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Summary: STNG #26 The Romulan Prize - An absolutely great STNG novel!
Review: "The Romulan Prize" is most certainly one of the best Star Trek The Next Generation numbered novels to date. The author, Simon Hawke most certainly deserves a great amount of praise for this particular gem. What I find most surprising is that this was but the first of only three adventures into the Star Trek genre by this author. I would've definitely thought he'd have been writing more.The title of this novel alone drew me in when considering the nature of Romulans and their natural tendencies towards mystery, intrigue, treachery and deceit, all of which the author infused within this story with ease. I found his writing style to be quite fluid, making for a very quick read as one is turning the pages as quickly as possible to get to the solution of this exceptional early STNG novel by one of Star Trek's "not so" prolific writers. The cover art for this particular title a little bit better than the standard fare; showing Captain Picard, a Romulan, the Enterprise and a Romulan Warbird and the typical background of stars and planets. The premise: The Romulans learn of Hermeticus 2 which is a Federation planet that is so secret that even few in the Federation know of its existence. This kind of adds a little bit of an Area 51 type mystique to the Star Trek universe. The Romulans immediately formulate a plan to infiltrate this facility and here is where the Enterprise becomes involved. As the Enterprise is on a routine patrol near the Romulan Neutral Zone, they discover an abandoned Romulan Warbird prototype that is very advance and lifeless. Not long after, Captain Picard and crew begin an investigation of this abandoned Romulan vessel and they soon find themselves embroiled in a Romulan threat that threatens the very foundations of the Federation. What follows from there is, as stated above, one of the best early STNG novels that will make an excellent addition to your Star Trek library and I highly recommend it. {ssintrepid}
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Summary: If you like Romulans...
Review: "The Romulan Prize" is a TNG novel by the very talented author Simon Hawke. It's a good insight to the Romulan culture, with a plot that holds out throughout the book. The novel is set late season 5, and captures the atmosphere of the TV-series most exemplarorily. The story has many twist in it, and the book is extremely visual, making it an entertaining book to direct in your mind. The book had one dissapointment, though. It was the fact that it centered too much around the characters that, perhaps, are allready overused in the show. But those characters were fortunately portrayed extremely well. And one more complaint goes to the unbeliavably unintelligent and ridiculous storyline, that shows our own cave-man Commander William Riker trying to make matters better by kikking some Romulan butt on the holodeck. It was like watching a Hollywood action film. But if you're looking for good characterization and story that feels exactly like an episode of TNG (if not better), this is the book.
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Summary: STNG #26 The Romulan Prize - An absolutely great STNG novel!
Review: "The Romulan Prize" is most certainly one of the best Star Trek The Next Generation numbered novels to date. The author, Simon Hawke most certainly deserves a great amount of praise for this particular gem. What I find most surprising is that this was but the first of only three adventures into the Star Trek genre by this author. I would've definitely thought he'd have been writing more. The title of this novel alone drew me in when considering the nature of Romulans and their natural tendencies towards mystery, intrigue, treachery and deceit, all of which the author infused within this story with ease. I found his writing style to be quite fluid, making for a very quick read as one is turning the pages as quickly as possible to get to the solution of this exceptional early STNG novel by one of Star Trek's "not so" prolific writers. The cover art for this particular title a little bit better than the standard fare; showing Captain Picard, a Romulan, the Enterprise and a Romulan Warbird and the typical background of stars and planets. The premise: The Romulans learn of Hermeticus 2 which is a Federation planet that is so secret that even few in the Federation know of its existence. This kind of adds a little bit of an Area 51 type mystique to the Star Trek universe. The Romulans immediately formulate a plan to infiltrate this facility and here is where the Enterprise becomes involved. As the Enterprise is on a routine patrol near the Romulan Neutral Zone, they discover an abandoned Romulan Warbird prototype that is very advance and lifeless. Not long after, Captain Picard and crew begin an investigation of this abandoned Romulan vessel and they soon find themselves embroiled in a Romulan threat that threatens the very foundations of the Federation. What follows from there is, as stated above, one of the best early STNG novels that will make an excellent addition to your Star Trek library and I highly recommend it. {ssintrepid}
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Summary: STNG #26 The Romulan Prize - An absolutely great STNG novel!
