Yar. The story starts out a little slow, but it quickly builds into a page turning plot. Look for some great scenes involving Data and Sela. Two phasers up on this one
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Summary: Too slow-paced for me
Review: This story is of a type more often found in the Original Series: the Federation and one of its enemies are competing directly for the allegiance of a newly star-faring civilisation, the Elohsians. Both sides try to show their best features, with the Romulans of course doing their bit to sabotage the Enterprise crew. The premise is really good but the author fails to make a good story out of it. Much of the early book is taken up with conferences and banquets and such, where the Romulans and the Elohsians do their best to needle and provoke the Enterprise crew, and they in turn do their best not to show how irritated they generally are. I don't know whether it's excess empathy with the crew, but I did not enjoy these scenes any more than they generally do. The Elohsians are also rather arrogant and conceited. You expect and get that from the Romulans too, and both together were too much. The book later moves on to explosions and some fighting, and this reveals that the author's writing style is just too flat, too uninteresting for the events he is presenting. To top it all off, there is a sub-plot involving Ro Laren, intended mostly for comic relief. It has long winded scenes too, and the humorous events do not make up for the amount of time spent getting to them, let alone provide a good counterpoint to the rest of the book. While some of the book is good, overall the entertainment value is just too low to be worth reading.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: This was the first Star Trek book that I have ever read. I Loved it!! I felt I had a bond with the characters. Robert Greenberger is awesome. I felt like I was part of the story. Getting beamed down with the Away Team and meeting a new race of people. My wife thought I was going to far when I began saluting her and calling her Number 1. I'm hooked on Star Trek now!!!
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