Review: "The Romulan Prize" is most certainly one of the best Star Trek The Next Generation numbered novels to date. The author, Simon Hawke most certainly deserves a great amount of praise for this particular gem. What I find most surprising is that this was but the first of only three adventures into the Star Trek genre by this author. I would've definitely thought he'd have been writing more. The title of this novel alone drew me in when considering the nature of Romulans and their natural tendencies towards mystery, intrigue, treachery and deceit, all of which the author infused within this story with ease. I found his writing style to be quite fluid, making for a very quick read as one is turning the pages as quickly as possible to get to the solution of this exceptional early STNG novel by one of Star Trek's "not so" prolific writers. The cover art for this particular title a little bit better than the standard fare; showing Captain Picard, a Romulan, the Enterprise and a Romulan Warbird and the typical background of stars and planets. The premise: The Romulans learn of Hermeticus 2 which is a Federation planet that is so secret that even few in the Federation know of its existence. This kind of adds a little bit of an Area 51 type mystique to the Star Trek universe. The Romulans immediately formulate a plan to infiltrate this facility and here is where the Enterprise becomes involved. As the Enterprise is on a routine patrol near the Romulan Neutral Zone, they discover an abandoned Romulan Warbird prototype that is very advance and lifeless. Not long after, Captain Picard and crew begin an investigation of this abandoned Romulan vessel and they soon find themselves embroiled in a Romulan threat that threatens the very foundations of the Federation. What follows from there is, as stated above, one of the best early STNG novels that will make an excellent addition to your Star Trek library and I highly recommend it. {ssintrepid}
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Summary: Good Book
Review: Although I am not crazy about the premis of the Enterprise getting taken over by Romulans the book itself is quite good. The plot thickens and moves quiclky as you try to anticipate the crews next move to reclaim their ship and solve the mystery of the planet. The story does seem to get weak at points but readers can overlook any short commings because of the twists and turns. A couple of negatives are : 1. the way the romulans so easily tricked the enterprise crew with a unbelievable fake death. Come on Chrusher is not that incompetant.2. How easily the Romulans transported at will with out any resistance on to the enterprise and conquered it without even a single phaser shot. Now why the hell would Geordi power the Romulan transporters in the first place with so little extra power on their broken down ship and why didn't the enterprise detect the transports and security respond? 3. The battles were scripted and the end of the mystery down on the planet was scripted and unoriginal. The author should have given more techy details of how things worked or perhaps given some secrets over to the Federation. After all they were human! Over all a good book and I recomend it to anyone. The shortcommings are few and far between although they do some damage to the credibility of the plot in my opinion. Overall a good book.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: Although I am not crazy about the premis of the Enterprise getting taken over by Romulans the book itself is quite good. The plot thickens and moves quiclky as you try to anticipate the crews next move to reclaim their ship and solve the mystery of the planet. The story does seem to get weak at points but readers can overlook any short commings because of the twists and turns. A couple of negatives are : 1. the way the romulans so easily tricked the enterprise crew with a unbelievable fake death. Come on Chrusher is not that incompetant.2. How easily the Romulans transported at will with out any resistance on to the enterprise and conquered it without even a single phaser shot. Now why the hell would Geordi power the Romulan transporters in the first place with so little extra power on their broken down ship and why didn't the enterprise detect the transports and security respond? 3. The battles were scripted and the end of the mystery down on the planet was scripted and unoriginal. The author should have given more techy details of how things worked or perhaps given some secrets over to the Federation. After all they were human! Over all a good book and I recomend it to anyone. The shortcommings are few and far between although they do some damage to the credibility of the plot in my opinion. Overall a good book.
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Summary: One of the worst Star Trek novels
Review: At first I really did like this book. Valek is a great Romulan charecter but the rest of the Romulans are just brutes that don't think and just act tough not the thinking Romulans that don't relie on brute strength that we see in the TV series. I really did not like it
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Summary: One of the best TNG books available
Review: For a TNG book, this definitely deserves 5 stars. There's excellent character interaction. There's a good amount of action, as well. Overall, entertaining Trek material.
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Summary: Great potential to be memorable, but...
Review: I just finished reading this book today, and I must say that the potential was great, but very minor problems has kept it away from the shining light of epic greatness. The flaws were a major time line flaw (Ro Laren left the Enterprise before Worf was promoted to Lt. Cmdr., this cost the book 1 star in my rating, ignore the past and expect to repeat the mistakes from it.), and the fact that certain (not many, minimal at worst) parts wore on to simple boredom hampered the books interesting story (which cost the book another star). The overall story is amazing by itself, the sequence of events were executed perfectly, and the story writing was actually above average. I enjoyed the entire concept of the story as well as an interesting look on how the Romulans chose their top ranking officers for missions. The ending was also amazing (which I am not going to spoil, ethics people, ethics) that it has actually prevented the book from earning a 2 star. Overall, I recommend approaching this book like fans of the current Enterprise (which I don't like) show which is to ignore the timeline just a bit and enjoying for what it is.
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Summary: Good read
Review: I loved the book slow at the begining but it gets much better keep reading!
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